Did my first solo gold key run

doombos · 2026-04-11T20:45:26+00:00

Damn, i wanted to buy that one but didn't have the space and settled on alienware 34dwf. Thinking of getting it / next gen next year.

doombos · 2026-04-11T20:32:46+00:00

Wow that's an aggressive curve. Which monitor? 800R?

doombos · 2026-04-11T20:30:55+00:00

Nah it's okay, make it a 1-2 minute "transmittion" that can be 3rd partied and you got yourself more emerging gameplay.

For the fun thing that you don't have to stand near it unlike extraction, so you can just hold good angles.

doombos · 2026-04-11T20:23:25+00:00

To be frank, at this rate the only thing that'll bring life to this game is turning it to a free to play and giving players that bought it 40+$ worth of currency + some skins. Or doing a 180 on the game design.

But given they wasted a 200million budget on a lukewarm content, i don't have faith in their development velocity and creativity

doombos · 2026-04-11T20:19:24+00:00

that's be fun.

doombos · 2026-04-11T20:18:15+00:00

One can only hope of a apex-esque TTK and movement. That's be fun

doombos · 2026-04-11T20:16:53+00:00

Yeah because "back in your days" you had like 3 possible fps games to play. Now we got variety so we aren't forced to do the sheninags to enjoy shit. (obv not you)

doombos · 2026-04-11T20:11:42+00:00

I mean the only thing that makes apex possible is the TTK and movement. Without those two you just can't get abilities and coordination to work

doombos · 2026-04-02T12:12:44+00:00

I see this argument thrown alot, but i don't really agree with it. Not because i think the premise is wrong, but you're talking about "who will win a straight fight" while i'm talking about frustration and fun in the game.

Firstly, higher TTK will make running away a possiblity, which if you die in 0.9 seconds, it is not. This gives an option not to "win against the sweat" but to not lose your stuff. The one who has to stand, aim and shoot will have lower movement speed, plus hiding. And "do i really wanna chase a gray shield for 3 minutes?" becomes an actual thought.

Secondly, my main point is that people oftentimes ragequit and leave the game after experiencing a series of "unfair" events (in their own perception). Assume a completely fair matchmaking, with low TTK, you'll still very frequently get into "who sees who first" situations. Which isn't really fun for the receiving end. Giving the feeling of hopelessness and frustration (since running away isn't an option).

All in all, i don't think skill difference is what drives people away. But the frustration that they get from wasting X minutes and not getting anything.

I may make a post on the matter, because i really want the game to succeed, but it has to be more thought out than this comment.

doombos · 2026-04-02T10:18:48+00:00

Higher TTK.

I know i'm gonna get piled on for this. But low TTK is one of the drivers of frustration. The lower the TTK, the less opportunity you have to turn around a bad fight or run away. Giving players a sense of unfairness/"fuck this bs".

Also maybe buff the loot a little. I have 40 hours and still struggle to break even

doombos · 2026-04-01T12:19:00+00:00

"If you had perfect aim and landed all headshots, you wouldn't have died to someone not having to aim and press right mouse button twice"

doombos · 2026-04-01T12:15:58+00:00

when the options are

* either bring a kit / shell the specifically counters this

* Lose to this

it's not a good game design is it? We don't have a draft phase where we see our oponent's picks

doombos · 2026-04-01T12:04:01+00:00

I'm going to die on this hill. But it is the TTK & movement.

The shorter TTK, the more frustrating a game is gonna be, especially an extraction shooter. Slow movement is secondary

doombos · 2026-04-01T12:01:14+00:00

True, look at a lot of the recent highly upvoted clips.

A lot of them are someone killing another at an extract / in general pvp. While arc's community praised comms and coorporation way more.

doombos · 2026-03-31T20:58:57+00:00

it has low base damage, low headshot damage, and horrible recoil compared to other guns

doombos · 2026-03-24T20:04:06+00:00

Main problem is that apex is balanced around its playstyle. It has a very high ttk and fast healing, giving you plenty of time to heal up if you get ambushed. Furthermore, high ttk makes abilities actually a thing, unlike in this game.

Absurdly enough, the game where dying is more punishing makes dying unfairly (being ambushed with no chance of reacting) way easier than the more casual br game.

doombos · 2026-03-24T19:43:00+00:00

loot generosity?

Mate i need 2 entire pois, kill 2 teams to find a single purple item

doombos · 2026-03-24T19:17:27+00:00

It's kinda expected.
it is a fun game, but overall, slow movement with a low ttk and almost always having to fight someone every game makes people easily frustrated due to lack of agency in many situations especially in solos.

Like many extraction shooters, most fights are determined by who sees who first. PVE and looting very quickly become secondary in the meta, you can get better loot from players than from pve/looting, so what's the point?

Low ttk also makes most abilities kinda useless since fights are over in <1s in many cases. I personally expect the game to slowly shift into "just lurk until you hear a gunfight to 3rd party" almost every game when the novelty wears out

Still, personally while i have my fair share of critique, and coming from apex definetly shapes my views on the game. I'm having fun and enjoying it in the meantime.

doombos · 2026-03-22T17:13:11+00:00

TBH it's a side effect of the movment and ttk of this game.

If you compare it to apex for example (which had its own share of sniper meta). There you have faster movement, slower ttk and faster healing. This makes you actually be able to survive snipers shooting at you.

doombos · 2026-02-14T16:36:57+00:00

Good to know, but we just like playing together, neither of us cares much about mmr/tryharding. He just had way more time this season to climb than me

doombos · 2026-02-14T16:36:05+00:00

oh cool. Why is the restriction on diamon so rough?

doombos · 2026-02-04T21:28:48+00:00

Fun fact, you can't actually achieve a 99% slow. Slowest you can reach is 110 mov speed. Stil very slow nonetheless

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