Chaos Wastes used to be a nice refreshing breath of air from the normal map grind, but with the recent changes its lost all of its enjoyment, for me and at least the people I regularly play with. While I understand certain traits prior could be abused to make absurdly overpowered builds, the majority of the boons now range from useless to bad.
Half of the boons that could even be considered good are potentially build breaking, so the RNG factor of using boon shrines coupled with the cost of upgrading weapons to Exotic or Veteren status, makes it so for the vast majority of a CW run, you are playing underpowered with 0-no upgrades.
The only somewhat worthwhile things to spend coins till reaching the last map or two (with orange / red upgrade shrines) are, the pit stops along the way. You MAY also get something good if you do the challange shrines, which are typically worth it because they are less of a gamble.
IF fatshark doesnt want to adjust the economy of CW, or improve the utility of many perks (or reduce the amount of useless ones) Boon Shrines should probably give a multiple choice, similar to challange shrines, so you don’t f**k up and ruin your build 10 seconds into a run.
Chaos Wastes is still a load of fun, especially with twitch mode. But it is eyerollingly aggravating that Fatshark arguably makes the mode worse every time they try to add stuff to it.
idk man, I just dont enjoy it anymore. I dont really want to play 5 maps with “back to the basics” turned on for no particular reason and have someone tell me its a rogue-like.
I honestly prefered the stupid broken version where someone could be overpowered, and 1/4th the time, I wasn’t that person, but I would rather be excited for my friend, who is happy and shooting lighting everywhere having fun, than us just both be slogging through maps in shared misery.
You’re definitely more limited on the sort of crazy ass builds you can get together these days. But you can still get quite strong since there are lots of powerful defensive boons. The slog can also be mitigated by buying weapon upgrades to keep your power up, even if it is often not the most coin efficient choice.
Current CW is still a mixed bag. At start it was too easy, after addition of grudge-marked monsters it could be crazy difficult (Vampiric mino impervious to ranged damage and multiplying himself with strong illusions was the prime example), right now it is mixed bag I would say.
Some boon combos were waaaaaay to strong and were rightfully nerfed, but we have also received a ton of rather “meh” boons just expanding the boon pool.
I think that if you would have an earnable option to unlock 1-2 boons of your choice, then it would be ab absolute blast!
even just multiple choice on boon shrines instead of it being random would help a TON, I tend to avoid them entierly now because half the time I get something I dont want, like natural bond, or barrels do 300% increased damage. Or some useless ammo trait
True that. You could at least divert the flow of boons into the direction that might help your class. Some combos are pretty useless on many classes or downright bad.
Still, if you take a look back, then the issue of getting f.e. ammo regen on slayer is more or less gone.