every game with diablo style item affixes and blessings and modifiers and rarities and random rolls needs to have wipes every 3 months if they are to survive
we are one year into darktide and players are already complaining about lack of content
people can get the best weapon for their build way too easily
people are already quitting
we need seasons so that players obsess over speedrunning and being the first
and so they at least play for 2 weeks every 3 months like poe players do
Well after more than 1 mill at Brunt I never even could get the Bloodletter blessing. It is sure easy.
People quiting because of when they hit the real RNG after lv30 and need a hell of a grind just to try out something.
That is why I left the game for more than a half year. The magnificent RNG.
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people quit because the content roll out is a joke. 1 year to partially finish the shipped game.
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Psst hey kido, fatshark thinks: Fixing the game abysmally sheeet launch state IS the content…
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Unless we get a crafting system that works off anything other than horoscopes, and actual equipment progression:
No.
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Fatshark couldn’t stick to a a seasonal schedule to save themselves
It would make halo infinite’s first year look good and that was more delays than updates.
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Is Prestige like CoD? dang FS doesnt do CoD like.
It does need some sort of seasons to change things up. After a year, it has been few weapons here and there, rebalance, only 2 more maps in one year so far. Feels very static.
i.e. Doesn’t have to be new weapons, maps or classes etc. Maybe every 2-3 months a new game mode, even if time limited event. Could of done some fun halloween event. Something to keep it changing and fresh over the year. Xmas coming - Santa hat on Nurgle monster pls.
I think this is the worst idea anyone has pitched on the forum trolling or not. I feel like this deserves an award.
I really struggle to even picture what would make having to roll a brand new character every 3 months worth it to any stretch of the imagination.
This is a casual objective based horde fighting game, it’s not a Diablo clone. The implementation of this would likely drive whatever is left of the player base off entirely.
Making everyone reset to 0 every 3 months isn’t grind its monotony.
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There were 2 that were somewhat worse, one was about “Kawai” character that should be added to VT2 (Think iirc the initial pitch was for an Araby, Cathay or Nippon character that was basically a “waifu”), and the other was about either VT2 or DT not sure which and the inclusion of Nft and blockchain into the game
I think it’s close but we’ve had worse before
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Yeah you are right about those being worse but not by much.
Honestly even being someone who enjoyed seasons in Diablo 3 I know for a fact it just wouldn’t fit here and kill motivation stone dead if it’s a mandatory wipe such as Tarkov.
Even in D3 doing the season was optional and your full time character got boosts when they participated.
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A ranked mode I think could work with a reset/season rank board.
But it certainly wouldn’t work on the current mission mode.
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Darktide is neither a looter shooter or a ARPG, so yeah, it’s a no from me dawg.
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This would be a great way to speedrun the game’s life.
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DTs loot progression getting compared to diablo is pretty funny, since FS set different goals for themselves. Atleast on paper:
"We have learned a lot from our previous choices and gameplay surrounding crafting offered within the Vermintide series. For Darktide we wanted to take those lessons to expand and improve in such a way that crafting would become a central pillar of player progression, while giving more impact and agency to you, the player in your preferred playstyle.
The nature of randomization and repetitive actions sometimes seen within crafting is something that we are steering to avoid in the crafting system within Darktide. Meaningful choices will be made with strategy and goals behind them, as you set your eyes upon that perfect combination of melee and ranged weapons for your class."
But you are probably right. ATM the loot progression does resemble ARPG style games more than what FS wants it to be.
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Vermintide 2 exists. People have gotten their best weapons YEARS ago and are still playing. Please do not introduce wipes after 3 months I would completely quit this game lol.
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I hope you’re not talking about auntie sienna…
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As a note I feel like we are being gaslit by people constantly claiming that people can get the items they actually want too easily and how it’s apparently a bad thing.
Like god forbid people get to play with the things they actually enjoy without having to reroll the same thing with slightly less shitty stats 500 times.
Next they are going to say the ability to try different weapons is a bad thing and they need to remove brunt’s altogether.
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I got a god roll las gun
I like using it, my enjoyment hasn’t been hampered by using an actual functional weapon that works the way I want it to.
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Gotta get the t4 infenius
I got one on the vlla, slaps