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Like much of the people in the comments, I also played ET. I played this game from 2003-present (occasionally still play but stopped playing regularly in November). I want to see some ET maps remade that were popular because they were fair and well-designed (check my threads for the list). More importantly, I want to see the bugs fixed. I want FPS optimization and bug fixing at the very top of the list of things to do. This should always be the number one thing on a game developer’s list because once a game is full of bugs or runs like crap, it ceases to be a game since it isn’t playable. I’ve learned that alot of these bugs have existed since years ago, and that’s just unacceptable. Things like the OBJ still being in your hand after you drop it, the game not wanting to let you switch weapons by either not doing it or doing it then switching back repeatedly, the game forcing you to reload when you crouch as well as other issues with the “NumPadOne” bind in the game not working properly meaning that people who use this for crouch can’t do long jumps the manual way, the game locking up for no apparent reason, being kicked constantly for ngs violations or other load-screen related issues mostly in private matches, ranked queues take forever, cheaters seem to stay in the game unpunished and FIX THE VOTE SYSTEM.
The VOTE SYSTEM is one of the most flawed things I’ve ever seen in any game. How is it possible to have “5/5” or “7/5” votes as yes and for a vote to fail? It’s totally broken. People who don’t vote should default to a “yes” vote maybe, since they don’t seem to care either way and enough other people want them gone. Or you could only count the people who do vote in the results. Also sometimes the other team can “vote” yet it doesn’t seem to have any effect (when trying to kick people). Include the concept of vote-kicking players who are an annoyance (ie: mic spammers and AFKs) in the tutorial for the noobs who apparently have never played an online game with a votekick system and absolutely refuse to kick out the idiots who deserve to be kicked. Explain to people that shuffle is a shuffle, not a balance …in the tutorial. Even if shuffling is meant to be a balancer, it makes no sense to do this right when the game starts as the game already chose “bad teams” in the player’s eyes anyway. Shuffle shouldn’t even be possible in 2nd round of SW and shouldn’t be possible after certain OBJ or times in OBJ/SW maps even on first round.
Fix the balancing of teams in pubs, people cry far too often about this and I don’t blame them. I often get stuck on a team of slow people who have no clue what they’re doing against decent players or my friends who are good. Then there are times where me and my friends all get placed on the same team and trample the other team. Explain in the tutorial that levels only mean time played, and don’t have a direct association with player skill level. I’m constantly being insulted and told to leave servers, people actually add me on steam to tell me this alot of the time. They say that I shouldn’t be playing on the server because I’m level 30+. They think that level = skill. When I was under 5 I was constantly getting accused of cheating and now it’s still happening but more rare. People place WAY too much emphasis on player level and need to be educated on what exactly it means.
The UI is sluggish, and no it isn’t my system, everyone has this problem. People who claim they don’t are either lying or don’t notice it. When you drag mercs into the squad it’s a pain and it’s got slight delay. Every UI popup that presents an option is slightly delayed. People may be so used to it that they stopped noticing it, but if they take a look they’ll see what I’m talking about. I have an overkill system, it’s not the issue… it’s an issue present in the game itself. Stop the delayed popups, like the Dicken’s trinkets status had. I don’t want to click something then not have it go through then suddenly a popup is in my face. Also, why did that have to pop up so frequently? Just make it a static object on the home screen with a dynamic progress bar or an icon you can click to check your progress. Stop spamming us with this thing every single time we start the game or go to the home screen. When loading a new “page” or “link” in the client it’s also very slow to load things. I want things to be instant. Maybe you can provide an option that allows users to turn off the fancy animations… for those of us who prefer function over design. I’m very fast with my actions and typing and I click things fast with an accurate aim and it bothers me when things are so sluggish like this. ET worked great, when you clicked something it happened.
I don’t understand why so many people are asking for party queuing into PUBS and at the same time so many people are whining about “stacking teams” even when only two people with the same tag are on the same team, regardless of if this is the way the game put them into teams. People just see tags and freak out, I’ve seen people insult me and my teammates for having tags… and calling us things like “tagfags”. I don’t understand the mentality of these types of players… are they just rejects who can’t get into a clan/team? Anyways, I often play with untagged players and people don’t say anything because they don’t know we are playing together. It’s pretty funny how that whole thing works.
Please don’t remove the low-tier cards or the high rate of receiving them. Good balance and keeping value on the high-tier cards requires this. People are just so lazy and greedy and want things all given to them for free. It’s a problem with a large part of society these days. Let people continue to work for things and earn them, please. If everyone is running around with Cobalt, it won’t have any value anymore and there may be a new thing that comes out and that will turn into an endless cycle. Also, what alot of people don’t realize (and I know this because I’ve run successful MMORPGS) is that they may THINK That they want things to be really easy but in the end when things are super easy they will quit fast or get bored fast and resort to trolling, cheating or just quit the game outright. People need something to work towards, something to accomplish because the feeling of accomplishment much outweighs the feeling of being handed everything for free. I think people complained way too much about the drop rate of the event cases and some people aren’t very grateful for the events.
There’s a big separation of people who play and don’t play execution in this game. I would prefer to have an option to “hide execution missions” so that I don’t receive any since I don’t really play the mode. SW and OBJ are almost the same thing so people usually play them both or only one or the other.
Please stop focusing on releasing new mercs and maps for a little while and fix all/most of the bugs in the game. It’s only going to get more difficult as a higher workload of bugs gets created when things are being added all the time.
Fix the spawntimes, they suck when they’re equal. Make it like ET was where it’s randomized and people have to actually do something to obtain it then do math to obtain the other spawntimes. It also creates the problem of players constantly choke-pointing in the same spot of the map, making it extremely unfair for the offensive team which already has the harder duty.
Some good suggestions.
And I always love ideas, like I said, I personally think doing YouTube tutorials for individual mercs or something is a good idea. However 