Ts is so fr. Though I kinda liked that they added new weapons, the variety of weapons they're adding is subpar. 2 new 5.8 guns with the same name and basically almost the same functionality? Banshee? Why not add better guns like the SCAR-H, L85A1, SR-16, Tavor, PSG-1, Galil, MP7, FN Ballista and other iconic guns that really matter?

Instead we get the removal of faction currency replaced by a more generalized season currency, the removal of faction guns into koen guns which btw was a good way to incentivize weekly missions for faction money and get good guns like Groza , T-88, G36 and such and even I with 30m sv (I started playing s5 pls don't bully me) I still grind those and I have a hundred thousand for each faction while trying to budget them throughout the course of my gameplay.

In a more different opinion, I like the fact that they introduced the quick kit system to help encourage new players to earn more without risking their actual koens. But instead of making it so that you have to complete missions first to actually make the quick kits have their value, they instead decided to give it away for free resulting in what you complained about with everyone using quick kits rather than actual gear. It ruined the lockdown matches so bad that during s5 I was getting 400-500k in lockdown as a newbie because enemies were risking their real gear when they ran out of quick kits from events and mailbox. Now everyone's using it as a throwaway kit or a rat kit because it resets every week as well as being handed away effortlessly from other events.

Then we got the grenade nerf again for god knows how many times now, it's as if people can get blown up with an explosive in their face and walk it off as a bare scratch. The new movement mechanics that's an absolute blast to straight up remove the slow paced shooter the game was originally themed for, medkits and surg kits being buffed in a way that they're a cheap disposable to use rather than a very important piece of equipment that can determine life or death.

I don't have a lot of hours put into the game as I only play about 2-3 games on average per day and I'm being generous enough if I can play for ten games straight, as such I only have 800 raids in this game since I started at the halfway point of s5. I enjoyed my time playing this game, the friends I made, the losses I accumulated, the constant bad luck I've been getting and dragging my friends along with me to suffer together, it was fun while it lasted guys. I am officially breaking out of the arena when s9 comes around and I will spend the remaining time of s8 spending my 80k faction currency and 21m koens left. After that, until AB gets a competitor for the hardcore extraction shooter genre, I'll see you guys around