Played since Beta and I really feel like Dark Tide’s insistence that there always be enemies spawning in all directions 100% of the match and almost always have enemies in your face has pigeon holed its classes game play into one style. There is no such thing as clearing a room for even temporary sa…

In other words: [image] Free the Modifiers Variety is the spice of life. But it’s the one thing FS seems dead set on not giving us. I feel you, kindred.

Yeah like the bridge in the torrent maps where you have to defend (until they all start coming out the walls near you). Trouble is that power creep means the enemies wouldn’t stand a chance in a bottle neck lol. They just get melted by everything nowadays.

Playing sniper veteran has been an exercise in this exact frustration. It’s really satisfying to click a bunch of heads, but the constant upkeep of having to switch to melee or drop a grenade at my feet just to not die because my team can’t babysit me all the time really drains the fun out of it. V…

Yeah like the bridge in the torrent maps where you have to defend (until they all start coming out the walls near you). Trouble is that power creep means the enemies wouldn’t stand a chance in a bottle neck lol. They just get melted by everything nowadays. Thing is I think this is a symptom of t…

No, you really don’t. Having reliable knowledge of the whereabouts of their spawning would just lead into everything either being obliterated at max range, or spawncamping, as it have before.

No, you really don’t. Yeah, I absolutely do. Adding variety to the games pacing would go a long way to making everything feel better on top of opening up design room for more unique feeling classes by getting the game out of the pigeon hole its encounter design is stuck in. Having reliable know…

I tend to agree, the pacing these days feels a bit off as a result. At the very least the spawning right on top of you should be stopped, it’s not particularly fun and leads to weird buggy behaviour by things like bursters or disablers. It’s also just silly to watch a door open into a black hole wit…

I wish there was more variety in engagement ranges

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CH3DD4R_G0B-L1N June 26, 2026, 11:49am 2

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But it’s the one thing FS seems dead set on not giving us. I feel you, kindred.

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I wish there was more variety in engagement ranges

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