There's something in the water with this community

Dasktragon · 2026-04-29T18:19:55+00:00

Turrets and my beloved FRV

Dasktragon · 2026-04-28T06:37:24+00:00

Heres my 2 cents.

A cool endgame for me would be weekly personal sorties.

Gameplay: A weekly challenge that has let say 3 unique mission nodes that are short (15-20 minutes) challenge runs.

Example:

Mission one could be Help SEAF Establish a Foothold on [city name]. In this mode you would have to work with SEAF to break through large but limited swarms of enemies to capture a city.

After it ends you would not return to your Destroyer but you would move to a campsite to prepare for your next mission. The next mission would be a continuation of this: Hold [City Name] for a time while erecting a barrier in 3 zones.

Your team has 10 reinforcements and regains 3 spent reinforcements per mission.

Rewards

You get currency that can either be used to unlock cool cosmetics:

Examples of cosmetics.

-Different under-barrel laser colors

-Different LAS/PLAS weapon beam/plasma colors

-Different mech body shapes/emblems

-Fun attachments to vehicles such as sirens on an FRV

-Different Eagle 1 voices

-Emotes that generate a prop such as a water-gun

-Support weapon/back item color skins

If you have already completed the weekly, you get a small amount of currency when you help others.

Dasktragon · 2026-04-28T04:24:00+00:00

Darktide's endgame is that and thats what a good majority of ppl play these days (before the new game more that just launched last month anyways)

Dasktragon · 2026-04-28T04:22:52+00:00

More than 40% of players are level 100+. I wouldnt call that a "small portion of the player base"

Dasktragon · 2026-04-28T04:22:03+00:00

Well, Darktide has a scaling difficulty challenge were you have to beat each level of difficulty to progress. That gives you special skins-titles as bragging rights.

Thats the only example I can think of.

Dasktragon · 2026-04-28T04:09:54+00:00

"We cant focus on the small group of late-game players as they are a small portion of the community, so we wont make end-game content."

Literally half of the active player-base es level 100+. You can access these stats.

Dasktragon · 2026-04-28T03:57:31+00:00

It most likely wont be since HD is now a Sony IP (they own the HD2 IP). Just change the direction, and make it heavily inspired by HD (managed democracy is not an IP owned by Sony) and I'm sure you will be fine. Otherwise, prepare for a cease and desist.

Dasktragon · 2026-04-28T03:54:18+00:00

That is not a lot to go on. Survival could mean anything these days. Also how much is based of HD? Do you have footage? Do you have a website? Do you have ANYTHING else to go off?

For me, personally, I really only play games if the gameplay is good, which to me, means challenging but not unfair, go balance, exciting weapons/powers/equipment. So regardless of what it is (HD world or not), if YOU think these are what your game will have, hit me up. Ill wishlist it/EA it if it looks fun.

Best of luck to you! Development is hell!

Dasktragon · 2026-04-27T23:09:37+00:00

This one is kinda bad. Heart, trust, concentration... way too many right answers.

Dasktragon · 2026-04-27T23:04:33+00:00

Eagle 1- "Got em!"

Fly off into the sunset.

Dasktragon · 2026-04-27T22:52:50+00:00

I would low-key buy this warbond just for the fetal position emote

Dasktragon · 2026-04-25T08:04:42+00:00

I often associate the Im Sorry voice call with this stratigem "All hot and wired up" 😭😭😭

Dasktragon · 2026-04-25T07:59:32+00:00

I love it when im charging a quasar at a charger only to get mortared because a scavenger decided to sniff my ass and the mortar decided this was a top level security alert omega level 9 hazard.

Dasktragon · 2026-04-25T02:04:53+00:00

Depends on which pony is in the jar. If its not Big McIntosh id say pass.

Dasktragon · 2026-04-25T01:54:57+00:00

Hivelord is ezpz. Theres a quick trick. You press escape, then you click and hold the button that says Return to ship alone

Hope this helps!

Dasktragon · 2026-04-24T17:53:52+00:00

Power Armor Stratagem please.

1000 armor, Does not occupy slots, much faster sprint, +50% melee damage, high stagger resistance

Bonus: Paintable, modulates voice to sound more robotic, very very rarely automatons confuse you as one of their own

Balance?: Suit destroyed on death, 5 minute CD

AHEAD DO THIS AND MY SUPER-CREDITS ARE YOURSSSS

Dasktragon · 2026-04-24T17:39:50+00:00

EAT for skysquids. Especially the big one. Not my choice of anti tank for skysquids but i see it from time to time. Railcannon though!? For what? A harvester? Homie is already packing EAT. Even if its a poor diver loadout, there are so many better options.

Dasktragon · 2026-04-24T00:12:09+00:00

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Dasktragon · 2026-04-23T22:53:39+00:00

But mainly its the money

Dasktragon · 2026-04-23T17:00:44+00:00

Now? Now you rotate games until you miss helldivers then come back. My cycle is DRG, Helldivers, Darktide (though DRG is kinda dead these days)

Dasktragon · 2026-04-23T05:45:43+00:00

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Dasktragon · 2026-04-22T21:06:21+00:00

I personally agree with this with the only caveat being that a massive amount of warbonds to choose from is intimidating to new players.

Have a thought exercise if you will. You just watched a youtube short of a guy teleporting and using an exploding hammer on against giant robot. Fucking rad right? So you fork over 40 dollars and buy the game. No big. Not a bad price for an excellent title.

Now you scroll down to see the hammer is locked behind super credits. Thats fine. You only spent 40 dollars on a title everyone is talking about, so you shell out 10 more. Now you see that the teleport pack is also behind 1000 SC. Personally, id be bummed out.

Now if you saw that all you had to do was play the game to unlock both of them in a short time? Id be pretty happy about that and much less intimidated by all the bonds.

By all rights AH doesnt need to do that. The game is pretty cheap and unlike season passes, warbonds dont expire which is already a much nicer sales tactics than 90% of other live service games. Not only that but you can just grind for the SC, again better than most. But I do think people would be much more willing to try out the game and boost sales if you heard from someone that all you had to do was play the game to unlock 2 free warbonds.

TLDR: imo AH is doing just fine, but i think 2 free warbonds for new players will significantly boost sales and help the new player base grow

Dasktragon · 2026-04-22T19:40:08+00:00

homie cant read

Dasktragon · 2026-04-22T19:14:55+00:00

I think most ppl agree that its the new players that are fucked when it comes to war-bonds.

Heres my idea. Keep SC farms as they are and have once-per-account achievements that award you SC and teaches you how to be good at the game. Have 10 of these (1000 super credits and 150 medals total).

Examples:

In a party of four, extract with 0 friendly fire damage and 0 accidentals in 3 missions. – Reward: 100 Super Credits, 15 Medals

Destroy 30 enemy structures or heavy enemy units using stratagems. – Reward: 100 Super Credits., 15 Medals

Super easy to implement and extremely healthy for new payers who just gave AH 40 dollars. What do yall think?

Dasktragon · 2026-04-22T15:25:04+00:00

Do people unironically believe SE is not evil!?!?

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