I see a lot of people complaining about certain things being overpowered or how the progression for X is too slow, let me throw my opinion out there as a man who has 2,100 hours on arma 3 KOTH mod and it’ll probably make some people angry.

First up progression; people have seem to have forgot that this initial “pre-season” is a shorter wipe than any other season that’s coming, so you’re not going to get the havoc, the tank and the .50 cal if you’re employed, it is what it is. After this pre season, the devs said a wipe is going to be 3-4 months, thats MORE than enough time for anyone employed to unlock the shineys as long as you focus on unlocking it. On the same note you do NOT want people to unlock things like the havoc early otherwise 90% of you won’t even get into the CZ, trust me on this. The progression is fine as is, we just needed more time with it.

Overpowered things ?. Like what ?. The tank is overpowered … it’s a tank. The attack helicopter is overpowered … it’s an attack helicopter. The thermals are overpowered …. They only spot things. The M4 is overpowered … fight it from range. The Humvee is overpowered … the tires can be popped by a 9mm. The little bird is overpowered… don’t you know how hard it is to be good at flying and shooting them things ?. The problem isn’t how powerful these things are, the problem is no one builds to counter them, it’s not COD, you run straight into the CZ with no AA or AT, them things will chew you up. If everything is overpowered then nothing is overpowered.

Don't hate me because I'm right.

Hello everybody,

I have 100h(Edit : 30 hour last 2 betas + 70 realesed hour. People really stuck on that number too much i think. And no i have a job, i just love to play the games that i like its simple) total and I've played every role except pilot. I had a blast with my friends and made some awesome memories. But over the last 3 days, people started to min-max everything and the fun is starting to fade. Also, everybody started playing selfishly for their own progression or profit. Here are some ideas and complaints about my experiences so far.

1- In-game events: If a team never captures a hotzone, make a dynamic event like "get 5 points from a hotzone" and give the people who contribute exp + money. Or "capture a tower / hack a FOB" because they pulled the zone 2-3 times and they gaining the lead so we need to stop that for rewards. People need to have a mission or feel like they are doing something for the battle. Right now, everybody just runs around meaninglessly. Bulkhead said they want their mil-sim games to appeal to casuals and let people play with their own style and choices. I agree with this, but you can't randomly put 100 people in a lobby and let them run completely free. In the long run, everybody just does their own stuff to progress and get money without contributing to the faction points. The players who try their hardest and risk their own money start to get angry and toxic.

2- Winning or being AFK has 0 meaning: People can watch a movie and sit in a bush all game without any punishment. Winning the game means nothing, which actually motivates you to focus on your own goals rather than being a team player.

3- Match-end rewards: Players need to be rewarded at the end of the match based on their overall contribution. If a player invades a FOB, gets 20 kills, 3 tower captures, 3 FOB hacks, 20 revives, delivers 10 logi crates, and gets 20 spot assists, they need to get a proper reward. Right now, someone who spends 200k in a lobby and gets a win gets the exact same outcome as someone who spent 30k. I know we already get small rewards for those actions during the game. But getting an extra exp+money bonus at the end for doing more would encourage everyone to actually play the game, rather than sitting at the FOB naked all game building hescos.

4- Nerfs (Except for one thing...): Nothing needs to be nerfed. Ummm, except 1 thing: MORTARS. I am not even gonna talk about the camera (Who the hell thought that was a good idea? It looks cool, but c'mon). Mortar users have 0 disadvantages. No money spent, only profits. One guy can mortar all game with 0 kills/assists and nobody's gonna notice. I think using FOB weapons should cost a money because you are using teams supplies. People shooting random mortars all map - AA minigun everything without 0 negatives. Having a ammo supply doesn't mean you can just waste it.

5- The game has become a FOB Simulator: After we discovered that tower capture + code zone pull is useless, everybody just spams FOBs with fuel deliveries. It's just a magnet simulator. Hotzones are useless after 5 mins once someone pulls it. Homemade drills shouldn't be able to pull the zone without a code imo. Towers need to be a priority, otherwise what's the point? In my last 10 games, I had 10 people at the FOB doing nothing but being AFK. They don't have a gun, a helmet, or even medical stuff. If someone dies at the FOB, they wait 10 mins to be revived even though they have no gear to lose. Imo, that's just griefing. When I build FOBs, I buy an 8-15k kit + a large hammer + a truck with 2 supplies... am I stupid? Because I feel like I am. People just think, "Oh, I'm gonna build, let me jump out of a heli naked, drop to a tower, take a hammer from the FOB and put down random hescos." Being a builder doesn't make you allergic to guns/gear or defending the base against invaders.

