I don't play it, as I despise these generic looter shooters that have no soul, and are just there for the dick waggers, but this dev post is really fucking clueless;
"However, as mentioned above and observed in a few discussions recently, these mechanics are not 100% clear and, in some cases (e.g. spike damage protection/death protection & invincibility), are “secret” mechanics with hidden cooldowns. Understanding these mechanics is a key aspect of understanding damage mitigation or one-shot kill instances and related issues."
Secret mechanics? And then "Understanding these mechanics is a key aspect of understanding.... etc."
How do you understand something that's secret?
You built a game for the type of people that need every detail to do the math to be the best, like WoW raiders back in the day, but you have 'secret' and 'hidden' things?
Those are known as bugs. Their game is dead and they know it.
https://www.reddit.com/r/outriders/comments/nmc4vg/outriders_latest_news_and_known_issues_mayjune/
You bring up so many great points, and if I had more time I would definitely like to delve more into them, but there's one specific point I definitely want to dig into...
You're absolutely right that everyone uses propaganda in different ways, as well as how they depict certain issues and topics.
A good example is that the Japanese beautify everything, even the trans freaks. The crossdressers/trans characters in their media are all made to be beautiful.
However, in their media they recognize that a crossdresser/trans is supposed to pass as the opposite gender, so they still create that character in the ideal gender role.
That works against the Leftist agenda of weakening male/female relations, because if a trans person looks like a female then it just raises the attraction someone has for females who look like the trans person. Hence, it leads back to connecting males with females if the trans person represents an ideal of what men find attractive in females (even though realistically, majority of trannies just look like freaks).
In any case, their agenda is pretty clear: to muddy the ideal. To dilute beauty standards and push the separation of the quitessential male/female archetype.
In short, they don't want beautiful trans people anymore than they want beautiful fair-skinned redheads in movies or media, anymore than they want white heterosexual couples portrayed in a positive light on the mainstream stage, anymore than they want to promote attractive east-Asian females, or encourage healthy relationships for stable birthrates in first-world countries.
It sounds too bogus to be true, yet it seems to be a widespread effort across every single Western media medium to pelt people over the head with this crap.
Anyway, sorry for the long rant, it's just something that bothers the crap out of me because it's inescapable in all of modern media. I've had to basically consume lots of old movies and games to wash the propaganda out of my mind's palate.