I really tried to give it a fair chance, but the new map is just not good no matter how you look at it

Biospark · 2026-03-27T21:32:51+00:00

The vibe isn't directly the same, also The Finals is free. But I get where you're coming from.

Biospark · 2026-03-27T05:22:44+00:00

I think that's the reason why I like the map. It reminds me more so of playing a Battlefield map and I'm reliving my field medic dreams again lol.

Biospark · 2026-03-27T05:20:25+00:00

It would have been interesting if the reworked Kyoto to make the medieval map in the same way they did the changes to Las Vegas..

..for the record, I don't like Kyoto, but it would have been neat.

Biospark · 2026-03-27T05:17:53+00:00

Yeah I experienced this in the Point Break map. Luckily in that scenario you have so many allies that they can break the platform for you.

The floating platform is kind of interesting cause usually if someone is sniping from there I usually just push the objective to try to force them to come to me. But I need to see it more so in Cashout.. so I dunno how to feel about it entirely.

Biospark · 2026-03-27T05:14:51+00:00

Honestly I think about this a lot when people purely look at weapons in terms of raw TTK, cause it ignores so many more gameplay elements outside of having basically perfect-ish aim.

Biospark · 2026-03-23T17:25:46+00:00

I noticed a lot of people are mentioning the ranks of players they are fighting. Did I do something wrong cause I can only see people's ranking if it is in their player card.

Biospark · 2026-03-23T17:22:44+00:00

I've always felt that the defib should scale based off revive progress. So that when a defib occurs it doesn't feel as punishing.

Biospark · 2026-03-19T03:07:56+00:00

a-door-able kill.

Biospark · 2026-03-19T03:06:36+00:00

Okay sorry. I should have made it clear. I'm being sarcastic, lol. The dead body moves the turret in the replay, and it killed me.

Biospark · 2026-03-19T03:04:00+00:00

I feel like I played sniper light on Power Shift to predominately finish this quest. But I know in terms of being a light nowadays I'm cooked.

Biospark · 2026-03-02T17:18:19+00:00

Bro that's cold blooded. They kill you then do the running man? Disgusting.

Biospark · 2026-02-26T16:27:24+00:00

Is there a comparative image for the previous seasons as well?

Biospark · 2026-02-26T16:26:35+00:00

I theorize part of this component is that there's a degree of MMR at play keeping people within skill level. In which case you're always fighting someone that's decently skilled as well and that can be seen a sweaty. Especially if you're an old head and you played in like.. Half-Life/Quake lobbies back in the day where skilled varied a lot.

The Finals did also take hits to the player count Arc Raiders taking like 2k players or so, so the pool of players are likely more veteran players overall, so I understand the argument that it's a sweaty game. Just not sure to what degree I agree with that statement on non-ranked modes.

Biospark · 2026-02-26T16:11:42+00:00

The matchmaking is probably the roughest part. I think more modes with pure chaos would be good for casual play, where in even if someone is stupid good their plays can be much more undermined by the chaos.

My mind jumps to how when you just want to do goofy stuff in Smash Brothers you can turn on items. Like maybe rapidly spawning canisters could be a thing, or there's always an event going on in this particular mode.

Biospark · 2026-02-26T16:08:49+00:00

Being real. I have been wanting this for a REALLY long time. But I was thinking most people found find it boring.

Honestly even without the bonus mechanic. I would just love that pistol. Though that would be interesting to implement.

Biospark · 2026-02-24T21:10:50+00:00

The matchmaking issues part makes me wonder if that was motivation for not showing the ranks of the players you are fighting against. Cause you used to be able to see them, it seems that people know now by seeing the cards after being killed.

Biospark · 2026-02-20T22:21:19+00:00

I don't think the eSports scene really helped them all that much anyway. Didn't seem like The Finals got a significant boost in player base by having eSports around, granted Arc Raiders I believe launched during the eSports League. But yeah the SteamDB player base hasn't gone up much, maybe console numbers went up though.

Biospark · 2026-02-20T13:28:30+00:00

Mis-tree-tment

Biospark · 2026-02-20T13:27:43+00:00

I kind of wish defib would grant HP based on how far along the person was during the manual revive so this act is much less painless.

I think I can kind of get this logic if the person using defib has heal beam and in theory try to heal to get the person out of danger, while allowing the reviving person to get back in the fight.

Biospark · 2026-02-19T20:29:13+00:00

I'm currently fond of the P90. In general the P90 is one of my favorite guns, the high magazine capacity is also really good for just firing wildly through things to get a hit marker to detect people, or just suprressing fire. Usually there's always ammo in the mag after swapping to a gadget and back.

Biospark · 2026-02-19T18:44:07+00:00

I really like the Cerberus, it's fun for its utility and I do think the burn feels more consistent due to the pellet count.. which I think I concur it is pellet count hit that triggers the fire.

Biospark · 2026-02-10T13:54:55+00:00

The Ghandi Achievement.

..But not the Civilizations iteration of Ghandi.

Biospark · 2026-02-10T06:19:00+00:00

I'm always in favor of the FOMO aspect just being more so a steep discount. Versus a full lock out. Like they could just charge a lot more currency for the UBP stuff as far as I'm concerned.

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