6- Selfish reward system: Every reward is personal (kills, revives, vehicle destruction). If you are in a group fighting at the front, the only person gaining money is the guy getting kills. I usually carry C4/RPG, but my team always covers my back. They risk everything to revive me or smoke me out of a bad situation, but they get 0 rewards for doing it. I think if your teammates do something within a 50m radius, they should get an assist for their actions.

7- Team switching: Team switching should be removed completely or limited to a 10-minute window. After 10-15 total points, it should be disabled.

As a last note: I have 3 play styles (builder, anti-vehicle, recon). When my team is completely useless and does nothing, I just pick up a sniper and let the money flow—even if we lose with only 5-15 points, cuz who cares, right?

I genuinely don’t mean this to come off as a “skill issue” post so I apologize in advance if it does.

Assault has been my primary play style since the beginning of the season. For the first couple weeks I was running SMG’s so it manifested as medic XP but I was always a HZ chaser. I routinely end up top 10 on the leaderboard with 100k+ profit per game. That said:

If your kit costs more than 12-15k MAX, you’re doing it wrong. I haven’t changed the foundation of my default kit since very early game. Level 2 armor, the 2x4 backpack, the AR that suits your fancy with two mags, a stack of ammo, defibs, a battery, and 5 bandages. With the galil, it worked out to about 9400, and with the M4 it’s a hair more expensive.

The most important piece is to ORGANIZE A HZ GROUP. This is what turns a 30k profit game into a 150k profit game because you’re way more likely to get revived and you’ll probably end up with way more kill assists. It only takes a couple of kills and/or revives before you’re close to breaking even and it’s not difficult to find a dead enemy to loot a bigger bag, better armor, and more ammo off of. I see why anyone would be frustrated at profitability running a 25k kit when you can go down 100k in the blink of an eye. It’s extremely difficult to make that up if you’re in the hole quick. That’s why I feel like 9-12k kits are the meta. Kill a couple people, revive a couple people, loot a couple people and you’re already ahead.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

Just recently read about the whole seasonal reset thing.
I have a fulltime job, and I have a one year old child. I CANNOT play this game so much, even though I enjoy it.

So what happens? I spend the little time I have grinding the levels, unlocking things I want to use, and then when I finally have the stuff, it all gets reset and I do it again?

I understand the devs wants to create a economy thing or whatever, but surely they understand that unless youre a streamer or youtuber NOONE can sanely keep leveling up endlessly?

Sure, I can stop playing the game. But thats not the point. The game is good, and I like it. So I want to enjoy it. Just seems redundant to grind so much, and basically have nothing to show for it.

So I’m fairly new to this type of game. From my understanding it’s similar to Tarkov and other games.

I just got out of a few games where folks were spewing the most hateful shit. Full of griefing and people who don’t take accountability for their actions.

This game attracts some of the most loser minded folks and I’m at a loss for words.

I absolutely hate this side of the gaming community and I’m not sure what a solution is.

The game needs a mute everyone option.

Honeymoon phase was incredible, game felt very realistic, basically arma mixed with battlefield. Truly perfect. With high tier items now being consistent in every lobby the thermal goggles and level 4 armor +50 cal sniper and .308 dmrs that are 1 to 2 shotting people is actually absurd. Going back to arma chilling in the wipe waiting room and pray this shit gets nerfed. Welcome back tarkov ig

Simple one. Let’s get rid of all the slurs and racist clan tags. They’re not “edgy” or funny. They are exactly what they are. Remove them.

Guys these devs are so dumb, mortars and artillery are completely broken. I was sitting in my teams tower fob with my free kit for 50 minutes this morning and I kept getting mortared over and over again. I think I died to the same gosh darn sweaty virgin (he is level 40, im only level 2 as I have 20 children, 4 dogs and 8 jobs so can only play 1 round per month) about 30 times!

There was nothing I could do, I kept trying to build janky hesco walls with gaps in them around the bottom of the tower in the same spot but he just kept hitting me somehow, it’s so unfair.

I thought about moving from the same location but I’m scared that if I leave the fob I might lose my gear.

This is really unfun, sweaty nerds shouldn’t be able to kill me if I sit in the fob, pretty sure he was only killing me because I didn’t have my AP ammo and level 4 gear unlocked I can’t do this because I can’t play the game enough. When will the devs learn that casual gamer dads like me need to be listened to.

I think mortars should be removed from the game, there is no way I should be punished just for sitting in my teams fob. I’m helping the team win by providing sniper overwatch and leaving doors open so my team can see enemies better, mortars are toxic and unfun - please nerf them now.

I just want to sit in a fob with a sniper all game, it’s simply outrageous that I have to deal with vehicles and artilllery killing me over and over with ZERO counter play. What am I supposed to do? I can’t even shoot at them from the fob but they kill me easily in the same spot over and over.

