u/The_Kemono

So bots have been insane lately, literally crashing the servers, making the game unplayable.

I haven't heard of any way that the team plans on handling them, other than `behind the scenes` stuff I hear a lot, which may not include a patch.

Every week, there should be a small patch that patches the current multibox/botting method, because the lack of inaction just makes them think that this game's free to bot and cheat on.

DPD are fine, but of course they can't handle hundreds of bots alone, and we've been waiting for the new DPD for a month now, but information on is very little and dare I say disorganized.

I know we got a new team, and that's good, but finding a way to combat cheaters and botters should be the ultimate priority right now.

So. I unfortunately have Autism and ADHD (I'm 19). I used to have friends when I was younger, like 9 years old, but each new school year, I'd have less and less friends, and I wouldn't notice until high school, because I HAD none.

I'm not anyone creepy, maybe a little ugly but I'm harmless. I've never gotten into a fight my entire life, only got suspended once (and it wasn't in high school), I'm nice to everyone, even went out of my way to buy snacks for the class, but still... no one has been interested in me as a person.

Now, I don't really have the same interests as everyone else in school did (I've never used TikTok/Instagram/Snapchat/Facebook), and I'm not into sports, but still I think I'm approachable. I always ate alone at lunch (or a friend group would come sit at the empty table surrounding me, but not interacting with me or seeming bothered I was at the table I was at FIRST).

Fast forward to graduation, I was like the only one who had absolutely no one to talk to, except my family, but they don't really understand me, and of course it's not the same as having actual friends.

After graduation, I was applied to a sort of mini-college, where I spend 4 months on campus learning a pathway, and it was fun. I had attended twice for a total of months, and I was a lot more outgoing there. I frequently bought snacks for everyone at movie nights, tried to help my classmates when I could, even try to include myself in conversations.

Despite all of this, no one's ever been interested me, only talking to me when they need to. I was never bullied, but... compared to all of my online friends, they *all* have at least 1 irl friend they have, meanwhile I have literally no one.

(Oh right, I wasn't the weird, obnoxious kid that was immature and stuff)

I probably worded all of this terribly because of course I did but I think you get the gist of it. I've tried being myself, I've tried putting myself out there and stepping out my comfort zone, but it seems like I'm just a lost cause, no one my age lives around my area either so, am I cooked?

So I’ll start by saying I don’t hate the dev team. I’m not somene to blindly hate and whine that “Developers are ruining the game and I must be brave and avenge it by harassing the devs!!” because of a small change.

But as somene who’s been a big fan of the game SINCE it was released, since 3AM brought the game, it’s been a mixed bag.

On one hand, it’s good the game is being updated again, and a lot of stuff objectively has improved.

My only issue is that nowadays, the dev team and future plans just seem like a mess. For example, community suggestions. There’s been hundreds of them, from small features to tanks or just slight QoL changes.

Mistik would be saying that “tanks would be added so suggest them”, even making a Tank Suggestion tag, but that was 2 months ago.

None of the tanks that’s been suggested were ever accepted, same with him saying they’d add new suggested gamemodes every 2-3 months, which also ended up never happening. And same with promoting the game to bigger YouTubers, which was said 1.5 years ago.

I’m a big fan of Diep. Yeah I like new content such as tanks and bosses, but I know that they can’t just add everything people suggest, but again like the “new tanks” thing, yeah we got Shotgun and Firework, but they were ideas by the developers, not the community. So the whole thing just feels like a scam. Other than the (needed) balancing update, the game would probably be exactly the same if no one posted any ideas.

I’ve even pinged them in the server, asking for any insight but they never responded, so what I’m trying to say is that it feels like the suggestions channel kind of gives the illusion of community involvement.

People have been saying this for a year now, but they should be open about the development process, even give feedback to ideas and such.

I’ve submitted hundreds over the last 2 years, 99% of them being well thought out, but they either go unseen or denied for some reason.