• chakan2@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    It was the patch that got me to stop playing. Why you would nerf weapons in a non-competitive game rather than make poor preforming weapons viable is beyond me.

    It’s akin to Steve Jobs telling everyone they’re holding their phone wrong.

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      9 months ago

      Did you ever played Payday 2, where powercreep made us go from guns with all the best attachments could maybe kill the toughest enemy in the game in half a mag, or about 15 shots, to the devs needing to implement 3 (technically 4) more difficulty levels with new enemies that were just old enemies with more resistances or 10 times the health as their stock launch counterparts, and those things dying in 2 hits from all the meta build weapons. All because they kept introducing more powerful weapons, more attachments that made launch guns more and more obsolete, and general more power creep through skill tree expansions and entirely new jobs for perks. The player counts for that game dove off a cliff after players realized each DLC was just pay 2 win garbage and even using stuff you could get only from the base game and free updates left every weapon feeling samey with the same tactics being used and things not in the meta utterly ignored by anyone playing end game content. Because instead of reigning in the things that overperformed and broke the balance curve, they just kept powercreeping new items into the game.

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        9 months ago

        The player counts for that game dove off a cliff after players realized each DLC was just pay 2 win garbage

        And what exactly do you think is going to happen with this game?

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      9 months ago

      This is a dumb take.

      If there was a gun that 1 tapped every enemy in the game and had infinite ammo and maybe even auto aimed for you, that would suck a lot of the fun out of the game wouldn’t it?

      Would you not want that gun to be nerfed or would you want every gun in the game to become a 1 tap super weapon?

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          9 months ago

          Eh…it’s sort of a valid argument…however…it’s like instagib in unreal. It was one of the funniest game modes in the game.

          Instagib on low level enemies would be fun as hell…then the boss spawns show up and obliterate you…that’s how I thought this game was going to go.

          Now it’s really a game of find more ammo and run from anything with armor until your strategems recharge.

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        9 months ago

        1 tap super weapon, and introduce a viable challenge to make that obsolete.

        But you’ll just get premium war bond weapons from here on out to close the difficulty gap.