Weapons System Feedback

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Hi everyone, we know that you’ve got a lot of comments and feedback related to the Weapons related changes, so we wanted to create a master thread for you to share your thoughts and questions with us. Thank you for your continued comments!

[andamonkey]

all the words i have to say about the new weapons system are swear words. i was at 10 or more reforges on all weapons before and had some i really liked and some i believed the devs should be punished for creating, but the new weapons system makes all the old stuff look divine. you butchered everything. everything! all the things i liked to use before are gone or butchered. tbh i'll play a bit more to see if i can salvage anything, but at this point i'm honestly likely to just tell people the game has been destroyed and to pass on it.

[Wilbur, The Bacon King]

Originally posted by Polo:

Hi everyone, we know that you’ve got a lot of comments and feedback related to the Weapons related changes, so we wanted to create a master thread for you to share your thoughts and questions with us. Thank you for your continued comments!

You think the negative feedback for weapons is bad now? wait until people run out of the tokens they got from the update then are timegated 6 weeks and still only have 85/100 (weekly challenge gives 10 x 6) + 25 from free pass required to buy a new weapon.


Please tell me weeks 2-6 have more than 10 weapon tokens on their challenges...

[darkwolff2505]

at first the good one:

- Weapon switch while fighting is realy nice

And now the bad ones:

- deleting weapon craft system, one of the key mechanics of the game
- deleting lanterns and put the skill in the rare number of weapons without able to switch skills
- every weapon have legendary skill (Legenary skill on all weapons makes it common and not legendary)
- just one weapon of each type (well for free but without crafting new ones its borring)
- new weapons only in the shop for extreme hard to grind coins or real money
- way to less number of weapons for each type and element
- missing cell slots on weapons
- missing weapon mods

Not good but not bad:

- level system of each weapon (and not the weapontype) but please get reforge again
- more than one behemoth of a kind on a map
- weapon talend system itself
- armor upgrades

My opinion:

I think you should go back to the old Dauntless and instead of changing almost half of the game to something new, just add new features like weapon switch and upgrade system. And let the player at least get a little bit of Platin in a battlepass.

[Luckyxray]

Do you even need feedback? its all ass.

[Mrspartas [FR]]

Houllala ou sont passer mes armes aux gros lvl que j'ai pu améliorer pendant des heures et des heures vous avez tués le jeu dommage, le nouveau système est pas ouf du tout j'ai tout perdu je suis vraiment triste

[Tu Chueh]

Do I have to remove cells when i wanted em in another armor set? So lame.

[Black"Monstie Huntie"Emerald]

Rather than just adding genuinely new content you just overhauled everything in a bad/worse way. Why? Just add new behemoths and new weapon types and everyone would be happy. The weapon swap system is great, the glider has no point existing, weapon progression is terrible and the new cell system is also terrible. The leveling system is whatever i guess but basically everything else i can think of from this update is either bad or does nothing to make the game better. Just actually put new content in the game ffs!

[Schnader]

As someone who's played back in the Closed Alpha/Beta days, I was excited to jump back into the game again.
Despite still having a good time, not being able to craft different kinds of weapons is just weird, locking them behind hard-to-obtain tokens is just dumb, being forced to only use a single weapon of each class sucks.

Also, I'm not sure if this is how the game has been for the last couple years, but every behemoth dies within 3 minutes, what happened?
Back in the day these hunts felt like actual threats, lasting 10 minutes at the minimum, usually more like 15-20, now it feels like nothing more than a grindfest/slaughter with irrelevant rewards.

I honestly had a better time playing in the extremely buggy early builds with incredibly unstable servers than to turn my brain off and buttonmash in this current version.

[Leeloush_Keer]

I've been playing since closed beta, bought the founder's pack. Overall I liked the game, "a bit of a casual Monster Hunter", something was really interesting. What can I say about the new weapon system? Let's look at the ratings on Steam: "extremely negative" (only 15% positive out of 504 ratings) Do I need to add anything from myself - I don't think so.

[ele]

It feels like what happened to Star Wars Galaxies for me. Completely dumbed the game down and removed 95% of it for....no apparent reason? I hope there are talks of reverting this patch out of the game or we might see a similar outcome.

[Fibory]

Look, we went through something similar on the reforge update, so over time I feel like people will get used to new cells and leveling weapon system, and I understand that with enough time, we'll have every element for every weapon again.

The main point of over half the negative reviews that actually make sense so far is that we were nowhere near compensated enough for the many hours of grind we did prior to the update, I had over 500 hours in the game, and now my progress is the same as the people who had 250 or 1000.

Aside from that, did you guys really have to lock so many things behind a paywall? You don't lock gameplay features behind paywalls, even big companies like EA barely get away with it, and you guys were trying to revive the game.

The best you guys can do to salvage the situation, without reverting back the changes, is buff the cell system to make it broken enough to distract people, and give free stuff to both compensate properly the loss of progress and pull the attention away from/level the playground on the p2w stuff.

I wish you good luck on this, really, this is a good game with a great idea, but the greed on this update is ravaging the community.

[Chrius]

Bring the weapons back. I don't care that all of the weapons of each type end up being exactly the same, all I want is to be able to use the weapon types I enjoy using, with the correct elemental type for whatever boss I'm hunting.

Edit: Or just let us have multiple weapons of the same type, and choose what element each one is...

[Ponyra]

Mate, you guys made an hunting game where you can't craft weapons from monster materials and instead you buy them from a shop or a battle pass.

That doesn't need "feedback".
You just completely ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up one of the core concepts of hunting games.

[DJBacon]

Rollback the update, remove loot boxes and just let people buy cosmetics, NEVER lock gameplay behind a paywall again.
Give us the new weapons as exotics and maybe start slowly switching over the rest into those kinds of weapons.
Alongside that, just stop focusing on reworks and stop worrying about your system being too complicated or worrying about the scary "meta"
And just release banger new content, escas, hunting grounds, behemoths, pets, bows, guild housing, player housing, etc...
The new content would bring in and keep new and old players which means more money.

If you doubt this, just go look at Warframe's economy, it's doing great with this almost exact same style of game (free to play, only sells cosmetics, can buy OR FARM AND CRAFT WEAPONS no time gate, well there is a time gate, but it's a maximum of three days, over 10 times less than what you guys are requiring...)
And they're doing better than dauntless and players can trade the premium currency over there!

The difference between Warframe and Dauntless and why you guys aren't doing too well right now is the lack of content updates, not issues from the core mechanics, old players aren't whining that they're bored or everything is the samey because of the core cells and weapons... they were saying that because there was nothing NEW to do.

EDIT: KEEP WEAPON SWAPPING TOO, THAT WAS ALSO GOOD
99% of what I said is what people are complaining about on the steam reviews and discord, read those, ignore anything nonconstructive, and write down the valid criticism to adopt.

[siiix]

You effed up hard on this one and alienated a lot of your current and potential playerbase.

This game goes into the list of bad devs and publishers to never support again.

Unless this was your business plan?