Mixed opinion. There's a lot of good stuff like the quality of life improvements, new buildings (humidifier, repair hoist), tube spade and drill spade for getting clay (thanks god, I hated excavators), I like the 5 tier quality system too and that you can harvest quality with hands. I also like shooting from a walker way more than melee combat. But that's where the positives end. Then the negatives: removed lobby (thanks god I'm on a private server and we still have it), removed packing bases from walkers, removed packing walkers, ridiculous maintenance (every single building counts into maintenance), schematics (never ending grind) and no progression (if I lose my base eg. thanks to decay I'm stone aged, so many players left game just because of this), removed free build on walkers, nerfed weapons to barely usable, nerfed or removed the majority of what was fun, if something was introduced back it's heavily nerfed and more of an annoyance than fun (eg. Balang with its decay timers WTF). All maps copy paste with rupus everywhere, even the AC, that I used to love for its uniqueness with some pretty cool mechanics, they destroyed that too. I expected them to add more cool mechanics like harpooning windmills, but they just added more monkeys and nerfed rokkers to useless. Travelling system with portals, thanks god I'm on a private server and have lobby and don't have to deal with portals. Sandstorms, now I cannot even go away for 5 minutes if I'm out of my hangar, because what if sandstorm comes. Nerfed grappling hook to the point that the only thing I use it for now is just to get on my walker and even then I have to stand right under it, how will I get onto a Titan Walker which is much higher I have no idea. Progression locked behind clearing rupu camps, in order (in S4 you were free to do whatever you wanted and you could progress, in S5 you are forced to clear rupu camps or you will never progress - and on top of that you are forced to clear rupu camps in order - build a Firefly so u can take on that turret camp and get a Dinghy, build a Dinghy so u can take on a bigger rupu camp and get a Stiletto, build a Stiletto so u can take on a fortress and get a Buffalo etc.). Hangars I see as neutral, I mean I can survive that. I'm just wondering how big will be a hangar for a Titan Walker and how the hell am I going to build the roofs with nerfed grappling hooks. What is really bad about hangars is that it has no floor piece, so I have to build roofs as floors (I don't wanna live on sand) and the worst is that you cannot build anything on the roof, so you have to add light wood pieces which are insanely expensive maintenance-wise. Plus sandstorms go through hangar doors. And the future? If they keep copy pasting monkeys into every map, which is definitely the direction now, we will have all the uniqueness from the maps removed and everything will be the same. I wouldn't be surprised if they changed worm into war worm with monkeys on its back, dragons on Kali Spires the same thing, birds on Iron maps the same... I had so much fun in S4, super chill game, that only needed some quality of life improvements and some PVE content. I hated S5 direction since the very start, but I decided to trust the devs that it will be great once finished and so I decided to give it a try. So far I'm not impressed, I'm disappointed. But we are not at the end of the changes yet and you know - hope dies last. Interesting fact - new players in S4 would stay for few months, then they ran out of content so left. New players in S5 stay for few days only and give up en masse (content too hard for solo, maintenance too much even when we have it reduced on private server, content is just never ending monkeys grind, not fun). That says something about how "great" S5 direction is. No fun (apart from discovering the new changes), no interesting content (after you see your first rupu camp then it's all the same after, just harder). After months we still don't have event maps on private servers, so it's super hard for us to get anything legendary or even epic, basically what your gameplay is if you want epic or lego is to spend days just driving around searching for some, many days without any luck (driving simulator isn't fun at all) and then RNG screws you up on top of it (you won't get the item you need), or you clear every camp you see in a hope that few hours later a new one will spawn with the quality you want (not fun clearing something you dont even loot because it's useless) and that someone else won't be faster to clear it while you are crafting new ammo. I'm basically staying just for my clan and for the community, to help, to teach people about the new direction and how to do the new stuff, because not many people do that (and wiki is still super outdated), so I feel my help is needed. But I don't have fun playing the game itself anymore. And what do you think?
