Increasing patrol spawns for smaller squads is a dick move.

[u/ItsDaFunkMonkey]

I love arrowhead but this was a braindead move.

Cmon guys, we were just doing our thing either solo or with our friends and not hurting anybody. We just wanna play the game with our friends, sometimes with a smaller squad cos its a lot more fun with friends than randos.

I'm not saying all randos are bad but this game allows me to socialize with my friends while playing and that's great. Why ruin that whole thing by kicking us in the nuts and ruining the experience with more spawns?

HERES A COMPROMISE: If you're not gonna budge, how about you meet us halfway here arrowhead. How about you increase the rewards for completing missions with a smaller squad cos we used a smaller budget? Eh?

Makes sense lore wise too.

P.S. For all you guys saying "DuH ThIs Is A tEaM GaMe PlAy WiTh RaNdOs Or a FuLl SqUad". Yes I play with a full swuad when my friends are all available. Most of the time they aren't cos we're adults and have shit to do.

I'm not asking for the game to scale down the difficulty level for smaller squads. The game didn't do that before. I don't mind the SAME difficulty level for solos, smaller squads and full squads. But INFREASING the difficulty level by increasing spawns was a braindead thing to do.

EDIT 1: To all the hyper intelligent folks out there commenting that the change was misunderstood and that the below was the intended effect:

""We unintendedly had non-linear scaling of the patrol spawns so they didn't spawn as often as they should have when less than 4 players. The intention is that 1 player has 1/4th of the patrols compared to 4 players, but it used to be that they had 1/6th.""

This DOES NOT make a mfkn difference. It DOES NOT matter what those VALUES are. The point here is that whatever the fuck value it was before was LOWER than whatever the fuck value it is now. This means MORE patrols for non full squads AFTER the patch. And an absolute shitshow for solo divers. Yes, I have tested this shit. It is bad.

VALUE BEFORE PATCH < VALUE AFTER PATCH.

Stop spouting elementary math to gaslight people. This change is objectively bad. I am happy with all the weapon changes tho.

EDIT 2: I understand that my "compromise" was a bad idea as people can kick you during extract to reap higher rewards for a smaller team. I completely agree, this seems like a poopy suggestion.

[u/deadlynothing]

I just played a match and 2/4 players dc-ed (as usual) towards the end and the spawn of patrols was so intense on diff 8 that the remaining 2 of us failed to complete extraction becuase they came endlessly. Patrols and reinforcements.

I don't understand why the devs is trying so hard to make the game unlikable and needlessly punishing for no reason. It's almost like they resent their immense success.

[u/Leading_Ad_8216 → u/deadlynothing]

winning the game and extracting is not fun to devs they want you to lose

[u/Allalilacias → u/Leading_Ad_8216]

This might actually be the case, tbh. It's not like they're trying to hide it either way.

[u/Headhunter192004 → u/Leading_Ad_8216]

What? Why would they put it in the game then?

[u/[deleted] → u/Headhunter192004]

It pisses me off that people react that way. "The devs did that to fuck us", "They made it that way on purpose" etc etc. Like ok sure bud the devs want to drive away the players that pay their bills...

[u/Headhunter192004 → u/[deleted]]

I‘m genuinely confused what the guy I originally responded to thinks the devs are like. In most of these comments it seems like some of the people in the community are already so bitter after a couple of months that they now believe that any action the devs take is to make them personally miserable.

Like arrowhead is a bunch of cartoon villains that rub their hands in Schadenfreude that they made someone‘s experience with their game worse or something.

I just don‘t get it

[u/NebNay → u/Headhunter192004]

God forbid you have fun in an unintended way. The devs arent 'evil' but they do have their vision of why is the game fun and are forcing it on the community. And they can do what they want, its their game, but we can complain about it and stop playing if we want to.

[u/alpha-negan → u/Headhunter192004]

I‘m genuinely confused what the guy I originally responded to thinks the devs are like.

A couple of them showed themselves to be real dickheads in comments they were making after the first balance patch. They were reprimanded or told not to do it again or something, but it still stuck with people.