I’m disappointed by the latest “Update”.
Its been long awaited and delayed because DF wanted it “perfect” instead its an update promising more updates of the things that were meant to be in this update. (will be available in future updates).
You kept delaying this update but then didn’t include half the things that were meant to be in said update.
- Where are the bug fixes?
- Where is the roadmap?
- Where is an update on Steam and further expansion on other platforms (ie Epic games etc).
- Where are things like night maps or just more maps in general? The zombie April fools event proved that you got the lighting right for there to be night maps, so where are they? Yes we get one new map with a handful of different modes with this update, but its not suffice to what the playerbase requires.
- Where is transparency on the games direction, is the game finally out of open beta or did this not happen since Steam failed?
Player retention is slipping, it use to be a case of FOMO (fear of missing out) but with the latest copy pasta event quite a few have chosen not to bother with it, which is fine but its because they have finally got to the point where its too repetitive (and for some too grindy) for too little reward, they also aren’t happy with lack of communication and aren’t willing to spend on something (the game) that is showing lack of direction, old bugs are beyond a complete joke since many still fester and have remained unfixed for years.
You want us to bring friends into the game but we just get stonewalled on general complaints and for every complaint thread on the forums or reddit, theres usually 3-5 more dating back on the exact same topic, I do see you try new things in game with some new feature/squad mechanic but you never go back too it and its often gimmicky and half done.
Weekends are great to gather around with a bunch of friends and do things like custom games, however the custom mod games servers are often down for a large part of weekends and suffer serve lag. Even the Enlisted streamer team on twitch rubber band around, so its not a geo-location based issue, its in house.
The playerbase has given many ideas on things regarding monetization strategies that they actually would partake in, for them to yet again be ignored, even with multiple threads by different users all suggesting the same ideas.
Game core features and technical design improvement suggestions have also been given in the past, things that if we’d had feedback on, we (the community) may have been able to bounce ideas back and forth on or just generally stop asking for since we know they wouldn’t work. Some AI squad improvements, such as path finding could be as simple as slight map edit tweaks, which would requires no time messing around with code, but instead with the map editor and possibly the navigation mesh, improving the path finding has been a huge complaint dating back years and while it has been improved it still needs work, i believe the above could be a huge improvement with minimal effort.
I’m tagging @Keofox @James_Grove in this post so that it doesn’t get lost in this thread and ignored, I feel theres key elements in this post that are worthy of replies and I’m happy to expand more as needed.
