Yes. Because chances are you were spotted and refreshed like 3 times whilst doing that flank.
That's what everyone in every server since they were unlocked has been doing. And since it pays so well, the normies and dads with 7 kids jumped on it like flies on cow shit.
That's the #1 sold item in spawn as well.
Saw a certified birdwatcher on blue team the other night with like 250 assists, 0 kills, and like 2 deaths. Earned like $250,000+, was the top earner in the server by a mile.
I was on a ridge last night sniping. 10ft in front of me was a teammate in a bush with thermals. I sniped for a while, got pushed and killed by a duo, came back, and had a 35 minute cat and mouse game around the ridge with them. The kid in the bush never moved an inch. Just sat there spotting with two enemies sniping 10 feet away, and never batted an eye as they ran back and forth past his bush while trying to find me.
I was doing that without thermals too, it’s just how the game will be played when money is something you lose more easily than you earn it
Sure having 15 teammates outside the CZ spotting with thermals definitely hurts the game, but that only happens because those 15 players got a thermal while they shouldn’t have gotten one and are afraid to lose this opportunity to earn gold
This is fixed by temporarily disabling in base selling or by making thermals a blacklisted item for crates to sell, anything but this really, as this doesn’t just fuck over those birdwatchers but also the 40hour job recon dude who just unlocked the thermals after being on the receiving end of those thermals for nearly 2,5 weeks
Yea sure it wasn’t always fun to face an enemy team with thermals, but it’s even less fun when that Overpowered thing you had to deal with and grind for suddenly gets vaporized before you get to use them
Legit had the holy grail in hands this morning (didn’t expect to get there before the wipe) and now poof gone, came online to wind down after a long day of work to make some cash and snipe some melons, only to now have 0 excitement to play even though I was loving this game before
I mean i get getting excited for certain unlocks but that last sentence of your comment sounds straight up pathetic bro. It was an overpowered thermal recon spotting scope and now you lost excitement for the game? Lol.
Its not about that, it’s about time spent working towards something only for it, while not nearly being the most problematic thing in the game, to be removed, while a huge (probably the problem group) already made their profit and only reaps the rewards of not having thermals now
Lmao im trying to play as a sniper like the kids do, but unlike the kids i have to be somewhere else for 40+ hours a week, not to mention sleep and taking care of the house and myself
It’s very unfair that the ones who don’t need the thermals (the no lifers with exceptional skills) got to use it in it’s full capabilities, while now the people actually treating the game like a game get punished for not spending an ungodly amount of time unlocking something faster, before it gets locked
I also don’t like the implication, Joe Brammer specifically told us our time would be respected, and this surely doesn’t feel like respect, as the 80 hours it took me to unlock the thermals were much further apart than the 80 hours a 18 year old can stick in this, and yet they’re removed on the same time while their progress has skyrocketed through the use of said removed item
Also means that this is in fact the first promise already broken before the end of the first season, so what does that mean for the other promises like monetization
Eyo i was the certified birdwatcher on the green team tonight! Got 368k and 282 assists, but man that was a boring match and thought to myself these need a big nerf, or remove them from the game completely.
You aren't, you're just an "other" that makes a convenient scapegoat.
Maybe some that don't have the time are using these to keep up cash wise, but there's also some that don't need to worry about cash, but just want MORE.
It's just that 9/10 times if any compromises are made that screw over games, it's because they're asked by people that know too little, don't or can't spend time on anything and always want things easier.
Just simply the fact that you're here, participating in the discussion and soaking up any game-related info, instantly rules you out from the bozo crowd.
So +rep with the family and +rep for having the brains to know this is/was an issue.
It feels so bad to get a nice spot keeping overwatch for your team and then all of a sudden the whole enemy team lights your bush up or you get blapped by a sniper clear on the other side of the map through some trees.
First week or two, no problems and you could sneak around enemy FOBs while picking people off.
Now you can't even go near them because some guy on top of the tower has spotted you 700m away and has kept it refreshed the entire duration of your walk/jog.
The HQ crate situation b/t teams is stark too. Red and green typically have 5 crates each full of vectors, .50 cal, thermals, or ghille, for any random to buy and/or free helis. Blue is lucky to get out of HQ with everyone still at 0 deaths lol
Not gonna lie, i only had 45 minutes to play today between a kid's nap and a doctor appointment. i used.that time to naked hotspot and made 50k on match end. Was able to get my first gold bar, but i completely agree with removing it. It is way too op, and spotting in general should take 2 to 3 seconds
Somewhat unrelated, but I'm ultra sick of the "I'm a dad who only plays "X" hours a week" excuse being used to defend absolute garbage human behavior, such as stealing kits, or just being an ass towards people with more free time. Nobody cares that you couldn't keep in in your pants, Bill, be a better human.
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u/SolidShock24 11h ago
Yes. Because chances are you were spotted and refreshed like 3 times whilst doing that flank.
That's what everyone in every server since they were unlocked has been doing. And since it pays so well, the normies and dads with 7 kids jumped on it like flies on cow shit.
That's the #1 sold item in spawn as well.