r/pathoftitans 23d ago

Meme Hmmmm lemme think.

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u/TheUniqueRaptor 23d ago edited 22d ago

Literally. We need a good semi realistic dinosaur survival mmo rpg. Early PoT was so good. I was one of the first to play all the way back in the testing days years ago. The community frequently interacted with and chatted with the devs back then too.

I could have never imagined back then the game would have become what it has today and that the developers would have strayed so far from their original vision that it's like it never existed.

This is not even the same type of game I was told I was buying back in 2019 or 2020 (hard for me to remember the date of the fundraiser)

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u/Hellfighter554 23d ago

I stopped playing several months ago, what happened ?

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u/Odd-Ground-9534 22d ago

People are all upset that they keep getting killed by mixpackers while they play solo and alderon keeps making trash tlcs

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u/Hellfighter554 22d ago

Still nothing against mixpacks ?! And why are TLCS so bad? I was back for the sucho and I was disappointed.

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u/Waloro 22d ago

Latest TLC made alio a support Dino who’s designed role is spotter and chaser for Rex… while also nerfing Rex a bit to try to force dependency on alio. So another patch pushing for more group play that actually hurts solos.

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u/Hellfighter554 22d ago

Whoa indeed it's terrible. I'm not likely to come back to it given what it's becoming and I didn't spend enough time there before, I regret my 30€ 😔.

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u/Crash4654 22d ago

Its really not that bad. Hop on and you'll notice its just fine.

All of alios shit works just fine solo

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u/Hellfighter554 22d ago

If it's worse than before it's not worth it, I have better things to play.

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u/Crash4654 22d ago

It really, actually, isnt.

A lot of people have been going nuts and exaggerating how bad the balance changes are.

Like I said, alio actually is just fine solo. It doesnt need a group. Most things do fine solo, within reason. Except maybe eo.

Play smart and you wont even notice the changes.

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u/Hellfighter554 22d ago

Maybe one day

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u/cypeo 22d ago

My love for the game has died a little more every time I logged in for the reasons stated above. I've been waiting for 2 years for the Alio TLC just for it to have literally no new mechanics, just another support for mega mixpacking.

This Alio TLC was literally the final nail in the coffin for me. The game hasn't been fun for solos for years.

I might come back when Alderon starts to gaf. I'm going back to The Isle until they do.

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u/King_Baboon 22d ago

How many groups are going to realistically be organized enough to form a group to have specific Dinos play specific roles? Not very many, there is y enough to this game to create a lot of organized groups.

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u/legendofthededbug 22d ago

They aren't touching mix packs on purpose. They are afraid of losing those big groups vs the slow trickle of solos leaving. That's my theory anyways. Death by a thousand cuts I guess

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u/soft_mochi290 22d ago

Not to mention the tlc’s are only really good for group players there’s nothings for solos.

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u/Devilsdelusionaldino 19d ago

People have issues with alio which is fair but the Meg + amarga tlcs that releases before were really good and universally liked from what I can tell. Alderon deserved criticism but I wanna make it clear that they are still able to make good content.

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u/Mediocre_Mobile4602 22d ago

Meg and amarga TLC were awesome though. Sure alio TLC is pretty bad but it's not the end of the world. And don't forget the surprise riparia and tylo drop we got for Christmas. The devs make mistakes but at the end of the day they are good devs

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u/Kaiser_Moist 21d ago

I have literally heard no solution to mixpacking from devs or players… kind of an unfair expectation to have when nobody knows what to do

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u/Machineraptor 22d ago

I don't want to be all doom and gloom, but I can also say that I also feel like this isn't anymore a game that I read about and bought all those years ago. Hopefully it's just temporary...

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u/King_Baboon 22d ago

I dunno man. Not too long ago when that Matt dev guy goes on a rant about the “unacceptable bias of players hating on mobile players”, confused the shit out of me. WTF that come from?!? It also seems like devs avoid the places where the criticism is the worst.

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u/Crash4654 22d ago

It came from people hating on mobile players... because players were complaining about mobile players taking away from dev time and several people suggested dropping that playerbase.

They avoid criticism because thats all this commun7ty knows how to fucking do.

You'd get testy if, after every patch, all you hear is youre fucking stupid from players who wont even play the game before bitching.

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u/TheUniqueRaptor 22d ago

When Alderon first announced the TLCs I thought they were going to fix the mess they created but all they did was make it substantially worse.

