What I feel the game needs

(Tom2160) #1

In my opinion the game needs some sense of progression for long term players. Up until around 200 hours I felt a fun sense of progression in this game as I constantly grinded it in order to unlock every merc in a F2P way. Once I had unlocked all the mercs I wanted I then narrowed down the mercs to my favourite few and have crafted the desired loadout cards that I wanted, but what now?

Once you have gotten the mercs and crafted your desired loadout cards there isn’t any incentive to play, besides ofcourse my love for the game. I do still play the game however it would just be so much more fun if I had something to play for rather than just playing a few games every day till I get bored. I’m not sure what Dirty Bomb could do to create a sense of progression but either way it would be nice if we had something to play for once we have gotten all the mercs and loadout cards.

Also don’t say “play more to get better” because this is a skill that is often developed over a long period of time and I can get better at an FPS by playing any FPS out there, pretty much. So what are your thoughts? What could be improved in order to give longer term players a bigger incentive to play and keep playing?

(frostyvampire) #2

Sure, why not?
I already have a decent cobalt for all the mercs that I play + some cobalts for mercs I don’t play (like Rhino and Aura) and it’s kinda boring already because 100% of my games now are:
Join server
Choose Aimee regardless of map
Topscore even if I joined 5 minutes late because my team is full of level 5’s and min lvl 10/20 are all full or empty

Kinda getting boring

(ImSploosh) #3

@frostyvampire said:
Sure, why not?
I already have a decent cobalt for all the mercs that I play + some cobalts for mercs I don’t play (like Rhino and Aura) and it’s kinda boring already because 100% of my games now are:
Join server
Choose Aimee regardless of map
Topscore even if I joined 5 minutes late because my team is full of level 5’s and min lvl 10/20 are all full or empty

Kinda getting boring

Change it up. Go Kiratana and use Katana/Laser only. Watch how mad people get and say Kira’s OP. =profit!?!?!

(Press E) #4

I pretty much just mess around, play with friends and grind for cobalts.
I’m level 84 or something now and I still get a kick out of going melee only

(ImSploosh) #5

@STARRYSOCK said:
I pretty much just mess around, play with friends and grind for cobalts.
I’m level 84 or something now and I still get a kick out of going melee only

Getting killed by melee in this games makes you feel like a kid getting bullied. People get so mad, sad, and frustrated after I come up behind them with a freshly sharpened blade and stick it up their ass. Then I top it off with a solid teabag and considering my clan tag is, “uCry” some people hate me… :slight_smile:

(watsyurdeal) #6

What this game needs is CS GO’s player base

(Your worst knifemare.) #7

Less Proxy

(Terminal_6) #8

I get this. A lot of the other games I play have long-term “challenges” to go for, like the Auraxium medals in Planetside 2. I’ve played DB for +600 hrs because the game’s fun,and I guess cobalts are something to grind for, but the related RNG makes them less appealing as goals. I’d definitely appreciate some other form of progression

(ImSploosh) #9

@Terminal_6 said:
I get this. A lot of the other games I play have long-term “challenges” to go for, like the Auraxium medals in Planetside 2. I’ve played DB for +600 hrs because the game’s fun,and I guess cobalts are something to grind for, but the related RNG makes them less appealing as goals. I’d definitely appreciate some other form of progression

We need an Auraxium medal for Aura. Kill 1,000 people with Defibs!

(Terminal_6) #10

Reward: some shiny-ass defibs

(XavienX) #11

Just like cool skins or something to show off your dedication like Call of Duty.

(kopyright) #12

@watsyurdeal said:
What this game needs is CS GO’s player base

The numbers or the attitude?

(AlbinMatt) #13

@kopyright said:

@watsyurdeal said:
What this game needs is CS GO’s player base

The numbers or the attitude?

We already have the latter, why not​ the first?

(watsyurdeal) #14

@AlbinMatt said:

@kopyright said:

@watsyurdeal said:
What this game needs is CS GO’s player base

The numbers or the attitude?

We already have the latter, why not​ the first?

Oh no man, our attitude is so much worse than CS GO. CS GO players actually play Ranked.

(bgyoshi) #15

I play Lead Card Only to keep it fresh

Nothing like getting popped over and over by a top-scoring Vasilli that has no loadout card.

I almost wish they had premier lead cards. Same weapon loadout as the leads, no augments, but nice and shiny looking.

(TheStrangerous) #16

It needs “beta servers”, where any player can be a lab rat, testing out proposed balance changes.

(Nail) #17

@TheStrangerous said:
It needs “beta servers”, where any player can be a lab rat, testing out proposed balance changes.

you mean like the PTS server we’ve had for a year and a half ?

“any” player will never work

(TheStrangerous) #18

@Nail said:

@TheStrangerous said:
It needs “beta servers”, where any player can be a lab rat, testing out proposed balance changes.

you mean like the PTS server we’ve had for a year and a half ?

“any” player will never work

Not like the game’s complete, still in “Beta Build”.
We’re all lab rats when playing DB, whether we like it or not. Same way as Unreal Tournament 4 is in “Pre-Alpha”, yet they have cosmetic micro-transactions.

(Terminal_6) #19

On the topic of progression rewards, are there any other cosmetic items that could be used? Aside from skins and trinkets, which you really only see when playing exec, are there other things that could be rewarded for arbitrary challenges? Say, get X kills with merc Y and get an extra voiceline for them.

(neverplayseriou) #20

@Nail said:

@TheStrangerous said:
It needs “beta servers”, where any player can be a lab rat, testing out proposed balance changes.

you mean like the PTS server we’ve had for a year and a half ?

“any” player will never work

you mean that place in which people do nothing? since all of the recent balance changes have been random and feel like a lvl 5 made them.