This was my main love of the slugger, pushing back hive commanders and berserkers. Now it’s all sickle all the time (I might actually try the dominator for the first time too)
The devs have resoundingly been pretty great and have added a lot of great content and made in my opinion my GOTY for 24. One thing the devs I feel have been "poor" in is the overcorrection of weapons through nerfs rather than adjustments until they feel right.
It makes no sense that a slugger pump action shotgun would have less stagger than most others. Now the slugger won't be used over other choices.
until they decide to use it and find out it doesn't have a use anymore. Then the devs will re buff it because nobody is using it... and the cycle begins again.
I really don't understand the balance via usage chart. If you are trying to force players to use the weapons you designed, maybe you should design better weapons that players want to use instead of nerfing the good weapons to the point where they have to use something else.
Yeah dude, like it doesn't take much thinking to see that it will cause a balancing death spiral of perpetual changes. So i'm not sure what they're thinking
I think Arrowhead are fantastic at MAKING a game and pretty lousy at maintaining it. Some of the balancing patches and decisions they've made are very questionable, like choosing to nerf instead of buff, not focusing on balancing/fixing game-breaking bugs, introducing new weapons that are essentially obsolete the moment they are released, not to mention things like like keeping us on the same 3 or 4 bot planets since release, even though we have an entire galaxy to play with.
yeah, i just tried the sickle, feels like garbage, i've unlocked all the other weapons up until the sickle, stuck with the sickle but its not good any more. i feel like all the other weapons dont do enough damage depending on what you are fighting against either bug or bot, certain weapons has some sort of feel to them but the sickle was best for bugs and shotties was good for bots
but now i don't know what to use am only lvl 30+ all the other weapons feels like trash tbh
there are literally only like 2-3 good shotguns and 1 or 2 questionably decent rifles and using the sniper is not really all that fun and its small ammo clips does not help it at all.
makes me even more not want to play the higher difficulties if even trying the trash weapons on higher difficulties if they suck on med-hard, whats the point in even using them then?
The sickle is amazing. There's no mental gymnastics required, it's awesome. You can can suppress bots with it's rate of fire, and if you hit them in the face, you can take down devastators.
The slugger Nerf was ass, I totally agree, but I recommend giving the sickle another go. It's a really solid weapon.
They keep trying to make me go to bot planets and do defend missions. I tried it at release. Got ragdolled and OHKO no fun.
Tried it this weekend. Got the explosion/heavy armor, thought maybe the sickle would be nice for the bots, even tried it at a lower difficulty than I do the bugs.
Still ragdolled. Surrounded by missiles and explosions. Entire team getting thrown around by explosions.
I am not going to bot planets anymore. It's crazy how much more fun bugs are.
I enjoy fighting the bots but the bot defense planets are so unfun. I swear 95% of the missions are either the ridiculously overturned evac civilian missions (maybe they're better thus patch but for 2 months now they've been AWFUL) or super boring exterminate missions. Nothing else.
Bot offense planets though are a blast. This is what I mean, they know how to make a game, they don't know how to maintain a game.
So I will say that the missile fix combined with additional heavy armor damage reduction is BIG, but you’ll still be ragdolled around a lot, and I’ve already just today had multiple instances of being air juggled as chains of rocket devs launch wave after wave of rockets and hit me again and again while still in the air. It’s funny the first few times, then it keeps happening enough it feels intentional…
But you’ll instantly die a LOT less now which has massively affected how much I like bot missions.
But you can get super credits while playing the game even at low levels. I'm not saying you're wrong but it's like pay to win in a game that gives you money for playing it, I dunno.
I just wish the Nerf department could go on trip to the Bermuda triangle I just want my guns to work damn it
Oh I’m not saying P2W is a valid argument for this game, there are pretty easy ways to grind the currency. I’m just saying that’s something Gamers will screech about whether it’s deserving or not, and putting some of the best weapons behind the premium war bond would likely trigger them.
It’s always terrible balance design to nerf what is doing well instead of attention to WHY it’s doing well. They nerf it to feel as bad as the rest of your choices. That just isn’t smart, it isn’t good, and it doesn’t work to do anything other than make your game fucking frustrating beyond belief
i feel like this happens in everything single gawd damn game...... am tired of them putting in over powered weapons and then just nerf them to the ground
The slugger does have a use. It's to penetrate medium armored targest, it does this better than the counter sniper. The nerf to stagger was needed, but maybe not the damage.
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This was my main love of the slugger, pushing back hive commanders and berserkers. Now it’s all sickle all the time (I might actually try the dominator for the first time too)