u/Joker_Cat_

Is it me or are the surf “instructors” here only interested in teaching women?

Whenever I walk around with my wife she gets offered lessons first, board rental second. Whereas I only get offered just board rental.

Not only that but whenever we’ve had instructors (even apparently certified ones) we’ve noticed my wife getting better overall instruction.

It’s also weirdly difficult to get a certified instructor. I’ve messaged a few places and either get no reply or given 1 hours notice.

To top it off I’ve noticed so many of the “instructors” stealing waves from foreign surfers. Especially the male foreigners.

I read up on surf etiquette and watched videos about it. I generally stay out the way and I’m pretty sure I don’t push in. But it’s getting to the point where I feel like just going for whatever wave I want, regardless if there is a local instructor waiting for it or not.

So this map was kicking my ass. I tried every approach, took every precaution. I wanted to this with a realistic load out.

But then I ran the map with the flash launchers for all ai teammates (with total disregard for traps as well) and it was much easier. Considerably so once i figured out the ai teammates and enemy quirks.

I see people on here blame the ai enemy for being broken or op. And sometimes they are. But then I ran the map multiplayer with randoms. We all died on the last floor because we were disorganised af with no communication, but the first two floors were exponentially easier to clear on standard difficulty.

The map isn’t impossibly hard and you don’t suck. The ai teammates are just absolute garbage in firefights against the enemy and need to be babysat the entire time. On one run i had half my team (carrying shields) taken out by an unarmored guy with just a pistol. In other instances the ai teammates one shot suspects. But they are very inconsistent and you have no idea whether they will be good or bad on the next encounter.

If you’re struggling to beat it then run it with flash launchers, breach shotguns and shields with you carrying a battle rifle to protect your team.

This isn’t new info of course. But there are obviously still a few of us struggling with this map and thinking we or the enemy are the problem.

Edit: If you're someone who doesn't struggle with completing this without your team having launchers then you're very good at this game and you either have already or are completely capable of completing it solo. Because at times the ai teammates cause such a cluster f*ck that you need to have some damn good reactions to unf*ck the situation.

Im brand new to this game. Started playing 2 days ago. Initially couldn’t workout why my teammates are only ever getting more stressed. So did some research and found that essentially I can only use non lethal force to combat this.

I get it’s a realism based game but I can’t help but feel this is dumb. Especially considering the ai teammates have an uncontrollable bloodlust default if you give them any lethal weapon and then cry in therapy that they killed someone.

Am I missing a control feature somewhere?

Love this game btw. After doing everything non lethal and getting the S grade I’ll be going through quick play to have fun with all the other guns. Everyone is dying.

Edit: I understand why the game skews towards not killing people. What I don’t understand is how to stop the ai teammates from killing everyone.

I've gone down the metrics rabbit hole after posting a video and I'm wondering if any of you have experience with retention improving once you believe YouTube has found your audience?

I've had a thought building in my head that a lot of smaller YouTubers don't make bad videos, YouTube just hasn't found the audience yet. I see this when I come across small YouTube channels that have videos on the level of or better than larger YouTubers within their niche. But their numbers overall are "low".

I'm pretty sure Youtube is on the cusp of figuring out my audience but I'm not seeing the retention increase I thought I would with the increased popularity.