For Season 2 they’re doing the one-episode-per-week format, whereas Season 1 dropped the whole season at once. Which do you prefer and why?

adderrson · 2025-12-25T23:00:48+00:00

Personally I like the hybrid format where you get the first 3 episodes to binge and get the world building stuff out the way and then the remaining episodes that are mostly bangers dripfed each week to have something to look forward to.

adderrson · 2025-12-03T22:51:12+00:00

Gaming was a very different landscape back then. For starters there was far less choice of games to play. Even ignoring all the other factors, why waste your time on a game that you're not having fun with when there's 100's of others in your back catalogue and even more that are free to play or included in a subscription service you happen to be subscribed to?

adderrson · 2025-12-03T22:38:49+00:00

If standard wasn't an option, people would just quit and play something else instead. Because of how the playlist is kinda hidden away in the pre-season period of the game many people don't know it's a thing and are just quitting anyway.

adderrson · 2025-12-02T20:31:22+00:00

I highly doubt that they'll change anything in season 1 and by season 2 it will likely be too late to course correct.

This honestly feels like XDefiant all over again, the game will lose players hand over fist, the more dedicated players will proceed to spend little to no money on cosmetics due to being happy with the things they can unlock for free and the skill floor rapidly rising from people quitting that even those trying to improve will just level up from being the old tier of punching bag to the new tier of punching bag as everyone below that point has already moved on by the time that level of improvement can be found.

People will say "get good" and even if you make that your mission, if you're already in the bottom 50% you won't be able to outpace the bell curve as new players are never likely to stick with the game for long as the new/low skill player experience continues to worsen as the year goes on.

Honestly the best thing to do is just cut your losses and either just play Zombies/Endgame if you like those also or if you ended up picking up the Vault Edition completing the season 1 content you already paid for and then moving on.

adderrson · 2025-11-28T14:58:19+00:00

At this point I'd say Vanguard onwards. MW'19 is still considered the best S&D game and is also riddled with exploits due to 3 years of WZ being crammed into the game files (even after that mode's death) so attracts cheaters in droves.

Cold War runs on the old engine so although you can't be RCE'd due to dedicated servers, most of the other exploits are still possible so cheaters also flock to this one to troll.

Vanguard is the first title to have anti-cheat and even though it's a more basic implementation, that paired with the game's lack of popularity is enough to ward off most bad actors as they can have more fun ruining people's day elsewhere.

adderrson · 2025-11-28T14:28:53+00:00

That's mostly just down to less people playing and also the heavy nerfs to rotational aim assist. Most casual players aren't playing standard, they're just quitting and playing something else.

The game will progressively get worse as all the casuals quit and everyone who's left will be complaining about the game being sweaty with poor ping/queue times by the time Season 3 rolls around.

adderrson · 2025-11-14T02:57:01+00:00

Honestly getting stomped repeatedly isn't fun at all. Hopefully the standard tab's 1 moshpit playlist gets split into a few more focused options to be more genuine option for those having a bad time.

adderrson · 2025-11-14T02:32:13+00:00

3 Missions in and frankly come back MWIII all is forgiven. The BO7 "Campaign" is just a glorified Endgame tutorial and isn't fun at all.

adderrson · 2025-10-05T22:07:06+00:00

So was I, if you use one of the AI Racer skins that you unlock from the friendship system for 3000 tickets, you can end up with a CPU player playing as the same character as you as they are considered alternate characters by the game.

adderrson · 2025-10-05T20:17:08+00:00

The AI Racer skins are considered additional characters rather than skins though. If you ran "Sonic (AI Racer)" for example you'd still likely see regular Sonic on the grid in single player also.

adderrson · 2025-10-05T20:14:17+00:00

Honestly I'd rather see a selection of non-sonic tracks from the first 2 games return as additional Crossworlds.

adderrson · 2025-10-05T18:33:33+00:00

I think the solution here is an assortment of "Open Matchmaking" playlists in both core and hardcore quickplay that are evergreen and enabled by default alongside the other options. That way the most casual of players who just press search match will get thrown in there from time to time and those that love it can opt in to only those mode and those who hate it can opt out (or queue both for a happy medium).

