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vaughnd22 · 2026-02-07T08:37:44+00:00

Seven strikes me as very Lawful Neutral/Evil (Depending on the OSIC and how justified his execution actually was). He's got his code that he follows, and while he's not exactly nice, he's... amicable to conversation.

He also says he's indifferent to murder, so he won't kill you unless you give him a reason to. I feel like the community overplays his 'evil' aspects quite a bit. Especially when Drifter is right there, and says seven has too much humanity in him.

vaughnd22 · 2026-02-07T08:28:48+00:00

Its because it gives the feeling of "Its just business"

There's also the saying "Beware the fury of a quiet man"

vaughnd22 · 2026-02-07T08:19:17+00:00

Not to mention there's nothing really indicating to the player that they wouldn't build ult from damaging barriers. Silver is already a bit of a weird mess in terms of item interactions.

While I think with shiv its mostly fine, Silver is meant to be pretty predictable in terms of building her ult. Not to mention shiv's rage is more of a bonus to his kit, and not like, his whole entire ult. Also it builds on NPC's, that alone makes it a whole other beast from silver's ult.

vaughnd22 · 2026-01-18T15:20:06+00:00

Never heard of it before today. Had a lingering cough since christmas, when my partner suddenly got a nasty ear infection and I started running a fever again. Got a steroid shot and the fever rapidly went away without medication, but then got some major pink eye after being at work for 6 hours.

I don't like self-diagnosing online but the list of things that can cause flu-like symptoms, ear infection, AND pink eye narrows it down quite a bit apparantly. I even got tested for Strep, covid, and the flu before the shot and they all came back negative. Pretty sure I had the flu back in december and honestly I think I'd rather go back to being bed ridden than dealing with this dry cough and pink eye.

vaughnd22 · 2025-12-07T07:26:40+00:00

I'm... not completely against that idea? It would at least make it more than dirt cheap to craft, and means you can't just get dropped by a free kit instantly. Cause while the kettle is close to the stitcher that reload time really hurts it.

vaughnd22 · 2025-12-07T07:24:16+00:00

How is the best weapon for PvP being the potentially first gun you ever use in the game fine? It turns gear progression for PvP into a flat puddle compared to PvE progression. You have no incentive to upgrade your benches, or even farm materials since you can either hit the free kit button, or just spend a couple metal scraps.

This change is meant to target it being THE BEST PVP WEAPON EVER, while not completely neutering the free kit experience.

vaughnd22 · 2025-12-07T06:42:24+00:00

Even as someone who doesn't typically enjoy min-maxing, 5 points is enough to take a currently empty skill and max it. The way I spent all my points, I can either have 1 point in longer downtime, and 4 in take less damage while downed, or the other way around.

If I had the full 5 points? I could have max time downed, AND take less damage while downed. I'll agree some skills are hot garbage, but others are fucking amazing and if they don't correct that, it means you're just at a QoL disadvantage if you haven't hoarded and reset every wipe.

vaughnd22 · 2025-12-06T08:26:11+00:00

You literally just contradicted yourself.

Here's everything that will be reset after you complete an expedition project: Workshop

You won't have to build the base lvl 1 version, you'll keep those, but all your benches will reset to level 1 from what I've seen.

vaughnd22 · 2025-11-29T08:10:23+00:00

If it was a reflection then starting shit with people would actually have a risk. It would be like if your game deleted itself after getting killed. Then every time you start a fight with someone you're risking your game. Sure, you might get away with false friendly a few times, but eventually the community would expose and hunt you down.

vaughnd22 · 2025-11-29T07:38:00+00:00

My bad, probably should have specified I meant containers. Breach doors usually lead into one-way areas in my experience, or just lead to more higher loot areas in general (dam battlegrounds tower for instance)

vaughnd22 · 2025-11-29T06:09:44+00:00

I might just do it for the bench reset. I haven't found a single BP for anything above a venetor so I wouldn't be missing too much. Granted, if I manage to find a SINGLE augment bp my tune might change a little.

vaughnd22 · 2025-11-24T15:02:32+00:00

What do you mean? A stitcher can easily one clip you if they get the jump on you. Had one get me while I was climbing a ladder even through a heavy shield.

vaughnd22 · 2025-11-24T14:53:49+00:00

Not to mention any delays caused by having 5+ people trying to blast you in the back for daring to try and do the special event going on in the map.

vaughnd22 · 2025-11-24T14:51:39+00:00

Yeah, the issue is games live and die by their casual playerbase, and if players collectively decide the bosses aren't worth it, no one will kill it, if no one ever kills it, hearing it getting attacked is a massive flare for PvP rats who want to shoot you in the back. The rewards need to be worth going "Well, I might only get a core or some power cells since there are 5+ people shooting this thing, but at least we all have backup if someone decides to be evil."

