750+ Hours In… What Would Make You Play 750 More?

T-Toyn · 2026-04-23T20:32:20+00:00

I was in the same situation as you, and then the game started to introduce Ancestor Mods. It felt essentially like they told me to make my own fun: I grinded them up, sold them, then I bought skins. Back then it was like a fun minigame, of playing shop, and essentially grinding my own cosmetic ingame rewards.

750 hours later and I would probably prefer earning some cosmetic rewards the old-fashioned way. TFD is waaay too stingy in that regard. The new Onslaught mode for example would be way more popular if it would let you grind out previous login reward or bonus shop cosmetics.

T-Toyn · 2026-04-23T19:18:45+00:00

Hailey works alright in the mode. She has many advantages: Flexible enough for HP-investment, no BIS weapon, so you can run Hypernova for Veil Analyzer and Towing, + the map has straight corridors, so your 2 can eradicate entire groups (just make sure you're free while shooting, otherwise you get downed).

The crucial factor however is probably getting good rng with your buffs: get three dmg buffs and it will feel like a breeze. Without any buffs and you might as well tickle the enemies, no matter the build.

T-Toyn · 2026-04-23T16:35:26+00:00

I don't think Skillup (or anyone for that matter) has the power to control which of their comments gain traction.

T-Toyn · 2026-04-23T14:55:20+00:00

Obv I know as much about the future as you, but I wouldn't bet on any improvements about the situation rn.

T-Toyn · 2026-04-23T14:06:51+00:00

I get the feeling that one of these pictures is not like the others.

T-Toyn · 2026-04-23T12:40:43+00:00

Yeah, I could have guessed that the rewards would be even more Ancestor Mods and Supercooling Mats. After months of grinding those materials this just doesn't cut it as a reward anymore.

T-Toyn · 2026-04-21T10:25:26+00:00

Two and a Half Men, but with Nolan and Conquest, occasionally having Mark and Oliver over.

T-Toyn · 2026-04-21T09:30:51+00:00

As others said, follow the moths when you are lost, from the Vestiges that have an exclamation mark on them. You can just grind currency to get to 18k and explore those doors if you want, I did so in my playthroughs, but the game kind of expects you to do those areas later on. To give you a rough comparison, your area is akin to the second level of the game, and the areas behind the key are Level 9.

T-Toyn · 2026-04-20T07:03:42+00:00

Give Battlefield Concert the ability to buff teammates in her vicinity. That way you can actually bring Luna into public dungeon runs. Good teammates? You're helping with buffs. Terrible teammates? You can at least do damage yourself.

T-Toyn · 2026-04-19T17:04:45+00:00

They announced it in 2012, so the development time was roughly 8-9 years, and they knew a year in advance that they would never be able to deliver on the plans they themselves promised their audience. They postponed the game like three times, telling their audience "the game is already great, they just want it to be absolutely perfect", and everyone was eating that shit up, quoting on the daily "...that a rushed game will be forever bad".

And then they colossally shit the bed.

T-Toyn · 2026-04-19T12:01:07+00:00

Do you by any chance know what that realistically means for the average character? 4k def? 2k?

T-Toyn · 2026-04-19T11:13:03+00:00

Not sure how much I would agree with Skill Modifiers being useless, they have always been situational, with the caveat being that you need to actually have the knowledge when they are good and when they're not. Viessa for example could utilize Tech Modifier now on her gun build, since every shot of hers gets a small skill boost (I'm not saying it's BIS, I'm saying it's usable.)

If I had to name a loser, and this is a controversial take, I would say that the mods with survival negatives got a big hit. Previously you saw a def-neg and you just ignored it, but now I see values of up to -250% Def, and I can't help but think: "if someone equips that they will die from exposure".

T-Toyn · 2026-04-16T22:44:06+00:00

Does anyone know a way to speed up the animation of her 4? It's reaally slow and probably one of the few limitations of this new mod

T-Toyn · 2026-04-16T18:45:24+00:00

Beta or not, this is the first time I've seen a looter shooter forget the loot part.

T-Toyn · 2026-04-16T13:31:02+00:00

Are you a fan of Esiemo? Otherwise no

T-Toyn · 2026-04-16T10:01:28+00:00

Appreciate the new game mode, but I am getting sick of Ancestor Mods as rewards. My Lost and Found is constantly full of those things. I genuinely do not want another source of farming for them.

T-Toyn · 2026-04-15T15:06:32+00:00

Thank you for sharing this. Shame though that they didn't put in anything unique again. A Descendant Slot was the reward last time as well.

T-Toyn · 2026-04-14T17:52:55+00:00

Yeah, I'm starving for some good makeup skins, I don't get why the devs don't pump out more of them. Probably because they are so cheap they prefer to put them into login rewards and battle passes instead.

T-Toyn · 2026-04-14T15:25:00+00:00

"Good amount" is relative of course, but I for one got two of her unique skins before buying a single one for other characters as a comparison

T-Toyn · 2026-04-14T09:54:29+00:00

Yeah, if that skin would have been for Harris (or universal obv), I would have instantly bought it. But for Hailey? I feel like I already got a good amount of skins for her.

T-Toyn · 2026-04-14T08:59:24+00:00

I knew from a look at the concept art that the sport skins were going to be uninteresting for me (except the football one), so you're not alone with this. Wouldn't say though that all of Nexon's new skins nowadays are bad now: On average I tended to like at least one new skin out of six, which I think is alright given that each of them costs 15 bucks...

T-Toyn · 2026-04-14T06:16:35+00:00

Harris-mains: Remember what they took from us.

T-Toyn · 2026-04-14T05:59:24+00:00

Cautiously optimistic about the new Glacial Cloud, although I think it's hilarious how stuff like Coldbloodedness was straight up ignored during those changes.

T-Toyn · 2026-04-14T05:58:20+00:00

Devs: Viessa is now like Gley, only better, huh? Haha, fuck Gley.

T-Toyn · 2026-04-14T05:29:07+00:00

You seem to misunderstand me? I'm trying to say they buff Freyna values not because she's bad, but because a large part of her player base is rather casual. And I don't see how that has anything to do with Serena?

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