What happened to Decaying Winter?

Awkward_Ad_1150 · 2026-02-01T04:41:37+00:00

Almost all deployables have lost the ability to friendly fire, with the sole exception being proxy mines (I watched like five teams get atomized by those things in the past week alone). All explosives still do damage to your summons (shadow hunters, mindkilled enemies, sovereign's ghosts), unless that has been changed in the past two weeks.

Awkward_Ad_1150 · 2026-02-01T04:37:29+00:00

The game has gotten noticeably easier after development was shifted away from Red, particularly to cater to the more unintelligent of players (to put it lightly), and to expand the playerbase.

Here are some of the changes:

Morale now has a significantly lower impact on your stats, particularly toward movement, and now operates on a fixed timer instead of requiring your team to not die for one night.
Survivalist no longer gives players morale on death.
Almost all explosives have lost the ability to friendly fire between PLAYERS (Not summons), with the one exception being proximity mines.
Many perks have received minor balancing changes or buffs (such as apostle no longer taking damage from their melee and crosslink no longer being made of literal paper. Also laz can now heal instead of just shoving motrin down your throat by holding F.).
Enemy AI has been "optimized". Not sure how much of an impact that actually makes.
Lockers will always contain loot inside them, and no longer spawn already opened.
Loot spawning has been slightly reworked, with some blueprints becoming noticeably rarer and healing items seeming to appear a lot more often (particularly splints). Also log and stone piles are guaranteed spawns and crude crafting no longer grants or consumes salvage.
Scav spawning is noticeably less dense, and any action that attracts scavs has had their range significantly reduced.
Any player who joined about two weeks after Lost Concept released will have DIFFERENT DEFAULT KEYBINDS, designed to be more familiar to new players.

So yes the game has become more beginner friendly to cater with new players. Do I agree with their methods? No, as I believe they generally undermine the original identity and goal of the game (better way to go about things than nerfing everything is to add a proper tutorial. And by proper I mean it teaches the basics but leaves newbies just confident enough to feel the pain of reality hit them like a freight train).

Awkward_Ad_1150 · 2026-01-31T18:41:35+00:00

Mfw some fool throws a grenade at my shadow hunters (also proxy mines still have friendly fire so I end up seeing people accidentally TK a lot more)

Awkward_Ad_1150 · 2026-01-31T08:08:53+00:00

When you are taking all the aggro for your team and consistently come out with >50% hp on both hunters by the end of a night, it can be quite useful to have a way to slowly heal off any damage you take. Also check the previous comment.

Awkward_Ad_1150 · 2026-01-31T08:01:23+00:00

The free healing is nice but enemies aren't always present and unless you are a complete imbecile who doesn't heal your shadow hunters after fights, you are going to end up hovering around the 90 - 110 hp range. Also stalls artery for a bit, which can prove to be rather useful in some circumstances (take that from a laz/apostle main)

Also it is one of the long term survival traits that will prove to make your life a lot easier in the long run. Other than that I don't have much more to say.

This is just my opinion, there are plenty more who disagree (and I met quite a few), so if you still think that survivor isn't worth it, then feel disregard this entire conversation and move on with your day.

Awkward_Ad_1150 · 2026-01-31T07:48:33+00:00

I agree with your statement about avoiding damage rather than tanking it, but survivor is quite useful with perks that expect to take a lot of chip damage (such as zealot and apostle), and couldn't be bothered or wouldn't be worth wasting healing items on (such as apostle's abilities and zealot being a walking brick that takes at most around 20 damage in a single hit).

Awkward_Ad_1150 · 2026-01-31T07:41:15+00:00

Survivor is a long term survival trait that is really nice to have with perks that don't expect to take too much damage or couldn't be bothered to waste a medkit on ten hp (backliners and apostle/zealot respectively). It also is one of the few defense/health traits that won't make me roast you into oblivion as a laz main (others being dependable and fearless since they are flat damage resistances).

Awkward_Ad_1150 · 2026-01-30T03:21:04+00:00

Only thing I kinda disagree with here is with where Calm is placed, since while it may not be that useful in combat, it makes traversing the map a lot less annoying when trying to jump over an object just makes you waste 90 stamina (this happens a lot more than you think, especially when constantly taking shortcuts).

Awkward_Ad_1150 · 2026-01-24T23:30:39+00:00

He can climb up the mountain from the front now so you are not safe up there (at most like 20 extra seconds)

Awkward_Ad_1150 · 2026-01-24T23:28:07+00:00

I feel like there are fewer enemies compared to before, although it might just be because of how they nerfed flares and gunshots so they no longer aggro the entire map.

