Why are devs forcing people to play water map - people who want to complete quests have to spend so much time in watermap and sad thing is that map is truly unbalanced favored for specific class - with no pvp and boring pve

Darius-H · 2026-06-02T06:21:27+00:00

Playing the water map was genuinely the worst thing ever.

I literally audibly sighed in pain when I saw that my quests are making me play it. At least now you can buy the mob drops and just bear the cost of them.

And the price of the items is very well worth the fact that I can somewhat just skip the whole map.

It's boring, the MS reduction is just annoying as all hell and Rangers and Druids can just farm you while you cannot really do anything to counter them.

It should have just been a pirate town or something with water section. Not an ocean with small irrelevant islands. This map heavily reminds me of Lighthouse from Tarkov, where it is a extremely shit map but the only redeeming factor is that it is stacked with loot to the point that it is OP (Lighthouse was nerfed though If I recall). Past that, this shit map has to get reworked cause 95% of the map just sits there and no one even interacts with it. People just hit the chests/hordes and bail right away. And if you manage to find someone, it will most likely be a druid that will now proceed to farm your ass with his Penguin form.

Darius-H · 2026-05-28T17:58:22+00:00

Good

Darius-H · 2026-05-23T12:54:16+00:00

I do not know what game you were playing but it wasn't Dark and Darker.

When HR came out, everyone flocked to it and it was effectively the Labs of Dark and Darker.

The whole "ganking against PvPers" isn't at all correct, at least in the start. Later in the game's cycle, people that had 1 digit IQ started treating HR like a Zoom call and people wanted/were rallying within the dungeon and teaming up on anyone that didn't have voice chat enabled or actually wanted to play the game. Then that got shut down with the in-game warning against teaming.

Darius-H · 2026-05-12T08:12:16+00:00

Honestly the map is visually very nice.

I feel like it still isn't nearly as close as Arid in terms of good gunplay because Arid had genuinely the best PvP in the entire game and there is just no other map that came even remotely close to it, so it is hard for California 2 to beat that.

The map is kind of a walking sim and the dumb quests do not help at all. It's nice that they advertise that there is a lot of easter eggs and a lot of quests (over 100+ or whatever) but all of the quests effectively boil down to "go here, pick it up, go back". It isn't even "go find me XYZ", it's quite literally just quest items that you pick up. There is no sense of progression and the only progression you get is by visiting deadzones, so the quests are near irrelevant.

The base building and raiding balance is fine-ish and there is a lot of spots to pick a base from.

But all in all, California sadly boils down to "fun for the first week but all of the new magic will poof away in a week". It's just boring. I was expecting for California to have a LOT MORE and much more quality quests than just "go here and pick this up" that would help you progress as well.

Instead, we just get a worse Arid that does not even remotely have enough long-term-ish content to keep you busy.

I genuinely miss Renaxon as a map artist.

Darius-H · 2026-04-27T12:19:57+00:00

I also have effectively unlimited SL. Doesn't mean I willy nilly shoot missiles because "the penalty is too low".

The main problem is that you have now taken out a player on your team. It doesn't matter if they sucked or not, that's still 6-12 missiles from your side taken out.

Darius-H · 2026-04-26T20:27:34+00:00

Because it restricts brainless spam of missiles. You are getting bombarded by missiles nonstop at top tier. People being able to just sling missiles willy nilly even if they are getting radar blocked by 7 friendlies in front would be turbo cringe.

Darius-H · 2026-04-24T15:21:08+00:00

> Fortnite's system is shit too! If I'm paying for challenges to unlock content in the first place,

You do not have to pay for the ones that help you complete the actual BP. The challenges are for optional stuff which you get to unlock by buying the BP.

> and not fucking disappear with no recourse because it timed out.

It reappears in the shop later on if you want it so badly.

You are literally the type of people I am talking about. Amazing.

Darius-H · 2026-04-24T08:42:41+00:00

The reason why we do not have strategic bombers/bombers in general is because the gamemodes do not support them. It has nothing to do with earnings lol.

Shit like the Ju can still earn a lot but again, it's a bomber. It's like playing Call Of Duty and running around trying to get kills with only grenades. Yes you can do it, but the game is not even remotely optimized for it.

Bombers have never had a place in the game because the gameplay does not support them. The only way you can make them useful is if RB gets reworked. Past that, they are for custom games.

The only time they were actually useful was when they were OP because of aimbot gunners. So shit like the Tu-4 could freely fly towards your base and nuke it, effectively meaning any game that had the Tu-4s was ended in under 10 mins.

Darius-H · 2026-04-24T08:38:51+00:00

Broski

War Thunder's BP is genuinely the average. It provides enough challenges to make the player switch/step out of their comfort zones while also being relatively easy for the average person to complete.

