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on: July 07, 2018, 08:35:57 AM
After playing at least a week of this game, I've decided to post my thoughts and feedback here. To start off I've played a lot of pretty good free2play games in my time ( Warframe, LET IT DIE, and Paladins) so I think I can speak from a good bit of experience as well as doing research here and online about this game and the community that follows it.
I am dumbfounded to see just how many god awful decisions were made in this games current development.
First off just in case anyone still has the delusions that this is a "Free2Play" game the facts are clear. It would only be free if you didn't have to buy the campaigns to truly play the game for any amount of enjoyment. Hell the shitshow that is Destiny 2 is more enjoyable then this! (and I HATE that game...)
Don't get me wrong some of the missions are kind of neat, but the shear number of issues I've had to deal with playing said missions are whats wrong with this potentially good game.
Second off, Let's talk about the ingame economy and the progression system. I don't know why you need 3 forms of currency, Gold, Faction Points and, Tokens... At first I thought hey maybe it could be OK, you know build them up over time like any reasonable economy usually works...BUT!
It just seems like system that only really works on paper. Price vs Cost, I understand the affinity system is "supposed to" help elevate this, and I wish it did but it doesn't. Rather it doesn't help in a way that really works to the effect it should. Here's an example, Lets say you've reached the level to unlock Doldren, But you have already spent your begining amount of gold 44K at a usual reward of 1K to 2K is insane especially when your almost NEVER going to be the only one picking gold. All you senior players can try to defend it all you want but it is what it is... A TRAP! THEY WANT YOU TO PAY FOR CHARACTERS!! They have no intention of you earning gold to get these characters, if they did after level 10 instead of getting 2K for leveling up You'd be getting at least 10K. You don't that's the proof right there, the devs are relying on the mob mentality of there devoted fans to silence anyone who speaks out about it. Look at some of the posts on here and even this post, you'll see it fairly commonly.
Due to the way the reward system is progress is very slow or nearly mythical, making you basically fight for scraps and the very rare chance at getting a chance of getting a new weapon. The very fact that you can play for 30+ minutes and walk away empty handed is disgusting game design.
For some BONKERS reason it's still like that?! WHY? WHO THOUGHT THAT WAS A GOOD IDEA?! MORE IMPORTANTLY WHY IS THAT GUY STILL EMPLOYED?
Alright now that that's out of my system lets move on...
I personally like the idea of the Antagonist system, thou I certainly think its very unbalanced. (and contrary to popular belief it can be balanced!) Demons Souls started the invasion idea and I personally would love to see it in more games, especially shooters like this. The CQC system is neat but not at all complex, you can try the whole grab dodge thing but punch spamming works almost better 9/10 percent of the time.
Alright here is how I think a lot of these issues can be fixed...
- For rewards just give everyone all the things the choice way of doing things is just stupid and undefendable.
- For the antagonist system first put it back in beta to work on it, I'm not saying remove it i'm saying make the AI antagonist well its being worked on. Then instead of it being just one person make it a three man squad with some added buff or debuff depended on the Raiders level.
- Make the payout of gold after level 10 go from just 2K to something like 10K, 20K, 10K in an alternating order.
- Let people spend "FACTION POINTS" on new weapons, instead of forcing people to play the same mission a thousand and 1 times!
- add voice or text chat, I know people think this community is toxic but it's more like a swamp. A little cooperation goes a long way.
- Finally, offer a 20 or so offer that gives people access to all the current and future campaigns! Focus more on trying to sell us cosmetics and more interesting content!
That concludes my thoughts!
(Realistically I don't expect this to make much difference, I know full well some hates coming my way like a barbed wire prostate exam. But hey at least I said it and that's what really matters!)