3.23 PTU Patch notes: Changes to FPS (first person shooter)

15 Comments

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   @Camural 8 months ago

   Patch notes: https://robertsspaceindustries.com/spectrum/community/SC/forum/190048/thread/star-citizen-alpha-3-23-0-eptu-patch-notes
   Item blocking seems to refer to magazines, medpens, grenades, refills, backpacks etc blocking all damage which is suppose to be fixed in 3.23.
   However, item blocking made all weapons do less damage, when hitting those items: zero damage, it was not limited to SMGs.
   CIG seems to think patch notes should be very imprecise and should generate confusion.

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   @sandraneuhaus238 7 months ago

   And now the magical shot gun choke <sigh CIG>

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   @mabs9503 7 months ago

   All of this sucks. Whoever is in charge and making these decisions is completely out of touch and clueless, but these keybind changes are absolutely unhinged.

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   @yourfavoritecrafter 7 months ago

   Ah yes, the ever loved " ADS to hit your target " will be in the game! Didn't know I bought another Far Cry game.
   Also Cannot wait for this becoming like the old COD lobbies with Grenade Launcher spam also. Will the grenade launcher also have huge spread if not ADS? That would be funny 😀

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   @NoxiousButtSpray 7 months ago

   "more lethal than Call of Duty"

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   @friendlyspacedragon7250 7 months ago

   You could say the magical shotgun choke is for gameplay reasons but then you'd have to explain why all the boring waiting in trains and elevators. The whole thing is all over the place when A has to be realistic but B is very obvious video game logic.

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   @TheEtrattner 7 months ago

   We can only hope that those – few – of us consumers that are attentive understand what that means -> pars pro toto.
   SC was pitched to be a first person universe, with engaging longterm retention. "Easy to learn, takes time to master" as in "have personal development, depth, layers catering to moods and preferences that may or may not change per loop, day, week, month, year", where you and the digital you do everything.
   Now we get the ruZZian publisher game concept. Everything depends on what something you have to do anything, preferably warbond only soon™. And who knows, even if they go full World of Retards and replace eyesight with a shop-item as well. That is not only a consequence of the cheapest staff available with zero experience and no affinity to or even the barest knowledge of gaming whatsoever in too many cases (but presented or sometimes even being in decisive line function), that is intentional. No entity is that > enter many terms here < for that long without some kind of basic underlying agenda.

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   @-NateTheGreat 7 months ago

   All these changes, but our armor and guns have neon lights all over them.

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   @CyrusKazan 7 months ago

   As a player who frequently engages in the FPS combat in this game and does know the numbers, many of these changes are actually quite good for the health of weapon balance (assuming we keep the high TTKs we have right now). All of the sniper changes are awful, though.

   Magical shotgun chokes are silly.
   Optics increasing aim time, especially a 1x zoom red dot, is silly, because they're meant to make aiming easier, not harder.
   Magical spread reducing lasers are silly. We don't need an artificial reason to use them, once helmets besides combat visors are in, you can use them to gain the functionality of the dynamic crosshair, at the cost of that slot.

   I've made posts on Spectrum saying as much, which gained good traction. Hopefully they take this feedback to heart.

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    @AllergicFungus 7 months ago

    Thank you for the update. I haven't played in awhile. My #1 SC news channel.

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    @Sparkp1ug 7 months ago

    The entire point of red dots and optics is to increase your speed of acquiring a target. Red dots especially should be decreasing ADS time, if anything.

    And the shotgun ADS thing… 🤦‍♂️ I have no words.

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    @RN1441 7 months ago

    I'm actually glad to hear they are starting to give up the pretense of 'immersion' in the name of better gameplay and getting rid of the glaring holographic UIs etc. I can only hope that as they iterate on this they'll make it less of a twitchy shooter. Time to kill of less than a second stacked up against time to recover your body measured in the tens of minutes is not a good choice.

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    @migtin688 7 months ago

    Hidden feature – Laser guided rounds.. but only 12.5% better with laser site.

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    @cptmuzz4085 7 months ago

    I'd of sold my fleet by now if it wasn't for your videos 😊

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    @thomasinlondon2849 7 months ago

    Shotgun spread is less when using iron sights. I wonder what genius decided that