@@Razizeh Nothing to add, nothing to say :) I think season 4 was much better, I regret that I can't go back to it... If they just added more PVE and some new features to season 4, it would be enough. I'm at the stage of parting with the game right now, because it took me two weeks to get 2 bufflo blueprints... I can play 2-3 hours a day, so I don't have much time for it because of my duties, it makes me even more discouraged how difficult it is get these schematics... I'm going to take a break from this game for a while and see what happens. Thank you for your opinion Regards
I agree, S4 was better (so far). Exactly. You can play season 4 on private servers :) For example our Stalkers PVE private server has season 4 servers still up. How to switch to S4: 1. open steam properties for LO 2. select Betas tab 3. instead of "None" select "classic - Classic S4" 4. wait untill steam downloads the game 5. enjoy The downside of it is that when you switch between seasons you must download the game again, but at least it is possible to play season 4 :) Yeah, LO on official in S5 is definitely not for people that can play only a few hours a day. That's why many people come to our Stalkers PVE private server, it's the biggest server after official, I'm here for over a year already. Our server helps people with limited time for playing by many ways - increased loot rates, decreased maintenance etc. So maybe you wanna give it a try - in S4 or S5. Or take a break and see where the game goes in few months (like almost everyone did already). But I don't think it will be any easier. If you decide to join Stalkers PVE S5, let me know I can invite you to our clan and help you get started. Write me on Discord.
@@Razizeh Cool! Thank you very much for the offer :) I still have a few other titles to play so I'll take a break from LO, but I think I'll take advantage of your offer soon ;) Thanks Regards!
No problem :) OK, enjoy the other games and whenever ready to play some LO, let me know :) At the end of December 2022 new Diablo 3 season will start so that's when I will take a break from LO too (for about a month or two). I will also go back to streaming so you can stop by and say hi :)
it was a pretty crazy season huh :D
Lol yeah you can tell :D
What do you thing about season 5 ?
Mixed opinion. There's a lot of good stuff like the quality of life improvements, new buildings (humidifier, repair hoist), tube spade and drill spade for getting clay (thanks god, I hated excavators), I like the 5 tier quality system too and that you can harvest quality with hands. I also like shooting from a walker way more than melee combat. But that's where the positives end.
Then the negatives: removed lobby (thanks god I'm on a private server and we still have it), removed packing bases from walkers, removed packing walkers, ridiculous maintenance (every single building counts into maintenance), schematics (never ending grind) and no progression (if I lose my base eg. thanks to decay I'm stone aged, so many players left game just because of this), removed free build on walkers, nerfed weapons to barely usable, nerfed or removed the majority of what was fun, if something was introduced back it's heavily nerfed and more of an annoyance than fun (eg. Balang with its decay timers WTF).
All maps copy paste with rupus everywhere, even the AC, that I used to love for its uniqueness with some pretty cool mechanics, they destroyed that too. I expected them to add more cool mechanics like harpooning windmills, but they just added more monkeys and nerfed rokkers to useless.
Travelling system with portals, thanks god I'm on a private server and have lobby and don't have to deal with portals.
Sandstorms, now I cannot even go away for 5 minutes if I'm out of my hangar, because what if sandstorm comes.
Nerfed grappling hook to the point that the only thing I use it for now is just to get on my walker and even then I have to stand right under it, how will I get onto a Titan Walker which is much higher I have no idea.
Progression locked behind clearing rupu camps, in order (in S4 you were free to do whatever you wanted and you could progress, in S5 you are forced to clear rupu camps or you will never progress - and on top of that you are forced to clear rupu camps in order - build a Firefly so u can take on that turret camp and get a Dinghy, build a Dinghy so u can take on a bigger rupu camp and get a Stiletto, build a Stiletto so u can take on a fortress and get a Buffalo etc.).