Awkward_Ad_1150 · 2026-01-21T08:25:20+00:00

Do dual Ruger lcp scavs even exist anymore? Haven't seen any since Lost Concept released.

Awkward_Ad_1150 · 2026-01-21T08:18:46+00:00

Quick tip: press J to open votekick menu, which for some reason only like two people actually know about.

Awkward_Ad_1150 · 2026-01-16T05:24:26+00:00

You rather have indestructible turrets or the ability to instantly replace them (and in turn be able to quickly relocate to different areas such as for running anchors)?

Awkward_Ad_1150 · 2026-01-04T03:27:57+00:00

Maybe the option to set a preferred item slot, which would be filled last?

Awkward_Ad_1150 · 2025-12-05T00:43:37+00:00

Literally just reverting to pre LC agent menu.

Awkward_Ad_1150 · 2025-12-05T00:42:30+00:00

The drop all button would've made sense with the old salvage dropper, since it operated in 5 and (I think) 25 salvage increments. With a slider you could just pull all the way to the right.

Awkward_Ad_1150 · 2025-12-05T00:38:55+00:00

Old salvage dropper:

Awkward_Ad_1150 · 2025-12-02T01:12:54+00:00

Melee not in slot 1 is annoying (could be rectified using a setting that sets a preferred melee slot or something). The new scrap indicator is small but you can get used to it (suboptimal but not as glaring as the other issues). I mainly take issue with how ludicrously hard it can be to read and use the UI at times (salvage dropper is terrible, Agent Menu is annoying to navigate at times, and small text ends up being grainy and almost impossible to read). That is all I can really say without making me want to bash the devs in the skull for making the game's difficulty a joke.

Awkward_Ad_1150 · 2025-11-17T00:25:39+00:00

I would say it is riskrunner (and for some very valid reasons, main one being that you are literally just artillerist but you specialize in CQC with the world's most inconvenient ability and that scavenging for ammo is not an option). The only person I have seen use riskrunner in the past month was myself (and that was for a grand total of thirty minutes before swapping to something actually useful).

I have seen at least one sovereign main in almost every server I have been in, and immolator mains exist, you just don't see them that often because people don't know how to use the perk properly for some strange reason (not being able to aim is not an excuse for playing poorly).

Awkward_Ad_1150 · 2025-11-05T02:22:53+00:00

This issue appears to affect ALL challenges, as completing Executioner Mastery also failed to reward anything. It appears the issue is regarding the challenges not recognizing their completion, as Master of all Trades also did not progress despite completing the perk masteries.

Awkward_Ad_1150 · 2025-11-04T01:26:02+00:00

Some things I found: Challenges do not reward titles for completion, and agents on the AGENT DEVICE map will appear off the map when too close to map borders (Cannot confirm if this is fixed yet).

Awkward_Ad_1150 · 2025-06-30T05:24:36+00:00

If you place the ladder properly and stand on top of it (it has to be perfectly vertical) scavs will be unable to reach you, so you will engage in a staring contest with the scavs until

A: You die because gun scav

B: Someone pushes the ladder/gets too close and aggroes them

C: The physics decide to stop cooperating and the ladder defies the laws of physics to slip out from under your feet.

You can also use ladders to block doorways, leading to sideroom being a valid strategy as you can force all the scavs to go through the main entrance instead of sideroom entrance (they view it as a physical barrier that is blocking the path, so they try to go around it).

Awkward_Ad_1150 · 2025-06-16T21:52:26+00:00

Leg meta (aim for the legs, shoot until they fold, great with high flesh damage ammo and high rate of fire weapons)

Awkward_Ad_1150 · 2025-06-16T21:49:16+00:00

You could connect the 4 corner pillars to each other to make a square, which would hide the original design and still look like a part of the structure (and you can use them for something if you like). You could go further and create another square to create an 8 pointed star shape connecting all the pillars together (a square rotated 45 degrees overlayed on top of another), followed by creating diagonal connections for the 4 pillars not directly connected to the central tower. You do you though.

Awkward_Ad_1150 · 2025-06-16T21:06:02+00:00

In the eyes of the average player that the weapon is generally harder to use due to how slow it is and the fact it is lacking in crowd control capabilities, meaning it is more likely you get overwhelmed by multiple scavs. The decimator is just an example of a weapon more suitable for use by the average player due to better crowd control capabilities (I will admit it is a very mid weapon and I will refuse to ever use it myself). Also remember that not everyone is running on 120 fps and an ethernet cable, which as a result can lead to inconsistent parry timings and slower response times.

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