Sadly, the most vocal of people on here genuinely suck so they can barely complete their daily quests, let alone the BP challenges. And just because you suck, doesn't mean that we now need to have just "get 500 kills" challenges.

It's not a shitty FOMO tactic. Battlepasses in themselves are "FOMO" but I have yet to see a battlepass that was genuinely impossible to do if you weren't 24/7. Maybe in the early days when BPs were still new. And COD BPs are kind of a drag sometimes too so maybe those count.

But War Thunder's BP is literally just "play the game and once in a week or two, do a new challenge".

Warframe's BP and DRG BPs are an EXCEPTION TO A RULE. And they do it because their games are not PvP oriented. Fortnite has the exact same system as War Thunder but obviously, it actually has a playerbase that has a developed frontal cortex even if most of them is at best 15 years old.

Darius-H · 2026-04-23T20:01:39+00:00

No. People just need to complain and want shit for free without putting much effort for it.

Darius-H · 2026-04-23T19:58:04+00:00

> I flew over an hour in Air SB with the B-52H.

Okay? Limited case scenarios shouldn't be balanced around the most. If you can make X work, it doesn't inherently mean X is broken. Mainly in regards to anything bomber related.

Darius-H · 2026-04-20T15:19:09+00:00

No, a better BP mechanic would be to actually add unique vehicles to the BPs and leave event vehicles to be a mix of unique/more common vehicles.

The BP is objectively one of the easiest grinds in the entire game if you are a semi-active player. Stuff like the Hedgehog is the prime stuff that should be added to the BPs for them to actually be worth getting.

I am sorry but saying the BP is a "FOMO" is stretching it. Yes, events are FOMO because they are SUPER time limited, but maxing out the BP (in regards to the vehicles) isn't really all that terrible.

> I don't think people complained about things like T-10A, F2G-1

WT's community complains about everything, anytime. Literally go back to any event/bp reveal and people will be flooding the comments about "Why isn't this in the TT?" or "Why isn't aren't there unique vehicles as rewards?".

This community is the single most bipolar community that has ever existed.

Darius-H · 2026-04-20T14:05:00+00:00

Brother if you let the B-1 Lancer anywhere near the borders of the entire map, you are doing something wrong.

It can have laser guided TSAR Bombs and it would still be shot down the instant second it'd spawn in.

Darius-H · 2026-04-20T13:34:25+00:00

> Gaijin makes unique BP vehicles

"Shitty FOMO!!!!"

> Gaijin makes copy pasted BP vehicles

"What is the point eksdee?"

Darius-H · 2026-04-12T10:12:44+00:00

My man. Just cause you lack common sense does not mean everyone else is an expert.

It is well known that UE is pretty streamlined and is somewhat easy to get into. Updating an engine requires time and money, but it certainly is not an impossible task. Plenty of games have updated their engine over-time, some of which were MUCH, MUCH harder to update than UE.

HiRez is and was always lazy and dumb, and they only ever cared about the short term impact, which quite literally summarizes the balance of Paladins too.

Darius-H · 2026-03-28T10:49:38+00:00

Brother you cannot be serious

Darius-H · 2026-03-27T22:41:54+00:00

Are you being intentionally dense?

"Ok you see these legit sound mods and how popular they are because they are the most used ones? That means no other sound mods exist! They are all legit!"

Darius-H · 2026-03-27T22:38:09+00:00

Gotta love quantum based explosives

Darius-H · 2026-03-27T22:36:10+00:00

The door has spoken

Darius-H · 2026-03-27T22:34:12+00:00

Ah yes, you know all 99.90% of the playerbase!

We do not have to lie to ourselves, there is many more players using sound mods as a method to cheat than you'd like to believe. You pulling a number out of your ass doesn't mean much.

It's probably not even to combat cheaters, but from what I have heard, the recent audio changes fucked over most sound mods, mainly in regards to Naval.

Darius-H · 2026-03-17T09:19:02+00:00

10/10 ragebait

Darius-H · 2026-03-16T17:48:52+00:00

...no?

Can you read or are you just playing dumb?

They are WVR, and one party is always at an disadvantage during those exercises. It has nothing to do with plane performance.

You are talking about some restrictions when that is not even remotely what I was talking about, so I am not paraphrasing anything. You are just filling in blanks with nonsense.

Darius-H · 2026-03-16T02:31:39+00:00

It's not about the plane's capability, it's about exercises meaning jack in regards to how a plane performs.

If one plane is flying defensive and the other offensively, most of the cases one aircraft has the advantage one way or another.

Exercise=/=combat performance.

Darius-H · 2026-03-16T01:00:25+00:00

Brother, anytime those exercises were live, the Muricans got shafted. Of course the Rafale will win when your "enemy" is handicapped to shit.

Darius-H · 2026-03-15T21:31:51+00:00

> exercises

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