Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25467429-20150511115406/@comment-25467429-20150514141359

Demons of Hræsvelgr wrote: I feel so underwhelmed by this update. I guess I was expecting something bigger. I don't know why.

I really want to be excited about this game, like I was when it came out, or when Future Prospect was announced. I just don't feel that urge to play it 24/7 anymore, and feels kind of like a chore (even though it is the most active game I play), and it makes me feel really sad that I think this way, because I really like this game. It's the first one I've really had the chance to connect with the community about, but, it just doesn't feel exciting anymore. Hmm, I kinda wanna cry. Kinda agree with you. Yeah, normally I'd be jumping for joy at the chance to fly the Night Raven, but with a cost that high, I either accept that I'll one-off get the thing to fly around in missions where I'll be stomped by people wtih far less expensive and upgraded aircraft, or hope that by the 2 year anniversary I have enough funds to get it up to a level where it can compete, which, given their seeming routine increase of the max level of everything, is like a dog chasing its own tail. Even the Fenrir would normally be an exciting addition, but it's just too far out of budget for any practical sense (worse yet that the newest weapon isn't even available until you get it to lvl. 7).

The system for the lvl. cap increase form is exactly what I feared - a thoroughly tedious endeavor that gurantees you will spend large amounts of time, possibly fuel, to merely get the benefit of paying millions of credits to actually increase the level of said aircraft. Being that its ten steps and they're giving you a months and a half to complete the challenge, I doubt it's going to be a remotely easy one to finish off.

The extra part slots is in one instance an interesting one in that you could easily end up with a SP level early tree plane. Supposing there is no additional cap, you could get an F-4E with a max 42 part slots in every category. It'd be easy to see a case where you would for example prefer to fly a basic F-4 until you max out its part slots, then equip it how you like, instead of putting the effort, time, or money into winning a tournament prize one. The down side, is we have no idea how steep the slog will be to getting those extra slots. It looks like the first level starts at around 1500 points and you get up to a couple hundred per mission, but it'll probably scale up the same way the rank points do at each level.

The no bots option is cool, but ultimately not all that awe-inspiring an addition (sort of a, "we could've done this anytime, but we'll do it now). Adriatic isn't terribly interesting either - really feels like Moscow with more targets at a different location.

As updates go, they surely cramed a lot into what looked to be a small update 24-hours ago. But for all but the routine top-200 tournament players, there isn't a lot to be excited about here, and in general for the 1-year anniversary, you would have hoped for something with more umph to it. Not a terrible update, but by no means great either.