Hangars I see as neutral, I mean I can survive that. I'm just wondering how big will be a hangar for a Titan Walker and how the hell am I going to build the roofs with nerfed grappling hooks. What is really bad about hangars is that it has no floor piece, so I have to build roofs as floors (I don't wanna live on sand) and the worst is that you cannot build anything on the roof, so you have to add light wood pieces which are insanely expensive maintenance-wise. Plus sandstorms go through hangar doors.
And the future? If they keep copy pasting monkeys into every map, which is definitely the direction now, we will have all the uniqueness from the maps removed and everything will be the same. I wouldn't be surprised if they changed worm into war worm with monkeys on its back, dragons on Kali Spires the same thing, birds on Iron maps the same...
I had so much fun in S4, super chill game, that only needed some quality of life improvements and some PVE content. I hated S5 direction since the very start, but I decided to trust the devs that it will be great once finished and so I decided to give it a try. So far I'm not impressed, I'm disappointed. But we are not at the end of the changes yet and you know - hope dies last.
Interesting fact - new players in S4 would stay for few months, then they ran out of content so left. New players in S5 stay for few days only and give up en masse (content too hard for solo, maintenance too much even when we have it reduced on private server, content is just never ending monkeys grind, not fun). That says something about how "great" S5 direction is. No fun (apart from discovering the new changes), no interesting content (after you see your first rupu camp then it's all the same after, just harder).
After months we still don't have event maps on private servers, so it's super hard for us to get anything legendary or even epic, basically what your gameplay is if you want epic or lego is to spend days just driving around searching for some, many days without any luck (driving simulator isn't fun at all) and then RNG screws you up on top of it (you won't get the item you need), or you clear every camp you see in a hope that few hours later a new one will spawn with the quality you want (not fun clearing something you dont even loot because it's useless) and that someone else won't be faster to clear it while you are crafting new ammo.
I'm basically staying just for my clan and for the community, to help, to teach people about the new direction and how to do the new stuff, because not many people do that (and wiki is still super outdated), so I feel my help is needed. But I don't have fun playing the game itself anymore.
And what do you think?
@@Razizeh Nothing to add, nothing to say :) I think season 4 was much better, I regret that I can't go back to it...
If they just added more PVE and some new features to season 4, it would be enough.
I'm at the stage of parting with the game right now, because it took me two weeks to get 2 bufflo blueprints... I can play 2-3 hours a day, so I don't have much time for it because of my duties, it makes me even more discouraged how difficult it is get these schematics...
I'm going to take a break from this game for a while and see what happens.
Thank you for your opinion
Regards
I agree, S4 was better (so far). Exactly.
You can play season 4 on private servers :) For example our Stalkers PVE private server has season 4 servers still up.
How to switch to S4:
1. open steam properties for LO
2. select Betas tab
3. instead of "None" select "classic - Classic S4"
4. wait untill steam downloads the game
5. enjoy
The downside of it is that when you switch between seasons you must download the game again, but at least it is possible to play season 4 :)
Yeah, LO on official in S5 is definitely not for people that can play only a few hours a day. That's why many people come to our Stalkers PVE private server, it's the biggest server after official, I'm here for over a year already. Our server helps people with limited time for playing by many ways - increased loot rates, decreased maintenance etc. So maybe you wanna give it a try - in S4 or S5.
Or take a break and see where the game goes in few months (like almost everyone did already). But I don't think it will be any easier.
If you decide to join Stalkers PVE S5, let me know I can invite you to our clan and help you get started. Write me on Discord.
@@Razizeh Cool! Thank you very much for the offer :)
I still have a few other titles to play so I'll take a break from LO, but I think I'll take advantage of your offer soon ;)
Thanks
Regards!
No problem :)
OK, enjoy the other games and whenever ready to play some LO, let me know :)
At the end of December 2022 new Diablo 3 season will start so that's when I will take a break from LO too (for about a month or two). I will also go back to streaming so you can stop by and say hi :)