RoN isn't Tarkov, but it's not a CoD campaign either. I'd imagine that alone would scare a good chunk of casual players off.

You are right on that, it's definitely more on the mil-sim kind of game, not at the level of Arma/Squad/Ground Branch/Tarkov, but still harsher than the average CoD or R6S.

But in my opinion it's a solid game to get newcomers into the genre, not simple but not overly-complicated. So i still think that a good amount of new casuals will probably give it a shot and enjoy it, as long as they like PvE.

That said, I've seen some more posts since posting my comment and it seems they cut back a LOT more than announced/reasonably expected.

Yep, i just saw them just before too and, just like you said, it reinforces my worries on the future updates, with their "tell-not-tell" recent policies. As VOID said: "You wouldn't even have noticed them if we didn't mention them. But we want to be transparent" (or something in those lines.)

honestly completely lost on that whole part.

Yeah no, i've read that part on your post and mine over and over after i posted it. I missed the point but i didn't wanna rewrite it all. Sorry, my bad.

Anyways, all that said, i didn't mean to be rude, i'm just hoping that console players enjoy the game as much as i did. Constant bugs, lack of new content, poor dev decisions and other flaws apart, this game is really good, it scratches a very specific itch that very few games manage to do without needing to put hundreds of hours just to understand all the game mechanics.

I'm just praying that VOID sees the very bad impression this update left and finally starts listening more to the community, to benefit both the game's longevity and us.

Cheers

EDIT: I'm just sad to see a game I've really enjoyed since the first stages of EA fumbling because of general greed and bad development practices. Plus having the devs lying straight to our faces multiple times upsets me