Level 35 weapons are too strong
I say this as an unemployed gamer who has played incessantly since launch. The level 35 weapons are just too powerful and are detrimental to the health of the game. Im saying this as someone who unlocked one very early on...
Let's look at the two perspectives these guns are seen from:
• The player unlocking them early: it is a fun milestone to work towards. It feels great to reach it. You immediately power farm the entire lobby with it. Life is great... About a day later the fun of farming gets stale. The weapon is so good that the gameplay becomes less variable and enjoyable. There is just only so much longevity to shit stomping servers.
• More casual players who are experiencing these weapons on the receiving end: the disparity between these weapons and everything before them is so great that it feels like an enormous uphill battle to defeat them. It isn't a minor gap that can often be overcome with skill... Fighting a player in level 4 armor with a FAL or vector when you have any other weapon and lower level armor requires a massive misplay on the other players part. Given that these players necessarily have played the game much more than you, those situations will be far and few between. You are literally playing against a person who has both played the game much more than you AND has the deck stacked in their favor. I am concerned about what this will do to the average players enjoyment especially as these guns become more prevalent.
Let me give you another example. I unlocked the 50 cal very early. The 50 cal is the only sniper that can 1 shot a player in tier 3 or 4 armor. This means that if I use tier 3 armor and my 50 cal, I can 1 shot any sniper I engage with but cannot be 1 shotted. As long as I use positions where I can safely heal, I essentially cannot lose sniper duels. This is not fun gameplay. It isn't fun for me, and it certainly isn't fun for people on the receiving end.
These weapons should be rewarding to unlock but the degree of the power gap between them and every other gun in the game is just too much.
u/Difficult-Quarter-48 · r/WARDOGS
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