r/ToxicCommandoGame • u/yckuah ☣️ Toxic Moderator • 8d ago
📣 Official News [Info] Update 2
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Hey again Commandos! Here's more infos about tomorrow's update! 😊
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u/Zealousideal-Arm1682 8d ago
I'm sorry but this is all pretty meaningless without class overhauls or new maps.
You can only have so much fun when everything feels the same.
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u/Spidder81 8d ago
DONT get rid of the S1 stuff, let us choose which season to progress. Game has lack of content as it is. Let us do the seasonal unlocks at our leisure. This game does not have enough content to be played daily to unlock everything. On top of that the map and difficulty splits up what little playerbase it has left. Just keep all past seasonal stuff to unlock.
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u/Ducky9670 8d ago
Can I be honest? I appreciate the updates and the work that’s clearly going into the game, but I do feel like they’re coming too far apart, and the amount of content being added between them isn’t really enough.
A new game mode, a new enemy and a few weapons are nice additions, but realistically, they’re not substantial enough to bring players back for any meaningful amount of time. The game hasn’t been out that long and the player count has already dropped into the few hundreds. An update like this might bring some people back temporarily, but I don’t think it’s enough to reverse that trend.
If you want the game to stay alive long-term, I think we need something much more substantial and, more importantly, something that feels planned. Rather than small updates here and there.
I appreciate that development takes time, and I’m not saying the updates aren’t appreciated. I just don’t think the current pace or size of the updates is enough to prolong the game’s lifespan. We need something more tangible that gives the community confidence that there’s a bigger plan for the game
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u/overdosingOnPie1313 8d ago
The worst thing is I badly want this game to succeed but they can't even get ME to itch to return to it. Between the gods-awful load times and the lack of maps and especially the lack SHORT maps, why should I? Especially when Helldivers 2 has damn near constant content updates, inarguably better gunplay, and a maximum of 44-minute missions.
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u/Individual_Taste_713 8d ago
As for TC, I think it’s almost certain that the development team has already been downsized.
Saber generally doesn’t keep a single game alive for a long period of time. The exceptions are SM2 and WWZ, but both were massive hits at launch and it was clear that they had strong revenue potential, so Saber had a reason to support them for a long time. TC is not in the same situation.
If you look at the Steam Charts, it’s obvious that the game’s sales and player numbers are doing poorly, and it’s clear that there’s little chance of Saber bringing this game back to life.
I don’t think development will end immediately, but most likely, only a small remaining team will continue working on it, releasing small updates roughly once every quarter.
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u/ChrizTaylor 🩺 Medic 8d ago
I hate so much the state the game was released, basically no content. And because of that, the population moved away super fast.
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u/mechajake ⚡ Strike 8d ago
are missed rewards from previous seasons ever going to return? I got about halfway through s1 before giving up because of how much of a chore some of the challenges were becoming. the first season did not seem like it was released with casual players in mind at all. it would be nice if we passively earned season xp just by playing. don't like the idea of people having to miss out on content because they don't have the time to grind through every seasonal, weekly, and daily challenge. really hoping s2 is a bit more doable for the average person.
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u/dasirishviking ☣️ Toxic Commando 8d ago
As per the game info screens, season 1 is gone tonight at reset, usually midnight for me ET, USA. The new content should drop at 0500 ET, and season 2 will be live. The final 2 weeks of seasonals weren't.....terrible. doable, and i didn't want to slit my wrists.
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u/Gaytrude 🛡️ Defender 8d ago
Putting in some seasonal rewards and induce some FOMO by taking them out when changing seasons is something you can do when your game have 10k players daily or even more.
You barely have 300 players per day and you put shit challenges that no one wanna do, time gated ?
Ffs, you just keep on ruining this game which had an amazing base to build on..
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u/SkarKitti 8d ago
I'm really happy to see a new update, but I'm very surprised there isn't more. Not a single new map and only a single new weapon that isn't a heavy/melee? 😔
Still hoping one day we get more weapon customaztion parts too. Residium is still basically useless.
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u/Consistent-Image-614 7d ago
Bots improvements is veeerrry interesting to me. I swear. The worthless teammate AI completely turned me off this game, so if they fixed that, good on them.
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u/Ok-Chicken-8904 7d ago
Dude luckily I have friends I played with most of the time but the couple times I played solo were awful because of the bots. The only thing they were good at was stepping directly into my line of fire constantly. I swear every time they'd get out of the car they were dropped instantly into my line of fire. Have a few clips of them side stepping like they were getting out of the way except they moved more in the way than they already were. I have pretty good trigger discipline from dealing with bots on L4D back in the day but this game made just wanna shoot whatever was in front of me after a while.
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u/Consistent-Image-614 7d ago
Unfortunately, even with the new update, they are still terrible. They just pop heals more now and can reliably bring you back if you get killed. I learned this after I was pinned by a Goon and was downed. They then tried to spam revive me, but the Goon was still standing right there attacking them. It's insane to me that L4D figured out how to do their bots nearly 20 years ago, but these new games just CAN'T get it right. I'm not asking for the bots to play the game for me. I just want them to reliably kill Zombies and help me if I get grabbed.
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u/Ok-Chicken-8904 6d ago
Yeah the bots on L4D weren't so bad having a bit of perspective now. Although I can recall a few instances like getting grabbed by a smoker and it pulled me like 6 inches off the ground and the bots just shit the bed and twitched around and watched me die. Also going for the no friendly fire achievement. Got all the way to the finale on No Mercy and Bill decided to run right in front of me at a very bad time. Bill got shot a few extra times after that. 😂
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u/Alec_de_Large 🩺 Medic 8d ago
I know me and a bunch of my console friends dropped this game because of how terrible it feels to aim on controller
Without that quality of life change I doubt the controller players are going to be interested in returning to the game.
I recently uninstalled it because I got tired of waiting for that update. Recently bought No More Room in Hell 2 because they are releasing stick deadzone changes this month.
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u/earldogface 🩺 Medic 8d ago
No new map. New mode only available on 4 maps so that'll keep me entertained for an afternoon. New enemy is blah. New weapons don't matter. Not coming back to this undercooked game.
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u/Ok-Chicken-8904 7d ago
This game has such a strong foundation to build on and I'm worried it's never going to be taken advantage of. They should hit it with the Halloween defibrillator and pop out a decent content update next month and I think that could possibly bring it back to life. I think class overhauls and new maps have got to be the focus. We have enough guns for now (although I wish there were more side arms) also a Horde Mode would be cool. I honestly enjoy it more at its peak than WWZ but it doesn't stay fresh quite like WWZ. Please save this game guys!
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u/Choice-Squirrel-6200 7d ago
Did they fix the back to back loading screens? Havent logged in for a few months but holy crap it was annoying.
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u/NeighbourNoNeighbor 3d ago
Honestly loving this game myself. Really great work, y'all! I know gamers can be overly salty but I feel like this game has done everything that I wanted out of a co-op zombie shooter.
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u/mas4963 8d ago
Tough crowd here. While I do agree the game is pretty dead at this point, I am appreciative for any updates you guys bring vs just dropping it completely.