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(Abandoned project) EK Ilbis Mk-II

I feel you on the disconnect with the direction the devs are going, but I don't really share the experience with community servers, namely because I don't touch them, the best barotrauma experience is for me is getting together a group of friends and agreeing on a mod set and running that

For me, the most under explored section of the world is probably the war itself, I'd love to see a mod that takes fuller advantage of stuff like dynamic Europa's systems and expands them to the levels themselves or adds more objectives beyond attacking random outposts a more certain and impactful wargoal could be interesting let alone the under explored niche of community designed interceptor subs that aren't just "yet another pirate" or "this thing has all of the hull health" would be an interesting experience, imagine dealing with an actual patrol sub similarly geared to yourself, getting nukes chucked at you by a sub that is more interesting than "the 10,000th camel or dugong"

imo, the DLC is needed as Barotrauma's gameplay loop is pretty stale after a few runs and outpost ownership is outside of the game's concept

@Videogames what did they do that was ethically bad might I ask? also how is the dlc going to break the playerbase, the devs did say you only needed the host to own dlc to play it, which shouldn't cause that many issues.

Just a question I was asking myself after what you wrote.

Mainly the DLC which is going to fracture the already fairly small playerbase & support community , on top of just generally being something I've decided not support ethically speaking as a direction the studio is going.

However as for why I was already kind of losing interest in the game, mainly I was already playing multiplayer & campaign less and less since around 2022 - due to alot of the changes around game balance, talents, crafting, and campaign progression systems - almost exclusively just making submarines rather than playing the game. ( Though alot of community servers having 80 LUA mods didn't help either. )

I had kind of already checked-out on modding long before that, one big issue was due to alot of new features like 'talents' system being very not mod-friendly ( recipe unlocks for instance requiring overwriting the entire job talents XML file, though recipe unlocks I think were eventually fixed to use a tag system now? ) On top of also just how 'gamey' the new mechanics felt around talents & game progression & submarine 'tiers' & the changes to submarine classes and upgrades. Just alot less campaign freedom in general.

@Icy if it's one thing i had to guess is that the dude is the creator of some of the biggest content mods, yet with the game constantly updating, they kept breaking so they lost interest in updating them, what started as a funny haha started to feel like a chore

also once you've played barotrauma a few times, you kind of run out of things to do

would be nice to see the EK item packs be revived but they've said multiple times that they don't want to and the EK for 1.x.x.x was broken as well last i tried it and the creator of that wasn't interested in actively maintaining it

Would you be willing the explain what "recent Barotrauma developments" means.
Havent been keeping up with the game news, and just wondering what happened

is there anyway at all that i could talk to you about making my own ships im very interested in it but i lack the creativity

Yet another Videogames classic.