Remove the locks. This doesn’t fix the rest of crafting but it’s essentially a single line of code if other people who have cracked open the files can be trusted, and it buys you time and goodwill. Fix the store. Replace it with something like the one from V2, slash the prices, and refund the difference to everyone. If Creative Assembly can straight-up pay back everyone who bought a copy of Pharaoh, you can return funny money. Again, this buys you goodwill. This is especially important given the fact that For The Drip invalidates your entire ‘business model’ of lazily reskinning models and selling them as something new. Announce earnable Aquilas. Self-explanatory. Bite the bullet and either put out Solo Mode or announce you can’t release it. Sh*t or get off the pot, essentially. Notice I’m not talking about bugfixes, unf*cking your communications, or streamlining your content pipeline, because all of those are problems you’ve had a decade at least to fix and you don’t seem inclined to do anything about them, and coding is usually pretty difficult. This, by comparison, is essentially adjusting funny money currency awards, saying something, and copy-pasting work you’ve done before. They’re relatively easy wins that, though they might not bring in a surge of players, will get people to stop being so negative about your studio. You’ve managed to thoroughly trash your reputation as a reputable semi-indie studio with Darktide and its numerous player-hostile mechanics. Either start earning that back or change your structure to be able to pump out content, because those are the only ways you survive as a studio from here on out.

[image] Ol_Jakal: nothing you said makes any suggestion there’s anything to be gained from removing the locks. I just made a case for why keeping the locks doesnt work for the game. Im pretty sure thats also known as “good suggestions for why FS should remove the locks” or do something. Give people a more deterministic way to craft their own gear. Having static stats stuck in a stupid lottery with no way to change them doesnt suit the game. Either remove the locks, allow rerolls of stats or bring in “perpetual” weapons with max stats. Something more deterministic needs to be added.

[image] Khorne_Dawg: “You know better. MBAs are a c*ncer, and I’ve chosen to cut out the disease.” [Screenshot_20240308-002722~2] I love that movie! I wished Owlman had whooped Batman’s buttocks (which he did) and won, but the way he went out was just as spectacular! “It doesn’t matter…”

[image] Enclave: What motivates him to do this What drives a man like Jakal to do what he does Insatiable hunger for risk and pain. There is no other explanation. Even I reversed my position on Crafting after playing with it for long enough. There is no way you don’t start to see the unrealized potential in Darktide’s Crafting system with enough passage of time. Whether it’s the meh Blessings really not comparing to the Game Changers or the Weapon Modding that a modder realized or the flexbility of builds being hampered by locks.

I was bored one day, so I started writing up a whole DC fan universe where Thomas Wayne, Jr. (Owlman) and Bruce Wayne (Batman) both grow up together as older and younger brothers respectively. Basically, Thomas, Jr. grows into a pessimist whilst Bruce grows into an optimist after their parents are killed.

[image] Khorne_Dawg: Basically, Thomas, Jr. grows into a pessimist whilst Bruce grows into an optimist after their parents are killed. I think that’s an official story isn’t it? " The current Thomas Wayne Jr., introduced as Lincoln March, claims to be Bruce’s long-lost brother, creating uncertainty and potential for Batman’s character development." https://www.cbr.com/batman-comics-thomas-wayne-jr-forgotten-brother/

[image] Ol_Jakal: nothing you said makes any suggestion there’s anything to be gained from removing the locks. there’s no reason to remove the locks because the locks aren’t preventing you from playing in any way. they just encourage you to try a new build on a new weapon instead of endlessly reblessing the same one. Let me correct that for you. First, nobody cares about the weapon stats as the difference between a so-called “godrolled” and a good-enough one is marginal. But people deeply care about the 4 perks that make a huge difference in play-style. Locks encourage you to endlessly buy dozens of weapons, bless them until you get the exact 4 perks you want (one in million chance) or until you run out of credit and therefore completely waste your time, instead of simply letting you change the 4 perks at will to get the exact ones you want. We would all like to try new builds, and we know exactly what we want to try, but locks actively prevent us from trying them. Think about it for a minute. Everyone likes the talent tree because we can freely try new things at will. Is it too much to ask to have the same things for weapons?

Completely disagree. Another whining baby.

ye, i’ll probably get back at it if any of these would be implemented, for now i’ll stick to BG3

Protip, when you post your one-line drive-by’s without articulating an actual point, you’re just bumping the topic, raising its visibility and increasing engagement.

Easy wins for Fatshark

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Rocker_Fox March 8, 2024, 4:19pm 34

I think my favourite Ol_Jakal quote of all time has to be this.

Like there is wrong and then there is so wrong that you gotta be doing this on purpose.

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