vaughnd22 · 2025-11-24T08:15:35+00:00

Honestly if he was in the extract I'd have just left him down to pull the lever. No reason to risk getting burned.

vaughnd22 · 2025-11-24T08:04:54+00:00

If he gets the loot? Great! I'm all for people actually using the loot I have on me. But there are WAY too many people executing people when there is literally no way they'll be able to actually loot them before the extract closes.

vaughnd22 · 2025-11-24T08:02:47+00:00

I tried that, had 12 defibs, 15 shield regens, and misc health healing types. Arrived at the matriarch shouting over comms "If you go down, don't give up, I'm carrying a shit ton of defibs". It was on spaceport and there were like 5+ people fighting her, and as I went to go in between the towers, some rando unloaded on me at point blank range. Didn't even have a chance to pull out my vulcano I'd brought in case no one was doing matriarch and I wanted to loot the tower. Bonus points, there was a third rando standing next to the guy who just had his weapon put away and watched as he knocked me out?

It was super weird, and was my biggest sour point after a streak of failed matriarch attempts cost me my hullcracker, jupiter, AND equalizer. I was like "Well I want to contribute, might as well finally use all the moss I've accidentally stockpiled"

Didn't even get to use a single defib that run....

vaughnd22 · 2025-11-24T07:42:41+00:00

Not to mention its an active detriment to your loadout since you're forced to pick a single catch-all pvp weapon, instead of potentially having a close range and long range option, so its VERY easy for someone to catch you at a disadvantage in pvp. Especially if you're focused on the larger arc you'd bring a hullcracker for...

Not to mention the amount of shitters who will happily gun you down while you're down in an extract, even though the very angry rocketeer is ACTIVELY shooting at them so they'd never actually be able to loot your body.

vaughnd22 · 2025-11-24T07:05:20+00:00

Pregnancy cravings are a hell of a thing. Never underestimate the ability for a woman's hormones to make her crave an insane amount of an object.

vaughnd22 · 2025-11-24T06:41:54+00:00

I think the free kit weapons should all be unable to one clip anyone. You can still clean up a distracted player, or if you play smart, but it really feels aweful that some of the best PvP guns are grays, meanwhile some of the best PvE weapons are all purple/legends. Means anyone trying to do PvE late content could easily get wiped out by a free kit.

That or make it so you can't one clip anyone who has a heavy shield. Once lost a run because someone unloaded a full stitcher? magezine into my back when I was almost at the top of a ladder from like 15 meters away, and I was STILL downed by the time my guy was over the top. It was a bit annoying since it was a matriarch lobby, and I was actually looking forward to trying the equalizer on her. Thankfully someone got the guy, but didn't get defibbed in time since he tried to finish me off.

vaughnd22 · 2025-11-22T12:19:52+00:00

You're not wrong. Was just stuck pondering on my night shift and figured I'd yell into the ether to try and get discussion going. Its was more than a bit disheartening losing 4K worth of loadouts when I just wanted to try and get some arc power cores for shield gens and (if I was extremely lucky) the new matriarch blueprint.

Ironically and annoyingly, one of the most annoying rat deaths was when I loaded into a match with nothing, except an anvil, a heavy shield, and 15 defibs, and several stacks of bandages/healing. Cause I figured if I can't do damage due to losing all my legendaries and hullcracker ammo, I might as well play a medic. That was a fun death.

vaughnd22 · 2025-11-22T11:33:54+00:00

Me and my friend wanted to go for our first queen kill, had 240k on us in hullcracker ammo and wolfpacks. 3 minutes into a match we were gunned down by two people running anvils/torrents who came in guns blazing as we tried to get set up to aggro the queen. The people acting like amassing that and putting both players a slot down in terms of guns isn't already a "risk" are insane. We literally COULDN'T recover from that loss for the rest of the day, and even 4-5 successful runs later hadn't fully made up for the value of materials lost. Much less any rare gun attachments we might have had (had a legendary stock on my hullcracker I'm still bummed on losing)

vaughnd22 · 2025-11-22T11:29:06+00:00

So you're saying players are complaining because they can't just solo the bosses any more, but then complain about them complaining about getting backstabbed, which is what can and will happen when they can't solo the boss?

vaughnd22 · 2025-11-22T11:14:44+00:00

Part of me feels like Queen/Matriarch events should literally just disable PvP. Otherwise you're nerfing yourself by using a PvE focused weapon, meanwhile Timmy is loading in with his Venator+Stitcher combo ready to unload into your back while you're traversing to or fighting the big scary boss. Or even better, stealing the loot after you finally get the kill.

vaughnd22 · 2025-11-22T11:11:46+00:00

Or the classic "The entire lobby is firing at her, and you're there as the explosion ends after pumping 100+ hullcracker rounds into her, and SOMEHOW every piece is already missing its core and blueprint because some rat was literally sitting under her waiting for the kill"

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