This just makes no sense at all.
FC,
Why did you find it necessary to cap range at 40m? Sure, I've seen your official response about PF performance, lag etc. BUT I have noticed NO better performance since the nerf whatsoever. If as I suspect it was really because a few players who had learned the game mechanics you point out in your article and were exploiting it to their advantage to gain levels then I say, SO F#%@ing What!!! This IS a game, its suppose to be fun, if thats their type of fun and they want to get to 200 like greased lightning so what, let them have fun doing it... I dont care and I suspect not many others aside from the PvP whiners do either. I bought and subscribe to the game to have fun and forget my RL worries for a time. My way of enjoying the game isnt the quest for levels like some or the RP like some but by manipulating the game mechanics in such a way as to be wearing ELite at 30 or equiping weapons, making bots/pets far above my level just to do it. I dont PvP with these twinks but rather prove to myself I can do what others find they cant or find to tedious or complicated to try. Thats what I enjoy and I hurt no one by doing and now your going to nerf that ability as well but no matter it will be "fun" to try and get around the new rules. But for heavens sake BRING BACK RANGE as well as most of the other nerfs you implemented that have caused good players and good people to leave before its to late.
You say in your follow up article that their are much better ways to acheive the same thing but you lack time and resources to do it now so BAM! you nerf it all. WHY? Put it back the way it was so everyone can start having fun again and devote the resources to it during the next 3+ years of the damn game sometime. It's not like having 100 or even 200 or even 300 level 200 players will hurt anything anyway. And furthermore the reason you lack the resources to do it is you have crapped on this game so much and taken so many on the chin everyone including me is scared to death your not going to make the next 3 months let alone the next 3 years.
Take a lesson from your company name and bring FUN back to this game and the resources you need will follow.
Re: This just makes no sense at all.
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Originally posted by Othgar
Take a lesson from your company name and bring FUN back to this game and the resources you need will follow.
I have to agree with you Oth. There really isn't any fun in this game anymore.
The Static Dungeons are completely pointless and STUPID and horrible rewards. A level 35-45 team cannot ever do the Steps of Madness, it's nearly impossible for a team level 100+ (which I did it that way the other night). All static dungeons have no relation to the story what so ever. I've done them all except for the Cyborg one. Tell me what is fun about fighting your way through endless GREYS for no exp yet they hit harder then Toughs or Seasoneds do just to end up at a camped boss from 2 level 180 Soldiers? Shouldn't the static dungeon have hard mobs that give more exp them a normal mob of the same level would do?
The Story is lame. The story is weak. I won't even bother downloading the new story movies since it has no relationship to me what so ever. None. This story is so weak that there is no hook ever to keep people watching it. There is nothing IN GAME that ever reflects any part of the stories, not even the static dungeons.
Missions are horribly tedious. Anybody who has done 2 of them knows.
Hunting is even worse. Hunting is literally the only way to gain a level since at level 100 it's impossible for me to kill a yellow and why would I when they only give 6k experience when I can literally leech of the Engineers at the Ace camp and still get 30k exp LEECHED? It takes 1.8m for me to level once and you expect me to do this 6k exp at a time on a monster that will kill me 75% of the time?
There is no Risk vs. Reward, and now Funcom you are making it even worse. With an IP reset, there is no risk in trying an Assault Rifle Advent, or a Shotgun Soldier. THERE IS NO RISK IN THIS GAME. Hell, there is no reward. There is no fun.
What's the point of this game? PVP is literally a waste of time. No matter How you look at it, it's pointless. Teams don't get titles and the titles give nothing. After a certain point leveling becomes a chore because there is literally nowhere to hunt during levels 90-120. Everything gives too little exp for the effort to kill it and the mobs that are even worth killing will more then likely destroy your team in such a way that you always lose more exp then you gain by the end of the night.
That is not fun.
What do I get to look forward to? Most characters can wear the same armor/weapons from level 30-200 without any problems. Since when is the same damn thing for months at a time fun?
When is an item actually going to be unique? I mean literally one item on the entire server, that isn't nodrop.
What the hell is with this Nodrop crap? Why is a Yalmaha nodrop? Why is a martial artist special move nodrop? Are you telling me that if I find a Yalmaha or a MA Special move in a chest (oh lets say a q185 BWT) that I have to lead somebody to Perpetual Wastlands just to sell it to them directly from the box? What use do I have for a q185 BWT move when I can't use it ever? It would sell for a hell of a lot if I could sell it. This world is so big that it isn't even worth playing without a Yalmaha. 5m credits is so incredibly hard to get when your missions are in Milky Way or Southern Foul Plains and you are level 45 running past level 90 mobs.
What's the fun in that?
Tradeskills make worse items in terms of time effort and credits to make it reletive to buying it from another player or finding it in a mission.
Take a lesson from Daoc. The best items in the game are player made and trade skills are cheap beyond cheap. Every class should have a COMPLETE trade skill, none of this half nano programming, half mechanical engineering BULLSH... that you have going on right now. None of this "It costs 5x as much to assemble the parts to make an Assault Rifle then it would be to buy in a store." NONE of that.
Every class, literally, should have 1 trade skill that is both valuable, in demand and very low cost. At least that would give some use to the word "profession."
The answer is there isn't any fun. There is nothing to look forward to, and there is nothing to strive for other then for some self satisfaction of living through a game that sucks your will to live just to level once.
There is NOTHING worth doing in this game other then to Hunt for Exp.
more nonsense from funcom
Increase range back, having rifle's capped at 40. and NF's capped at 40 is absurd, it doesn't improve game play, this game was a lot better when range was actually usefull. . i can't believe your thinking of introducing more guns with even LOWER range,. to make it seem like rifles have long range, put range back. like it was. before most of the people left this game. if you MUST cap it. cap it at 80, OR better yet FIX your game so the errors and bugs that were exploited when range was VERY far, don't exist anymore. IE being able to shoot things not in preception range
Please Put range back , For rifles AND NT, NF's. don't listen to pvp whiners. PVP is meant for TEAM's. people that do PVP solo without the proper character to do so should expect to get "owned"