Not sure how that’s related to my post about not wanting to buy back into Darktide until crafting is made less asinine. Regardless, I haven’t touched Darktide since that catastrophic launch that left a terrible impression on me, so much so, it was one of my biggest disappointments in gaming. I don’t think anything else comes close honestly, except, maybe, Dark Sun: Wake of the Ravager being an unpleasant buggy mess. Or Knights of the Chalice 2 causing frustration because it kept crashing and didn’t work half the time.
To answer your question: I love playing with random players. Every single Cata game I play in Vermintide 2 is on QP. All my Cata Chaos Wastes are on QP too. Did all my Cata 3 weaves with QP player that I held hostage and begged to play with me - just joking but it was really fun how chill some players were about Weaves; most people insta quit whenever I so much as mention Weaves. Fortunes of War were on QP too, though some players stuck around for DAYS with me just to play FoW because they really enjoyed the experience, made a couple of friends from it too.
It’s the chaos that I live for honestly. The type of situations you can get into in QP with random players is nothing short of adrenaline pumping excitement. Nothing beats that heart pounding rush I get from playing with people who are poorly equipped for Cata, accidentally trigger a Chaos patrol, while a boss is rushing us from behind, specials/disablers creeping on peripheral; even if we die horribly I died laughing manically - and that’s all that matters to me.
I’d love to play a couple of games with you in Vermintide 2. We can take it slow and easy, though remember, don’t get too frustrated if we die too much; the biggest mistake people make when moving from Champ or Legend to Cata is taking the game too seriously and or being arrogant. Play whatever you want. Use whatever build you want. Most of the games you play in Cata will be loses so try not to focus too much on the losses and instead focus on self improvement.
Sure, however, I disagree with this; you don’t want to impose too many artificial barriers on the gameplay. It’s not sensible for someone to waste hundreds of hours to get a setup going just to finally enjoy their build that they’ve been envisioning to play. Contrast that to my experience in Vermintide 2 where it takes minutes to get a setup going for all my classes whenever I want to play something else. It’s not unreasonable for me to not want to grind all over again just so I can get my setup rolling within an acceptable time frame. The first few hundreds of Vermintide 2 were pretty soul draining when I used to grind for reds; now that I’ve got lots of reds, I can focus on the gameplay and have fun the way I want, with the build I want, at any time I want; without anyone telling me to go sit at a corner for an hour until I can switch weapons.
Again, going back to Darktide, when I first played the game everything was a dice roll in terms of weapon acquisition: the weapon you want to play with, a dice roll, the quality of the weapon, a dice roll, the traits/properties, you guessed it: a dice roll. To quote my frustrated self on why that didn’t appeal to me:
That was back when it was a lottery ticket to even get the weapon you want to play with, never mind the stats. I’m aware it’s been improved somewhat, however, it’s ridiculous how anti-fun the whole weapon acquisition process was at the time. Going from a game where it was a seamless process to change builds within a quick manner to Darktide where it was a lottery to even play with a different weapon; and you can hazard a guess on how this quickly soured impressions for me. To this day I still can not understand why Fatshark thought Vermintide players were going to be okay with this.
The whole item locks controversy though is just a nice cherry on top a crap pie.
I don’t see myself coming back until Fatshark severely overhauls the crafting system in a way that respects my time - that means removing locks. I got all the time in the world. I’m willing to wait.
Why thank you, this was a great conversation =)