It’s not “anti-vet”, most certainly not now that Vet gets better melee capabilities (as an option) and a lot of the other weapons on offer are better. Power Sword was a brainless meta weapon that undermined the importance of basic melee combat skills which are integral to the game. Now, I really do think it could do with less restrictive movement and dodges now that its damage is a lot less insane, which would actually also make it more fun as a melee.
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@FatsharkCatfish Native double-tap to dodge when? I can’t believe it hasn’t been implemented yet, such a simple setting that makes a big difference in QoL.
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It is never a good idea to get your feedback from a group of self-described “elites” no matter what monkier they use to describe themselves. After almost a decade in quality assurance and over twice that gaming, that is a lesson that I keep having to pound into the head of every new manager, engineer, and consultant that thinks their latest focus group has all the fixes. People like that are where you find your gate-keepers who can’t stand anyone else having “their” toys, the mental kids who blow up when someone doesn’t play the way said mental kid wants them to, and the appeasers who get their jollies cozying up to whichever screaming head has the floor, among other defectives. In short the people whose feedback is never actually useful or representative of the actual majority.
Sadly, most of the people who run these studios understand nothing about how statistics actually work or how do the numbers relate to the real world. Nor are they willing to put in the effort to get truly good information. So they throw out some arbitary criteria and pick a tiny group based that assuming that said numbers will be sufficient and they need something to justify the changes yesterday. Whole “move fast and break stuff” mindset that results in a things like a “self-driving car” that intentionally steers into parked emergency vehicles. But hey, they got it out first so they can claim that. Then hope no one notices that the slower competitors are more often better-performing, lower-maintenance, and more reliable.
Far better solutions would have been a few months of open beta combined with lots of old fashioned leg work. You know, surveys at log in, staff asking players throughout the day for 20 minutes to discuss what they felt the game needed, that sort of thing. Yes its a hell of a lot more work and pisses off the cretins demanding attention right now, but making a good product that lasts is never about headlines and making everyone happy.
But too late now. FatShark has obviously taken a page from the now-former Speaker of the House here and catered to the loudest voices. And like him they are going to end up getting burned when they have to choose between pleasing the ones who pay to keep the lights on and keeping the screaming heads from exploding in YouTube & Twitch diatribes.
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Remove locks from crafting, or this game will die.
PLOZE
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For the love of the emperor, just make the shop a catalog instead of rotating FOMO shop.
You are better than that. You are an european team, a scandinavic for that sake.
Also tagging a higher price in the shop is so tasteless, I get the reason, but damn you like to kill the goodwill of the community.
The CM and Devs are not to blame, but the management and leadership teams, are like most management apparently void of any connection to anythong than money.
We all know such manager/leader, and can only hope that they cut down on such.
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Oh the developers and CMs have a big chunk of the blame in this. If only because they had to know what was going on and let it slide. They could always have said “no, this is going to cause more trouble than it fixes” and if management refuses then walk out the door. And if you want to scare the crap out of management, have the people actually doing the work leave all at once. Something like that not only brings profits to a halt but makes everyone else looking for a job very hesitant about working for said company.
Its one of the issues with game studios (or really most companies). Everyone blames management - and often correctly - for problems but forget that the people in the middle often knew what was going on and turned a blind eye to it. Plus all too often its the middle and lower tiers who get really abusive about someone “rocking the boat” by not staying silent about problems.
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Yes please and thank you 