u/obstructive_potato

Had the game since just before the most recent wipe, and I do enjoy the game for what it is. I like the systems that it makes you use and how it works. But I cant find myself having a ton of fun doing raids. At this point seemingly everyone has at least trader level 3 on most of the traders. I dont yet. I need to kill the suburb mall boss in order to get tommy to level 3, but Ive been putting it off because I loath going to mall. Not that the scavs are too hard Ive been there enough times to know how to deal with them, its because its a hot spot. after getting the mission to kill the boss Ive died to people right after arriving and discovering that the boss wasnt there. its just hard to go and try to kill the boss when there isnt even a guarantee that it will be there and I will likely die right after.

Im currently doing a side quest line for Maximilian. Current quest I need to kill 12 scavs on a few maps with a pump shotgun. and this isnt doing me any favors obviously. I decided to do resort first as Igor has a mission where I need to kill scavs in resort. I dont think doing side quests is doing me any favors though

Donr gets me wrong, I like this game, I recently finnally unlocked all thw recon rifle attachment unlocks after sitting on the dragonov for a while. But some things in this game I just cant stand. And I wanted to list them, why they upset me, and propose possible changes.

C-Tac meta on Recon

Once you unlock it theres literally no point in using any other rifle for long ranges. Why would you use anything else at long ranges when the C-Tac has a very forgiving 1-shot body range? I find it quite boring, and thats why I mainly use the AW-M because it feels like more of a challenge to need to hit headshots. It leads to less kills sure, but I find it more fun.

I cant exactly think of a change for this one, removing the 1-tap opportunity from it would make it basically the same as the AW-M, giving both rifles nothing to set each other appart. I thought of making it so the C-Tac and B50 could do damage to vehicles as they are Anti-Material rifles (5-7 dmg per bullet or something) and in return removing the 1-tap, but it would still be the supperior pick for obvious reasons. Maybe just giving the AW-M higher bullet velocity would be a decent enough option.

Helicopters being overly oppressive

No new ground being broken here, they are meant to be oppressive obviously. On some maps they get put as a point trophy to motivate holding that point (siberia, fjord).

A way I think it could be solved is putting a time limit on how long helis can last, Maybe somewhere around 3-4 minutes. The main reason helis can get so oppressive is the ammount of time they can last. If the person flying is smart enough they can have one up most of the game and go on a rampage. Making a time limit challenges this. Dont change the weapons (exept maybe rhe Apache 50-cal spash radius a bit) let the heli be a tool to slow the enemy down instaid of a curbstomping device. Ive met people in game that think a heli time limit would be the best option as well.

Rush (In its current state)

Rush itself on paper is fine, its just attack/defend. But Ive avoided playing it due to the way it usually plays out. The way it plays out is your team can hold the points for a good while, then a medic runs in killing you and resurecting all the people you killed and taking the point. Another flaw with it is it spawns you way too far away from the points to effectivly defense the bomb in time, even if you got there in time theres gonna be people there and its unlikely that you could kill them all and be able to defuse. Some maps are just way to deffender sided as well. Mauritania and Paradise are the only maps that I recall getting at least one stage through, and 3rd stage Mauritania isnt great at all Imo. The points are far appart, and equally hard to hold. A is on the craine, and the attackers usually rat up on the top of the craine and jump down to the point, and that extends to B. The best thing I can think of is changing some of the points and parts of some maps and maybe lowering spawn times, thats all I can think of.

Tunnels

(this was originally part of the rush section but it got too big)

Tunnels is by far the worst map Imo. In rush it spawns everyone on opposite hills, and the point is near the bottom. All that happens is attackers go down to the point and get beamed by the people on the opposite cliff. Ive never seen anyone come close to getting first point on tunnels. Its too defender sided. Its flawed on conquest as well, since its a strait line, theres pretty much no way to get around and capture a point out of order Ive been on the receving side and the giving side of it and its never fun on either side since theres no oppression. Nobody really plays tunnels for all these reasons. I cant think of a soulution for this one other than just revamping the map.

Thats mostly all I have problems with in game at the moment, I truly like playing this game and hope to see some things change as the game grows. Thank you for listening to my ted talk

For as long as Ive known the game, It will try and crash every 3 and a half minutes. Only when I started trying to do the deposit did it start doing this; the game will only crash after I start that mission. Cut scenes, menus, the tutorial are unaffected. I play solo, I dont know if that has an effect on anything. I remember playing with other people one time and it ran fine.

It is not a device issue. I can play other games fine. Id really like to play this game so if theres anything that I can do to fix it please let me know, thanks.

Personally my least favorite update is Unvaulted, even though it brought in a banger song to vs bosses (unfortunate sons theme; "Brainrotting"). But that doesnt make it good. Allow me to list some reasons why.

