and thats the thing, you got 4 man premade with same daily schedule, you won the darktide lottery.
oddly enough playtesting didnt have in mind those skilled but solo playing, or they wouldn’t have made the party finder like…whatever this is.
same goes for rejections out of fear of demotions.
like whats the point, people gonna brute force it day one and by the end of week two those hunting the title and insignia will have called it quits.
those able to muster a team wont have to deal with party finder those searching for one will have an ever diminishing pool.
skins are a black recolor, 50 hoops for “black” ? nah in the time i get rejected i could play stalker 2 or replay space marine 2 campaign.
same with twins, once title was earned there was zero incentive to go through the trouble finding a team capable and willing for hardmode.
its all about accessibility, you make it tedious people will lose interest.
I beat a 22 havoc clandestium gloriana game first try the other day which was my last try and then lost a refinery delta run in the second room with different randoms because they all walked right up to the spawn door and got melted. It was in that moment I said you know what im done with havoc and I havent played since. Playing havoc with randoms is an absolute nightmare. Id rather go carry the same noobs in damnation then deal with havoc. Its just not worth my time.
The same noobs who instantly die and leave havoc games are the same noobs who lose low intensity damnation games but wont go down in difficulty cuz resource bottleneck. If I want to carry noobs and play with people who have never touched a hi shock or a shock troop gauntlet I’ll just go play something else. Havoc with randoms is a massive waste of time and I despise the modifiers anyway.
HANG ABOUT…I completed 2 h40 missions today and that didn’t reset my 3 strike system?? So Ive still only got 1 strike left…after completing 2 h40 missions.
WOT.
Dear lord this mechanic gets worse and worse the more you look at it.
you can see how much focus was spent on dragging the “content” for as long as possible when all there is to havoc consist of 2 titles and insignia.
the modifiers are fun if you look at them seperately but all these hoops to jump through, demotions, rejections etc just makes you NOT want to play it.
and keep your rank up for what?
ressources i dont need, reskins of cosmetics?
(they aint bad for what they are, just not worth dealing with the party finder for any longer than utmost necessary)
speaking of ressources, people get bottlenecked through difficulties they downright suck at
(but are “carryable” given that after havoc even I II V E G lost its be all end all)
learned nothing in the process ( guess they’re down most of the time anyways ) AND dont bother upgrading their weaponry or spend 2 minutes thought for their loadout and talents.
so you carrot-stick incapable by the lure of ressources they dont even put to good use.
even if they were fully kitted out, they’d not be fit for mere standard damnation.
this then “bolstered” havoc fodder builds the pool from which parties fail and their leaders get demoted all the while 2 classes or rather specifically 2 talents of those classes provide the safest route to an (inofficially) time limited event cause said pool is dwindling with every dude that’s made 40 and had enough of above shenanigans…
did, after catching my breath, i get that right so far?
to draw things out even more, it looks like although i went to h24 today on all my 5 characters (so it’s account-wide), only the characters sent by dukane on a maelstrom mission first are eligible. so male zealot could, fem zealot wasn’t allowed. so much for equality
party finder is what it is, sometimes you’re lucky and people play great, or you’re stuck with headless chicken and can’t even leave them with their antics for fear of demotion. get into a competent group with someone a few levels higher than you and you jump to that level. whatever, this going from door to door and having to play a certain role in order to be accepted is so annoying, i just want to get to h40 so i don’t have to deal with the party finder any more.
But if you get demoted to 39 after already completing a havoc 40 that week…then do you still get havoc 40 on the weekly reset? Or does the demotion undo it?
And really it just feels intuitive that if we’re going to have this stupid 3 strike system then at least let us reset it by competing a mission of equal value. That just seems so obvious that I expected it.
Can’t believe the 3 strikes is for an entire week with no way whatsoever of resetting it outside of your own hosted game. Urgh.
I think “the punishment” is that you can’t start level 40 havoc again yourself after demotion.
But if you can join party where someone can start level 40, you’ll be good.
