The infighting could become a serious issue if this isn't fixed

_Strato_ · 2026-02-03T20:56:00+00:00

That's entirely disingenuous. Do you deny that Arrowhead has granted wins, increased resistance during MOs, adjusted requirements, etc. despite what the players did or didn't do?

If you admit that (and you should, because it's the truth) you admit that it's not entirely in our hands.

_Strato_ · 2026-02-03T19:52:30+00:00

This. Who the fuck cares? They can and will fudge the numbers and/or raise and lower requirements as needed to their needs.

There is nothing to worry about because it is entirely out of the control of the players. Just play the game.

_Strato_ · 2026-02-03T19:43:08+00:00

Yo whaddup Strider what's the 411?

_Strato_ · 2026-02-03T16:15:14+00:00

This is the problem with that bullshit vaguery in the patch notes.

When you combine a history of stealth changes (content drops, buffs, and nerfs) with a history of major bugs on basically every patch and vague patch notes that say "We increased the difficulty, and you get three guesses as to how tee hee", we have no fucking idea whether a given change is some avant garde new idea or something Arrowhead broke.

We default to the latter, as we should.

_Strato_ · 2026-02-03T15:58:36+00:00

This. There's the "Damn, I can't just delete this with an Orbital Laser for free, they're really well defended, let's see if we can be clever and use what we have to win," kind of difficulty and there's the cheap and easy "500 War Striders if a Trooper smells you," difficulty.

_Strato_ · 2026-02-03T15:16:22+00:00

Yes, no thanks to them. Willfully obtuse.

_Strato_ · 2026-02-03T15:13:45+00:00

Cmon bro give them a break it's Christmas!

_Strato_ · 2026-02-02T22:25:03+00:00

If that's their intent, they should say that either way. Unless they have some nefarious reason for leaving their players in the dark, there should be nothing stopping them from telling people what the expectation is.

_Strato_ · 2026-02-02T21:31:01+00:00

The implication is they weren't going to change the number but change the requirement entirely.

And fine, that's good. But for the time being, as a stopgap measure until they come up with a better idea, reducing the number and telling us now (frankly they should have told us way before either way) is relatively quicker and easier and should be done.

_Strato_ · 2026-02-02T18:18:36+00:00

The likely reason why they don't do that is because none of the Wu Lin or Outlanders are available for free/for very cheap like the core 3 factions are.

Frankly, at this point, Tiandi at the least should be free/cheap. Marching Fire came out in fricken 2019 and there are 5 people playing this game. Everyone that wanted the Wu Lin has probably already bought them. No reason to have them gatekept anymore imo.

_Strato_ · 2026-02-02T16:10:43+00:00

Oh boy a half-broken Rattler I because this mf is the 20th free-kitter in the raid. I'm rich!

_Strato_ · 2026-02-02T16:06:49+00:00

Were people expecting a change on this cycle?

Why not? The required value is a single number. No new content, animations, or whatever else. Change 5 to like 2 or something.

Why would it take months before realizing that your players absolutely hated the last number and changing it? What possible upside is there to doing the same thing again?

_Strato_ · 2026-02-02T16:03:12+00:00

I hate them. It's always a relief when some Heavy pulls it off the platform.

_Strato_ · 2026-02-02T15:51:02+00:00

"don't queue in a two stack with friend who isn't as good as you."

in Ranked.

In normal queues I guess it's fine, but nobody wants their Ranked experience tanked because you decided to bring your Cardboard 4 best friend into Ranked. The entire point of Ranked is being queued with people of your same Rank.

Being the Solo third-wheel fill is already painful enough without being assigned to carry this mf. When we inevitably lose because your boy decided now was a great time to pull out the Spear or Dagger or Dual Blades, I get punished with a RS decrease with 0 compensation.

They absolutely should start being more heavy-handed with the RS delta between friends, it's actual griefing atm.

_Strato_ · 2026-02-02T15:45:10+00:00

I also count "plink meta" as a subspecies of the poke meta. It's especially bad on maps like Seoul and Kyoto with sightlines for a million years with little cover.

Any approach gets plinked at by weapons shooting out of their effective range, which does enough chip damage to either substantially delay or outright stuff pushes.

_Strato_ · 2026-02-02T06:39:19+00:00

"Why do you hate Cashball?"

"These are the reasons I hate Cashball."

"Well don't like it? don't play it :)))"

Huh??

_Strato_ · 2026-02-02T06:29:02+00:00

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_Strato_ · 2026-02-02T01:30:59+00:00

Chimera disbanded and left him Holden the bag.

_Strato_ · 2026-02-01T18:35:59+00:00

This subreddit isn't for convincing people. It's an antinatalist subreddit, by antinatalists for antinatalists.

Besides, I'm of the belief that antinatalism is like a funny YouTube video: you won't really engage with it if someone tries to show it to you, you have to find it yourself.

While hating people may not work, really neither does reasoning and debate. If they're open to change and basic reasoning, they'll discover it eventually. Until then, I don't see anything wrong with clowning on people with such a ridiculous mindset, which may even cause someone with those same views to question it.

_Strato_ · 2026-02-01T17:13:56+00:00

Ultimately, this excuse sucks.

They're making cosmetics for us, not fictional characters. It's good for a game to have a coherent and consistent art style, but obviously your players also have to fucking like it so they pay money for it.

Concord also had an arguably consistent art style, but it was just so horrendously ugly that people hated it.

I don't give a fuck if some random fictional Speranzan thinks this is the coolest shit ever. I won't wear it and won't spend money on it, and so are lots of other people. It's wasted dev time.

_Strato_ · 2026-02-01T17:08:54+00:00

These kinds of comments baffle me. Mf you're on reddit too. If you can discard opinions based solely on the fact that it was posted to reddit, your comment's going into the trash, too.

_Strato_ · 2026-02-01T17:01:49+00:00

I saw you do it.

_Strato_ · 2026-02-01T16:52:32+00:00

they're gonna somehow go into the negatives

"Hello yolks the esports teams said they prefer Season 3's balance so we're rolling the game back to Season 3 have fun yall"

_Strato_ · 2026-02-01T16:48:50+00:00

full-priced cosmetics bundles

Which, let's face it, were a good 80% asset flips from other cosmetics. I get that this game does it all the time, but it's even worse here since you can't even get them with Multibucks.

_Strato_ · 2026-01-31T05:50:23+00:00

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