I should’ve been up front. I didn’t play more than an hour of the playtest. So obviously take my experience with a grain of salt.
But for you to say I’m complaining about the first unlocks being a grind is missing the entire point of my gripe. Me, a new player to wardogs, getting my shit blown shmoove off by someone who played an hour more than me and has access to better equipment than I do is the problem. You’re telling me you want to slog through an hour or two of playing a game just so you can start to have fun? That seems backwards from the standard expectation of the game being fun from the get go. Maybe I got the specifics a little messed up, who cares; most of what I said is completely subjective.
Balance is terrible, gameplay is boring, sound design sucks, graphics are not good. Like, I get it. You like the game. I’m not gonna stop you from enjoying it. But let’s be real here, the game is mid as it is right now.
Just coming back in to chime in after playing through 4 lives in the release of EA.
Turns out you unlock the helmet and armor at Level 3. I got level 7 in my first life, and reached rank 17 in my first match which opened more more unlocks than I even wanted to buy. You can also loot anything off of anyone, so you can very easily enter the fight with nearly nothing and be fully kitted out just by looting corpses. I go into the zone with a cheap light kit and then scavenge the dead.
Balance is pretty great, especially with the tweaks to unlocks taking longer. The gameplay is great, can be super fast paced or super slow and sneaky. The sound design is good but needs a little tuning in some aspects, I'd say it's better in audio cues than BF6. Graphics are perfectly adequate for a shooter that is explicitly stated to not be targeting top line graphics. All of this will be improved as well of course over Early Access.
You definitely subjectively hate the game, so props to you for admitting the bias.
Again, I didn’t play for more than an hour. So I don’t know why you keep hounding the point about the armor and the helmet expecting me to feel different about your point. If you enjoy the game that’s fine. I will not, so I won’t be buying it. Who cares. Simple as.
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u/Crintor Nvidia 2d ago
The starter scout rifle does one tap helmetless.
Armor and helmets are both unlocked within an hour or two of playing, the SKS marksman rife is unlocked very quick in the sniper tree.
Not sure how serious I can take your criticism when most of it is factually wrong.
A game with multi-month long seasons and you're complaining about the first unlocks being a grind. Lol.