So I only play dirty bomb to play with my friends/have fun but always get these missions forcing me into playing competitive mode or lose out on tons of points and if I don’t have a stacked team(which most high ranks que 5 man) I have a 70%+ chance of queing into people who barley know how to play the game/Quit early. There is no surrender feature after people start dropping out and we are forced sitting in the game 2v5 3v5… whatever it doesn’t matter. If we are being “forced” into playing competitive, add surrender and add the ability to only go in solo or duo. Or another mode for teams competitive. I know your player retention is crap and you lose more players every month then you care to admit but unless you make some better fundamental changes to the game, I wont be the only person to leave. All you have to do is google Dirty Bomb Steam Charts and you’ll see troubling numbers for a game that is forcing you into wasting your time/ has kind of cheap 1 shot kill mechanics for over powered classes. The gun balance/RNG to actually get a good gun/loadout is very pay 2 win as well as crap for newer players, unless you change something soon, all the new FPS are going to take your already low 2000 concurrent players even lower. I hope something changes, but I’m doubting it will, i’ll continue to play here and there… but this game is anything BUT competitive. If it was a true esport/game people thought would be competitive, they would stick around. It is a fun game to play with your friends here and there… stop forcing things upon your already dwindling population please.
Forcing Missions with Competitive to End The Game?
You can get rid of comp missions, you know.
Surrender is apparently coming in the next update.
Vassili, the prime “cheap one shot kill merc”, is getting his instagib removed.
Cards are not P2W.
This game will survive Overwatch. A small population of dedicated players is better than a large population of doubters.
I honestly don’t see the point you’re trying to make here. Are you complaining about comp inbalance, the card system, instagib, “OMG Overwatch is gonna kill this game”, or about it’s comp potential?
You make small issues seem like game breakers. I live in Australia and comp games are near impossible to get, even if you have a team with you. I quite happily ditch those missions rather than waste even more time trying to find a game. If losing the opportunity 500-1000 credits once every few days is that critical then I think you have bigger problems. Missions refresh every 3 hours, and there has been talk of new ways to earn coming soon™.
All of your other issues have been discussed many times before and almost all of them have solutions in the works for the incoming update. I’m surprised you didn’t complain about martyrdom as well.
As for the pay to win crap, the only thing you can directly buy that makes the game ‘easier’ is the mercs themselves. Since they can be bought using free ingame credits I fail to see how paying money puts you at a gameplay advantage that is impossible to get for free.
lol dirty bomb fanboi’s, martydom? easily avoidable. Nobody said anything about Overwatch, it’s just on peoples mind’s lol, theres battlefront coming out, rainbow six siege… lol many more that will take from this already very small population. I mean overpowred, cooked grenades that are impossible to dodge unless you instagib (very unlikely) or run away until he throws the nade, no fighting to be had only coward strats. Snipers should be 1 shot head shot kill. That is not overpowered at all. Laser beam(that is movable) 1 shots anyone? lul the dirty bomb lives up to its name with a few of the overpowered classes, the game promotes running and gunning yet gives most classes guns that take 5-10 shots to kill someone unless perfect aim no recoil head shots? The guns need to be more normalized on damage or better guns given to different classes, m4 currently is the best gun in game and is given to Fragger (OP 1 shot Nade class with high health) and skyhammer with his “airstrike” that most players can avoid, on skyhammer sounds good but on an already over powered class? get real… then you go up against people with guns that hardly do any damage and kill them in <1 second most of the time. This rant wasn’t really about what is overpowered… even though I mentioned things in it, it was more about the competitive mode that the game forces upon you even though the game truly isn’t very competitive at all. Dirty Bomb Nation and other crew put together 5 man teams all the time and just rape anyone they encounter in matchmaking all the time. Guess what? they are all cobalt+, if your going to do ranked competitive at least make it off of individual skill or duo skill and not based off if you have a 5 man stack or lucky enough to get good players in a game that probably only 100 people que competitive for. The name Dirty Bomb implys that its about cheaply taking out your opponents but when the gameplay is not fun and forceful, the game is sure to die like it has been. Oh, so after months of suffering/player decline they are finally going to add surrender? or is that on their “to do list” and will happen when the game goes live? I thought game was live? its been in development/beta for 3 years now and still no surrender? lol… game is a joke that I enjoy playing from time to time as stated. Regardless of what month the development team calls it quit because not enough money coming in, i’d like to have fun While I Do play this game, there should be an option to get competitive missions and to NOT get competitive missions.
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First things first: There’s this great useful tool called a full stop, or period. It’s right next to you comma, and above the right hand side Alt key. learn to use it. There is also something called an enter key. Learn to use that as well. It’ll help people… understand your points more coherently.
Now to actually try to address your concerns.
-Noone really likes instagib, it’s being planned for changes, on explosives and snipers
-Kira isn’t OP. Really. I’m not sure if you’ve ever tried her. Subpar weapons and a piddly little health pool
-Surrender option is coming soon but for competitive only
-Of course new FPS will affect the market, that’s to be expected with any new release.I’m sure as hell playing Overwatch, doesn’t mean I’m stopping Dirty Bomb.
*Battlefront is aimed at a totally different audience
*So is Rainbow Siz Siege
*So is Overwatch
Right now Dirty Bomb is catering to a relatively unique pool of people. Not amazingly niche, but niche enough
-I’m sorry that the Assault class was killing you. Are you going to complain that the enemy medics heal too well? And the recons keep on assassinating you? These are what roles are for. Judging from what you say, I guess you’re not used to classes.
-It indeed promotes running and gunning, and delivers on it very well. 5-10 shots to kill someone? I’m sorry is there a problem here? Oh, so you’re just used to playing modern shoots with TTK of less than a second. Unlike other modern shooters, this gives you a chance to fight back and retaliate.
-Yes, some classes are better at killing than others. I don’t know, maybe that’s the whole point. Skyhammer is an EV buster, sure he can kill enemy players, but you better be saving that airstrike for when the EV gets repaired.
-I’m sorry, you just complained about the time to kill being too long, then immediately contradicted yourself… it’s hard enough taking you seriously when you can’t even type properly. Look, some guns are better than others, it’s a cold hard fact, and this is in almost any game you play. I’m sorry, but perfect balance isn’t ideal, it’s more fun to have a fixed unbalanced game.
-Competitive obviously is going to be stacked with a small player base like ours. What do you expect?
-Things take time. Surrender, from my knowledge, hasn’t even been asked for nearly as much as other things. I’d also like to see you try your hand at game development, and we’ll see how long you last. Splash Damage has been around for a surprisingly long time, and as you said, 3 years in and they haven’t gone bankrupt yet, so they must be doing it right.
Basically, I’m trying really hard not to laugh and just pass you off as a troll. Here are some serious responses. At least take the time to structure your points, and learn how to format posts so they’re readable.
You guys can continue to argue all you want, i’ll let the population numbers speak for themselves. Thread is considered closed, just wanted to give developers a chance to retain what low niche base they already have.
I just double checked and you are correct DMaster2, I guess because I play this game so little (only level 13) I missed the update where they added that feature, Thanks for Letting me know. I really just went off on a rant about problems that have been bugging me for months, reason I don’t play much, I play more competitive games i.e CS GO. So many games are doing a mini/beta launch before the game is even ready because of $$$ issues and need funding that they release a game that turns players away because not enough features/support/unfun gameplay , this game has just fallen into one of those categories. I had high hopes in the beta.