Huh, looks a bit better than I thought at first glance. Love other roguelite shooters like Roboquest and Gunfire Reborn, so may have to try it...

The trailers were hilarious too. I remember seeing one that made it look like the most generic, shitty 3rd person shooter of all time. Kinda like the old Gears of War days on the 360 when people were trying their hardest to copy that formula, and they were everywhere.

Just looks like overpriced slop, unfortunately.

I'm slightly sad we won't just get a complete edition when it comes to PC (simultaneous launch this time), because playing through N2 was so cool. New difficulty? Okay.. Oh, it adds new enemies! Another new difficulty.. Oh, new items! Yet another new difficulty... More enemies AND items! Another difficulty.. An entire endgame grind of a game mode?! So awesome.

Because there's so little to do in Wilds right now, sadly... Need that expansion post-haste.

Nice! Loved Nioh 2. Hope this one's at least a bit more modernized, and maybe with even-less-clunky co-op.

Thankfully the modding community is delving straight in and added a duo functionality, which I've been using since about day one. Such a fun game, but holy hell is it brutal most times. Good bones though. Modders will have a field day with it.

It's pretty damn difficult. I guess they toned up a lot of things from the network test, which I didn't play.

And some of the reviews/reviewers are really stupid, my friend included who nearly bought the game, who thought it was Elden Ring 2 essentially...

Awesome! I can't wait to see what they come up with next.

Can they finish UE5 first?

I hope so. It feels like barely anything has been done to the game, even after adding a 3rd faction! I guess the balance changes - which were nice - but I can't keep anyone interested in the game to play with.

Yeah, that's a steep asking price. I'm curious to see if it's worth it, but what kind of mod support will it have? Or mod quality of life baked in?

jdreyer wrote on Apr 21, 2025, 23:23:

Rhett wrote on Apr 21, 2025, 20:18:
Jeeze, it feels like it's gone at a snail's pace. I bought in at the very start, in... late 2016 apparently? Good lord!

It's been a lot of fun playing it with SPT ("Single Player Tarkov"), which can then be supplemented by FIKA to play co-op. You technically have to own the game to do this (to help appease the devs since it's unsanctioned), but the modding community is extremely active and helpful. They've even dramatically improved the AI, and you can tweak the game to whatever lengths you wish, easier or harder. Far better than the built in paid PVE mode they offer on the official game. I have dramatically more time playing SPT than actual EFT.

Hmm, maybe I have been doing it wrong, but the bots still plink me at 100M on easy in SPT.

There's definitely some bullshit that happens. There's some really awkward stuff, like bosses and boss guards being godlike, seeing through bushes, and having nearly perfect aim (and this is baked into EFT by default..). At the moment, can't do a whole lot about it unfortunately except play carefully. There's also weird stuff where AI will sense you looking at them, and if you look too long, they'll "see" you regardless of whether or not you were actually in their vision. Mods helped a lot with all of this, but the main AI mod (SAIN) is currently out of commission due to both how complex it is, and the newer SPT update.

Jeeze, it feels like it's gone at a snail's pace. I bought in at the very start, in... late 2016 apparently? Good lord!

It's been a lot of fun playing it with SPT ("Single Player Tarkov"), which can then be supplemented by FIKA to play co-op. You technically have to own the game to do this (to help appease the devs since it's unsanctioned), but the modding community is extremely active and helpful. They've even dramatically improved the AI, and you can tweak the game to whatever lengths you wish, easier or harder. Far better than the built in paid PVE mode they offer on the official game. I have dramatically more time playing SPT than actual EFT.

Honestly looks really cool, need a filler for the lack of XCOM 3. Though, Firaxis lost some of their most passionate people, so I'm not even sure XCOM 3 will happen anytime soon.

Wish it had proper private servers like ARK/Conan, although Conan is a hot mess that constantly breaks mods. It looks cool, but I hate that they're taking control from people.

Can't wait to dive back in. It's been a few major patches now. The patch notes are MASSIVE. Like a competition between Last Epoch and BG3 this week in that regard.

I think I saw some leaked screenshots, looked very modern XCOM-y if I remember right. Promising...

Yeah! Even as someone who never liked or got into Animal Crossing or Stardew Valley-esque games, it was a pretty relaxing experience with my GF.

I'm guessing it's due to the rampant cheating that basically nullified any sort of competition in MH World's arena quests. But.. unfortunately, leaderboards or whatever may as well not exist anymore in online games.

For the worst, even. Ugh. I don't even want to look at the game anymore after OW2's completely unnecessary introduction.