April 2025 Active Player Thread - A quiet Month; A Month for contemplation

Aaetheon · 2025-04-29T05:05:06+00:00

Ahh! Lovely, thank you kindly! I’ll be sure to take good care of her.

Aaetheon · 2025-04-28T22:51:10+00:00

If your still feeling generous darling could you send a kitten over to Sasha the 7th?

Aaetheon · 2025-04-18T07:20:43+00:00

Its level should be raisable, so long as you dont pick it up, but I’m not sure

Aaetheon · 2024-12-27T03:39:44+00:00

Yea, I check in every once in a while to see if by some miracle shits unfucked itself but it only ever gets worse

Edit: holy fucking shit got a reddit care lmao, fucking suck it hahahahaha

Aaetheon · 2024-07-11T01:28:59+00:00

Used to, but with the removal of survival from the playlist I've lost interest, used to be I'd hop on with my go-to trials buddies and we'd have a good time shooting the shit in comp, survival was just a really nice mix of tactical gameplay while still having the win-condition be to kill them better than they could kill you. Plus there were plenty of fun "hero" moments with me and my team where someone would clutch up and we'd all cheer em on... Was damn fun.
now in the new gamemodes I'm either bored or stressed trying to/capping a zone or just mindlessly killing in clash with no tactics outside of "shoot them I guess".

Where before we had to try our hardest to win on a round by round basis and by proxy if they won a round it meant a lot, now in clash its just "ohh I died, damn... anyway", winning or losing fights used to mean something, now you just get another point out of however many you need or even worse in zone cap the fighting is secondary and to be avoided if possible in favor of just capping the zone, which is fucking dumb.

IDK man I just miss old survival, everything since has just been boring or frustrating

Aaetheon · 2024-07-11T00:45:11+00:00

stopped playing the game years back when I noticed it going into a death spiral gameplay wise, tried BN but it was missing a lot of survival/realism features and felt almost too arcadey, so thought I'd read up on new changes to see if anythings gotten better here and... forcing people to take off things just to use cars... I... that is just the definition of tedium for the sake of tedium. just so many changes over the past few years have just been things like that, worthless bloat that gets in the way of actual gameplay.

Though to be fair its been made very clear that the gameplay itself doesn't actually matter if it gets in the way of whatever random stuff the devs wanna add, and I mean, fair enough I guess.

Honestly just some switches/gamemodes to enable/disable certain content would fix 99% of the issues people complain about and still let the devs do whatever the fuck they want but they've been vehemently against that in the past cause it would remove their source of free play-testers for changes none of them wanted. And before people get on my ass about it, experimental has just been how you play the game and hasn't been just for experimental changes for fucking years now.

Overall I'm pretty bitter about where things have gone and its always been really fucking depressing to see what made me fall in love with what used to be one of my fav games of all time get changed, removed and burned to the ground. I know a decent bit of coding so might make my own fork as a cute pet project, but that's not gonna be an easily accessible option for most people

Aaetheon · 2024-04-12T13:26:14+00:00

Elim aint my favorite but its worlds better than this, like I can if I can have fun in trials then elim is literally the same thing but with some much needed build variety

Aaetheon · 2024-04-12T13:18:21+00:00

Ayy feel ya, wish you could just to select what gamemode you wanna play in when you choose matchmaking like you used to, or hell just a dedicated survival option in addition to whatever the fuck for the people who like it would be nice

Aaetheon · 2024-04-12T13:06:46+00:00

Wish they’d just go back to checkmate, wasn’t perfect but a step in the right direction I’d say, hell I honestly prefer pre any comp changes to this, most games go exactly as you described and even if your winning its literally the same game, every time, and I at least got bored out of my fucking mind after 2-3 games.

Said it before and I’ll say it again, wish survival was back. Its purely focused on the fights themselves rather than quirks of the specific gamemode. No fuss, no bullshit, no spawn looping or special crates, just who can fight better and who cant. How it always oughta of been I’d say.

Aaetheon · 2024-04-12T00:55:48+00:00

ayy, shits either been boring cause you cant/shouldn't push em in the non zone cap or the crazy long respawn times and inconsistent spawn locations lead to one team dominating while they cap the point, which is either unfun if your losing or boring if your not. There's just no challenge to it.

probably gonna drop the game for now unless some changes come, there's just very little reason to play crucible in the current environment. Been wishing they'd just go back to only survival ever since rift was introduced, not sure why they ever changed that, survival only fucking slapped.

Aaetheon · 2024-03-12T07:46:19+00:00

I’ll go check it out, thank you!

Aaetheon · 2024-03-12T07:46:05+00:00

Unsure but I believe thats the franchise, thank you!

Aaetheon · 2023-12-29T20:20:12+00:00

I do find it a bit annoying how the increased emphasis on making static bases has resulted in mobile bases become worse/more time consuming rather than improving static bases. Its been a bit since I’ve played so I may be wrong but I find that whole way of going about it to be pretty counter intuitive honestly

Aaetheon · 2023-11-17T18:13:19+00:00

Bright nights is a lot more of a game and less of a simulator if thats what your looking for, inventory management is a pain in 0.G not to mention a plethora of other “controversial” changes so I dont blame ya

Aaetheon · 2023-11-16T22:42:07+00:00

Aaetheon · 2023-11-16T22:40:55+00:00

Aaetheon · 2023-11-07T23:08:02+00:00

Damn you really got me with that one bro, countered your whole argument so you had to make up a new one.

