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My Opinion on the Chest Update
Written entirely during my math class xD
I’ve played a few games, and determined my final opinion on the chest update. I understand that some people have differing opinions, and I respect that -- If you disagree however, please simply say your reasoning, as I don’t want to start a flame war.
*When I say v1 chests, I’m referring to the chest update.
*When I say v2 chests, I’m referring to the kinds of chests before the chest update.
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There’s this pressure to love the chest update. The old timers, such as myself love it as it is a blast from the past, and a lot more balanced from the v2 chests. The game has resumed its survival feel, as you can’t only rely on killing players for food and armor. There’s a bigger pressure to scavenge for food. You must play the game a lot more defensively, and as such the gameplay is not as high quality. PvP is a secondary thought.
The way chests are designed greatly influence how the game is played. With the v2 chests, the gameplay is a lot more intriguing, as PvP is a bigger priority than scavenging--PvP in itself is a form of scavenging. In the case of v2, more of the population enjoy it, for a couple of reasons. The better PvPers love it because the game is more focused on fighting, and the rest (who are not good PvPers or old timers) like it because it’s fairly easy to collect good loot. In v2, it was simply getting a weapon, maybe a piece of armor, and then relying on food and other necessities gathered by killing. That’s why the recent poll showed these findings:
In my opinion, I prefer the v2 chests. The gameplay is a lot more tedious, and the maps are used more creatively. Whereas with the case of the v1 chests, the gameplay is mainly collecting items, which is hard because there is a lack of them in chests, and when there are items typically they aren’t as good a caliber. The problem that the community made when looking to update the chests is they listened to the forum community, which are A. Only 10% of the in-game population, and B. the majority of forumers are old timers. And we know almost all old timers prefer the v1 chests. The other problem we are facing is that there are two ways to look at chests. One being what’s fun to play, the other being what’s balanced. When playing a video-game, my intentions are to have fun, which is why I prefer the v2 chests. I’ll admit, they aren’t as balanced as the new chest update, but they are more fun. What is more however, is that the chest update is not quite balanced yet either, with Tier 3s being a little too overpowered.
Now some of you have been saying “It’s the Survival Games, not the PvP games”, to counter those who say the v2 chests are better. Survival can also be avoiding being killed, or killing. Survival does not necessarily translate into scavenging. Also, yes, it is called that, but does that make it better? I mean, what do we value here? How fun the game is, or how balanced it is? The chest update is not totally balanced yet, and the gameplay certainly isn’t as good if everyone is scavenging the majority of the time.
My conclusion depends on what the community wants. Fun gameplay? Or balanced gameplay? From the poll (cited above), the community wants fun gameplay. My conclusion being is to keep the v2 update, but edit it a bit. Add in Tier 3s (balanced though, as we still need to find a good balance for them), and edit Tier 2s to make them a LITTLE bit less overpowered.
One thing I must say -- the forum community may disagree greatly with me, but again, as I said earlier the forum community consists of old timers, which we already know prefer the v1 chests. Bottom line, edit the v2 chests. The majority of people don’t want the v1 chests, only the majority of forumers do. What I want you guys to discuss is what we value more, fun gameplay, or balanced gameplay. So which is it?
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TL;DR?
Read the sections I bolded, they are the most important.
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People I want opinions from:
@The Arena Master
@Forairan
@ChadTheDJ
@HalfSquirrel
@Virtual
Written entirely during my math class xD
I’ve played a few games, and determined my final opinion on the chest update. I understand that some people have differing opinions, and I respect that -- If you disagree however, please simply say your reasoning, as I don’t want to start a flame war.
*When I say v1 chests, I’m referring to the chest update.
*When I say v2 chests, I’m referring to the kinds of chests before the chest update.
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There’s this pressure to love the chest update. The old timers, such as myself love it as it is a blast from the past, and a lot more balanced from the v2 chests. The game has resumed its survival feel, as you can’t only rely on killing players for food and armor. There’s a bigger pressure to scavenge for food. You must play the game a lot more defensively, and as such the gameplay is not as high quality. PvP is a secondary thought.
The way chests are designed greatly influence how the game is played. With the v2 chests, the gameplay is a lot more intriguing, as PvP is a bigger priority than scavenging--PvP in itself is a form of scavenging. In the case of v2, more of the population enjoy it, for a couple of reasons. The better PvPers love it because the game is more focused on fighting, and the rest (who are not good PvPers or old timers) like it because it’s fairly easy to collect good loot. In v2, it was simply getting a weapon, maybe a piece of armor, and then relying on food and other necessities gathered by killing. That’s why the recent poll showed these findings:
In my opinion, I prefer the v2 chests. The gameplay is a lot more tedious, and the maps are used more creatively. Whereas with the case of the v1 chests, the gameplay is mainly collecting items, which is hard because there is a lack of them in chests, and when there are items typically they aren’t as good a caliber. The problem that the community made when looking to update the chests is they listened to the forum community, which are A. Only 10% of the in-game population, and B. the majority of forumers are old timers. And we know almost all old timers prefer the v1 chests. The other problem we are facing is that there are two ways to look at chests. One being what’s fun to play, the other being what’s balanced. When playing a video-game, my intentions are to have fun, which is why I prefer the v2 chests. I’ll admit, they aren’t as balanced as the new chest update, but they are more fun. What is more however, is that the chest update is not quite balanced yet either, with Tier 3s being a little too overpowered.
Now some of you have been saying “It’s the Survival Games, not the PvP games”, to counter those who say the v2 chests are better. Survival can also be avoiding being killed, or killing. Survival does not necessarily translate into scavenging. Also, yes, it is called that, but does that make it better? I mean, what do we value here? How fun the game is, or how balanced it is? The chest update is not totally balanced yet, and the gameplay certainly isn’t as good if everyone is scavenging the majority of the time.
My conclusion depends on what the community wants. Fun gameplay? Or balanced gameplay? From the poll (cited above), the community wants fun gameplay. My conclusion being is to keep the v2 update, but edit it a bit. Add in Tier 3s (balanced though, as we still need to find a good balance for them), and edit Tier 2s to make them a LITTLE bit less overpowered.
One thing I must say -- the forum community may disagree greatly with me, but again, as I said earlier the forum community consists of old timers, which we already know prefer the v1 chests. Bottom line, edit the v2 chests. The majority of people don’t want the v1 chests, only the majority of forumers do. What I want you guys to discuss is what we value more, fun gameplay, or balanced gameplay. So which is it?
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TL;DR?
Read the sections I bolded, they are the most important.
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People I want opinions from:
@The Arena Master
@Forairan
@ChadTheDJ
@HalfSquirrel
@Virtual
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