PenguinTD

I just wish the meta game have more variation, I will still coming back for the updates and such as I do enjoy playing with my regular crew. But steam chart numbers won't lie, the peak is past.

usually, it depends on the mission. For bugs my usual loadout is : strike, cluster, 120 or 380 or both, rocket pod, orbital laser or mech. (support weapon will depending on if anyone takes for the mission, ie grenade launcher for bug holes/blits, if we need more AT then I pick EAT.) for bots it's: strike, 120 and 380, then orbital laser or support weapon depending on the mission type. (40 mins then I pick auto cannon most likely if no one pick, blitz/eradication I just pick ems mortar. )

For majority of missions even if you don't pick a support weapon, you can get it around the minor POIs and just use them. I pick support only if it helps speed up the mission, not to get extra kills.

I am playing with the crew that consist of the same 6~8 people from lv1 all the way to my current lv45. I only have maybe 10+ pub matches so far since honestly wiping and be the only one left to finish or fail extraction is not that fun.

I still kinda feel bored cause there are no other motivation to keep pushing, it is fun to play with known crew but right now I kinda only want to play around update time etc or go online to pick up medals. Or try new weapons when newer warbond drops.

same, I was interested in the game but until recent video shows a ton of other things that I didn't know stopped me in the track, reading the reviews didn't help as well.

• it has the survival loot shooter with RE inventory management phase which I don't want to play, like not at all.
• it has those mundane tasks like filling ammo for turrets etc, which I think doesn't fit the game type I imagined.
• it seems to have boring AI issues even during the siege phase so that's another blow.

I think they have a good game in the beginning but throwing too many other things into the pot.

As certified looter, I pick up anything I can and drop them so they don't have to wait for cool downs. As I personally don't use packs or support weapons that much.

vs the linear plot AI, yeah, it's super boring consider how OP the main character is. It really depends on how they execute the multiplayer side of thing as seen by the success of Helldivers 2. I honestly think that would be a cool coop/pvp game during my play through and fell short be cause the variety of the "gun" is lacking and perks are RNG based. The time limited mission kept repeating and gets boring after a while, so I just beeline and finished the story and post game(including DLC).

I refunded D3 after finding out how they gate the auction house and drop weapon level during launch window. Never even tried to get the updated version or D4 at all. Blizzard is dead for me at D3.

in short, the market is formed by the money spent and what kind of product people buy. Simply don't buy the stuff you don't want, and spend actual money on things you want. People need to learn that their own preference does not reflect the actual statistic distribution on what others find "worthy" of their money.

Yeah, they know they are doing though, they are aiming for those that work 9-5 have life and kids and some spare changes and milk them hard. Like this game would take 200 hours to complete fully with X hundreds of hours of post game content that was designed to make your grind, but you can also pay for this [xp booster, resource pack, legendary set, etc] to make sure you can enjoy the post game content if you don't have the time to grind the game how it's "meant to be played".

In my AC:Odessey example, I think at one point the designer might be doing a heavy zelda influenced where you just pick up stuff enemies dropped and the blacksmiths are there for you to repair items broken as resource dump. (which make sense and very fitting of that era and how resource would work) But once that MTX department put their finger in now you have a derailed system. There is a spread sheet that list the hours required to upgrade a legendary piece to which level, and recommended level to get them(as their starting level is fixed and not like the enemy droppped item that matches your level), I saw the numbers and downloaded the cheat engine table the next hour.

I got AC:Odyssey during one of the sale cause I dig Greek mythology, had to get cheat engine and spare me the grind for upgrading gears and ship. Like sure you can just keep picking up randomly dropped Epic/Rare and replacement them when you leveling up(there are even player quest that put in specific spot to give you resource for those upgrades, just so other players can farm it) But I ain't get any time for that, I just cheat engine in max out resource and upgrade my Legendary gears I found through out the game. And you know what? By the end of the game(and I didn't find every Legendary, like maybe 60~70% of them) it would take me setting the resource to max twice to fully upgrade all my legendary + epic(with perks I like) gears. It would take probably months of my gaming time should I got it on console and can not use cheat engine.

No, upgrade gear is not required to finish the game. But after this experience I decides to never get another Ubisoft AC game nor any RPG on console or with always online feature(which means all transaction are done and authenticated to prevent cheating. ) I've done plenty open world, RPG, Monster Hunters without having to cheat. But the recent single player grinding + selling time saver booster pack make me whip out the cheat engine again. And I only cheat those stupid resource gating game that are designed to pad hours in to your play through.

Actually I found most easy and simple to run 2/2 split at lv7+, especially with the split sub primary objectives. For the TCS it makes sense to stick together cause you have to do them in order.