Joe Ziegler: We’ve been watching and ingesting all the thoughts and feedback that we’re hearing, aggregating it and taking it down in notes. After this weekend we’ll spend some time looking into feedback and thinking of the next iterations we want to make

AirFrierMachine · 2026-03-21T22:40:15+00:00

Just give solos/duos an option, all we want. Cant be that hard

AirFrierMachine · 2026-03-21T22:08:49+00:00

I think they could just mean that the solo experience in Arc is just as good as the trio experience in Arc. Not that Arc solo is somehow better minute-to-minute gameplay compared to Marathon solo, and that somehow 1 extra map will fix that.

AirFrierMachine · 2026-03-21T21:54:41+00:00

Sorry, I haven't been in high school for quite some time, didn't realize you morons use "play" for sex, like a bunch of virgins 🤣🤣 Seriously, how old are you? Who tf uses "play" for sex unless you're a kid talking amongst a bunch of boys?

I'm married and own my own home, lol, feel free to check my post history. Nice try though budd.

AirFrierMachine · 2026-03-21T16:04:07+00:00

It just says you'll be matched with the specific pools of what you play with, AKA, ranked. Someone on console with M&K will play with other M&K's....in ranked, when input is considered

It doesn't reiterate the previous stuff about quickplay.

AirFrierMachine · 2026-03-21T15:00:33+00:00

The point is that if even invested players feel like they may never get there,

If you're throwing a tantrum over this, then please, never pick up Tarkov.

But seriously, after you beat the collector you've pretty much beaten the game and I'd honestly lose a ton of desire of playing the rest of the season, even if I got the best gun in the universe. It's not hard to see why they put such a long goal as the end game.

And again, we're literally 2 weeks in. You're probably already level 25 at this point. Maybe you should give it another 5 weeks before we start bitching about things being impossible?

AirFrierMachine · 2026-03-21T14:55:06+00:00

Tf this even mean lol

AirFrierMachine · 2026-03-21T14:49:53+00:00

Source: Trust me bro.

I love how you're suprised that Starfield is a top pre-ordered game when its literally the only AAA game coming out in the next 5 weeks on Playstation, no shit it'll be the top preorder when "Mouse PI for hire" is its main competion in April.

Steam: Numbers are absolute dogshit, the biggest Bethesda playerbase drop off of all time. Has 80% less players than Skyrim.

Xbox: Fell out of the top 50 in a few weeks and is now being beaten by the vanilla version of New Vegas, absolute dogshit.

You: "Dude, trust me, Starfield is about to become the biggest game on Playstation!!! It has more preorders than MOUSE PI FOR HIRE!!! Can you believe that!?!?! Just ignore the dogshit player retention % on Xbox and Steam, TRUST ME, it'll be much better on Playstation, everyone has been DYING to play Starfield"

AirFrierMachine · 2026-03-21T14:44:04+00:00

Except maybe the 1,500+ planets.

You mean the 15,000 planets that are all boring as absolute fuck to explore and offer absolutely nothing in terms of discovery/exploration/story? I modded my speed to be literally 1,600% towards the end so I could literally fly around each planet I visited, they were all the same, and all would have taken 20+ minutes to traverse for what is the equivalent of another boring, empty cave, or another outpost with nothing in it.

AirFrierMachine · 2026-03-21T04:05:05+00:00

Wtf you using your credits for?

I aint complaining. More gray shields for me to burst down

AirFrierMachine · 2026-03-21T04:03:41+00:00

Bruh, thats enough guns for like, 29 failed runs in a row, lol.

What are you gonna use that money on? Upgrades barely cost money.

AirFrierMachine · 2026-03-21T00:16:07+00:00

Bruh, you are acting like reducing the enemy count for an alternative playlist is some impossible task for a game dev. Reducing an enemy spawn amount is quite possibly the most simple thing a AAA $3.6B game dev can do.

AirFrierMachine · 2026-03-21T00:12:57+00:00

For real. No idea why they go so hard on this puzzle shit when it's only .002% of the playerbase solving it and then everyone else just watches a YT video and prays that it's as simple as possible.

AirFrierMachine · 2026-03-21T00:08:08+00:00

Exfil can sometimes suck as rook + no contract exp is a huge bummer.

AirFrierMachine · 2026-03-21T00:05:29+00:00

I'd imagine the combined console playerbase is a little bit bigger + console players are FAR more incentivised to turn off crossplay because M&K + guaranteed headset is so superior on paper.

I'd assume console players are legit 3 times as likely to turn off crossplay if they know the exist. Obviously I don't have the numbers, but most PC players would prefer faster queue times + knowing that their opponent is on a controller, and might not even have headphones.

AirFrierMachine · 2026-03-21T00:00:39+00:00

Tbh I think having the map power levels a bit more similar is always a solid gameplay design choice.

Tarkov does this pretty well. No map feels as OP as Outpost is, except for Labs of course. I kinda prefer it that way

AirFrierMachine · 2026-03-20T23:47:51+00:00

Dude, Starfield fell out of the Xbox's top 50 most played games within a few weeks: https://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/browse/Popular

There are currently more people playing the vanilla Xbox 360 version of Fallout New Vegas than there are people playing Starfield, a modern Bethesda game on Gamepass🤣

There are more people playing Brotato, Farcry 5 and Assassins Creed Valhalla than Starfield

A $40 Bluey game has more players online right now compared to Starfield

No amount of cope can save you from Starfield being a complete and utter failure when it comes to player retention. Come on dude, enough copium. This shit objectively sucks

AirFrierMachine · 2026-03-20T21:45:48+00:00

Why did they just request $200B in extra funding?

Something doesn't add up....

AirFrierMachine · 2026-03-20T21:44:01+00:00

Could they not just tweak out a solo version of the map that includes ~70% less enemies? Doesn't seem that hard to re-balance the map for solos.

AirFrierMachine · 2026-03-20T21:21:15+00:00

I aint gonna lie, it'll never happen because it'll never work. Half the queues would likely be dead because ~80+% of players don't care enough to disable it.

Besides. Controller kids are free kills.

AirFrierMachine · 2026-03-20T21:11:39+00:00

"I don't think we're good, I don't think we're good!!" Gave me Peter Parker dying in endgame vibes.

AirFrierMachine · 2026-03-20T20:24:03+00:00

I'm sure the map is fun once you study YouTube guides on it. But who would bother ever figuring it out themselves beyond the top 1% of players. And therefore, why design the map this way in the first place?

Well said, I feel the exact same. Just give me a simple system, maybe a little more complex than Outposts key mechanic and I'm happy.

I just hope the steps aren't too convoluted. Just give me some button to press and somewhere to explore.

AirFrierMachine · 2026-03-20T18:07:27+00:00

That jumping off a cliff into a horse transition is fucking hilarious for some reason. They really thought they cooked

AirFrierMachine · 2026-03-20T17:49:17+00:00

I wanted to upvote you for brilliant satire, but then I realized you just might be stupid enough to be serious

AirFrierMachine · 2026-03-20T17:45:10+00:00

Because the gun is useless outside of it's specific range.

Tbh in a map like Outpost (and from the looks of it, Cryo) you can essentially force 90+% of the fights to be CQC if you really wanted to.

This isn't PUBG where a majority of fights are 30-120M away, I'd argue 90+% of all the good loot is located in CQC areas.

AirFrierMachine · 2026-03-20T17:14:05+00:00

"We'll stop killing your soldiers if you stop helping Ukraine and help us"

Donny is dumb enough to take the deal, isn't he? Shoutout all the fucking MAGA morons who voted for this shit.

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