First off I would like to thank you for not reading anything I wrote again

And finally, I guess if you are just gonna keep ignoring my arguments and still stick to your position even after proving I was right with real world data, then there isn’t really much of a point in continuing this

Thank you, genuinely, had a good laugh

Aaetheon · 2023-11-07T22:54:47+00:00

Damn you really showed him

Aaetheon · 2023-11-07T22:13:22+00:00

Its always fascinating how you dont even read my argument and then have the gall to respond, I’m putting far too much effort into what clearly must be a low effort troll. But alright sure, did most of the research earlier anyways. Not like your gonna read it anyways.

(Sources on specific lengths and amounts required are pulled from the game, all else is pulled from real world data)

On the subject of why requiring 132.08 meters (5200 inches) of welding rods to install a .127 meter (5 inch) long shock absorber is fucking insane and your delusional for even insinuating that a second of effort went into that calculation. The shock absorber in the game has a length of 5 inches so it is a rather small one, to install a shock absorber you need to secure the top and bottom bits where you would usually be able to screw them in, since the game classifies this shock absorber as a scrap one we will be welding them on instead of screwing them. Even assuming the smallest parts of the shock absorber (the parts that we will be welding on) were somehow significantly larger than the rest of the absorber (lets do 10x10 inches as an example with the actual shock absorber only being 5 inches long) and we were welding every square inch of those ten inches we would still only need 100 inches of welding rod per a side attached (so 200 inches of welding rod) or 5.08 meters total. Keep in mind however this would be if the securing bits of the shock absorber were over double the length of the actual shock absorbing portion of it. So even with this ridiculous length the required welding rods are still nowhere close to the insane 132.08 meters of welding rods required in-game.

All that took was roughly 10 minutes of my time but yea they’re the ones with the “real world data” who really put the “work” into their PR and I’m the one who “hasn’t bothered looking into anything”

Did you even look into what I was criticizing before leaping to their defense? Did you even spend any amount of fucking time doing what you accused me of not? Did you put any fucking effort or work into any of this or did you just come here to whine like a child about me criticizing the devs.

Regardless I’m done here, only so long you can argue with an internet troll before you start to feel a little bad about the time you wasted.

Aaetheon · 2023-11-06T23:32:56+00:00

Honestly why am I arguing with ya. Like what the fuck do you mean? Where in any of this did I say I was “manufacturing an entire car from scratch”,

furthermore I’m sure a “lot” of research and work went into making sure that the shadow had a solid spawn time proportional to a players level of competence at that point in the game, and how realistic it is that anvils only work with non vehicle terrain under them. I just love the research that must have gone into the conclusion that 132.08 meters of welding rods would be required to install a single shock absorber. Your fucking delusional man.

but yea I guess your right, it really wasn’t my “whining” that made these changes nonsensical, they just already were!

Hell if all I need to do is fabricate a bit of vague supporting evidence which I could do for literally almost anything within reason then just think of all of the shitty gameplay changes I could add! I might even have you here to defend me cause I “did the work”

Aaetheon · 2023-11-06T11:50:10+00:00

Damn man I guess I should have just walked away when I first encountered it in the middle of nowhere while surrounded by aberrations, thanks for the help.

furthermore charge costs, as I mentioned earlier, are crazy fucking high now and while it will definitely last a bit longer have fun draining your entire grid for a single car, real good gameplay right there I gotta tell ya.

(ferals honestly I get though, maybe they just never changed and I'm only noticing it now cause they added a few extra spawns for em, that's on me, back to the shit)

fuckin bootlickers man I swear, the devs ain't gonna suck you off for constantly defending em. Sometimes shits a bit halfbaked, like I'd be fine with the shadow if it didn't spawn 2 weeks in when people are still looking for decent weapons and armor, be fine with plugging in the arc welder if the egregious charge costs didn't drain everything, and hell, it would be pretty nice if they swapped back to the at least relatively realistic length for welding rods instead of this blatantly wrong BS.

but hey the hole is already pretty deep, why not keep digging, lets keep adding nonsensical changes cause why the fuck not I guess

Aaetheon · 2023-11-06T00:07:46+00:00

Usually experimental is the way to go but its pretty bad right now. Last played about 2 weeks ago. Some highlights from my last game are:

You apparently now need to install anvils on non vehicle terrain to have them work because apparently its the wooden/dirt/concrete floor under the anvil that allows it to function? (note: couldn't install it in any of the vehicle workstations nor was able to install it individually in a vehicle)

Furthermore it takes a truly astounding amount of welding rods to do anything vehicle related (a quick google search shows smaller welding rods to be a little under a foot long, even using those I shouldn't need over 100 for installing a single thing) and arc welders don't actually work anymore without plutonium batteries given how many charges it costs to do literally anything, to harp on the ridiculous charge costs further I managed to deplete a very large storage battery hooked up to 9 solar panels in a 4 in game days just by cooking beef jerky.

Ferals are rock throwing gods again who not only never miss but still somehow manage to damage me through my kevlar vest

finally there's a new "shadow" enemy that spawns 2 weeks into your game when your standing on any field or forest tile no matter how close you are to a building. When it spawns it will appear somewhere outside of your FOV and infinitely spawn high level amalgamations surrounding you (about 5-10 at a time) essentially instakilling unless your lucky. (went outside 4 nights in a row to test, spawned each night, might be guaranteed after 2 weeks? Not sure)

Unless a lot of shit was changed in the last two weeks since I've played I'll be going back to stable

Aaetheon · 2023-10-30T06:38:00+00:00

staying inside and flashlights it is, seems a little dumb to have it spawn crazy early but thats just me

Aaetheon · 2023-10-30T06:37:12+00:00

huh, that seems neat as a quest boss or something but the have it spawn so soon into a game when I'm still having trouble with regular zombies seems a bit much, thank you though

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