My friends and I decided to return to the game after a long break, and it seems to us that the wastelands of chaos have become more boring.
The skills of double shots, lightning during critical hits have disappeared, useful professional skills drop out less often. A lot of monotonous boring skills drop out that change almost nothing. We went through the wastelands of chaos 20+ times and only once I got an unusual fun build, but it was two times weaker than what I usually got before the update, I used to consider this build unsuccessful, but now it has become fun for me, if you compare with boring builds that I usually get.
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I mean, we went from a situation where some boons were totally broken : aka lightning strike for the most illustrious example.
To a situation where there are no more godlike I win boons though there are still some powerful ones (not dying for example).
The main thing with the previously overpowered ones is that when one player got them, the rest of the team usually really took a step back and watched ; and the whole end of the waste session was pretty much an already won formality, which was boring.
It sure is less flashy but the encounters 8n Chaos waste are now tensed to the end while the boons give a lot of utility.
The fact this balancing act also came with a limitation of the critical of 2 classes for kerilkian also has an impact
Overall I personally like the tense continuous action of the chaos wastes now. Some stuff like the lightning strike on parry every 8 or 15 seconds should probably be more generous but, it is what it is for now and will be for a while with the slow cycle development of Fatshark plus the release of darktide probably.
Slightly agree that the chance of acquiring some basically broken buffs at start was one of the reasons it was so addictive to hit that buff altar.
But in its current state its more balanced.
I agree that the current implementation is more balanced, but due to the fact that I remember how it was before, I find it boring, here is my current gaming experience. I guess I need to erase my memory :D. Does anyone have that thing from the men in black?
with some luck or some investment you can still get the lightning or double bolt for the last missions, the luck factor is now on the weapons ^^
but I agree that some boon and weapon trait should be removed or on option as they really rarely are of use and can even be a problem
I understand why you feel it is less fun. Hell yeah lightning strike was hella fun. However, you gotta admit it was damn op. Perma block was super OP too. So I think it was a great idea removing them from boons. However, they gotta fix Belakor lol. Especially the skulls they come way too often and they kill combat mechanics.
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That is the part I don’t understand. I didn’t find lightning strike or the other powergamer boons any fun. They were boring. Boring to use myself and boring when just a single other person for them. And that is the main issue. I could actively avoid them for myself mostly. But not that others made my game boring. And at least one of them players got one at least every second game. With an economy geared towards shrine hoarding even more often.
So they needed to be reduced in rarity. Heavily. Also, you can still get super OP. Actually even more so. Difference is that it is not a single dice roll anymore which you could get starting first mission. You need now two or three boons in combination or one lucky roll mid mission. As it should be.
All in all, the current implementation of chaos wastes is a lot more fun to me and enjoyable. My biggest gripe is that many weekly missions can’t be done in the chaos wastes somehow discouraging playing them.
Stopped playing Chaos Wastes (and VT2) for this reason.
Here’s hoping Darktide doesn’t go the same way of everything cool being watered down until everything is the same boring slab of grey.
These games heavily suffer from overbalancing - In part because of the cruel community, that cries foul whenever there is anything that works right.
See threads like this one: Briar Javelin is ruining the fun from the game
Sometimes I ask myself if you people just hate fun.