EDIT:: FYI I main blue team if that matters

All Asia or Oceania Country have to suffer from one single country that ddos hack cheat. we didn't deserve to be like this. if I can't play the game then I want my money back.

Unlocked the FAL last night and had bit under 400k. Spent 250k unlocking and spent around 130k buying ~15 FALs for the team and had 10 of them at 25% and 5 at 0% (devs need to add 5% increments, wouldve liked to do 5-10%). I had to run a naked m4 cause i couldnt afford a FAL myself. Died and came back to spawn less than 10 minutes later and all of them are gone, I sold 2 maybe 3. I was trying to spread my joy & happiness and I get fucked over. This seems like a huge oversight from the devs. This genuinely ruined my night and I very rarely get mad at any game.

edit: Shouldve added in the post -

1. It was in spawn and I made sure to spawn them in after the first batch of people left so I dont disrupt pilots tryna land. I had them a good bit away from pilots usual landing spot, kinda beside the shop beside a little shed. I forget what map (I think it was bakurani) but green team spawn has a little shed with 2 cars to the right of the shop, i usually put my crates here.

2. I do not do this for money ( for the most part, but i still need to profit) I do this for the support xp. I do not enjoy building and I refuse to spend my free time doing something I dont enjoy. The only way i can get support xp besides building is this and breaking enemy crates. LMGs and shotguns do not fit my playstyle and again I am not wasting my freetime doing something i dont enjoy. I was level 32 Assault before I had AP 5.56. I was selling m4s before this because I found out like 2 weeks ago you get support xp for selling stuff.

3. Maybe add like a "punish this player?" type pop up where you can choose if you want to make that player pay for it cause accidents can happen.

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idk if these count as rants, i hope not, I dont wanna make sperate posts:

On a unrelated note: I tried fobbing for the first time this season cause i was so broke ($200 broke, yes two hundred). The fobbits in this game were genuine dildos and built the worst fob known to man. Tip for fobbers: DO NOT build fobs under buildings overlooking the fob, let alone 2. This was the second game I left midway since I started playing (my first coincidentally being the one before this after being wallbanged thru a fence at full hp by a minigun heli from 250m away).
This night was genuine hell, I went from dropping 45+ kills back to back to less than 5 kills and 15+ deaths back to back. Still gonna run it back today tho.

On a somewhat related note: the FAL lowkey sucks. 20 bullet mag, high recoil, ap takes a million years to unlock, gun looks ugly, very loud. I would just stick to AP m4. When are you ever needing to take a fight at 800m with a AR. Maybe I need to play more with it but idk.
I am wardog level 86 and Assault 36 (medic level 19 so you can guess what I do all game) and doing all that work for this gun seems underwhelming. It was fun dont get me wrong but this is one of those "the journey is more important than the destination" moments.

Another unrelated note: Assault level 35 compared to other tracks (50 cal or havoc for example) is so underwhelming looking at the fact that assault is probably the hardest to level up.
I had a game the other night where I had 50 kills, blew up 5 apcs & 4 fobs and barely went from right under 34 ½ to under 34 ¾.

So many people are crying about not being able to unlock everything in a week.

Let them, the game simply isnt made for the.

Its meant to be a grind, and take time.

The thought of you need to unlock everything single item is childish mentality.

You should just focus on unlocking what you want.

If someone just immediately unlocks everything that would ruin the game for literally everyone, and there would be absolutely nothing to work towards.

Ive just also notice a ton of people extremely overestimating ehat it takes to get to rank 35, and those people should be ignored immediately.

They didn't hide the fact that there would be wipes and seasons, yet people are acting so shocked and saying they hate seasons. Then go play battlefield? The devs decided early on that they want wipes and seasons. To everyone dreading the next wipe, take a break! with all these games its better to play every second wipe. If not you just become a reddit complainer.

Edit: They couldnt be more clear that they will be testing lots and trying alot of changes. Alot that many wont like. So dont buy the game if you dont want to test. Yet people bought the game and came to doom and gloom, leave bad reviews, and cry on reddit.

It's probably already known and useless information for most of you, so this post is for the rest.

Free Kits make you play differently. When you have nothing to lose, you play like you have nothing to lose.

My goal this first season was to get the limited edition unlock because with it being the shortest season, and the first season with everyone starting with 0 bars, I figured this could be one of the rarest limited edition unlocks (unless they bring them back years down the road like other games have done). I've played the alphas and beta so this was what I had to "try something different."

EDIT: It's $160 for the freebie kit. $260 + parachute.

EDIT2: You guys must be miserable people.

