I would recommend this game if we rewound time, it's an absolute joke now. This game was in a much better state when each class was relatively strong, as of right now the developers can't seem to figure out any sort of balance and instead just pump power into what I assume to be their favorite classes to play.

Why are we adding more characters when we fail to balance the clear issues with others? Is it just because the people that play those classes don't stop crying when a change is made?

Barbarian is over-tuned into oblivion.

Fighter is a one size fits all class yet basically has no weaknesses.

Warlock is too strong at the moment.

Rogue has one play-style that you're forced into that everyone complains about because the devs can't figure out they need to rework the class to allow alternative play styles.

Wizard was gimped so hard compared to the older releases of the game and is practically useless against half the classes in the game at the moment.

Ranger is a weaker and less flexible fighter.

PDR has always been an issue they can't seem to comprehend or properly fix,

Yet the devs make the most illogical and least thought through changes time and time again, like buffing the classes that the community complains about being strong even more, and just keeping their mouth shut about the classes that need to be worked on. One half of the community is a massive part of the problem, if a single change gets made to a class played by them, they kick and scream until it gets reverted and at this point I feel a large part of the lack of significant balance changes is in part to the fear of dealing with the horrible skilless boosted players lashing out at them for it as per usual.

We've removed the storm ring entirely for a while, then added some stupid poison mechanic with no circle after the feedback from the lack of one. Which in turn has made it to where pvp is less common unless you go to like 2-3 points on each map, the game is absolute garbage in high roller and so much worse than it used to be in the squire lobbies, it's a constant gear check or fights that teams just straight up run away from. That's the furthest thing from fun imaginable, I know there's a part of the community that prefers killing A.I. and sorry but that's just not interesting to me and I'm sure a lot of people agree.

This game isn't supposed to be Tarkov and even the devs have stated that, so why are we turning the base mechanics that drew people to buy the game pre-steam release into Tarkov-like raid timers that aren't forcing pvp. It's causing the game to be either find loot, hide and leave, or look for players to fight, find maybe a team or two, which rarely even winds up being a fun fight due to the terrible balancing.

Sure they're adding an Arena, and hopefully that shows the already glaringly obvious balance issues in even more light since they're so ignorant to them or just scared to make the fixes they need to, and it'll add a mix of pvp that most of us want back into the game. But it's nowhere near the same as a few months to a year ago when the game was actually fun and incentivized fighting and giving you the adrenaline of not wanting to lose some BIS item, or the relative fairness of being weak yet out-skilling someone and taking theirs.

There are obviously gonna be defenders of each class in this games current state, which does absolutely nothing but delay the changes that absolutely need to be made. People that are going to defend the fact that we add things before fixing massive core issues with the gameplay loop. People that are going to say that I'm just bad at the game or that I'm just a sweat. All I really want is for the devs to wake up so the gem this game can be and was closer to in the pre-steam release doesn't get graveyarded like it seems they're trying to do. The player count dropped substantially, they've shut off cross account features but it's ok they're play-testing a sorcerer and buffing the already busted classes.

Please fix your game and actually speak with the people who play it consistently to find out what really needs to be fixed instead of the crying players in the Discord that just pop a complaint in when they die to whatever class.

I would recommend this game if we rewound time, it's an absolute joke now. This game was in a much better state when each class was relatively strong, as of right now the developers can't seem to figure out any sort of balance and instead just pump power into what I assume to be their favorite classes to play. Why are we adding more characters when we fail to balance the clear issues with others? Is it just because the people that play those classes don't stop crying when a change is made? Barbarian is over-tuned into oblivion. Fighter is a one size fits all class yet basically has no weaknesses. Warlock is too strong at the moment. Rogue has one play-style that you're forced into that everyone complains about because the devs can't figure out they need to rework the class to allow alternative play styles. Wizard was gimped so hard compared to the older releases of the game and is practically useless against half the classes in the game at the moment. Ranger is a weaker and less flexible fighter. PDR has always been an issue they can't seem to comprehend or properly fix, Yet the devs make the most illogical and least thought through changes time and time again, like buffing the classes that the community complains about being strong even more, and just keeping their mouth shut about the classes that need to be worked on. One half of the community is a massive part of the problem, if a single change gets made to a class played by them, they kick and scream until it gets reverted and at this point I feel a large part of the lack of significant balance changes is in part to the fear of dealing with the horrible skilless boosted players lashing out at them for it as per usual. We've removed the storm ring entirely for a while, then added some stupid poison mechanic with no circle after the feedback from the lack of one. Which in turn has made it to where pvp is less common unless you go to like 2-3 points on each map, the game is absolute garbage in high roller and so much worse than it used to be in the squire lobbies, it's a constant gear check or fights that teams just straight up run away from. That's the furthest thing from fun imaginable, I know there's a part of the community that prefers killing A.I. and sorry but that's just not interesting to me and I'm sure a lot of people agree. This game isn't supposed to be Tarkov and even the devs have stated that, so why are we turning the base mechanics that drew people to buy the game pre-steam release into Tarkov-like raid timers that aren't forcing pvp. It's causing the game to be either find loot, hide and leave, or look for players to fight, find maybe a team or two, which rarely even winds up being a fun fight due to the terrible balancing. Sure they're adding an Arena, and hopefully that shows the already glaringly obvious balance issues in even more light since they're so ignorant to them or just scared to make the fixes they need to, and it'll add a mix of pvp that most of us want back into the game. But it's nowhere near the same as a few months to a year ago when the game was actually fun and incentivized fighting and giving you the adrenaline of not wanting to lose some BIS item, or the relative fairness of being weak yet out-skilling someone and taking theirs. There are obviously gonna be defenders of each class in this games current state, which does absolutely nothing but delay the changes that absolutely need to be made. People that are going to defend the fact that we add things before fixing massive core issues with the gameplay loop. People that are going to say that I'm just bad at the game or that I'm just a sweat. All I really want is for the devs to wake up so the gem this game can be and was closer to in the pre-steam release doesn't get graveyarded like it seems they're trying to do. The player count dropped substantially, they've shut off cross account features but it's ok they're play-testing a sorcerer and buffing the already busted classes. Please fix your game and actually speak with the people who play it consistently to find out what really needs to be fixed instead of the crying players in the Discord that just pop a complaint in when they die to whatever class.