Does anyone miss the old barotrauma?

[Air Raider]

Before devs started nerfing and reworking everything to make the game more tedious and long hardcore.

[doomerinthedark]

from what i hear, the character overhaul was the last nail in the coffin for most people, personally the game is fine to me, but from what people say the older versions were better in every single way

[sokolov]

I downloaded & played several different versions of the game out of curiosity at one point and I prefer the way it is now.

It should still be possible to play multiplayer on those versions I think, so it's always possible to go back to a version you liked the most with some of your friends.

[Chimz]

I don't know about previous versions, but I do know that the new ending they've added is so broken that even using cheats doesn't balance it out.

I regret not having finished the campaign before the addition of this cr@p because now it seems impossible to get the achievement.

[Hans Wright]

My few cents on topic (talking only about steam version):
I miss old characters. Above all, old sprites, i still think that new ones were downgrade.
Mudraptors design seems slightly more generic, than previous one, which had more personality, i would say + some other creatures could probably use little more imagination. Exception being fractual guardians, that change was definitely for better.
Performance got definitely worse with certain updates, the more severe problems had been fixed, though some are stlll holding on.

AI is grey area, bots were/are better in older version in some aspects and worse in others, and that can change with every update.
Im also not sure about post 1.0 ending yet, im not there yet.

I like new mission types, bigger outposts, more interactable story elements/events + faction overhaul. And unlike characters, i actually like new sprites for submarine/outposts etc. Rework of alien ruins is also good.

After finishing campaign few times already (pre-1.0 versions), our crew started using mods and game got even better. So also thank god for workshop and modders.

Overall. Yes, there are thigns i dont like, but i still love the game and im having huge hope for its future.

[Robo]

I wish that the talent system was limited just to multiplayer, since it promotes teamwork and adds specializations, rather than the captain or the mechanic being capable of doing everything. But in singleplayer, it adds more micromanagement since the bots can not do 90% of the things a player can.

Other than that, I'm mostly satisfied with how the game is currently.

[lega]

I miss legacy so much. I played legacy pretty much every day. There's a lot of things I prefer about legacy over this version, but a big one a lot of people don't appreciate is voice communication. For me hearing a bunch of people chattering about nonsense completely ruins the mood. It's hard to explain this to most people, but in any game with voice communication everything immediately becomes a comedy. Legacy Barotrauma was much more tense because there weren't people taking you out of the game with their tone. Just the nature of hearing teenagers speaking casually over the game completely changes it for everyone whether they know it or not.

[doomerinthedark]

Originally posted by 󠀡󠀡:

I miss legacy so much. I played legacy pretty much every day. There's a lot of things I prefer about legacy over this version, but a big one a lot of people don't appreciate is voice communication. For me hearing a bunch of people chattering about nonsense completely ruins the mood. It's hard to explain this to most people, but in any game with voice communication everything immediately becomes a comedy. Legacy Barotrauma was much more tense because there weren't people taking you out of the game with their tone. Just the nature of hearing teenagers speaking casually over the game completely changes it for everyone whether they know it or not.

holy crap, i thought i was the only one, this is why whenever i host i disable voice chat, sure it takes longer for people to join but its so much better

[Rat Bastard]

I dont

[kingmagma111]

Originally posted by Chimz:

I don't know about previous versions, but I do know that the new ending they've added is so broken that even using cheats doesn't balance it out.

I regret not having finished the campaign before the addition of this cr@p because now it seems impossible to get the achievement.

It’s insanely hard, yes, possibly even too hard, but I wouldn’t exactly call it broken.

[TheSharpFixer]

Thankfully there seems to be a good chunk of mods that, atleast on functionality/exploit wise: allows you to forward port certain aspects from the builds before 1.0.

That and after getting a pre-1.0 coop campaign done and a normal 1.0 coop session taking longer than expected, mods (personally ones that feel vanilla plus/vanilla expanding) make the game feel much more rounded out than the 1.0 game update did imo.

Maybe one day we will get skill tree rebalance mods to denerf/buff the current skills available to former build's strength.

[Sisudatu]

I miss legacy

[Doctor Darling]

My biggest complaint to this day is that Security officers don't spawn with a gun. They're no different than just a mechanic with a screwdriver shiv.

[TheSharpFixer]

Originally posted by Doctor Darling:

My biggest complaint to this day is that Security officers don't spawn with a gun. They're no different than just a mechanic with a screwdriver shiv.

They do spawn with the best and most reusable stun weapon (that has a longer range than any single handed melee other than maybe the sword) in the game AND have access to the ship's secure weapon safe/armory room though. Being able to body a crawler or mudraptor on demand in a 1v1 from the very start is LEAGUES above a screwdriver shiv.

[Grzałka]

Originally posted by Chimz:

I don't know about previous versions, but I do know that the new ending they've added is so broken that even using cheats doesn't balance it out.

I regret not having finished the campaign before the addition of this cr@p because now it seems impossible to get the achievement.

I havent had the chance to finish the campaign before the update but i have just finished it today with a 5 bot crew, me as a captain and without using cheats, although for the entire ending i was playing as a mechanic because my captain got completely paralized like 3 missions before the ending and was completely useless but i didnt lose anyone during the campaign or the ending which took me 1 hour to finish. overall hard but fun 7.5/10

[Buggy Boy]

Originally posted by MB232:

Before devs started nerfing and reworking everything to make the game more tedious and long hardcore.

Which version would that be then? Many of us who played during Early Access came in at different stages of development so will have our own favourite version (probably 0.48 for me). As far as the 1.0+ version goes, it seems pretty decent for me so far in solo mode, although bots seem to have lost a bit of common sense since a few versions before release.