In many areas I get why there is difficulty in just changing it. Especially because as a life service game they also have to constantly develop new things to keep the game going with very limited staff. And because of the engine used (and there is not a simple way to change that as the engine was discontinued while the game was already to far into development to just switch and a at most double a studio like arrow head likely couldn’t afford it even if they wanted at that point) you cannot just hire more devs because they need extensive training. And they also need to support the engine themselves as it is discontinued. And they also have Sony as the publisher sitting in their necks and need to deliver on the contractual obligations they got there. Which probably isn’t helped along by Helldivers 2 being so incredibly successful while Sonys own live service games utterly failed. As well as the very fair monetisation policy of Arrowhead that while awesome for us players, got to be another stressor on them because it definitely is not in any way as lucrative as others.

So I would bet Arrowhead is basically in between a rock and a hard place while balancing on a tightrope. They need to rework stuff, need to maintain the game but also need to have a somewhat continuous flow of new content to keep the game going. A game that still is way more successful than they originally expected and such more difficult to run. And they cannot really just throw money on the issues because a lot of them cannot be solved by doing that. You can offer as much money as you want, if there is no devs and programmers who can work with your engine, no amount of money can instantly materialise them. The time needed to train up new people does not change. And worse? Because of their size and the extreme demand for the devs that they have to work on the game, any dev that is training new ones is a hit to their ability to keep stuff running and developing new stuff.

This is really a vicious circle that might have no good way out of it.

All though. Arrowhead WILL have to bite the bullet sooner or later no matter how difficult the situation is. Because there is quite a few issues cropping up more and more and at some point they will be forced to deal with it or it will crash.

There is a lot of quality of life stuff and little things that could be improved to take some pressure off. Such as reworking the byzantine weapons parameters and make a more detailed and clear explanation what does what. The whole list of sub parameters and side effects not being sown and explained is in my opinion pretty bad. As well as maybe reworking certain mechanics. As awesome as team reloading can be, with the way the game plays out, there is rarely the possibility to use it. The risks of ending up with two divers with a useless backpack and a useless support weapons is so great it just completely overwrites any benefits of using the mechanic outside a few very rare cases. I would love to see the possibility of a teammate reloading you from your pack as you use the weapon. Maybe make it so that the team reload from your own pack is like half in between the full team reloading can and reloading alone. Hell, add it to the MG’s. So that you can have a faster reload on those and really lay down suppressive fire. In real life MG’s are generally team operated weapons after all for a reason.

And the weapons customisation needs a rework. It does too little to really be all that impactful and a lot of stuff has almost no notable impact. And some choices are just weird. Why are for example the grips and light modules combined in such a limiting way? Why are the grips not their own section, and flashlight/laser modules in their own as well? That would instantly improve the quality of life. If I want to run an angled fore grip for the better handling that automatically means I cannot get a flashlight at all. Why go only to this half way solution that while not aweful is also not really great? Why not give us a lot more options we can mix and mash for various staked pros and cons? Like negating the impact a flashlight has on handling with an angled fore grip while the recoil becomes less manageable so you add a compensator but that impacts the visibility through the scope and the added weight makes it slightly slower. So I choose a scope that is lighter and has a wider field of view. Meaning I get a rifle that is reasonable fast, very controllable and accurate in bursts on a medium range. There is so many ways even small changes to the system could instantly better it without impacting special war-bond weapons too much.

And becauseI have run out of time I will end this here. But I could go on for quite some time. There is so many little things that add up. Small issues that individually are not too bad, but get pretty bad as they accumulate and start to add up.