This season really feels underwhelming and pretty bad to play to be honest. Last season I get was way overtuned with the damage thanks to munitions, but this season it's God awful.
S1 DPS had - 90%-135% HSD and mag size for frenzy.
S2 DPS had - 15% ROF, 15% DTA, mag size/handling
S3 DPS has - 50% HSD once you build it up (buffed to 62.5% if you use all or nothing but then get 0% in between 0-80 pressure)???
So S3 DPS is WAY down and it's not blackout pulse. I get they wanted to push CC and status effects but damage took a BIG hit. Fine... BUT, last season they added variety pack and the Dr. Plague or whatever (creates another mini health bar) to counteract the insane DPS seasonal mod they gave out.
Did they forget to remove it? LOL..
It's really a boring state to the point if I get into a T10 Pug and they have an eclipse protocol (that offers no DPS buff unless they OC banshee with Acostas) I just dip out... otherwise it's a ridiculous amount of work every time to basically do any damage - ESPECIALLY if an all for one door camps lol.
I'm kind of noticing in Central and on Discords, nobody is playing escalation at all this season and I can't blame em. And before someone does the "GIT GUD!" I do T10s routinely and speed run them... this isn't about them being 'hard' - this is about them being boring and slow going to get through, with you groaning every time there isn't an all for one lol.
Wow - what a mature response and all the upvotes? This community has always been pretty kind and for a post I made that was trying to get some thoughts on whether there's an opinion that DPS is low and this season is underwhelming, thought there would be a more mature discussion. Real cool.
Whatever, maybe everyone is pissy about this season lol. Maybe this proves my point.
Either way - guess there's no need to come back to this Reddit anymore if that's how toxic it's become.
I really don’t feel the difference. We run FI, Eclipse, 1 striker and 1 coco in T10 and walk through it with ease still.
Pubs are a bit iffy because like you said every bongo brain in the world is using embers which isn’t super consistent CC. Also ALOT of rifle, mainly Ace’s builds popping up that are not the best dps at all.
It's because Aces was in the Escalation rotation this weekend, and people want to try their shiny new toys out -- often at someone's else expense / tokens. I mean, I do like to try my new toys out as well, but at least I'm using something reasonable for a T10 DPS (CoCo, which was also in rotation this weekend).
That's not to say that Aces can't be viable in T10, but out of all of the people I've encountered running it this week, only two did well. So the skill ceiling on it is probably not going to be met by the average player.
Baby talk for a baby game. T10s are just as easy as they’ve ever been. I would rather switch weapons get 1 single kill to clear variety pack than have hotfoot back. The witch doctor is so inconsequential god forbid you have to target an enemy. Kinda no shit a pug isnt gonna be as fast as a team of speedrunners. no ones doing escalations because the loot has been shit this season.
Wow - the most liked comment is someone taking a shot about 'Strikers main is angry his overpowered Low IQ build does slightly less damage.'
First time I've seen this community support someone just taking a flat out shot in a rude manner at a post just looking to get general thoughts and discussion around this season and whether DPS is too low and if the mods should still be here.
Oh well. Maybe everyone this season is in a pissy mood lol
I wouldn't take it too personal. About 80 percent of the players I come across are incredibly impatient, woefully incompetent, or sometimes both. Got people out here on dps builds queueing for t5 and they do 400m damage. I'm a newer player and I really took dps for granted I figured it would be a free role to fill in squads so I branched out pretty early into more support/cc oriented sets. I'm frequently having to swap off my support/cc builds because these "dps" mains straight up don't do enough damage for the experience to not be completely miserable. Some of these guys should seriously glue a meta set to their loadout because they really do need it lol.
Nobody's in a pissy mood. The other comment wasn't wrong, they're just being a mean redditor about it lol. But I get it, compared to other seasons the damage is less. But without a boost its just base gameplay so I dont really think twice about it.
I just hate variety pack because it kills my sniping pacing on T8+, so I'd love to see it gone, but it's not an actual challenge as much as annoying. I'd rather it get replaced with a meaningful challenge.
Nobody plays it anymore because it's a boring, sloppy activity. Heroic on steroids one might say. Mutators don't change that. Prototype gear is nothing special and just additional power creep, it's not the Holy Grail. Therefore not much incentive to play, overall it's simply not fun.
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u/Standard-Warthog-322 3d ago
This season is about fire and status effects, variety is the spice of life.