what's the point?
i started with a friend recently and we got a base going and we played for 3 days amassing supplies to try to learn ONE blueprint (still like 12 blueprints from learning how to make a revolver or anything useful) and everybody on the server has helicopters and AKs and bombs. i played til 2AM last night and nearly learned my first blueprint and then I wake up this morning to two sheet metal doors with code locks just gone (blown up I guess?) and new locks and i'm locked out of my house. we built 4 bases over the last 3 days and i checked all 4 last night. this morning ALL 4 ARE GONE AND DESTROYED. in 10 hours while i slept. lost everything for 3 days of playing (like 12 hours) and i'm back to square one with literally no recourse. i still know ZERO blueprints and i'm shit all in the world. if this game expects me to grind out another 12 hours to maybe learn how to make a hammer i'll never use you've got to be fucking kidding me. been trying to play this game for 2 weeks and the server is gonna wipe soon and everybody has guns and i still can't understand how to make even a bean grenade or a hammer out of scrap. this is absolutely ridiculous.
is this a game or a career?
does this game just hate it's players? how do you catch up to people who have AKs and shit when I can't even build a hammer? what the fuck? this has got to be the worst game i've ever played by an insane margin. apparently sleeping in real life means you lose everything. how is this fun? i just want even a tiny chance at success but i'm playing against people who have teams of 10 people building massive castles with bombs and guns and fucking AIR SUPPORT while i'm naked with a rock barely able to build a couple shacks for bases. holy shit it's infuriating the lack of respect this game has for the time i've invested. like, the developers shit on me for wanting to play their game. feels like they want me to fuck all the way off and never play this game so i guess i'll take the hint.
this is a game made by people who live on their computers for people who shit in their own pants so they can game longer.
fuck allllll the way off with this shit. deleting this garbage.
I looked into it a bit again recently with it being Hololive's new addiction and I find it just as obnoxious as I originally did. I remember reading some reddit threads from some guys that were hard into it to the point where they'd go to sleep with the game's volume on super loud in their room so if there was a raid they'd be woken up by the explosions and then jump in to defend.
The point that cemented it for me that I'd never try it was when they tied character creation to steam accounts and you got a random character and I refuse to play as a male character because fuck all that dysphoria nonsense even if I found a more chill private server. Watching the most absurd interactions people have in the game is entertaining, but it's also just excessively dull to watch unless you make sure to stay up to date with every bit of server drama.
I feel like it's a game that brings out the worst in people because that's what the game is built to do. It's not a game that highly rewards being chill and making a farm and cooperating with people, it wants you to pillage and destroy and to fuck up everyone's shit. Hololive in particular has their own house rules they have to follow to presumably not cause huge fan drama when one creator destroys the home of another leading to an internal fan war and massive shitshow.
Aww. I would love to see a Hololive Civil War arc.