I am shocked that better loot gives you an advantage in an extraction shooter. Just shocked. How dare they make loot games with loot advantages in a genre all about risking those advantages.
You don't need to repeat it post after post. Did Destiny 2 make you this autistic or did you play it because you are autistic? Destiny was a Halo asset flip. Bungie post Reach can't make anything original or new.
I think a lot of people are forgetting that low TTK's are generally the norm in extraction shooters.
This is a bit disingenuous. These aren’t starting ammo types, and they’re not widely available as most of them require level 3 traders or a level 3 workbench to produce. I would consider most of this end game content, i know you can get your hands on it before then with some irregularity, but your not diving into raid after raid with ammo that will shred class 6 body armor before then or maybe you are and I need some one to give me the good news.
Maybe, but unlike Tarkov the AI in this game are harder to kill than players and infest every single POI and unlike Tarkov there are plenty of sound traps similiar to hunt show down. That alone is causing a ton of 3rd partying. Who needs hacks or cheats when the enemy runners are constantly reporting their position to you with gun fire? Good teams of runners are constantly converging on other runner teams who are just trying to play the game.
This is fair, though some of my friends have reported that there are ways to cheese the ai and kill them silently. One of my friends apparently just used the assassins smoke ability and just ran around stabbing everything to death.
That's not the issue, the issue is there is no counterplay, blazing TTK of well under a second means the advantage is total, it's not "substantial" it's massive.
Some of the later gear or even mid game gear I'm seeing is also very overtuned.
It's less that the sniper itself is broken and more the thermal attached to it lets you see across the whole map, which allows for spawn camping the moment you spawn in. I'm sorry but I think that shouldn't be a thing in a game like this.
You don't need the thermal scope to do that. And notice these clips are all 3 man teams on voice chat.
Halo's maps were all incredibly small maps outside of a handful like Infinity, Sandtrap, Avalanche and Sandbox. So the sniper is going to be used in a lot more close quarters than it would normally be, which is fine.
I think Bungie is on record stating that their idea for weapon balance in this game is that high tiers of guns/augments are balanced strictly by the risk of bringing them in and that a golden gun will feel like cheating. Essentially the opposite of how Embark has been treating its tiers of guns.
The main way of taking POIS in this game is to fight the AI indoors as it heavily limits the sound other players can hear.
This is comically unbalanced, well as a man on the ARC side I'm glad to declare early victory, I will however enjoy the "i just got spawn sniped and lost it all bro" videos
With modern sized monitors and a decent set of eyes the thermal makes basically no difference. The only thing it's doing it removing the smoke effect and that's an easy fix. Smoke blocks thermals.
50k for a demo isn't bad numbers TBH. Yea it's not 200k but it's still a very playable size.
Watch the one i linked earlier again.
Not the point, you should never have sightlines on spawns in an extraction shooter at your spawn, and preferably they should be tucked, because otherwise with one shot kill snipers, you can do like that video and merc people who haven't full loaded in and take all their loot.