So, me and my team (people I play coop games with) installed game back and we came back to check new reworked classes and talent trees. Feedback
Positive:
- Good variety of new builds and playstyles. Something game desperately needed at launch.
- A lot of fun with some dedicated playstyles now like full tank Ogryn or team buffing Veteran
- Psyker is lit, really good changes, you can finally opt out of using clunky head popping gameplay. New ults are fun.
- A lot of weapons that were trash are better now so we could use some stuff that was useless back then.
- Better stability and performance at least for my friends since I have new PC so I can’t judge.
- You can finally chose perk when changing it instead of rerolling… wow… took you year.
Negative:
- The RNG carfting and loot system is still sole reason we just can’t get back to the game. We would like to try new builds, new playstyles, test out new blessing combos with new talents trees, but it’s all RNG upon RNG.
- The multiple layers of RNG frustrating is still here and playing around that feels like one big waste of the time. RNG to get good roll on weapon, RNG to get good perk, RNG to get good blessing, RNG to get good blessing from contracts, RNG to get good level of blessing.
- The above system is just waste of time. We did few 4th level missions to get hang of it again, then we did few 5th levels. Then my friend decided to test new system and wanted to get himself a good XII Lasgun. So he spend over 400k on white Lasguns. His best roll was 343… Then he consecrated them and go crap blessings and perks. All craft materials wasted, all money wasted, didn’t get even one great XII Lasgun. After that he said he doesn’t want to play anymore and we shared his frustrating and after 2 days uninstalled since the vision of wasting time on that RNG was just too much for us. Not worth a time even if gameplay is vastely improved, which I applaude you for.
I for example would love to try out new Ogryn and try out 2-4 of builds for him. However, getting all good blessings and good roll weapons for him with RNG that is right now is just waste of time. Every time I would farm for good rolled gear I could spend time just playing better games. We are all adults and we would like to hop in together once/twice per weak on 2-3 hours to just play Damnation and experiment with new builds and combos. But that would require us to waste time on your RNG and our time is too precious for that since 2023 so far has been great with good games and expansions.
So overall Fatshark I see positive direction, I am glad game came out of Early Access but as long as your want to waste people time with your RNG BS, some of us will prefer to sink that hours into DRG or new Verimtide 2 update. But I am very glad we at least got close to full-released game now and I hope that you will give people new content if you can’t give them normal build/crafting system.
Hope one day you will come to senses.