u/PaleHeretic

For context, I only started OG AK after picking up Endfield about a month in, but that got me in just in time for this event. Seen a lot of people talking about adding things like IS, which I feel would be hard to reliably translate between the two game styles. If anything, Etchspace feels like an attempt to do something similar, but with what I feel could be debated as mixed results.

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Also seen RA brought up a lot, but if anything I feel that's already kinda covered by the AIC gameplay loop.

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RtM could be a gold mine though, with a bit of re-imagining. Think a horde mode, but you earn deployables like turrets and other useful things as you go along through it, having you juggle the building side and the combat side of the game within one mode. Could play out somewhat similar to Sanctum if anybody played that, but with some more RNG leading to more replayability in terms of how your runs go.

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I'd even be for having starting a run of it cost sanity so you're somewhat gambling on your ability to not screw your run, because the main issue I'm having with Endfield right now is playability. Like, if I have already knocked out my dailies and just want to *play Endfield,* it feels like there is a very limited amount of things I can actually do that really benefit me in any way whatsoever.

PvP was one of my favorite parts of the game "back in the day," and I played it at least as much as the PvE content when I actively played up until a bit after Nightfall. It's something I barely touched after I came back for EotN, and literally hadn't touched apart from occasionally farming HA bots with a standard E/A Starburst build with henchmen for dailies when I came back off-and-on during COVID.

I actually finally joined some HA farming team with *real people* (gasp!) during the last HA daily, and had a blast with it, especially when we ended up going against other stacked E/A human farming teams and having to fight each other with builds that seem objectively dogshit for fighting actual people.

What surprised me most was that, win or lose, the matches tended to be extremely wholesome. Like, "haha gj, gg, hope we don't see you next time luv ya bud" sort of stuff.

So I guess the first question is, do things like RA, JQ, and FA still run with people, and the second question is, how do I get in on that without feeling like I'm being a burden for the people I match with by virtue of being a fossil who hasn't actively PvP'd for a length of time that would have allowed for a newborn to gain the right to vote?