My review is based on the player count. If this update is really so good — nerfing the crutch talents, bubble shield, Veteran’s gold toughness, and the plasma gun — then why hasn’t the player count broken past ten thousand? Are you telling me that these so-called great changes haven’t caused the player numbers to explode? If it really were a good update, the game should’ve seen a small spike — not this failure to even break through.
It’s less of an issue with balance and more an issue with player retention. The meat and bones that brought players in, this update, was Expeditions and said gamemode is not interesting at keeping players engaged and wanting more.
People came in, played a few rounds of the new thing, got bored and left. Trying to push a narrative that the balance changes are the reason for the player count dropping so quickly is just bizarre. Some people might have left the game for that reason, yes, but they would be an exception, not the norm.
This is the simple truth.
I’ve seen some indicators that feedback eventually filters up (stuff like Ogryn getting, at base, the ability to barge through mobs on his dodges) but by and large the devs are simply not competent at game balance and are terrified of nerfing stuff because a certain part of the community will review bomb if their crutches get less brokenly powerful and the review score seems to be the only thing driving any actual action from FS.
By and large, no, they don’t see suggestions, or if they do they won’t implement them.
And only one will not further destroy everything below havoc.
Woaw. 64 messages in 1 day. Got to read through all this..
Good idea…
One “baby” server and one aimed for adult population.
Lol. Thought he’s a genestealer that the inquisition keeps around like a 2 year old trying to trick their parents. Cunning for espionage against the cultists but all the high ranking inquisition members knows. Just leading him on as if he is succeeding in deceiving everyone in the warband. It’s funny to listen all of the dialogue with that theory in mind XD
What are you trying to say here?
Dueling sword needs a nerf? Didn’t really think it’s particularly strong. It’s horde clear is alright but garbage against flak (Apart from stabby stab which takes time). Hopefully you are only talking about uncanny strikes? That blessing as a whole can just be toned down to 40% max for all I care.
they review bomb at the slightest hint of a nerf every single time, so what would fatshark lose?
Clients that are potential buyers for the cosmetics.
i think they could have a separated client for that 
they get their balance they want, everyone else gets the balance they want
and everyone can still buy the clipping cosmetics that cost as much as a dlc class!
Yeah, that’s just not going to happen.
That would require work and Fatshark doesn’t want to do that.
Duelling Sword should not even have access to Uncanny Strikes
FS doesn’t even take feedback from their playtesters most of the time.
FS is a black box totally disconnected from the community.
FS doesn’t even learn from their own mistakes. In fact, they seem to just be repeating them over and over. The combat designer left FS and we can only hope he’ll move on to create a similar game for a competent studio.
Cheating problem? Don’t think I’ve ever came across someone cheating in the 2k hours I’ve played this game. Saw map exploits but that’s about it. Kind of harmless same for all the mods out there. Especially that this is a pve game with 3 other people where you get stomped in for not learning the systems and play correctly. Even with all the mods on nexus I doubt someone that is stuck on havoc 30 would be able to clear a havoc 40. What do you consider cheating? Just genuinely curious about this topic regarding this game. Maybe I just don’t see or know the line of what is “fair”.
Also I wouldn’t call the devs incompetent. We have a game that people still enjoy regardless of the “meta” but there’s a tug of war with people disagreeing. Who do you appease when everyone has a different idea
I blame elementary math education and the clear evidence none of them understand the Commutative property.
I have asked many times what the difference is between buffing everything then buffing up enemies (as has been done) vs nerfing outliers and nerfing enemies (hp/spawn rates) to…balance things out.
I’ll let you guess how often i even get a response.
If the dueling sword gets nerfed, most basic classes will lose much of their anti-carapace effectiveness. Veterans will be left with only the power sword. And if you also nerf the armor-piercing grenade as you’ve suggested, then the Veteran will have no chance to shine. What we’re afraid of isn’t the nerfs themselves — it’s that the nerfs won’t come with enough buffs for the truly underwhelming weapons.