I think this is most definitely Sony calling the shots on this one. Essentially forcing steam users to either lose access or give your personal information to them. Absolute scumbag move and from what I’m seeing it’s happening just immediately after the refund window closes. We can’t have anything nice I guess.
I got it, unfortunately. I recommend not getting it, and for reasons not even about what was linked in this post.
The developers have consistently shown that they don't know how to balance their own game. They continually nerf weapons in the dumbest ways possible, and not because they're too powerful, but because too many players are using them. They don't play their own game, and they've admitted they can't even beat it on the higher difficulties. They also don't test their changes before implementation, so the game is steadily accruing more and more bugs, some of which have been in the game since launch, and should be easy to fix.
They're obviously making changes based on metrics and spreadsheets, and not because they understand their own game. They've even buffed fire damage weapons (which resulted in buffing enemy fire damage, resulting in insane instant deaths to those enemies) multiple times, because not enough players were using them, while ignoring the fact that fire damage is bugged for players, where only the game's host DoT damage will work.
They've also repeatedly shown that they not only make changes to make the player's lives more difficult, but seem to revel in being sadists toward their own players. There's either a company wide policy, or a lot of developers in the company, who absolutely hate their own players. It's the only motivation that makes sense, given many of the changes they've made, and the game philosophy they're following.
The devs seem to think fun and challenge are antithetical, that the highest difficulties should be a miserable experience, and that meta loadouts are always bad (without knowing why the players are picking those options). In total, it's an incredibly toxic game philosophy.
With the game's current development trajectory, steer clear. There are way better co-op horde shooters (like Deep Rock Galactic).
I played Natural Selection 2 and the devs kept balancing around "50/50 win rate" between both sides (asymmetrical team, marines vs. aliens).
The game sucked ass because they didn't account for Marines being were way more fun to play as, with more cool toys, and Marines were much simpler and used standard FPS mechanics making them more newbie friendly. Some Aliens were powerful but it had a steep learning curve. It was also highly punishing to die as an Alien since you'd lose all your evolutions while Marines could just pick up their dropped shotgun again.
This meant every game the lobby would pile up with people trying to play as Marines and the only people who would play as the Aliens were the veterans.
Then they'd "balance" the game around one team of veterans vs one team of newbs for their faggy 50/50 win rate, thinking it was "balanced" l, and it just became shitty boring hell to be an alien while Marines were stomping around in mech suits having a blast.
I played natural selection 1 for thousands of hours. Only played natural selection 2 for like 100 hrs.
I had fun in natural selection 1 because of certain special scenarios that make it fun. I remember turtling for 2 hours as marines lol. Or being a gorge and hiding in a vent with healing chambers and spitting at marines trying to traverse to vent to get you lol.
I think this is most definitely Sony calling the shots on this one. Essentially forcing steam users to either lose access or give your personal information to them. Absolute scumbag move and from what I’m seeing it’s happening just immediately after the refund window closes. We can’t have anything nice I guess.
Fuck Sony, so many damn L’s this year already
Well, I was considering buying this, guess not.
I got it, unfortunately. I recommend not getting it, and for reasons not even about what was linked in this post.
The developers have consistently shown that they don't know how to balance their own game. They continually nerf weapons in the dumbest ways possible, and not because they're too powerful, but because too many players are using them. They don't play their own game, and they've admitted they can't even beat it on the higher difficulties. They also don't test their changes before implementation, so the game is steadily accruing more and more bugs, some of which have been in the game since launch, and should be easy to fix.
They're obviously making changes based on metrics and spreadsheets, and not because they understand their own game. They've even buffed fire damage weapons (which resulted in buffing enemy fire damage, resulting in insane instant deaths to those enemies) multiple times, because not enough players were using them, while ignoring the fact that fire damage is bugged for players, where only the game's host DoT damage will work.
They've also repeatedly shown that they not only make changes to make the player's lives more difficult, but seem to revel in being sadists toward their own players. There's either a company wide policy, or a lot of developers in the company, who absolutely hate their own players. It's the only motivation that makes sense, given many of the changes they've made, and the game philosophy they're following.
The devs seem to think fun and challenge are antithetical, that the highest difficulties should be a miserable experience, and that meta loadouts are always bad (without knowing why the players are picking those options). In total, it's an incredibly toxic game philosophy.
With the game's current development trajectory, steer clear. There are way better co-op horde shooters (like Deep Rock Galactic).
I played Natural Selection 2 and the devs kept balancing around "50/50 win rate" between both sides (asymmetrical team, marines vs. aliens).
The game sucked ass because they didn't account for Marines being were way more fun to play as, with more cool toys, and Marines were much simpler and used standard FPS mechanics making them more newbie friendly. Some Aliens were powerful but it had a steep learning curve. It was also highly punishing to die as an Alien since you'd lose all your evolutions while Marines could just pick up their dropped shotgun again.
This meant every game the lobby would pile up with people trying to play as Marines and the only people who would play as the Aliens were the veterans.
Then they'd "balance" the game around one team of veterans vs one team of newbs for their faggy 50/50 win rate, thinking it was "balanced" l, and it just became shitty boring hell to be an alien while Marines were stomping around in mech suits having a blast.
I played natural selection 1 for thousands of hours. Only played natural selection 2 for like 100 hrs.
I had fun in natural selection 1 because of certain special scenarios that make it fun. I remember turtling for 2 hours as marines lol. Or being a gorge and hiding in a vent with healing chambers and spitting at marines trying to traverse to vent to get you lol.
But.. natural selection 2. Fucking assholes always surrender.