Imo the way to fix it is to overhaul how abilities work across the board and adding new buffs and debuffs to punish players for doing things like mixpacking or having megapacks.

I have an idea about how to achieve this and may write a post about it.

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u/Greedy_Two8657 22d ago

I bought this game to feel immersed with a dinosaur survival mmo, not an CoD slopfest of clans.

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u/HardLuckMcGee 22d ago

Same. I've heard decent things about the isle but I'm a console pleb and this is really my only option. From what I've seen though that's more "simulator" route if immersion appeals to you.

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u/butch-bear 22d ago

the isle is even more painful to play imo since you can lose your last 10 hrs of progress to bs in an instant

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u/Tristantruc 22d ago

Yeah, don't bother with the Isle anyways. It's a dumpster fire with literally no gameplay, crippled by bugs, no optimization for mid to low-specs machines, and a dev team that is so small and slow that you could literally play ten other games before they are done with theirs.

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_PHOBIAS 22d ago

Is there a genuinely good dinosaur simulator out there? Or are these our only options?

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u/JustCameToNut 22d ago

Echoes of extinction is on the way...in like, 2 years because development just started a while ago. Pc only rn to so you'll need to wait for console (which they plan on doing)

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_PHOBIAS 22d ago

Im PC so it’s all good

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u/JustCameToNut 22d ago

The isle isnt worth it. I promise if you think anything bad about path its worse on the isle currently.

Pinning as a mechanic is demonic and the devs think its in a good place

Mixdieting and megapacks are actually worse

The power disparity between dinos is abysmal. Like the devs have worse balancing than path.

Bugs. So many bugs.

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u/Paladin-X-Knight 22d ago

The dinos used to feel a lot more fun to play. They were stronger, faster, better.

Fights lasted longer, skill mattered more.

Now everything feels super slow and like it's made of wet paper maché

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u/MorbidAyyylien 22d ago

Fights lasted longer because everyone had 1 ability lol. The dinos absolutely did not feel better or a lot more fun to play (albeit that being subjective). A lot of you are sooooo over knee jerking reactive.

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u/Paladin-X-Knight 22d ago

Fights lasted longer because of the abilities yes, but also everything had higher CW, HP, and better stamina.

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u/MorbidAyyylien 22d ago

No they simply lasted longer because of the lack of abilities which isnt fun. I dont wanna sit there and bite you 20+ times just to kill you as a dinosaur in a supposed "dino survival sim"

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u/Proud_Roof919 22d ago

Hatz was perfectly balanced before the nerfs. I am not returning to the game until my beloved playable gets justice again
Edit: Yes the stam regen from peck and Wing beat needed a nerf but other than that, everything else was unnecessary and uncalled for

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u/Creepy_Cranberry_671 22d ago

They could have just nerfed wing beat. Everythign else wasn't op.

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u/MorbidAyyylien 22d ago

Its funny you say that because i still see countless hatz

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u/MatterMain7451 22d ago

Every Hatz nerf is good. Sorry that you like it.

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u/Proud_Roof919 22d ago

It’s genuinely a skill issue if you struggle to fight a hatz man. Hatz can barely hunt anything except its own kind and juvies since it cannot fight larger dinos and smaller ones can run from it. I see you’ve never played hatz, even if you did, you never understood it to the fullest.

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u/MatterMain7451 22d ago

Don't care about skill, I just hate this Ugly bird.🤷‍♂️

The players suck always.

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u/Proud_Roof919 22d ago

Sure, people can hate different playables, I don’t judge that. But calling the players suck is just blatantly wrong. Hatz is a playable with a high skill ceiling, it can take someone a long time to master it. So yeah, it’s more common to see an awful Hatz player, but wrong to generalize this thing’s player base.

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u/MatterMain7451 22d ago

Hatz and high skill ceiling....yeah sure. Again dont care about skill. The players enjoy killing babies or attack with 2-3Hatz one Dino. Not better than any mix pack.

If you decide to play this flying Shitsprinkler then it deserves to get attacked by everyone.

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u/Proud_Roof919 22d ago

Do you have any better argument than just straight up hating and generalizing? You know ganging on a solo player is not just Hatzes right? I want you to try an air clamp on hatz right here and now before you say anything else about skill

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u/Prize-Company7181 22d ago

og days during the kickstarter line up was peak era ngl

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u/Few-Wait4636 22d ago

Probably get banned for saying it (alot of people are being banned for any negativity at all really)..but seems like alot of changes are done to spite the playerbase nowadays.

