I've noticed tons of people commenting and asking about the experimental branch and updates but my question is: does anyone like the game as it is now? I'm really looking forward to the updates but aside from hacking, I love the game still. Even after200+ hours I'm not bored with it and have a lot of fun. So does anyone like the current form of the game? Or am I a little off to enjoy a half finished game with glitches?
Nah, the current branch is still fun.
I enjoy watching the development. The current branch isn't much fun as a loner, after a few 100h. Everything feels pointless. But watching the development is fun. I'm looking forward to every friday and the new devblog.
I'm at 849 hours and still having a blast. What keeps me interested is trying to control large areas on official servers. Even dealing with hackers has become part of the fun-- identifying them, finding their base, planning on how to raid it, waiting for them to be offline-- then going in and liberating their ill-gotten loot.
Few things are more satisfying than legitimately cleaning out a hacker's base.
415 hours into the game and i cant get enough... ill probably be a zombie by the time the experimental branch is done updating and is the default branch :dance:
After 400+ hours I still have just as much fun as the first time I played but I won't lie...I'm really waiting for the next big patch to add more content to the game.
I just opted into the experimental branch this morning and look forward to trying it out even if it's a mess.
Current branch is still tons of fun for me, 254h in.
I tried the Experimental branch last night, It looks amazing, can't wait to watch it evolve.
That's the great thing about MMO-type games, it's different every time you log in. Especially in the modded servers with events.
More than 500 hours and I love it the way it is... in fact I'm almost afraid of what change could be done to the game... there is so much strange and discutable idea!
The only thing difficult right now is to find good server.
840h and I still have fun.
Playing as a loner has kind of left me a little burnt out on the original branch... it's still fun, but I can't do the marathon sessions anymore. Love watching the new stuff being thrown into experimental though.
I agree with what Dionysus9 (North America 3?) said. Cheaters ruin the game substantially; it is so much fun to have a big legitimate fight over an air drop. But with that said, once you raid a few cheaters houses you then have enough stuff to pretty much last a lifetime and getting killed does not matter that much when you have plenty of backup supplies. So now my purpose is playing the game until a cheater start ruining it and then do the following:
1. Identify a cheaters house and see if legitimate players are helping them. Cheaters in general are lazy and seek recognition. They usually try and find someone to help them, especially the really annoying ones that come on the server just to cause havoc. If a cheater is using their cheats just to gather resources etc it does not bother me that much until they start killing players with auto aim etc.
2. Identify legitimate players that are using cheaters to defend them, supply them or board them. That usually takes some work by watching chat and listening in after you die by said cheater. There always seems to be somebody who will help the dirt bag KOS cheater and I really like targeting that person. If I am fighting someone and they call or threaten to call a cheater to kill me, they become my number 1 target for awhile.
3. Step three is to keep the cheater busy and harass the accomplices. This keeps the cheater from annoying others so I consider it a duty on public servers. Plus each time I kill the accomplice, they lose faith in their praised cheater.
4. Kill the cheater if I get a chance which is a fantastic feeling. It's hilarious when they fall out of the sky our get disconnected from speed running and you smash their sleeping body. Another good one is to impersonate an accomplice and the shoot them with the good old hand cannon. Killing a cheater legitimately who is being a dick is one of the best experiencing in the game. With the right words and a bit of luck, you would be surprised how many chances you can get. For example if your going for a drop and you see a flyer/turbo, try and time it so you arrive right when he would be clearing the box. Then a quick shot to the head then body and he is dead. Hopefully you have a friend around who take the drop while you run off and become the bait.
5. Cheaters usually get bored quickly and leave their accomplices out to dry. I then attack the accomplices and make their life much harder and if possible take over their house. Cheaters are social animals and they want friends to impress, you cut off those friends and it's just not as fun for them and they leave. Plus it's rates right up there to killing the cheater themselves.
Occasionally you can start a cheater war where they all start fighting themselves and that works great also (just play the ego card).
I think there is also the very rare breed of cheater that only comes out occasionally to kill the real jerks. So far I have only seen one, that at least from my knowledge, I have never seen him or heard of him using the cheats on legitimate players. If you find one of the rare animals watch in ahh as it's probably a once in a lifetime sighting.
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Best rule of thumb is if you get a chance a to kill a cheater, you have to take it because 9 out of 10 times they are jerks and it just feels right! [/B]
[QUOTE=Dionysus9;44999245]I'm at 849 hours and still having a blast. What keeps me interested is trying to control large areas on official servers. Even dealing with hackers has become part of the fun-- identifying them, finding their base, planning on how to raid it, waiting for them to be offline-- then going in and liberating their ill-gotten loot.
Few things are more satisfying than legitimately cleaning out a hacker's base.[/QUOTE]
That sounds like a blast ! I would enjoy playing like that as well ! Perhaps one day I will get to that point in my game.
I had tons of fun on the 'legacy' build (200 or so hours) but quit when I had a moment of clarity and realised I was just farming/building/hoarding for no real purpose.
It started to feel more like work than play, which is always a good sign of it being time to stop ;)
Great game, but I've seen/done everything I want to for the time being. I'm now going to eavesdrop on the Experimental branch (when I can log on to the damn thing!!) and wait for that to become playable before diving in again...
