Fair, context which I neglected to mention is that he and I play together all the time and have comparable skill levels, and afaict he’s doing as well or better than he ever did before the patch
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So your beef is badly written patch notes, which might not even be something she wrote, and the fact that people tell you to chill out on attacking her. Got it.
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Excuse me, sir, this is a VIDEO GAMES.
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Made an account just to say go touch some grass. Likely not even Catfish’s fault the patch notes are botched, she’s likely just relaying the message put out by the dev team.
Regardless, not an excuse to be hostile to other people online.
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To be more fair than this guy probably deserves…look, I get it. I despise when corporate bs and crunch time results in a sloppy product that is hostile to its user base.
Video games are a reflection of literally every product, the reason they’ve gotten worse over time is simply that they’re no longer a niche hobby but something to be managed by businesses with only profit in mind.
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I don’t get it. It seems…unhealthy…to be so upset about something around this game, y’know other than actual criminal behavior or just really not cool stuff. But messing up some patch notes or some unintended changes sneaking in or a nerf or some CM saying something cheeky or whatever? Just doesn’t rise to the level of being rude as hell and downright mean…not to a single person and not to a group of people (devsrpeople).
Sadly, it’s just the truth that, without the ability to feed their families, a production as grand and engaging as Darktide just couldn’t exist. I too would love to live in a utopia with UBI, where everyone can live off donations from their patrons, form creative collectives and make amazing experiences for us.
For now, I’ll just enjoy free updates while others buy e-pants.
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Not saying I agree with the vitriol, just that I understand the impulse and the base level of frustration.
I also think you’re erecting a straw man with that second half. People deserve to be paid for their work, my beef is when the work becomes shoddy so the guys at the top can push higher profits than last quarter and make their bonuses bigger.
Unfortunately Fatshark’s management is both greedy and not very competent, regardless of how amazing the creatives are.
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When the paid content DLC comes out, maybe I’ll be inclined to agree with you.
So, guess I won’t be playing Veteran for a while. Keep on nerfing my day one character into the ground. Feel like I get hit by two dregs and I’m down. Can’t stay alive unless I run Voice of Command, specials and elites won’t die unless I run Executioner Stance…
So if I’m going to be forced to make an inferior choice for any given situation, I’m gonna go play stealth Zealot and just focus on killing things and running away.
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I mean…look, these people managed to somehow not notice they were exporting the wrong build for VT2, and whatever they’ve got going on clearly isn’t working given how underbaked the game was on release.
Add in the skins nonsense for the greed end and it’s pretty clear what the situation is.
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I was there for VT2. Was way rougher of an experience for way longer for me at least. On launch, my friends and I could barely even hang on Veteran because the game was so brutal. Then the Great Green Dust famine. Never getting cosmetics or red weapons after hundreds of hours.
Things are improved. Nobody (and nothing) is perfect. I think there are plenty of things to talk about and plenty of things to want for without also making every simple thing into some moral or mental failing and dusting off the tired old Common Fatshark Ls warchest.
But we’re just going in circles now. TO A THOUSAND MORE YEARS OF DARKTIDE!
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Welp, Surge Staff went from being OP due to a bug to now being entirely useless and no Psyker should run it unless they feel like trolling. Brain Burst as usual is just a meh ability on a too long cast time.
I think we’re all on the same page here, but being mad at one of these entities is “fine” and the other is not. There’s no reason for him or anyone else to personally attack an individual for the work of a company.
He makes a lot of assumptions and pins them on a single person that has been nothing but professional and relatively responsive to the player base.
(I know this shouldn’t even be discussed here, but man if it doesn’t boil my blood)
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Still gotta fix exhilarating takedown guys. Its making you take more tough damage not less. Why is it that the bugs that absolutely hose players take weeks to fix but bugs that empower them are fixed so quickly?
Also… the surge staff needs massive buffs. Its barely a multi-target weapon at this point. It needs single target DPS, not aoe dps. The voidstrike is putting it to shame.
Next you guys are gonna nerf the voidstrike, but people are using the voidstrike because the other options kinda suck (trauma excluded, because trauma is awesome right now). You’re gonna nerf based on usage instead of realizing people are just using the voidstrike because the other options are pure ass.
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fixed that for you 
Wait, they nerfed Kinetic Presence on Psyker from 10% to 5% in Patch 14. Then they buffed Fire Team on Veteran from 3% to 5% in Patch 15.x? So one gives you 5% damage to just specials and elites while the other gives you 5% damage to everything? Feels bad for Psykers.
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Yeah honestly I’d be pretty surprised if everyone isn’t dubious on why the heck they did that.
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It doesn’t even need to be 3% per stack; 2 - 20% crit for a duration would still be respectable (given the fact that the keystone provides other benefits).
One shot with big crit % is just awkward.
Why do you guys hate the Veteran so much?
I am lowkey hoping you roll back the changes to his talent new tree to his old one.
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Haters gon hate