gave up on stalker 2 because it got way too monotonous not easy but unless i did something stupid id never die like im at the bit before red forest and ive only died a couple of times on veteran where it wasn't me accidentally walking into an anomaly and im wondering if gamma will be similar or if the difficulty in that game is enough where i can still die loads even while playing well
these tools are pretty much identical (aside from gemstones) and i cant figure out why the specific crop fortune is so varied
im trying to play as a wizard but whenever i equip armor it looks so dumb do i have to choose between style and survivability or is there a way to stop it showing up
i started wynncraft as a mage and its really fun but the videos i saw looked a lot better (voiced acted, super high render distance, more animated, shaders) and so i thought i should download some mods and searched up videos on mod suggestions for wynncraft and every single video ive seen so far is just "wow look at how cool wynncraft is with these mods just join my discord and download this totally not suspicious exe file and you'll be fine" and its like TELL ME WHICH MODS SO I CAN DOWNLOAD THEM MYSELF AND NOT RISK GETTING 54 VIRUSES
no hate to any creator in particular ofc
i just wanna find a class that looks fun but like so much stuff seems class dependant and i really cant decide as i don't wanna be 10 hours in and regret my pick and need to restart as all the classes look really cool except assassin also id like to know which classes end up being strong later
(also none of that "pick whichever one you like they are all strong" stuff i want the most biased takes in the community)
the design im looking for was from a youtube video of a guy trying to design the best one plot wheat farm but i cant find it so ive used a great diagram to try explain the thing im after
traders buy from you at like 1/3 of the items price meaning you need to kill 2 players with the same gear and extract just to sell everything (including your kit) to rebuy the kit. the expectation that a player should kill 2 players and extract just to barely profit or still lose out on money is disgusting and it isnt something that i see people talking about enough.
enemies rarely have valuable loot such as keycards or even just heals in their bags as secure containers are heavily abused in every raid
gear difference makes new players quit and unable to even play any map in pvp without needing to rat or camp to avoid the t6 xm250 3 stacks
cheaters are rampant rn so running t6 is not recommended (DO NOT RUN SILO SOLO I REPEAT DO NOT RUN SILO SOLO 1/10 PEOPLE HAVE WALLHACKS AND 1/20 HAVE INSTAKILL CHEATS)
lack of real loot means everyone just rushes static spawns so after 5 minutes 80% of the valuable loot is gone meaning that people who get unlucky are just screwed
quests are not an option anymore as getting the koruna and keycards from them are not a choice but a requirement if you dont want to have a <50% extract rate and still not make any profit
im someone who plays mostly silo and island and even with a 63% extract rate and 1.8 kills per death and i find myself needing to run a kit 3-4 times just to make profit as even a decent mid tier kit (vest b, ate, msa, hk, heals, duffel, stuns, stims, food) will run you upwards of 60-80k with a resupply cost of around 15-30k (for example you use 4 mags, 2 stims, a few bandages and one can of tangerines and suddenly you have to pay 26k to resupply from traders)
insurance is a must have for every part of your kit if you don't want to go broke from regearing after a failure but the overhead is an extra 20% and a day wait to maybe get half your kit back making it only an option for people who are already rich as poorer players will have to cut costs to buy another bad kit to even try survive a raid
the undeniable reasons we all agree on (except glazeghosts ofc)
graphics were way better on old island and everything blended together really well and felt like they belonged (trees looked like the've been there for years and werent planted 2 hours ago for one example)
terrain was so much more interesting in old island as it created a sense of
the whole map was used for a reason half the new island is dead space with nothing in it and nothing to do but run across an open field and pray you didnt get sniped
no main poi leads to boring dead raids
not enough pois to accommodate map size as old island made you feel like the next poi was only a hill or a few trees away but new island you can tac sprint for a whole minute and not get more than halfway to another poi
the debated reasons
due to a failure to make a main poi or any bosses that roam or things between pois it creates a pvp scene of camping at one poi till someone runs out of food or patience and gets sniped because they have no stamina from running 200 meters with no cover or spots to hide or loot
colour scheme is disgusting in new island with everything feeling out of place and every asset looking like it didnt belong since its an abandoned bombed island inhabited a group of fenix that can barely muster together gear, radios. strategy or supplies ffs why do half the pois look pristine and every cabinet seem like it was ordered from amazon yesterday
7.5 overall design sucks as it wants to give off the idea of a broken down dilapidated island but it barely works like half the pois seem beyond repair, all of the small camps look fucking pristine and the other half of the main pois look like theyve barely even been touched like how are the doors and cabinets and the air con still pristine and working in certain pois
personal reasons
i just dont like the distance between anything worthwhile so i camp or snipe and its boring asf
people genuinely despair when they have to play this map for a quest and i know no shortage of people who just traded for an alpha rather than play one raid of current island so i think the awful reputation and experiences make island even less fun as everyone expects for it to suck
loot is okay but for the risk of 18 players (might be 24 again idk ive never seen more than 6 players in one raid) its not worth it
