What happened to this game?

[Damian Dam-Dam]

Asking from someone who had played this game since it's PC release and eventually the global release. The game is turning weird and almost unviable in the most common sense possible.

First-Person Mode had somehow turned into a camping/ratting mess where everyone is too afraid to pop up their faces so they just camp corners or nonstop crouch-walk all across the map because they will create almost zero noises and can sneak up on *anyone* whenever they like it. Players are being punished for exploring the map and looting around, compared to those who can just crouch down in the corner and then kill unsuspecting players 24/7. This isn't the same case as 'EFT', as someone who had played through wipes. The problem is the fact that these campers/rats happens to be those who makes up the FPP-mode playerbase, which means disaster. Ask any EFT Extract campers what will happen if 90% of the player in session immediately move to extract camp instead of, you know, *playing the game*?

The same way cheaters are only 'tolerable' if they are in low numbers, we all have seen big games like PUBG going to hell due to their extreme numbers.

The second issue related to this is the TTK. This game literally turned the TTK so fast that it does NOT fits the Lost Light gunplay. Players and Marauders can kills you in less than a second while having laserburst capability and usually running around with 50-60 round magazines. This sounds good in theory but ingame, people are just bringing weapons instead of armors because everyone is running 5.45 PP and above, which shreds through level 4 armor, which, aside from level 3 armor, is currently the most common armor.

The TTK simply does NOT fits the game.

And another issue related to all this, is the fact how you get access to better gears in almost an instant. I get if if LL wants to remove level requirement to purchase stuffs, but we NEEDED those, they should had been reduced in numbers instead of outright removed. In the span of mere hours of gameplay (I played the new wipe today), I already unlocked a lot of purple gears and ammos, literally stuffs that can shred through level 5+ armors at the start of the game.

And boy, I did. It's insane.

So, we have equipment issues, we have TTK issues, worse, most of FPP players seems to love becoming a full-time rat and camper in every map that it essentially killed FPP as the Third Person's Camera *ironically* prove to be less advantage than being a rat in FPP.

Wow, Lost Light.

[Segador]

Completely agree and dont even talk about the base construction, crafting and economy, all broken. The sad thing is those things were well developed and working very well before the wipe. Now they are a shadow of what they were.

[Fallen Knight]

Really guys? I only just started playing 2 weeks ago and have spent the bare minimum, one 30 dollar top up for event reward reasons and getting my first targeted serums while I get a handle on the game.

My storage is max level, My weapon rack and arsenal and medical centre are all one level off max.
I've hit 5th rank for kills in my country and on the tier ladder if you take the dragon ranks out.

I look at games like Tarkov and Vigor... this TTK is par for the course for this type of game, as is slow movement.
Every wrong move could be your last, the stakes are high as heck with one shot headshots being a thing for many weapons...

FYI I mostly run baf with a pistol and nothing else until I loot it...
I find the new bots an actual challenge and allows for hunting players to not be a priority, moving safely through the map and picking my targets is.

Sure I did not play it before this wipe but honestly with how you describing it.. I'd be playing the slow crawl method and sprinting rarely anyway because if I can track someone across BAF with only their sprinting sounds, with how audio isn't reduced by intervening walls...

I don't want want someone else hearing me make my way to 3rd floor until necessary and any other approach is over confident at best, noobish at worst.

My only complaint is it seems like some ammo types just can't be crafted? only bought?

[ReaperSixx]

This is game is not what it was intended to be when it game out in beta. I stopped playing a few months ago and recently returned to the forced first person and no solo que. The beginning tutorial is gone, no helpful gear emails anymore. No base building portion anymore plus, when you log in as a lvl1 player and get absolutely shredded by npc's that seems to spawn on top of you non stop and going up against higher level players at the same time is just trash. Esp when you load in with that crappy gun they give you when you first start out. In my first match i died and re-spawned 3 times....there were guns everywhere...there was no searching the map and looting, just look for the floating guns on top of loot crate from dead players.

Fallen Knight for a new player to only be playing 2 weeks and dropping $30 on this game, im sorry. This game is nothing like it used to be. This game used to be so much fun. Now its just a game in my library.

Also there is no "the stakes are high". you could sneak around, you could snipe and move and wait and listen..Now its just pure chaos. Its just a call of duty clone. How is it high stakes if i can just respawn back into the match, loot up on guns everywhere and go kill you after you just killed me. It used to be that way, you get dropped you are done and out of the match and you lost everything. Now, oh look lemme just respawn, go grab everything i lost and get the hell out..oh damn died again, respawn......pure trash and this game is going in a very terrible, self destructing direction.

[The Ruiner]

I loved this game and just gave up. They just can't help but make awful design choices and it's honestly baffling. It went from a fun, fast paced shooter to a horrible, slow chore that rewards ratting and playing like a little ♥♥♥♥♥.

It's been nothing but updates no one asked for one after the other and refusing to undo them regardless of how vocally no one liked it.

They made it so you can't grab a ledge while moving and refused to undo it.
They halved move speed and refused to undo it.
They made ammo cost 7k per round and took their sweet time just to slightly lower it.
They made a single shot to the head kill you, making t6 armor basically worthless.
♥♥♥♥♥♥ up the economy so bad with the new season and made the black market effectively meaningless.
Removed insurance for a "roleplay" reason, lmao please.
Final nail in the coffin for me was implementing the carry weight ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. Literally load into a game already overloaded and unable to sprint if you're wearing T6 armor. And of course the pathetic bootlickers and their "just wear t4, stop crying." Jesus Christ.

[ReaperSixx]

wow i didnt realize they also took away ledge grabbing, well hopefully a new company makes a similar game and they actually listen to their gamers. Cant make money if no one plays your pos game.