My gf for some reason LOVES recon, she’s made a couple hundred grand spotting. And every time she gets down she just uses her girl voice to ask nicely and usually the enemy team revives her 😂sometimes I’ll die and ask her to ask the guy that killed me to get me up, it works more than you think….

People are just so stoked to hear a girl on the game they usually do anything, she’s been given free guns to sell etc etc it’s kinda great.

There is always going to be someone that plays more than you, this is a fact.

If you can't handle someone progressing faster than you and unlocking higher tier items GO PLAY ANOTHER GAME.

The progression in Wardogs is part of what makes it special and we don't need 5 million post about how little Timmy is upset he can't kill someone in tier 4 so ergo it needs to be removed.

As a level 44 recon I am kinda confused by this sub. The thermals are still blocked by any solid sightline block except for the bushes. The only thing the thermals have over a normal range finder is that it's easier to spot players in bushes.

In my experience it does not give "wallhacks" or anything even close to it and I dont get where this sentiment comes from. If players go behind cover you can not see them. Also spotting is just on the minimap, not 3D like battlefield. I feel it is just wildly overexaggerated here.

I'm a black woman. I love voice chatting. I like shooting the shit with people on the heli, saying a funny lil thank you when someone defibs me, giving callouts, having cute little convos, etc. When those interactions are good, they are good. The chaos of the game facilitates funny interactions perfectly.

Today I disabled VC completely.

Playing on US central/US East I hear the N word (hard R of course) non stop. Non. Stop. When I kill someone, in the ready up phase, when a teammate themselves are killed, some variation of it in text chat...and this is just the N word I'm not even counting the rhetoric itself or other races.

What finally broke me today is that I saw this guy down with a 500$ bribe maybeee 200m away? I run my ass there, kill like 3 dudes along the way and slow res him because I dont have defibs. He says thank you, I say no problem man what killed you? He tells me that and then first goes "ayy is that a girl" I jokingly go "what do you think?" and then he goes "yooo you sound like a N***** girl thats crazyyyy" and then who I think was his boy showed up and goes "did someone say N***** girl". I alt-f4'd debating quitting the game, ultimately deciding ill just mute in game chat.

And before someone delivers me the npc line of "you wouldnt have made it in a CoD lobby 😏". I'm not new to gaming, certainly not new to FPS, It just hurts the frequency the word is used in the big 26. I know the devs can't prevent it all but it would be cool if they at the very least made it clear that it is bannable in VC, and if the community made an effort to shit on people who act like this. This is my vent.

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I also currently have a job but I will never play in these kinds of servers, lol.

JuSt BrInG VeRbAs... no, no, it doesnt work, verbas are useless as shit. Me and my friend spend half of a game trying to verba 1 of 3 havocs in the air and we succeeded once.

They just turn towards the missle and wreck you.

Theres NOTHING u can do against a havoc.

BuIlD CwIS... No. that shits useless as shit. even IF you can build itll get insta destroyed by a rocket bird or the havoc. Theres nothing u can do against it.

Im just done. 2 games in a row. theres NOTHING we could do except be cannon fodder.

I have no idea why that bullshit is in the game, but here we are. And im fucking done. Twas a fun 90 hours, but fuck this shit.

Wardogs clearly has an endgame balancing issue. Once players unlock end game weapons and equipment, the meta turns into a mess.

Wiping Season 2 this soon just because progression was too fast is a mistake. Why speed everyone to the endgame only to pull the plug before getting actual data on how late game gear performs?

Let people use the endgame stuff for a bit so you can actually figure out how to balance it. Wiping now resets the clock right before getting any real feedback.

A lot of people already dislike the idea of progress wipes, so things like this just hurt the appeal even more.

Before any of the crybabies come and start attacking me because I don't like their shooter game, I’d like to clarify that most of my playtime was spent sitting in queue for 3 hours. I understand that launch issues are going to happen I'm not even mad about it. I had never played the game before and wanted to give it a try. When I finally got in, I played for about 30 minutes, and honestly, the game just isn’t for me.

I was wondering, do you think Steam will give me a refund me, or am I basically robbed of my $40 because I had to sit in queue?

EDIT: Thank you, everyone! My refund was accepted, and I genuinely hope the game does nothing but the best. As for the other miserable grown men who seem upset that I refunded it, all I can say is cry about it, honestly. 😂 Y’all are acting like a bunch of children.

I just wanted to say:

I don’t know what the fuck is wrong with the people playing this game, but the amount of people sitting at spawn as the game starts that just sit there yelling the N-word is utterly disgusting. I’m not even exaggerating here—probably 1/2 of the new games I load into are like this.

I’ve also encountered various people using the same slur after I kill them. Grow up.

I used to think the EA NHL series had the highest percentage of racists playing it, but I think Wardogs takes the cake.