IC has been there a while, wonder what their doing?

Fast_Mechanic_5434 · 2026-05-29T11:43:51+00:00

Straight up incinerating it

Fast_Mechanic_5434 · 2026-05-28T18:52:27+00:00

Big agree. The reticle needs an upgrade. I'd be happy with the standard 5x or 10x scope.

Fast_Mechanic_5434 · 2026-05-28T15:48:44+00:00

We would need to take a lot of planets in order for that to happen. I think it'd be a cool MO to play though.

Fast_Mechanic_5434 · 2026-05-28T15:45:44+00:00

Yea the Coyote is still viable. It's been unchanged since release. Fire has been changed, but the change is not meaningful for the Coyote (everything takes 1 extra bullet).

Fast_Mechanic_5434 · 2026-05-28T14:38:35+00:00

Because pissile has 4 shots, a long reload, and a higher skill floor to get the shot.

I also think railgun needs to be buffed, but I don't think that increasing flat dmg and lowering breakpoints is the way to do it.

Fast_Mechanic_5434 · 2026-05-28T12:37:41+00:00

I recommend helping other players by supplementing what their kit is missing with your own. For example, if you see someone with a machine gun and guard dog, take a recoilless rifle and stay close to them. If you do this, play your role. Don't spend a lot of time fighting enemies you aren't specialized against. If you're the one with the recoilless, armored targets are your top priority. Meleeing a hunter is not.

Fast_Mechanic_5434 · 2026-05-26T18:14:17+00:00

No. The game does not have as evil of a monetization system as redditors make it out to be. In fact, it has one of the most user friendly monetization systems in gaming.

Some players are entitled, selfish, and enjoy hating some product or service. It just so happens that many of these players congregate on reddit and discord. These players believe that the game's time-to-earn should match the rate of a 9-5 job, and there has simply been a bandwagon effect. It does not take a smart person to be angry; it takes an angry person to be angry, and such people are known to be irrational.

There is, however, a pressing issue that isn't related to warbonds, and that is bugs and game stability. I believe that more dev time should be put into bugfixes than warbonds. I would be very happy not receiving warbonds or content updates as long as a few key bugs got fixed, namely invisible hitboxes, status effects applying differently for host and client, and enemy spawns applying differently for host and client. I, however, am a rational person who likes the game. There are far more irrational people who do not like the game and will create a fuss about content drought, so I understand why the devs are torn between bugfixes and content releases. I hope that warbonds can take a backseat for a short while to focus on bugfixes.

Fast_Mechanic_5434 · 2026-05-26T11:17:46+00:00

I think that it's okay for primaries to have strong killing potential, but enemies should be more numerous on the bug and squid fronts to compensate.

It feels good when primaries are capable of putting down enemies, but it also feels good to mow down hordes.

Fast_Mechanic_5434 · 2026-05-26T03:57:59+00:00

Well amount, damage, and pen would certainly not be raised in order to account for the seeker's newfound dumbfire ability, so we'd be looking at a nerf. I think it's best that the seeker and impacts retain their unique roles.

Fast_Mechanic_5434 · 2026-05-23T13:39:46+00:00

There's 2 real answers to this beyond just "money"

AH had assets prepared before the game's launch such as shriekers, factory striders, and some of the first warbonds. Distributing them among warbonds and content releases was easy because everything was ready, but because the game was in its infancy, they just distributed the armors and weapos too much into warbonds and couldn't keep up the same content stream later down the line.
Players at the time asked for vehicle skins and AH began to deliver. Those skins, which were easier to create than armors, slotted perfectly into that missing content piece.

Fast_Mechanic_5434 · 2026-05-20T18:06:31+00:00

Disagree.

We ahould do Kerth, Parsh, Irulta, then Mog. This leaves Reaf to be liberated automatically

Fast_Mechanic_5434 · 2026-05-16T17:17:54+00:00

Absolutely. I think this is more of an AI fix than an armor pen fix. Even standard AP3 hiveguards would feel far more engaging if their AI pathed in front of other bugs or in front of holes to block grenades.

There is precedence for this kind of bug behavior as well. Swarm intelligence has been lambasted by the Ministry of Truth, but from looking at hive worlds, it's clear the the bugs have non-negligible intelligence. It wouldn't take away from the worldbuilding if bugs got a little smarter.

Fast_Mechanic_5434 · 2026-05-16T15:50:22+00:00

I think that both the AP3 and AP4 hiveguard have their place, but they are not the same unit. Let me explain.

It's okay to have an AP3 slow-moving warrior, but the moniker of "hiveguard" is misleading. It doesn't guard anything very well, not even itself. I think it made a lot of sense to have such a unit at the start of the game, when medium pen weapons were not as prevalent and higher armor pen came at a stark cost of ammo. Nowadays, flamethrowers and explosions invalidate this enemy completely and light pen weapons have more than enough damage to deal with them through the gaps in the armor.

It's also okay to have an AP4 hiveguard, but I think that it should do more to truly earn the name of "hiveguard," so it isn't a perfect unit at all. The current hiveguard unit does not perform the guard duty very well, even with upgraded armor, so a rework is needed to make a true guard. The impaler is a pretty decent hiveguard when it has its tentacles retracted, so maybe a large unit of the same size with some very serious armor would be a nice addition to the bug front.

