Failing Main Missions on Death is Ridiculous.

[seriouskyle]

As someone with limited time to games, I find this mechanic increasingly frustrating. I hop on to do a specific mission for about an hour, only to get randomly headshot from 200m away by a guy with am MP5. So now the rest of the play time is spent running back to retrieve my gear and call it a day because I have to WAIT for the mission to start over. Why give someone a safe box if it doesn't matter? The mission items disappear and you have to start all over again. I can understand side missions, but main missions should not have a wait time.

[Captain Cracksnort]

I agree with everything except the ai accuracy complaints.

They aren't that accurate and if all that youre exposing is your head, guess where they are gonna hit you? Also at 200m you can barely see the enemy, let alone figure out what gun he is holding. People really tend to over estimate distance in this game.

Death is already brutal enough, if you die and loose your best kit. What are the odds you will survive to get it back? And even if you do, now you gotta carry two inventories out. So that means no loot and no quest money to soak up your losses. Its needlessly punishing, make iron man optional, if you take it on maybe you get a bigger quest reward on the end. But for casual players who just wanna play through the main progression path its absurdly punishing.

[[ACPL] Jon]

Originally posted by seriouskyle:

(...) only to get randomly headshot from 200m away by a guy with am MP5.

This never happens.

Originally posted by seriouskyle:

So now the rest of the play time is spent running back to retrieve my gear and call it a day because I have to WAIT for the mission to start over.

You don't. Just play another mission.

JUST DON'T ACCEPT EVERY MISSION RIGHT AWAY.

[Psyanide]

Originally posted by seriouskyle:

but main missions should not have a wait time.

Just don't fail it, that always works for me.

[BlackWolf9988]

Originally posted by seriouskyle:

only to get randomly headshot from 200m away by a guy with am MP5.

this never happens, stop lying.

[Gerblin]

It is a major flaw and off putting with so many bugs still.
You will only get replies from terminally online dweebs who think stalking forums like this is cool because they have 0 outlet for human interaction in real life.

[KnallWalla]

Hi,

First off, I’m 49 years old and hardly play shooters anymore. Just so you know.

I don’t get the poster’s point, especially since what he’s claiming about enemy behavior has never happened to me in nearly 100 hours of gameplay.

Yes, accepted missions are gone for the time being. So you just don’t accept them all—only the ones you want to do right now. If that goes south, you just play a different one.
I think the system is good; it indirectly rewards you for playing cleanly and moving skillfully, smartly, and tactically across the map.

If you die too often in the game, 98% of the time you can blame your own playstyle, not the game.

However, if you run blindly across the map, ignoring the situation, the enemies’ positions, your own position, cover and retreat options, the new lines of sight created by the enemies when changing positions, etc., if you don’t learn the AI’s reactions and abilities, and if you don’t pay attention to the armor and ammo systems—well, then you’re going to die.

Just watching how some people move around the map in streams makes me wonder if they have any will to survive at all.

But I asked myself the same thing back in my military service, and I always walked at the back during patrols and guard duty—I didn’t want to get hit by a bullet from my own guy, given how they were behaving.

Greetings… Hope you can read this, it’s automatically translated…

[whit]

Gotta say I agree with @KnallWalla.

Nothing to add to it either. Pretty much my same perspective.

[Blocko]

Originally posted by seriouskyle:

A, only to get randomly headshot from 200m away by a guy with am MP5. .

Happens a lot its so stupid! you cant even see them and BANG headshot...

[RAGE]

Originally posted by Blocko:

Originally posted by seriouskyle:

A, only to get randomly headshot from 200m away by a guy with am MP5. .

Happens a lot its so stupid! you cant even see them and BANG headshot...

ai cant even hit a tank at this point yall trying to play this like cod or something

[uzachrey]

Originally posted by Blocko:

Originally posted by seriouskyle:

A, only to get randomly headshot from 200m away by a guy with am MP5. .

Happens a lot its so stupid! you cant even see them and BANG headshot...

The AI doesn't even return fire in most instances from 200m

[uzachrey]

Originally posted by seriouskyle:

only to get randomly headshot from 200m away by a guy with am MP5.

♥♥♥♥ that never happened for $500 please, Alex.

[uzachrey]

Originally posted by Gerblin:

It is a major flaw and off putting with so many bugs still.
You will only get replies from terminally online dweebs who think stalking forums like this is cool because they have 0 outlet for human interaction in real life.

Someone has to be terminally online to not suck at the game? Wild I've got about 30h total in the time this has been out and never have issues like this. Just make a point of not getting shot.

[Dr. Albert Wesker]

Originally posted by BlackWolf9988:

Originally posted by seriouskyle:

only to get randomly headshot from 200m away by a guy with am MP5.

this never happens, stop lying.

it did happen in the first weeks of the game...

[mad]

Every single death I encountered is because I played like I was on an airsoft field and exposed myself with no regards to my personal safety. Yes they may have insta tapped me, but should I have been in that spot in the first place? Would it have made the game better if they didnt punish me for my own lack of care? I don't think so, if you find yourself with little time like every other adult in the world, plan your movement better, check your angles, think of a route. You're playing a game that is deliberately made this way.

[Exxoprot]

I feel the same! Also the AI is redicilous, I had a situation where I had to fight my way up an Hill. And one NPC legit shot me multiple times because he was spraying with his MP5 and actually hitting me over 200meters. Also he was all the time behind bushes. He should not even be able to see me.
So the AI is weird ! Its more like Zombies how they behave I guess. Also this one guy took 8 ! Shots to his chest and it was just a " light bruise " ( Best Ammo with M4 ) thats also just rediciulous and makes ZERO sense