So let’s play grandpa/grandma sitting in a a chair in her old house telling stories to their kids.
About a long forgotten time when Aimee just got released, Times without obsidian humbug and Execution as a thing. Times when DB was unique and stood up against the odds of a chance against Overwatch and Counter Strike, and the times where it stood it’s ground surely with a small playerbase but a promising future and a lot of enthusiasm.
Yeah this post was ment to be a joke but the comment of a friend asking for a rewind of DB to Pre-Turtle days got me thinking.
To all the veterans out there, to all the 500 hour plus warriors of the battlefield, to all the Meme-trinket owners I want to ask: what do you miss and what do you hope in this late state of DB with full release right around the corner and the final form of this game in a near future.
What do you hope and what do you think.
The good ol days of Dirty Bomb
I miss pre-beta days
I’m looking for less pointless spam in the forums, but I’m likely dreaming
All i want is to go back to ReV and get those ~30 mins that stoker lost the event by done. (im still salty to this day, and if im playing stoker and see a proxy, you can guess who’s gonna catch a molly)
Here’s a screenshot from 2013 :
Just kidding, it’s still under NDA 
What I definitely miss the most are the old maps we had, but they improved them for the best (and the worst ? as standard maps have to be funnels nowadays for the understanding of most players)
I miss when Fletcher was consistent.
EDIT: He was never consistent, who am I kidding?
Remember when Thunder wasn’t a thing? I do. It was a good time.
I miss when everything was unique and had their own use. Shotguns were good close range, Sparks was good with self sustain, Dome was large and unique, Machine Pistols were semi-decent, etc.
Now everything has to be exactly the same and just as useful in every situation. Don’t get me wrong, there was a lot of poorly balanced items back then too, and up until the recent updates I’ve been happy with most of the balance changes made, but it just feels disappointing that everything has to be just as viable as everything else, and certain strengths and weaknesses seem to be slowly disappearing
I remember when Pheonix was free, when you were able to get cobalts from cases(even though I didn’t), when MP’s were useful, and when I actually had a decent excuse for not being able to aim with the revivr.
Also the Sparps, Kira, Cancer rotation is the same as way back when I was level 7 and had my first time playing as those mercs.
I’m definitely going to miss the feeling of rolling a cobalt in equipment cases. Since I was super lucky and managed to roll 2 from equipment cases. But probably wouldn’t have happened again.
@Shenaynays said:
All i want is to go back to ReV and get those ~30 mins that stoker lost the event by done. (im still salty to this day, and if im playing stoker and see a proxy, you can guess who’s gonna catch a molly)
Damn, this man got ptsd from this
@Melinder said:
I miss when the Stark wasn’t poo.
twas never a poo
i still used it now
Well I’ve started playing when Sparks just got released and I miss that good old times. When burst rifles felt amazing, vaseline felt rewarding and sparks felt usefull. The times when there were few mercs and everything felt more… balanced I guess? On the other hand I don’t miss that few maps (I guess the basic 5 were present at that time) and still the same rotation of these maps.
@Splicerrr said:
@Shenaynays said:
All i want is to go back to ReV and get those ~30 mins that stoker lost the event by done. (im still salty to this day, and if im playing stoker and see a proxy, you can guess who’s gonna catch a molly)Damn, this man got ptsd from this
He’s not the only one. If I remember right we Stoker player warriors lost that event by less than 15 or 150 hours. I was outraged. Whatever the number was, the essential total was that if all of the players in DB at that time played Stoker less than another 10 seconds, he would have been the winner. He lost by less than a tenth of a percent up against Proxy. What’s worse is that the event almost seemed like Splash Damage knew it was going to be Proxy. She had been one of the primary picks by the majority of players both old and new since the game had gone into open beta.
And @OP I think if I’m going to be one hundred percent truthful, there’s nothing that I miss enough to complain about here at this point. I’m exhausted about complaining about the same freaking things.
What I hope, is that SD fully develops and makes a dang good game that people enjoy and it has success because of. I also hope that they originally sold it with certain ideas in mind, and that those very frameworks are stuck to rather than being bypassed like it sometimes feels it is being done now. They were making a game that was likely to kick our teeth in. And nowadays it just seems like it’s kicking the veterans, while smiling to the new guys and giving them the better service because they have more money.
@EB7D6B26E341 said:
Pre-beta when immoral practices like whaling was not a thing.
who do you think pay for the server?
These players who think Sparks/Snipers aren’t still ridiculously good, what world are you living in?
@GatoCommodore said:
@EB7D6B26E341 said:
Pre-beta when immoral practices like whaling was not a thing.who do you think pay for the server?
I would have definitely prefered a 30 bucks DB than a f2p one. But Nexon. Quite literally.
I was there where it was steam open beta.
I was there when Sniff was still among us and made crazy Fletcher fragmovies.
I was there when Raziel and Missmurder were here.
I was there when Ardez was still a mod and Amerika was still active.
Gosh, the good old days.