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.
A whole bunch of modern games are genuinely made in such a manner that they might as well be jobs - it's not just the sheer time investment required, but also all the various time-limited tasks which force you to clock in every day so you don't miss stuff.
Something I've seen on the Tarkov subreddit a whole bunch of times is people complaining about how they literally don't have the time to keep up with all the bullshit in the game because of their jobs and families, and others responding "well, the game's not really meant for people like you"... "like you", you mean, people with jobs other than "Tarkov twitch streamer"? Like, most people who aren't children or retired? Yeah, nice.
Hunt Showdown just released a battlepass. People ran the math and it would take you 2-4 hours of play every day for sixty straight days to complete all levels of the pass. It's so fucking mean and manipulative. Game companies have just dropped the pretense and are openly doing as much skinner-box manipulation of gambling addictions as possible now.
lmao gamers really want to be basement nerds again. sure, make gaming a thing for everyone, cool. now, take it away and make it only something people who make it their sole purpose in life to game can do. cool, we're back to square one. gamers are "so persecuted" and it's only because they fucking want to be.
Probably the most toxic statement in gaming. Its the verbal equivalent of admitting you have Stockholm Syndrome.
I feel like I'm talking to people trapped in a diabolical death-machine from SAW and hearing them explain how actually I'm just not cool enough to enjoy it like they do.
or even worse
I guess I'm not too surprised that a "hardcore" game about being a cool operator dude scavenging and murdering in a (highly localized) post-apocalypse would attract folks like this, but still...
Nerds stop trying to equate personal hobbies with women challenge (Impossible)
I mean, in theory its a grittier version of Minecraft. But it could be a fun way to fantasize about doing Robinson Caruso survivalist shit. Instead we get Lord Of The Flies, with a new plane dumping another load of fresh-faced innocents onto the island every so often.
I put in like 4 hours a day for a week on that game and couldn't get anywhere. I was still trying to get an early quest item to unlock an NPC that lets you buy slightly better gear. Spawning in randomly in the map, waiting for match population density to get low enough that you don't get killed the moment you stand up, trying to get your bearing because the maps are huge and you don't get a minimap, running halfway across the map, trying to find a crashed plane in dense woods, trying to find a random tree stump somewhere near that... hope nobody else got the item first. Figure out what map exits you are allowed to use. Sit in the brush near an exit and wait until you think nobody else is left and then rush to exit before the time runs out. That game is stupid.