I can see where they are coming from, for me it would be the part saying it’s the player’s fault they are frustrated that they can’t get the items the game is theoretically able to give, but won’t, because of the game’s design.
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I said it is on players what they expect not that is their fault or somehting.
In the course of this discussion it was made pretty clear that ppl have different expectations and actually are looking for different things.
If anything FS told us that they want top 5% wepons to be extremaly rare. So yes I think if ppl expect to have 370 items with all the perks & blessings they want, it is an issue with thier expectations, that are in my view unrealistic.
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I’m not searching for a bone to pick, hopefuly i misunderstood the context of this reply of yours.
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Adding to that, if you look at the psyker list I posted.
I agree nothing there jumps to the fore for psyker. But out of these weapons, I personally am interested in below blessings - playing all classes.
439 (344) Maccabian Dueling Mk IV (Shred III)
428 (343) Catachan Mk I (Wrath III)
426 (341) Atrox Mk VII (Brutam Momentum III)
423 (333) Maccabian Mk IV ( Uncanny Strike III)
So yeah if you spent 500 hrs in Darktide already and now aim only for the best, I guess your situation did not change that much.
For players who gave it a rest after initial few weeks, it may be a different experience coming back.
I do not believe either of these is representative of the community.
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Even after 400 hours? At what time should a top 5% weapon be available?
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I explained that my answer in regards to @zaygr comment on “cherry picked” examples. Later on we explained both ways we see what is a worthy item differently and expectations differ.
In any case, I get it, you don’t like it and want more fundamental changes.
Sorry to have shared a less pessimistic view on the recent loot changes.
I’ll go back to playing the game and won’t bother you any further.
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I have no idea how much time anyone besides me played, it was a figure of speech and aimed towards resource cummulation, than 1 god roll.
Maybe you had more luck in first 100 hrs, and now a T3 blessing is not an upgrade for you, I don’t know.
I know that for me these are, so just backing up my statement on me getting something new/wanted basically every day now, as opposed to once a week or two prior to the patch.
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The proof is in the pudding anyway. The patch brought back some people. By the second day the numbers were dropping again. I fully expect numbers to be dropping again today, despite being a Friday and prime game day. This casino system pretending to be a crafting system will never retain enough players to make the game even close to viable.
I could be wrong, of course - but it’s not like this game is so mindblowingly good and so full of content that people will play it despite horrific progression mechanics, in my opinion. Especially not when FatShark has so little knowledge of their own game that they remove entire playstyles with no explanation, as an afterthought in a bugfix.
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yep, tried it out, RNG can screw off.
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“A polished turd,” as they say
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I couldn’t agree more. “Trash” doesn’t even come close. I swear to god it’s like there’s SPITE in the very RNG coding. I started off with literally (NOT FIGURATIVELY) 1,744,650 dockets. I kept purchasing a Power Sword in the hopes of finally getting a 380. By the time I ran out of patience, I was down to 168,470. What do I have to show for my “investment”? Plenty of garbage rolls that I’m still in the process of discarding, but all told, 8 of them were between 365-377. 8. Not a single 380. Not ONE.
No one made me sink that much money into the shop, that’s entirely on me, but… come the hell on. This is unacceptable.
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Yeah, I want to love Brunt’s Armory, but if it’s not retuned. – we might as well all quit Darktide and move on. It really is that bad, as your generous estimates show.
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Wait, what? I just said that I don’t want to spends massive amounts of time trying to get specific things on my gear. How does me wanting to actually be able to make different builds/loadouts in a realistic timeframe translate to me being bad at the game or straight up lying? Dafuq?
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Yo, look at things this way, and for a few guys here trying to defend the new system too. Base modifier aside, do you agree that t4 blessings are part of the content already in the game that you’ve paid full price for?
Yeah, now I can tell you with millions of dockets and tens of thousands of materials, hundreds of hrs of grind, you still can not get them…thats my key message hiding inside my text wall. Some of the t4 blessings completely change the function of the weapon and the way you play not just number buffed up, so “tunnel visioning on perfect weapon” argument is completely invalid here…
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Very sad few games get balancing right, even if they do, it’s either combat is not the main focus or there simply aren’t that may weapons so not much to work on.
But I do think for the meta weapons Darktide got them almost right, other weapons are just fillers so I don’t even bother wasting materials on and I learned this the hard way wasting like 20k plasteel on the chain axe, devil claw swords and s**t xD
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Dudes,
Brunt’s shop is supposed to be bad. You are trading off being able to preview stats before your purchase for getting what you want on demand. If they made it the same now-relatively-generous base rating distribution as the Armory, then there’d be no point for the Armory to exist. As they are now, each shop has its niche.
And while it’s not perfect it’s a lot better than it was. I’ve had 370+s coming out of my ears ever since the patch. It feels weird to be passing some of them up because I already have a better one of the same weapon. Will it still take a bit to get a 370+ for each weapon on every character. Well, yeah, I’d expect it to. But now that is a feasible achievement unlike the multi-generational endeavor it would have been on the previous build.
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Don’t barter those! Upgrade them to blue to fish for t4 blessings.
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Like I just said, it’s not about the stats anymore…you will do fine even with 340s even 320s with random t2 blessings and don’t even care about perks on damnation, that’s how I started out my psyker after learning how to fight properly in the actual game.
It’s about the remaining content, those FUNCTIONALLY different t4 blessings that fundamentally change how you play with the weapons that you CAN NOT GET even with hundreds of hours of grind! Let this sink in, Is this free to play MMORPG that to access all the content requires you to pay more money? NO, You paid FULL PRICE for Darktide.
Here I quote from previous log" We expect players to switch and try out new eapons as they discover different and exciting potential combinations and builds" and here I share additional insight of the odds, another 20 greys I upgraded yesterday, all of them are repeating t3s I already have pre-patch.
Need I say more?
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You misunderstand. Power cycler ONLY appears as tier 4. He’s not saying “give me all the tier 4 blessings”. He, like all vets, just simply wants power cycler. As one should. I’m pretty sure we would all take a tier 3 power cycler, but that would make too much sense, wouldn’t it?
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Yes, I agree that quote made me cringe so much when i read it.
How are we supposed to discover potential combinations of builds if everything is locked???
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