The Kernel level anticheat does bug me. I wish people would just stop being dickheads and cheating in multiplayer games. This is why we can’t have nice things
People have cheated in the samples and req slips and such and ruined progression for others. It's not the same as competition cheating, but the "point" of the game is the grind, and some lost out on it. I think AH rolled back most of the effected accounts though, but it's a little deeper than just no PvP = cheats sorta fine
Cheating completely ruined my Red Dead Redemption 2 Online experience. Cheating there was so bad that people would just move everyone on the server to a single location then spawn hundreds of cougars on top of them. You'd just be riding around doing missions minding your own business, then BAM! Mountain of cougars on top of you. It was constant for a couple weeks, so I just stopped.
I guess my point is that even if there's no incentive to cheat in a co-op game, people will anyway because they're dickheads.
Because cheating the progression could affect the monetization.
If I blitz through the game and unlock everything with cheats, I'm much less likely to stick around and spend on the premium armor and battle passes. The point of the daily orders and slow progression is to make the game a habit, which increases the likelihood that someone will spend by increasing the number of chances they have to do so.
Aame and i think that's why it doesn't fit in here. You can enjoy the game and still hate that shit. I agree with the whole weapon nerf thing and i think people take it way too serious. I only play on helldiver difficulty and you van use quite literally every gun you want as long as you have a team that halfway know what to do. If the most fun gun in the game was a nerf gun, i would use it, i like that they change guns every now and then.
I'm not saying Arrowhead is perfect and hand-wave away the game's problems. I've just seen a lot of people bash the game as if it's completely unplayable. But I still enjoy dropping in and getting overrun by Bile Titans only to barely make the extract with reinforcements left.
I have taken a break from the game for the time being. I have put probably 90 hours into the game and enjoyed a fair amount of that time. The game does so much right and even the grind loop can be pretty fun. That being said I started to get the feeling that the leadership was focusing on content over bug fixes. We still have things like the spear not being able to lock on most of the time, fire damage and gas damage being broken for non hosts, rockets out of the mech blowing its arm up even after patches to stop it.
It bothered me to see new weapons and armor added when they haven't even fixed the core items. I don't play enough to make 1000 credits quickly so I would see brand new content for a new game that I can't access while a bunch of my existing toys are still broken. I know I still want to go back to it but for now I am going to wait till the devs can spend some time and fix the core elements a little more.
Gas and fire damage has just been fixed with the latest patch. The mech self damage I have never witnessed I think, but it doesn't seem to be much of an issue to me based on that.
The spear I grant you though, I really want to use it more but the good old quasar is just more reliably blasting big targets, and doesnt occupy the backpack slot as well.
What they really need to fix in my opinion is the frequency I am stuck in or under the ground from an explosion. No way out except grenade suicide
The fire and gas work just fine for non-hosts now... I've not tested the mech but it's supposedly fixed now. The spear is something they say they're working on and since they've been fixing things I don't see any reason to not believe that
They blocked additional sales in 90 countries where it was sold initially. Folks that have it should still be able to play, with the exception of Vietnam since the country blocked steam.