you never see more than 6 players in a raid or even hear more than a few gunshots throughout the raid
audio sucks in a team so you bring no headsets leading to a lose lose where you either suffer bc you dont have a headset or suffer bc you have one and its not so bad in smaller maps but when you have to listen to your teammates stomping 300 meters with no breaks just to go from somewhere to anywhere it makes you want to uninstall
the issues with scavs that dont need a paragraph: scavs lock on too fast, far too accurate considering they usually one hand their guns, they can see in the dark without having flashlights or nvgs,
they have no interesting actions they either walk in a straight line towards you or back and forth from their path give them some random bullshit to do like carrying boxes of stuff around or just chatting to eachother
scav pathfinding while not aggroed is awful like they just walk back and forth id like to see them in groups talking or doing literally anything that isnt staring at a hallway
scav swarms as they are known fucking suck and it makes mall nearly unplayable since rather than everyone fighting the foxtrots it leaves 2-3 spawns fucked fighting 10-15 scavs while the rest of lobby goes about their business without needing to fight a single scav
short range communication is awful they just ahve telepathy instead of an interesting system of scav communication such as radios calling for backup which could create a much more in depth pvpve system (such as misdirecting scavs to another area or room or even using it to make scavs go to an area with players in it)
why are they doing a field sobriety test when they chase you like use cover ffs they just line up in a lil conga and walk towards you
scavs have 0 strategy and have no regard for their own lives its stupid how they see a trio of kitteds and rush them in the middle of an open street rather than calling for backup or using cover or retreating
scavs either need to a be a large threat that players may very well need to use hundreds of bullets to survive against or a minor annoyance that can be dealt with quickly it cant be both simply depending on if you got unlucky with spawns
1 flight recorder
6 capacitors
6 scrap metal
2 orange keycards
5 box of nails
5 wire spools
5 rope
car battery
ik theres other stuff but ive got everything else and i cant find these parts
we do not want another fancy spec 3 or 4 reskin of galil or a reskin of the mp5 we want more low tier guns that make earlygame playable for people who bought the basegame or just dont have the time to grind spec 5 every month
sks, ak74, m4, g3, ak alpha have been and still are the best options since every new gun has some bullshit downside such as absurdly low fire rate, crazy recoil, high costs, buy cooldown, buy limits weak asf armor pen and bad damage but they just give the new gun 20 rails or and call it a day without making it useful to anyone
im asking because i cant figure out if they still have the purpose they used to have (better loot less visibility more danger) as night raids are always dead and dont seem to have better loot than their day counterparts and unless its midnight its still easy to see
i want to get back into vr since i finally "beat" tarkov and i need a new extraction shooter to suffer in but i haven't stepped foot into the game in years bc of awful content and a lack of self awareness and humility from the devs and im wondering if i should come back to it
quality wise - graphical improvements (are we still being held back by quest 2 players)
progression -the day the game came out it was just sks to ak/m4 to ak alpha and the loop was sks to ak/m4 to ak alpha or fal when i left is the meta progression any different now?
content - how much meaningful content have they added (not gimmicks or 15 more dlcs like genuine new stuff that isnt either useless or locked behind a paywall)
maps - anything new since the island update
loot - any new meaningful loot (loot with value and use not just junk or streamer items)
playtesting - have they finally stopped being egotistical and let creators or the community tests the new builds of the game so each update doesn't break the game on launch or are they still being weird about it
you - why did you stay in tabor or come back to it?
are there any other references bc this is the first one ive seen
after about an hour i suddenly stopped getting any rare mobs
im at 5 tracking from celestial mixin but im supposed to have more from sphinx shards but it doesnt show that for some reason and im wondering if im bugged rn or if the game just hates me
like genuinely i get that its a lower floor but it slows down most runs but if you don't do secrets it makes everyone's time worse
whenever i walk into trosky he just walks up to me and looks at me like he doesn't want me to surrender for a crime or want to talk to me he just gets in my face and looks at me like that and also the other npcs stop to look at me whenever he shows up like in the other areas of trosky everyone acts normal but whenever this fucker shows up im suddenly the most interesting person in bohemia is there a lore reason why he does this or is my game just bugged
roses and moonflowers fell out of meta really hard with the average money per hour being only half of what melon or wheat could bring in but with overbloom affecting the chance of getting a helianthus im wondering if it would be viable to farm roses or moonflowers again
i dont even know how they fit both scopes on or how they dont block eachother or how if i remove the laser sight it crashes my game like what mystical bullshit did they pull to make this thing work
the scavs in this are such a non issue and if i want to i can run into armory and kill every scav with a knife and about 95% of the players just ignore them until they get up close since they have such bad accuracy and fire rate like if they would use cover more often and actually work together rather than running in a conga line it would make this so much more interesting like scavs should feel like a constant drain on resources as you move through the map being attacked by them rather than an occasional annoying noisemaker that they currently are