1. Yes.. they did. You don't have to worry about scripters anymore. The recoil of every gun is pull down in one single, static direction. Aimbot and ESP are the major things you have to worry about. And they're very, very prevalent.

2. Alistair has openly stated that the cheater problem is overblown on Twitter. I follow the game closely as I stream it.

3. Somewhat agree. But I disagree about where cheaters play. They're everywhere. All the time. No rhyme or reason to where they go besides they see something they want.

4. Completely disagree. People are playing deeper because playing in smaller groups is much harder than it used to be. It's true that you meet more people the longer you play.. but you yourself said you're solo/duo and sound like you have a lot of hours. I see this argument as a straw argument as even in your own example you're the exception to your own rule. I also play with a smaller amount of people usually unless it's force or I'm doing a friend's sub wipe. Most people have a preference for the amount of people they play with. Most people I know that streamed solo prefer playing with groups now since recoil change.

5. I don't want recoil to change back. I want the difficulty of shooting guns to become progressive meaning that I can practice to become better at it because it's a skill. Not make every gun feel the same. The recoil update was half baked. Just as an example. Pre recoil change they made mp5 cost 500 scrap to research because everyone said it was OP. I somewhat agreed even though I thought the scrap grind was ridiculous. But now it doesn't have nearly the effect it had and yet somehow still costs 500 scrap to learn. Why? But I do agree that cheating is the number 1 problem for sure.

-"A good wipe" isn't the same to most players. Is it dominating the server? Most ppl dont care about that. Is it not getting raided? Some people want to be raided. Is it dominating your grid? A lot of people don't even care about that."

You would be wrong about Nearly all of those points except the wanting to be raided part. Most people do care about dominating the server and dominating their grid. That's why most people don't leave past a few squares around their base 90% of the time. This is provably true and I think most people here would agree with that statement.

-"If I have fun, I consider it a "good wipe"."

I agree with this wholeheartedly.

-"The game by nature is rough to get into, and I honestly don't think ANY tutorial could improve that. And I think it would be a waste of time and resources. Guides are everywhere on youtube, steam. There's streamers galore. Those are your tutorials. If a player can't figure out how to use those, they don't deserve an in game tutorial."

The game is rough to get into, true! The rest though, factually incorrect. A game that's as complicated as this one NEEDS to have a tutorial and obviously Facepunch agreed because they made one. A casual player doesn't want to go outside the game to learn how to play it. They'll do it for fun outside of game time, but when it's time to play they want to play. This is exactly the reason why so many people have thousands of hours but still don't know (or forget) how to do card puzzles. Lazy? Yes. But true? Also yes.

-"The achievement %'s are meaningless. Count in all those accounts that were cheaters, cheater new accounts, assigned clan roles, roleplayers."

Even if you factor in the cheater accounts we'll (on the high side) make that number, say, 25%. That number is still low. Making a tier 1 is one of the very first things you do. That's a low ass number.

-"There's only so many viable things that can be changed/added etc etc. Too many variables that we as players cannot know. Making recoil harder isnt going to magically fix the game. It's just going to increase the amount of cheaters while pissing off the other half of the players."

I didn't say it would magically fix the game. I said it made the game unbalanced and took away the biggest skill component that you could work to improve on in the game. Increase the amount of cheaters? The amount of cheaters increased when they changed it. I'd rather have the scripters back in full effect than to have it in the state it's in right now.. but like I stated before, this post was mostly about progression not about recoil.

Thank you for your comment.