I still love the game in the state it's in, but lately I've been having no luck in finding a good server. Over the past month or so I've probably joined 10+ different servers. When I join them, there's a good 20 people or so actively playing. After a while however, I find myself with every item researched and too much loot to bother managing. I just get bored with building and farming and end up leaving my doors open and abandoning the server.
I'm not saying the game isn't fun. Maybe I'll say to hell with vanilla and try a battlefield server. The servers I've been on recently have lacked PVP anyhow. Maybe that's what I'm missing?
RallyCar-- I cut my teeth on US Central 1, but when that server unexpectedly disappeared (as so many have) I was forced to move. Haven't really been on NA 3.
I've definitely seen cheater v. cheater wars, and that is always fun to watch. There is no good cheater, there are only shades of black. Some aren't as bad as others, but as you mentioned, they are almost universally lazy. In my experience their bases are not well planned and they don't guard their loot very well (not spread out, not behind enough doors, large rooms with multiple boxes, etc.). Partly that is laziness and partly I think its lack of raiding experience-- they like to run and gun and troll people by aimbotting-- they don't do as much legitimate raiding so they don't really know the tricks of the trade and can't be bothered to learn or think too hard to figure out how to best guard their loot. Also, I think, its "easy come/easy go" for them and they figure they can just get more loot by aimbotting.
Also sometimes they will get VAC banned and their place will decay and if you watch it regularly and are on at the right time you can clean it out just from decay.
Whenever I start getting bored, I just make more enemies--start moving closer in to town and harassing the larger groups of players.
I've got 3 good accomplices that I run with, so its not all "me"-- it helps to have buddies who hate cheaters as much as I do :)
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Note: of course you cannot go "head-to-head" with any cheater worth his salt, because they will aimbot the crap out of you, can AOE, fly, speedhack, radar, etc. You have no chance in a fair fight-- but as RallyCar mentions, there are times you can get the drop on them (usually when they have their head in a bag) and that is a very satisfying kill. Mostly I go after their bases when they aren't online as that is about the only way to really hurt them without being auto-killed. Once in awhile you'll find a really crappy (8 year old?) cheater who you can beat in a stand up battle but that is usually because they aren't using their hacks properly.
well, there's balance issues, but i still enjoy myself mucking around building places and skulking into rad sites and drops. i'd enjoy it more if i could headshot in melee... TAKE THAT BEAR!!
i do look forward to a playable 2.0 though:)
[QUOTE=Dionysus9;44999245]I'm at 849 hours and still having a blast. What keeps me interested is trying to control large areas on official servers. Even dealing with hackers has become part of the fun-- identifying them, finding their base, planning on how to raid it, waiting for them to be offline-- then going in and liberating their ill-gotten loot.
Few things are more satisfying than legitimately cleaning out a hacker's base.[/QUOTE]
Except for when they break all your boxes through walls
Hackers ruined it for me, so im waiting for the experimental to become more playable
[QUOTE=Dionysus9;45001867]You have no chance in a fair fight-- but as RallyCar mentions, there are times you can get the drop on them (usually when they have their head in a bag) and that is a very satisfying kill.[/QUOTE]
Yup! My most satisfying kill was a guy called DKPite on UK2.
He'd been harassing people on there (still is) and chased me down using a speed hack, killing me in the back with a pickaxe. Then he did the same to another guy close by.
What he didn't know is that I'd dropped a 'bag and a box behind some nearby rocks, so I re-spawned, grabbed a pipe shotty from the box and blew his brains out while he was looting our remains.
I got all his gear (M4s, C4s, etc) plus that of the guy he'd just killed (which I offered up, but I think he'd rage quit).
Felt good. To paraphrase Marv from Sin City: "I love cheaters. Whatever I do to them, I don't feel bad".
700+ hours, still play it everyday I love it!
I did love this Game but wouldnt even be tempted to play it atm. Too many other games out there, been waiting forever for this UI update, big things like that take time i do realise so I just play other Games
I just enjoy taking over and killing servers with my friends. Most people think we cheat and will not put up with it, so they leave.
Either that or we get banned. So really, it's a competition to see how many servers we can kill/how many we can get banned from.
If I'm not doing any of that, I'm killing squeakers and making them mad in kit servers.
Game is boring now for me. Waiting until the new branch becomes the main.
hackers aside i'm REALLY into the game, even in its current build, i love the whole hunter/gatherer motif and i think that, for being an alpha, its pretty in depth, i actually spent 3 days straight playing rust to acquire my first and part of my second empire, before losing everything to a hacker.
I enjoy it, specially with friends.
The thrill you get when you FINALLY have all the c4 you need and raid those "tyrants" on the server.... gives you goosebumbs EVERYWHERE ...
Ow yeah still have tons of fun trying to make raider protected bases. I'm pretty pro at it now. Found out so many ways to build a base. Today figured out with barriers placed on side of ceiling I could walk on the outside of a base and make hidden rooms. Also found out that I can place a ramp into another ramp. I could place as many as I want in it. Every ramp is one C4. So, basically you can make a wall (block) that cannot be breached unless you use hunderds of C4. Also, making rooms, that can only be reached when falling down one floor from the top. Etc. I'm saving my C4 for a raid, so far it goes pretty good. Got one super large wooden base + another metal base also super large. And all by myself. XD I tried to trust one guy on the server, but he betrayed me. So now, I just go pro on my own.
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