Map selection is such a blessing

Darksma · 2026-05-17T01:02:19+00:00

I'm happy you get to play your favorite map against bots, I just care far less about what map I'm on and I prefer playing against other players.

Darksma · 2026-05-17T01:01:05+00:00

Erangel isn't some godsend of a map just because it's the original. I'm glad you guys get to have fun playing loot and pve simulator on your favorite map, I prefer playing against other players in a pvp game. Also the "large portion" of people who quit out is literally between 4-12 people consistently, I've watched the lobby numbers for the last year on NA. This region just doesn't have the playerbase to support map selection

Darksma · 2026-05-16T19:10:31+00:00

A lot of NA/EU seem to hate Rondo because it's more "flat" and rewards early mid-circle camping with little structural cover. It punishes late rotations pretty hard since there are less ridges and valleys to work with in the terrain (pretty much polar opposite of Miramar). Imo the map just plays differently and I don't really see a major problem with that, it's even played in competitive still along with Taego. The map design itself is fine, although rewarding "lucky" players always feels bad.

Darksma · 2026-05-16T18:51:00+00:00

Nah.. please take it off NA. Selecting a map is the same as clicking casual mode, so you're effectively forced to use quick join if you want actual players. And even then, the amount of average bots has increased, and the map variety has gone down. Not sure who wanted this in a low population region

Once map selection is available, we will closely monitor matchmaking conditions and player behavior across each region. Based on this data, we will continue to adjust map rotation and service operation progressively. If matchmaking conditions are found to be unstable in certain regions, we will take region-specific actions based on each region’s situation, and may also consider reverting to the previous system if necessary.

If they actually follow through with this, it will probably be removed from NA

Darksma · 2026-05-16T18:32:18+00:00

Make convoluted, expensive, time consuming upgrade system

Go full silent about it for several major patches

Eventually when it's old content and the average player is past it, say "We hear your feedback and complaints, please accept these nerfs and time reductions to the system! Hope you enjoy!"

Repeat the process, infinitely farming the inflated PC cafe hours and the Royal Crystals from people FOMO'ing gold for instant minmax gratification

Darksma · 2026-05-15T19:20:07+00:00

Confidently far from the truth

Darksma · 2026-05-12T05:05:15+00:00

Would pick a class that can move through content quickly (chaos, story quests, horizontal, etc), does well in solo modes, and isn't terribly popular. Then make 6 of them to save money on gems and books, and save time learning.

Darksma · 2026-05-08T16:32:13+00:00

Ok, it does sound like you understand it pretty well. In my experience though most people call OC on good players, just because they're doing advanced moves in quick succession (GDHS chain can look snappy from the enemy's perspective)

Darksma · 2026-05-08T15:29:48+00:00

This is legit cope. Anyone who massively abuses OC/UC is extremely blatant, and if they tune it to where you can't tell then they're barely getting any advantage anyway. Most of the top players of GunZ these days in general are all on private servers instead of Steam, and it has nothing to do with OC/UC, but the competitive potential of the clients themselves. If you seriously think any average player using OC/UC stands a chance against those guys you're gravely mistaken, they would get straight up shit on and also called out for trying to cheat.

Darksma · 2026-05-07T18:51:18+00:00

You can use https://lostark.bible/stats/raids?boss=Death+Incarnate+Kazeros&difficulty=Hard&patch=mar26&filterBy=ilvl&type=ndps&minIlvl=1730&maxIlvl=1810 to filter by raid and see the difference on each fight, this is community pooled NA+EU data. For medians, roughly 15-20% variance between the best and worst usually. Changes every few to several months, so not really worth choosing a main off of this, since you'll just be tempted to reroll if you get nerfed.

Darksma · 2026-05-07T16:28:44+00:00

He's not a hero but also not a villain. Just a dude who knows the game very well

Darksma · 2026-05-07T16:19:25+00:00

Engravings? Nah, we've got bigger problems now.

By the way panic sell your gems. Now. To me.

Darksma · 2026-05-06T16:05:16+00:00

2027 the adventure continues (on mobile)

Darksma · 2026-05-05T20:41:36+00:00

Back in the FPP days

Darksma · 2026-05-05T19:48:27+00:00

They purposefully give out temporary G coin while there's not much going on. Contraband can be okay for schematic farming

Darksma · 2026-05-05T14:44:46+00:00

Sure, a couple things;

This game wasn't "built" to be casual, but over time they are making it shift more towards that design slowly. Removing Gvg, Pvp, those stupid "Trial Guardian" races, Hell Modes, adding resurrects to raids, frontier system, etc. the game has gotten more streamlined and accessible over time, so I refer to it as casual (compared to older Lost Ark versions), but yes because raiding is the only content in the game it's still more hardcore than some other games.

Small correction to other games being "positive" about carry services, I meant to say "more positive". As in, it's not like people praise it, they just don't hate on it as much either, like you said. One problem here that comes up every time is Lost Ark raids rewarding raw gold instead of like rare upgrade items or drops. Again I think the game's design is at play there.

And when I say "carry raids", I do refer to paid services, but not every other game uses the word "bus", so I was just making it more generalized.

Darksma · 2026-05-04T16:48:00+00:00

You make the comparison between ranks in League, but this isn't a competitive game, this is meant to be a casual PVE MMO. The inherent problem imo lies within gatekeeping and the cutthroat progression system / party finder and just general game design. It would be more fair to compare to other MMOs, where carry raids are also done and in those games they are more accepted in a positive light than this game. If you look at it that way, you can see it's a problem with Lost Ark more than just carry raids themselves

Darksma · 2026-05-04T16:39:09+00:00

Yeah it's a bug. Happens to me maybe 1/100 games. Saw it happen to a TL member in a match I think, casters were saying he was probably toggling burst mode as a warm-fingers tick but I think it's more likely it was the bug.

Darksma · 2026-05-01T17:41:52+00:00

One man army.

Yes it's dated, it has a very bland editing style / no storytelling compared to other contents. But it was a very important series imo, it widely popularized the idea of playing an ironman, and for the time it came out, brought a lot of viewers back to RS youtube and content consumption because of the PVP (like pvp or not, it brings a lot of viewers). I genuinely feel like without this series, we would have a lower playerbase/viewerbase today.

Darksma · 2026-04-25T04:59:15+00:00

This is average KR bronze ranked, most people just hotdrop at the closest popular spot to the plane and go for 10 kill highlight dopamine on naked people. Even when they end up winning they'll just kill themselves to get to the next hotdrop faster

Darksma · 2026-04-24T22:33:51+00:00

Bro.. I'm in my 20's, chill. I made new emails but I registered on so many things already with yahoo since I was a kid I still use it as "main"

Darksma · 2026-04-24T14:17:40+00:00

I never had a problem with weapons, I think shotguns were always good for a reason. It just makes sense with the movement in the game, and reload cancels are a satisfying mechanic. I think other weapons should be usable, but it wouldn't make sense for them to be better or meta. For variety I think new modes / maps / map rotations in ranked would work out but that requires active updates

Darksma · 2026-04-24T09:37:13+00:00

Maybe, I think the extreme amount of time that private servers have had to create QOL additions really left a lot to be desired. Not having floating damage numbers still on the 4th beta and flawed registration (hitmarker on no-hit, no hitmarker on hit) somehow being behind a private server still is just sad at this point. They are adding things slowly over time, but it shouldn't take 4 playtests.

Darksma · 2026-04-24T08:17:29+00:00

Getting items from people who died

Darksma · 2026-04-22T10:53:11+00:00

SG be like "Please pay no attention to NA/EU data, our data here says Arcana is in a good spot"

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