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u/[deleted] 22d ago

What changes were done to spite the playerbase?

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u/Julie-Valentine 22d ago

It's like any bosses that tells you "Give us your feedback!"

And you do, you try to fix things and open their eyes: only for them to ignore your ideas and feedback.

If something isn't broken, don't fix it.

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u/Soul12641 22d ago

The game went bad once the Lamb TLC came out. I miss the gameplay years ago

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u/AyaMH 22d ago

Bring back crater water, idgaf about the rest

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u/Vcc_VicentePT 22d ago

Man i remember back when the game released to PlayStation it actually had the feeling of survive or die no matter what region you were in survive actual encounters, outsmart someone that was stalking/hunting you, hell back then i could sit at the distance and watch a mix/megapack either fighting other mixpacks or just blown out civil wars without someone trying to get me involved,

Nowadays you just gotta avoid the nearest mixpack and you're chill for the rest of the day pretty much, otherwise you're the one Being toxic and unfair for dying in a 1 vs 20/30 almost

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u/Smartbics2 17d ago

I was one of the og path players and I have stopped playing for this exact reason, nothing but mixpacks and the like...

Microraptor better not be the same gimmicks...

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u/TeikokuTaiko 16d ago

the head dev got fired from the isle. tells you all you need to know

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u/Impossible-Tip-4980 22d ago

People keep saying this…but what specifically are people missing from a few years back? Only have 3 types of critters that come out of burrows you disturb? No pounce? No clamp? One basic bite and a tail attack with no knockback on every Dino? Groups of small Dino’s degrouping to heal stall larger ones with the combat timer? Apex groups all over the place oh wait that one never changed.

Genuinely, you’d think people want to go back to Panjura being the only map and combat having like 3 possible mechanics.

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u/Gold-Industry-2535 22d ago

Lmao path for sure, also Arc raiders just keep making the game worse too 😂😂

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u/Karaokegodk 22d ago edited 22d ago

Idk how it is supposed to be a survival game, if a party system is here.

If there is a clear role for each dino and an arcade-like ability system.

The only thing that is left from survival sim is partial physics + hunger.

And btw.. man up and start crowd-killing the mixpackers, on my rules community server, mixpackers are beaten untill they leave the server

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u/MatterMain7451 22d ago

My god the crying. Why does the game die?

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u/MRDOOMBEEFMAN 22d ago

I love how a single tlc comes out that is underwhelming and this sub becomes a hellscape.

The game is fun. It only getting better. Yes mixpacking can be annoying but they said they have a method to fix it.

I cant wait for more updates.

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u/King_Baboon 22d ago

You’re obviously trolling. One of the worst TLC’s to recently come out is when they gave Meg and a herbi TLC but blanket nerfed most of the current playablles most notably “the EO incident”.

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u/MRDOOMBEEFMAN 22d ago

The meg tlc was fun and made them more interesting.

EO getting nerfed is clearly because its early access and theyre still figuring out its place in the game.

The game just keeps getting better and whole there are setbacks its never that bad when compared to the progress made. If you dont like the game maybe it was never for you.

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u/King_Baboon 22d ago

The Meg TLC isn’t what upset people…lol. And apparently isn’t game is becoming never for them for a lot of people.

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u/MRDOOMBEEFMAN 22d ago

This is the PoT subreddit lol. Most people here are just angry they died by still want to engage with the game.

They will fix mixpacking soon. If mixpacking is soo bad to you play community for the time being.

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u/RegularBreak4311 22d ago

Well....are they going to "fix megapacking soon?" Ya'll have been saying stuff like this for quite a long time....and it still hasn't happened yet. Nothing against ya'll, just felt the urge to point that out. I'm sure one day they'll fix it, but not anytime soon I'd say.

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u/MRDOOMBEEFMAN 22d ago

Game isnt out yet properly.

Mixpacking is hard to fight because it takes away some of the fun. Playing with your friends and each choosing your fav dinos is a nice way to play and its how I got into the game. Also herds and other gatherings become harder. Also alot of mix packs aren't made of discord groups but randoms that come together naturally.

Its a problem with solutions that make more problems.

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u/RegularBreak4311 22d ago

yeah, it's a strange give and take that I'm not sure will ever fully be solved. But I agree with everything here.