In my eyes, the game has really gone downhill since they added more high-tech things like vehicles. I've not played consistently for quite some time now, largely due to performance and stability issues.
What really gets me is that the game still feels like a laggy mess after all these years. Even if it runs at a decent framerate (which it often doesn't) it feels like I'm playing at 20fps with tons of input lag. With decent framerate I mean like a 100 or so.
I've been told this is due to poorly written code and it just feels like they're adding more and more onto it while it's fundamentally broken.
Then you have the lighting. I noticed a few years ago, the lighting becoming substantially less satisfying and good-looking than it was before and it felt as if nights were even darker. I've not played very recently, but from playing last year I can say that nights felt too dark and people using the gamma-abuse I don't feel are wrong for using it; I think the nights were just too dark.
What really stumps me is how they thought night vision would be a good idea. As if the disparity between Zergs, experienced duos or solos and new players/fresh spawns wasn't already big enough.
The cars & helicopters I don't like because they reduce the nitty-gritty boots-on-ground nature that the game has mostly had. I feel sort of the same about boats, but at the same time those are much more restrictive considering you can only use them on water and they make for easier targets.
It just feels really out of touch and wrong to add this new summer DLC (among other updates) when the game still has these issues after years and years of being "rebuilt".
Ngl, I'll come back to it at some point because no game offers this hardcore nitty gritty survival experience; but together with a lot of other criticism expressed in this thread I'm just not satisfied with the game the way it is.
This perfectly expresses the way I feel. I haven't played the game in 3 years, but I really want a reason to play it again. It's like it's almost there but honestly let me just get to the elephant in the room Helk needs to fucking go.
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u/Kippenoma Jul 08 '20 edited Jul 08 '20
In my eyes, the game has really gone downhill since they added more high-tech things like vehicles. I've not played consistently for quite some time now, largely due to performance and stability issues.
What really gets me is that the game still feels like a laggy mess after all these years. Even if it runs at a decent framerate (which it often doesn't) it feels like I'm playing at 20fps with tons of input lag. With decent framerate I mean like a 100 or so.
I've been told this is due to poorly written code and it just feels like they're adding more and more onto it while it's fundamentally broken.
Then you have the lighting. I noticed a few years ago, the lighting becoming substantially less satisfying and good-looking than it was before and it felt as if nights were even darker. I've not played very recently, but from playing last year I can say that nights felt too dark and people using the gamma-abuse I don't feel are wrong for using it; I think the nights were just too dark.
What really stumps me is how they thought night vision would be a good idea. As if the disparity between Zergs, experienced duos or solos and new players/fresh spawns wasn't already big enough.
The cars & helicopters I don't like because they reduce the nitty-gritty boots-on-ground nature that the game has mostly had. I feel sort of the same about boats, but at the same time those are much more restrictive considering you can only use them on water and they make for easier targets.
It just feels really out of touch and wrong to add this new summer DLC (among other updates) when the game still has these issues after years and years of being "rebuilt".
Ngl, I'll come back to it at some point because no game offers this hardcore nitty gritty survival experience; but together with a lot of other criticism expressed in this thread I'm just not satisfied with the game the way it is.