List of demands/cry baby tantrum time.
Just letting off some steam with some yucks thrown in for good measure. Curious what ya'll think about any of this. Don't feel like any of this is too much to ask nor pie in the sky idealism. Just simple streamlining.
Marker/ping system sucks. It will mark an enemy less than 1/10 times and from what distance i can reliably mark i have no idea. If you're feeding me missions that require me to take out particular targets that i can't reliably track or differentiate at least improve your ping system. Might be worth having a large item tool or a recruit that is a drone that maybe you can't even see in game, but which will reliably mark the targets you have active missions for. Seems like now pinging any enemy adds them to your compass but i find this more distracting than useful, i'd rather that be reserved for priority targets.
Tunnels still suck. So help me please once we've made it out of the tunnels, next time i go in just add names to the extractions i've reached previously so i know which extraction i'm headed towards. I shouldn't have to memorise maps, with the amount of times i've been in the tunnels i'd like to think my characters would have done that themselves. By the time i reach an extraction to find it's not the one i want i have NO interest in backtracking to get to the right one. I can reach a dead end in the tunnels full of containers but this actually just annoys me more than i feel like it's doing me a favour. So help me tunnels are awful but this would at least make them manageable for me.
Gotta do something about the combined shoulder button commands on controller for grenade/healing. If i'm throwing a grenade i'm in dire straights and outnumbered, last thing i need is my man reaching for the cookies. Seems you've removed 3rd person aim from controller now. Maybe just stick a dot in the middle of the screen so i know where i'm aiming please.
Sort out the vendor attachments tabs, all these 3 letter abbreviations mean nothing to me and hovering over them doesn't give me anything to work with. Buying attachments is a ball ache, not keen on engaging with that system.
crafting system still sucks. But it doesn't have to. Let me ping priority items, things i need before i leave on a mission so when they appear in containers etc they are highlighted. I'm in a spot where i dare not sell anything because i have so much BS inventory but have no idea what of it is useful to me or not and the amount of menus etc i'd have to reengage with to remind myself sucks. ADMIN ISN'T FUN. PERIOD.
Maybe lets just ease off with these wait times on crafting, '5min to craft this' i don't even wanna be at home base for that long i wanna play the actual game so whether i'm waiting '5min' or '30min'...i'm not waiting, i'm gunna be in a game so why bother with the time limit. Might be a way to restrict the economy for balance but it's not fun regardless. put in 50+hrs solo and never been able to engage with the late game weaponry so it's just not ideal. (or at least haven't risked taking that gear in if i'm likely to clip through the floor.
So help me just work on what you've got, stop adding more stuff in.
Streamline loadout. If i equip a gun just allow me click the gun or a lil drop down menu to add the right ammo or a option to immediately buy it if i don't have it. I get fed up of menu diving i just wanna play the game. Every time i extract/die i have to close the game down and return later because the idea of engaging with...basically everything outside of the gameplay isn't fun, not to mention the tunnels themselves *shudders*. The amount of time i can put into loadout only to get into the game and get JANKED in one way or another is like self flagellation it just makes me wonder why i bother, on that note...
SO HELP ME, JUST WORK ON WHAT YOU'VE GOT, STOP ADDING MORE STUFF IN.
The game is improving, i can reliably run on higher settings than i used to, controller support is better, movement more fluid. But i still don't feel comfortable recommending it to others and this game gives me more mixed feelings than any game i've ever encountered. Fixes like this would be so useful. I worry that adding new stuff is a way to retain players, but if they want to attract new ones they won't find them until the current game further improves. How is this game gunna reach 1.0 when they're focused on new content. There is more than enough now for 1.0 imo if they just continue to improve it. Just my 2cents. Also bunko is slow af, you think i wanna traipse round the tunnels with him for an hour? HEEEEELLLL NAAAWWW