I mean the loop and progression was figured out in the mods already, just give people basic functional shit from the start and give alternatives,cool stuff, fun stuff later. Absolutely no fucking reason that the starter sniper should be a break action that can’t even kill with a naked headshot. Same thing with launchers, why the fuck is the first one (that already takes hours of grinding) anti-personel so that players are useless against a solo player driving a humvee swapping sweats to gunner or even just doing road kills…and also you still can’t do anything to choppers or AA emplacements. Honestly anti-personel explosives probably shouldn’t be in the game period outside of grenades and mortars but they absolutely should not be the first explosive unlocks.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world@lemmy.world 1 week ago
There’s 100% a reason…
You don’t start day 1 sniping, you start spotting and stay spotting. They put a gate in place that made anyone who wanted to snipe, have to also find out the value of being a team player.
Otherwise snipers would take pot shots all day never hitting a shot and never contributing.
I’m pretty sure the Devs even joked about it and admitted it was intentional.
Launchers are support… Just build a fob and it ranks up crazy fast and you get the big hammer too.
But also, spotting and building are how you get the money to buy expensive kits and run around like it’s call of duty occasionally. If you’re not doing those parts of the game, you’re probably constantly broke and not having fun.
It’s rock, paper, scissors…
Choppers take out mortars.
Mortars take out AA
AA takes out choppers.
We’re almost a week into a two year early access and everything resets in 3 weeks bud…
The devs have already confirmed unlocks aren’t static or based on how good something is. A month from almost everything will be unlocked at different levels and in different orders.
If you’re expecting a polished game thats perfectly balanced you should just refund now. In two years when it releases you’ll have what you want, but I’m going to play the shit out of it in the meantime
DillDough@lemmy.zip 6 days ago
I never said anything about a polished game, I was even a tester when it still required an NDA, I’m familiar with EA titles…and koth.
You’re missing the points on all of these. Take snipers for instance, why put the gun in game at all instead of just the spotter scope?
For launchers you fully missed everything I said, in fact the whole comment you seem to be really hung up on thinking I just shoot and refuse to engage with anything else. I’ve spent practically all of my time in game doing logi, construction, spotting, and medic… It’s ridiculous to start you with a break action sniper that can’t headshot a naked or have the first launcher be anti-personel without an alternative for so long afterwards.
It’s also not rock paper scissors, there’s a lot of other ways to stop all of those. You’re supposed to use whatever tools you can get your hands on to achieve whatever needs to be done, snipe the mortars, pry a door and sneaky sneaky, c4 some shit, launchers once you finally get usable ones. Having fobs be the only solution to vehicles for so long is exactly why so many matches have such high score discrepancies, it’s a poor design decision. It’s also weird to be so restrictive so early in EA, you want as much data as possible not just redundant information about unleveled accounts being punching bags.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world@lemmy.world 6 days ago
I told you…
Like, if you can’t imagine these decals would do that to troll cod kiddies…
I don’t know if youve ever seen any video of them actually talking. That’s 100% something they’d do just to fuck with people.
If that pisses you off, do what the devs keep recommending and refund the game.
Literally no one makes you play it, but I’m not telling you that again. Best of luck
DillDough@lemmy.zip 6 days ago
The way you keep falling back on shit like “cod kiddies” is just the cherry on top lmfaooo that’s literally the exact crowd the devs are going for and an even closer game comparison than the actual koth mods.