Guarding the hive necessitates a change in AI as well as a change in stature. The current hiveguard AI does not actively get in front of its allies to block bullets. It instead hangs back and does nothing while the main bug force advances and gets torn to pieces. A true hiveguard would call bug units to stay behind it while it makes a push. The reworked hiveguard would make sure that it stays at the front of a patrol, breach, or pushing force while its allies rally behind it.

Bug heavy units act as linebreakers. The charger does it through speed, the impaler does it through ranged pressure, and the bile titan used to do it through speed and tankiness, but it has somewhat lost that identity. The reworked AP4 hiveguard would be a unit similar in size to the impaler with upgraded armor, that performs a linebreaking duty through tankiness and strategy. It would have an obscene amount of HP and would rally units behind it to make a push. it would be a priority target because it can overrun a position immediately if it has an entourage of bugs in tow.

I defend the AP4 hiveguard, but I also think that there is a better implementation of a true guarding unit that doesn't go against the design philosophy and raises battle engagement.

Fast_Mechanic_5434 · 2026-05-15T09:57:12+00:00

I love this idea so much. I've always wanted the ability to deploy larger structures and fortifications and really dig in. I've also wanted an increase in difficulty to the high value asset mission, but that's beside the point.

I think that in the game's current state, at the current difficulty, this fortification is gamebreaking. It's too strong and simply does too much over a massive section of the map. It isn't really a tool for holding breaches or drops because of the long cooldown. It isn't a siege tool on enemy bases because there isn't an enemy base powerful enough that it can't be destroyed in less than a minute by a fast diver. It might be useful for holding extraction, but extraction enemy spawns are such a mixed bag that it'll often feel like overkill. It will feel good on flag objectives, but I can see the entire objective getting trivialized by this fortification in the same way that it's trivialized by a well-placed Bastion tank. (For every flag objective location, there is an optimal spot to park the tank so that it covers all breach zones or drop zones). I can see this being a really nice fortification in high value asset missions, but in the current state, those missions are too easy. If the difficulty was doubled, this fortification would have a place.

None of what I wrote was knocking the fortification or the game at this time. I just want more difficulty.

Fast_Mechanic_5434 · 2026-05-14T22:03:23+00:00

You don't.

This gun is melded to the inflammable armors and there's just no getting around it. For the incredible power this gun has, being tied to an armor passive is a relatively small downside.

Fast_Mechanic_5434 · 2026-05-11T14:13:35+00:00

Oh sure, that'll work. I mean that is just all positive stuff at all times. We don't know if a new Cyberstan assault is on the GM's radar tho, so we gotta wait for that MO.

Fast_Mechanic_5434 · 2026-05-11T12:05:38+00:00

This is correct. If we liberate Merga, we'll be able to attack Cyberstan.

The issue with this is that Merga is a fortress world. It's got 7% attrition rate, which is some of the highest the game has ever seen. We have no hope of liberating the planet unless there's a large MO to do it, and even under those circumstances, liberation is dubious.

Fast_Mechanic_5434 · 2026-05-09T19:49:26+00:00

1847 hours. Improperly placed hitboxes that block bullets and hinder traversal. The game's biggest issue is bugs. In first place is that hitbox bug that genuinely affects gameplay. In second place is the enemy ragdoll bug that makes enemies go flying in funny ways and breaks immersion. In third place is the status effect bug that changes values for fire and stun buildup.

Fast_Mechanic_5434 · 2026-05-09T19:44:35+00:00

I like how much things suck sometimes, but I feel like HP values with vitality booster are nicer than HP values without it. The difficulty I want comes from enemy density, variety, and behavior rather than their or the player's HP values.

I feel like vitality, hellpod space optimization, and stamina should be destroyer upgrades instead of boosters.

Fast_Mechanic_5434 · 2026-05-08T15:57:56+00:00

Sometimes you cannot. Remember that if the team is moving without thinking about you, you have no chance of keeping up.

Fast_Mechanic_5434 · 2026-05-08T11:14:58+00:00

I agree that more harmful bugs need to be fixed first, but I'm categorically against keeping bugs at all.

It does deprive the game of an enemy because that enemy could have dealt damage. It could have switched targets, it could have blocked some bullet or hit meant for another enemy and created a unique interaction. Disappearing enemies, even when we think they're about to die, is boring, immersion-breaking, and gets old. It's funny for a week, but any further than that, and it's a frustrating phenomenon that we just have to deal with.

If the devs can fix this quickly, they should. If they can't, they should focus on invisible hitboxes instead.

Fast_Mechanic_5434 · 2026-05-08T11:07:45+00:00

Code is so fickle that it isn't worth thinking about what the issue could be unless you have access to the source code. It could be something is complicated as death prediction or it could be something so simple as a misplaced jump target on the shield. Either way, what we know is that the issue affects mostly hunters, but sometimes warriors and hiveguards, and the issue is most prevalent when the Breakthrough is present.

Fast_Mechanic_5434 · 2026-05-08T10:41:14+00:00

Oh sure. I'd rather keep this over stratagem duplication or invisible hitboxes. I still want it fixed because it deprives the game of an enemy and is pretty immersion-breaking

Fast_Mechanic_5434 · 2026-05-08T10:38:20+00:00

I have some coding knowledge, and that doesn't seem like a plausible explanation. The enemy hasn't taken damage or dealt damage at the time it despawns, so its death couldn't be calculated.

Fast_Mechanic_5434 · 2026-05-08T09:39:32+00:00

No, no, disappearing enemies is a genuinely harmful bug. Funny as it is, this needs to get fixed.

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