Hey Nexon/SD, and who ever is reading this.
I just invited 5 of my friends into the beta, and played with them a couple games. People who have played over 100 games, and enjoy playing FPS (COD, BF and also ETQW), simply disliked this game. All of them. And I have to agree. I won´t really go in detail, because every point I will mention has been discussed verry detailed, in many threads. Still, I want to mention it again, hoping someone will realise it whats going on… I mean, it cant be overlooked, how many people just quit this game instantly after having played it once. Dont you have some data, that shows how many alpha/beta players are still playing it? I really would like to know. It just no fun at all. Why?
Maps: The maps are a general disaster. You made a verry fast gameplay, that has been wanted from the comunity and you, and then you put it into little tubes with no room and different ways? How is that supposed to work out? Can someone please tell me whats the plan behind making such small maps, with only 1 max 2 ways to an objective, at a game where you are supposed to set up deffense/attacks with high movement speed? There are also no spawn hosts, and just few objectives. All you do, is run straight ahead (because there is no other way), do the boring obj, and finish the maps… no flanking, no specific objectives, it´s just a walkthrough. To be honest, it feels like playing bad custom maps… it feels like watching filler episodes of a series… It´s just not the real deal…
Classes: Just 3 classes? Wtf, I like to play FOPs, Medic, and Sniper, so I am fine with 3 picks, but sometimes I need to go engineer, or go heavy Soldier to brake throgh a defense. Why am I not allowed to pick those then? On the other side, I don´t feel specialised or good in any way, when I just focus on my 3 ones… It´s just a loose without any profits, something that occurs quiet often in Extraction.
Gameplay: It has becamse kinda better, jumping at least doesnt feel full retard now, but there is still no improved movement like strafing, or something else. Also the automatic weapons fire too fast, and on close range the shotgun just instakills you… Feels wrong, but would be understandable in a game that works. It´s far from that tho.
I understand if SD is trying to do a new good game, and not taking too much from previous games. But YOU have given EVERYONE clear signs, that showed that this is going to be like ET, also a little like ET:QW. Just need to watch the alpha promo video. It´s clear were you told the game was going. Also that it is being developed close to the community. Don´t get me wrong, I understand you are game developers, and have your own ideas of how the game is supposed to be, while we are just gamers, who mostly think of what they want, but you cant just put lies out there like this. You can´t say this game will be developed with the community and stuff, and then just ignore 99% of the feedback. You can´t just put out quotes, from people, who obviously tell us this game is like ET is, and then develop it in just the opposit direction. That just can´t be true…
Like I said, I understand if you want to develop an own, and mostly new game, but the way it is right now you CANT. You cant just take some aspects of previous games, that worked out there well, but then take away all the surrounding things, that made those aspects work like they worked out, and how they were fun to play, and put it into an enviroment that you would “like” to have the game like. It has to fit, but the way it is, it´s just a mess. If you want to do a new game, make a new game and if you want to kinda remake and just improve and polish previous games (ET, ETQW), then do this. But don´t do this wishi washi, giving fans the hope, but in the end just trying to do something new. This way you will end up messing it up because it´s neither satisfying and bringing back old fans, nor catching new ones.
Seeing how often great, specific and detailed feedback was given and you just ignoring it, while more and more people who can play this game for free, just drop it INSTANTLY makes me so incredibly sad. It is like watching the Titanic after it hit the ice hill and knowing it´s about to go down… And also makes me mad, when I think about all this “with the community” marketing of you…
//EDIT:
Oh yeah quotes:
“This game is even worse then brink”
“It feels like brink” (they also said it´s better at some points, but the maps and stuffs…)
(from someone who played et:qw for 2 weeks!): “they just should have picked up more things from their previous games, and polish them in a working engine/netcode” … “I don´t understand it why they haven´t done it”
“they are trying to develop a game, that´s different then et and etqw, but they cant. they are doing the same mistake like they did with brink”
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