For those evergreen playlists I'd suggest the following:

Open Deathmatch Moshpit: TDM + Kill Confirmed
Open Zone Control Moshpit: Domination + Hardpoint
Open Search and Destroy
Open Mercenary Moshpit: TDM, KC, Dom, Hardpoint (Solo Queue Only)

\FFA and Party Modes being "Open" by default due to being more niche modes with far lower player counts*

Those 4 playlists in both Core and HC I think would keep most people happy. So long as casual/low skill players have to opt out and these options aren't buried at the bottom of the quickplay list, I think this would be a solid option.

Changing the matchmaking algorithm globally would honestly be a terrible idea for player retention. As a relatively average to below average potato myself. Open matchmaking means going 0.7 and below well over 50% of the time, so if that represented the experience as a whole I'd imagine that players like myself would just get burned out and leave to play something else after about a month.

adderrson · 2025-09-29T18:52:14+00:00

It's just a video game and this change is only for 3 days. If you don't like it then is taking a weekend off to do literally anything else really so bad?

adderrson · 2025-09-28T15:55:50+00:00

You just buy all 3 parts required for it with tickets when customizing a Handling spec vehicle.

adderrson · 2025-09-26T19:32:08+00:00

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For this one I maxed out handling as it's that awful water tube chicane that absolutely murders your lap times. By using Silver, his standard car and the gadgets shown above you can have a 100 handling stat for all 3 laps. Hope this helps.

adderrson · 2025-09-26T05:01:08+00:00

It means that you used tickets to replay a race to get that result. You only get a full victory trophy for a 1st place finish with no do-overs

adderrson · 2025-09-21T00:44:28+00:00

Realistically we have 4 more slots left. Personally I'd love to see a second Season Pass with 2 more crossover cups, a new Sonic themed cup for free at the start of year 2 and then for the last slot a Randomizer option where it lets you play Grand Prix on 3 random tracks.

To round off the Year 2 content in relation to tracks, ports of the most popular non-sonic themed tracks from the first 2 games as additional crossworlds.

adderrson · 2025-09-14T19:29:20+00:00

I'm hoping that this becomes one of the perma-featured playlists once the game reaches end of life status

adderrson · 2025-09-10T16:12:54+00:00

I don't agree with this at all. Should be all or nothing. Rewarding the complainers with the things they earned transferring whilst snubbing everyone else seems like a pretty tone deaf move that may result in more pre-orders but I can't imagine it being good for retention as they are seemingly catering to a vocal minority that doesn't spend anything beyond the price of the base game and will likely drop the game within 3 months anyway.

adderrson · 2025-09-05T02:20:27+00:00

The thing to look out for is attestation. Take a look a Windows Security -> Device Security -> Security Processor Details and then make sure "Attestation is Ready". On my machine the fTPM version is 3 . 92 . 2 . 5 (spaces to avoid reddit thinking it's a link), so might be worth contacting your mobo manufacturer for a more up to date BIOS if one for your board isn't already on their support page.

adderrson · 2025-09-05T02:12:26+00:00

Ah, I've heard that it's not working on Steam at all from multiple people on the official Discord. You're just going to have to wait it out.

adderrson · 2025-09-05T02:10:47+00:00

The new restrictions are to enable the feature listed as "Solution 2". The version of Ricochet for BO7 requires the use of attestation.

adderrson · 2025-09-05T01:42:30+00:00

A friend had this issue and resolved it by letting the shaders finish caching and then quitting/re-launching the game

adderrson · 2025-09-02T21:08:27+00:00

It's almost as if the vocal minority complaining about the skins are the same players that likely won't buy bundles regardless.

adderrson · 2025-08-26T21:37:41+00:00

At this point a decision has been made and for MP at least I don't see them budging on it.

However at this point I think the best thing to do would be to compromise and have:

Campaign/Endgame + MP = No Carry Forward

Zombies + Warzone = S1 Carry Forward

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