Firstly, some weapon nerfs. The Sandman for some became even less useful for what it does for some reason. Instaid of flinching someones screen like it used to, it would just slow them like in tf2. Making it mostly pointless. The Wraith had it worse as it had its crit backstabs replaced with mini crits. I don't need to explain why thats quite bad.

Maps that were added are just ok, Financial is an ok A/D map, Deadfall ridge and Cliffhanger arent great but they arent terr​ible, Waterbog Is pretty much the only consistently played tdm map, Highlands is forgettable, and Pervade is an payload map with a confusing layout, but looks good.

It added the competitive beta, which I believe was dead on release. I genuinely dont even know how you access it rn or if its even possible to. Not like anyone would play it much anyway, people hardly play vs bosses.

The main gripe I have is that after Unvaulted came out everything felt a lot slower and less optomized. I remember things running smoother before, and after I cant usually get less than 2-300 ping. I dont know how hard it is to optomize things, but I feel like it should be a priority if your game is avalible to run on consoles and mobile.

I did like the contract revamp though, that was needed

That is all

Im on the last mission before getting tommy to level 3, and Ive seen the mall boss exactly one time.

How the last 3 attempts went:

1: go to mall with a good kit, ran into him in a stairway, used almost all my ammo in his leg (I had 7.62x51 sp) and he didnt die, so I ended up dying.

2: go in with the same kit (loaded with FMJ this time from the amount of G3s Id bought beforehand) look through most of the mall; dont find him and get shredded by someone using m61 ammo.

3: go in with a lighter kit, svt40 this time with decent ammo. arrive at mall, dont find him yet agian, and die to a duo on the roof.

I even went in on a scav run to see where he might spawn, but I looked through the entire mall, parking lot and all, and didnt see him. Its getting frustrating to go into mall and not see anything and ending up dying to someone.

At this point in wipe it seems most people have their traders to level 3 or higher, I dont yet and I am also quite bad at pvp. Im too used to having the time to carefully aim a headshot on scavs and getting hit in the armor once, so when a player shows up most of the time I run away.

Any info on either of these things?

Ive never really known much about the whole story of this other than what the game tells you, and Id like to know more about it.

Ive always been under the assumption that thw wiki wouldn't be a great place to do it (because its fandom), and I dont know where else to look

Ive killed a few In my time playing, but when a swrious firefight happens Im usually dead.

Ill put a recent raid for example: I shoot at somebody and they run away. I advance twords docks (im on dam) and Im shot at (mightve been the same guy I shot at but idk, I looked at wherevhe went for a couple minutes) he hits me bad, I heal. He throws a couple nades thst miss. I peek out and end up hitting his face (in death it said it hit for 45) and after ​I hit that I die to him

Numerous times this has happened, I hit someone in the face and they dont die, thrn immediately after Im dead. I have no Idea if its the games fault or mine, I never know if it was a trade or I only died.

I have won fights in some cases, most Ive gotten is in smug tunnel, but amyware else im not great. Some help/pointers would be appreciated.

(also how do you tell how far a whipe is until reseting? thanks)

Since coming back to the game after taking a break, Ive decided to start using the stf, since its different from pretty much everything else in game.

After using it for a few days I can firmly conclude that it is a peice of dogshit. The only map Ive had good success on is obviously Frio; otherwise I mostly use my pistol most of the match.

The thing has an ok spread, but ridiculous dmg fall off. In a recent match I shot a man in the head and he couldnt have been more than a meter away, and he wasn't moving either, nor looking at me. And he was still standing after I shot. The thing is if you bodyshot someone at that distance most of the time they will actually die.

I certainly understand why it is the way it is, shotguns are indeed hard to balance; they shoudnt be completely irrelevant though. I feel like everything in game should have a shot​​, but a lot of guns have been gutted from their ptevious state. I recall the vityatz usef to be essentially a mini-mk418, then its damage was nerfed into the ground. The UMP used to 2-shot at point blank (was a main draw if it), now it cant.

TBF something that makes it hard to use is the nature of it being a pump shotgun, but thats not that bad, maybe just make it more forgiving in how far you need to move it. But even so, it takes a lot more work to use it rather than an mk, and the m2 (personally I think the m2 is fine, perhaps more hs dmg)

In a nutshell, the STF needs some love. As do other weapons, but the STF has been in the ditch much longer. I hope that it might become a viable option for quick play someday, but nit overpowered

Ever since yesterday when discord went onto the quest store, all of my apps will crash on a consistent basis. I had discord previously downloaded by a seperate client, so would that be causing issues? I have no idea. Im not sure what to do other than wait for another update (previous one was yesterday

In all the time Ive had my headset, every time I try to record something it is only capible of recording from my mic. No in game audio at all. As far as I know I havent touched any of the recording settings so I have no idea what the issue could be