If uncanny really get nerf, I wish fatshark can increase other uncanny weapons’ penetration rate. Those weapon are all set as single target weapons, but without uncanny they can hardly deal enough damage to carapace. That’s so imbalanced because even some cleave weapons’ light strike such as pickaxe, shock maul,relic sword and power sword have 100% rending to carapace.
Interesting, they should go through and tune some more problem blessings on problem weapons individually then.
Wait, when you playtested the new class and saw that only the shivs have weaker Uncanny Strike, did you tell FS to give this weaker version to other weapons with this blessing?
You are a playtester, you’re supposed to give feedback, so if there was any chance of FS doing this, you can achieve it.
they mention this at every opportunity but fat shark is extremely wary of nerfs. the second review bomb after launch was when they nerfed power sword to ‘only the best melee weapon at the time’ instead of ‘the greatest weapon ever’. there was a pre emptive review bomb wave from Asian players when a post was translated to suggest some nerfs were coming. But I think they actually did mean what they said and dialed back on the outrage. We can’t touch things that make the game design require dumping clown cars of enemies in.
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How many Asian players actually play Darktide? From all of this talk of the review bombing, it sounds like at least half of the current playerbase is Asian.
I want to believe that the review bombing that would happen if the DS would be nerfed would be almost equal to the amount that was dropped on the game after the Hive Scum trailer was released (aka. just 80+ negative reviews).
I checked the number of reviews for Steam days later after the leaks to the DS and Plasma Gun nerfs happened.
I found about the leaks through Mr E and his video was posted on July 19 so that’s when the leaks happened I assumed, but now, seeing the spike in negative reviews on Jun 18, I take this is where the leaks occured.
On Jun 18 there were 173 new, negative reviews. On Jun 19 DT got +51 n. r., Jun 20, +25 negative reviews, on Jun 21 +24 n. r., on Jun 22 +8 n. r. and on Jun 23 (Arbites release) we got +188 n. r. (probably caused by people being angry with new class being premium DLC and not angry Asians mad that FS suggested DS nerfs).
So to sum up:
After the leaks that FS plans to nerf the DS and the PG, all the way up to the release DT got +281 negative reviews.
While Jun 18 saw a huge increase in negative reviews being left on the game, the Arbites release has seen the same if not slightly bigger increase in n. r. and the Arbites was a successful addition to the game.
In my opinion, FatShark could handle nerfing the DS, the PG and even others like the Flame Staff and the Rumbler, because in the long run it will be a net positive for the game (nerfing the outliers will make it so enemies no longer die immediately aka. Enemy spam can be reduced).
I might make a new post and just paste this comment there. I wish to see what the people have to say to this data.
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It’s the same people who think wallhacks are fine. They are bad and need OP weapons and cheats just to play the game.
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