u/qqb11ar

After 1.1k hours in this game, I've always known that Arrowhead got a game they didn't deserve, but I always held on to hope that they'd one day see this and actually make an effort to fix and polish the game that I love. I went through countless updates and warbonds that felt like nothing-burgers in the moment aside from one or two weapons, consistent nerfs to us (the player, in a PvE game for no reason at all), and then good ones to outshine the bad, but I just can't with this studio anymore. Narrowhead (yes, that is their true name) is so busy taking vacations or doing ANYTHING other than trying to make their game good that this whole big title update feels like a PATCH that added a subfaction, biome types, and a few new missions. Not like the cyborgs, either. 2 enemies. And reused subfactions upon subfactions to make the new planets feel unique. They don't. They just jacked up the spawn rates on the void source planet to make it feel like an enemy homeworld.

Compare that to Into the Unjust for a second. The Hive Worlds had an entirely new mission area where you went underground, had new units, and added possibly the only boss enemy that AH will ever have, and it was all so peak. Cyberstan had the megafactories and the oppressiveness of the entirely new cyborg army and their terrifying Vox Engines.

What does the illuminate have? Crushers? The wretches are the equivalent to voteless hunters.

And you know what? This could all have been mitigated if they didn't SCRAP THE CULTISTS. I SWEAR, THEY TRY TO MAKE THE GAME LESS AND LESS FUN EVERY UPDATE. WERE THEY NOT ALMOST FINISHED??? WHY??? WHY WOULD YOU SCRAP THEM TO SPAM 2 UNITS???

THE GAME EVEN HAD A WORKING ARMOR CUSTOMIZATION FEATURE IN THE ALPHA! STRATAGEM LAUNCHERS ON MECHS! THEY SCRAPPED IT ALL! THEY SCRAPPED MY GAME!!!

THEY SCRAPPED MY HELLDIVERS 2!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

louder. MUCH louder. like the soldiers screaming at the start of a breach mach loud.

like i get that there's a big flashing indicator above my head too but sometimes i just zone out and i need something more than a visual indicator to snap me out of it because i'm playing on ps5 and an old tv from like 2016 so by the time i hear and/or notice the guy dropping onto me at high speeds i'm already dead therefore i have to be on edge every millisecond i'm on C in harbor

i know my setup is actively making me worse (the tv cost like $30-40 and probably has a horrid refresh rate) but i'm not the most wealthy fellow (i already have voice and sound effect volume at 100% by the way)

it sucks because people do it to me all the time but when i try to do it they just roll and cause me to crumple up like a piece of paper

dude after trying out and figuring out how to play this guy he's so fun. he's got everything you need:

good externals✅️

hyperarmor✅️

bluorange mixup (even though it's mid)✅️

weird superior block dodge lights✅️

super safe extended dodge heavy that can be soft feinted into a number of things (only weak to gb)✅️

awesome feats (including come at me T1 for getting max renown in minion lane quickly)✅️

soft feint bashes after heavies (but not lights)✅️

handsome✅️

loud and annoying✅️✅️✅️✅️✅️✅️✅️✅️

and the best part? almost all of these stem from a forward dodge (i was grinding roach recently)

favorite vanguard tbh

i still hate it. but i understand that it's gb vulnerable, so it's not too much unlike jorm's unbalancing smash, but i don't like how much damage that does either for how fast it is.

even if the little 4 combo hits she does after kicking you deal the damage equivalent of a fly landing on you, i still hate those. it's about the mental aspect.

imagine instead of JUST knocking you down and crushing your balls with a hammer, jorm tied you down into a chair, had sex with your wife right in front of you, destroyed your gaming setup, claimed your kids as his, stole your house, and then kicked you out before then, finally, dealing a total of 28 damage. that's how i feel watching arakure beat me up, then slam me into a wall, and watch as my character bumbles around swinging his head in a circle like he just got CTE before getting slapped in the face with a grand total of... 26 damage. it's like it's some kind of... cutscene. i know it's probably useless in team fights, but that's not where I have problems with it, I just feel like it should be a little slower for 26 damage, even though it is gb vulnerable, i don't like bashes that confirm a lot of damage/heavies (like highlander's and gryphon's but I used to main them so I know i'm kind of a hypocrite) but that's just my thoughts on it.

oh and also getting ledged for free on high fort YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE YOU DID THAT TO ME TWICE

you're telling me that you pick the most balanced hero in the most overpowered faction (besides like medjay, but he's so unused he feels not real)? like you could have picked pirate, afeera, ocelotl, or VIRTUOSA but no you CHOSE not to have some stupidly overpowered or annoying (or BOTH) attack/gimmick and play like a decent human being. sending love❤️❤️❤️

literally an alien

tell me how she can feint a bash that she jumps to do, suddenly gravitating back down to the ground instantly, and is able to do backflips up stairs and larp as captain america and god forbid you get less than 5 meters close to a wall

inhuman BS, i wouldn't be surprised to see crypto from destroy all humans under that stupid helmet she wears

if i'm low, OOS and fighting a JUREN of all people and you just watch me die, then watch me get EXECUTED and do ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO STOP IT and EMOTE after i get my head chopped off and then and only then, after all that is done, FINALLY start attacking the SINGLE juren on point C i am leaving the game. i do not want to deal with this BS for a whole match. i hope i never cross paths with you again.

In this dream, you could swap characters mid-match after you died, and the map was on a big pirate ship docked in a cave (kind of like No-Man's Wharf from DS2) and every single character had crazy variations of their attacks, there was no virtuosa, juren, pirate, afeera, or shugoki, and the only character that was actually the exact same was Warden. I even remember doing a charged bash feint to GB and sliming out some guy before a Nobushi with the speed of a train used LB's sprinting stab move and pushed me off a rock. There was also no 15-second respawn delay and a bunch of new heroes and skins. I woke up excited this morning when, much to my dismay, it was all a wishful dream conjured up by my mind that will never be.

I just got my hands on this guy, and i can clearly say he's definitely gonna be one of my most used characters, but i wish that some things about him were more balanced.

his in-chain bashes should be slower and able to be guardbroken if dodged. this is like the main problem i see: if i get hit, people always dodge, i think it's because the pinning bash is unreactable. MAKE IT SLOWER!! i was also appalled when my bash was dodged, and i could STILL COUNTER GB! felt like i just robbed some poor soul out of his rightfully earned punish!

his held guardbreak should do a little more damage for more incentive to use it (it only does like 14, make it like 16 or 18, the heal is pretty negligible and the only real reason to use it instead of a heavy off gb is stamina regen or BMing/ledging people with it and i don't know if it does this but to compensate it shouldn't allow you to confirm a light afterwards)

the uncharged zone should be an undodgeable like his light finishers (right now there's literally no reason to use it over the charged zone if you're gonna use the zone in a fight, and the zone having the finisher properties of the lights and heavies would be cool and make more sense instead of only the charged one having the finisher properties of the heavy, but that's just me)

his charged heavy finishers should deal a little less damage.

his charged zone should also come out faster mainly because i see people trying to parry it, and they do it way too early, so giving them something that doesn't feel like an elden ring boss attack windup would be a bit nicer.

i also am open to and curious about hearing opinions on what else should be changed and what else people think about him

why on God's green earth can she have her dodge attack come from ANY direction??? i can't even safely try to parry it for a heavy because it could be a TOP attack from a side dodge!! nobody else in the game can do that!! what???

to address the people asking me to react: i am playing console on an old tv, so parrying for me has almost always been read-based, i can do it like 1/3 of the time if i try to react, but thank you for the advice. i know i'll improve in the future