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Yeah, it's another league where I'm more excited for the misc changes than the actual league. I mean, a tower defense could be fun, but it probably will just be way too slow for the current pace of the game. No league content has ever involved standing in one place so long, so it's an odd juxtaposition with the rest of the game being faster than ever before. No way to know for sure without trying it, but I'm foreseeing a lot of people ignoring the content when one tower defense section could reasonably take longer than some people are clearing entire maps.

I'm a bit torn on the melee. On one hand, the whole "you hit every monster your weapon swings through" wasn't at all impactful. On the other hand, the monster re-balance felt really good in Act 1, and I hope they finish up the rest of the acts in the same fashion. I also feel like a lot of the small tweaks worked out really well to bring the early game up to date - melee attacks don't feel like I'm hitting with a wet noodle anymore, dash and leap slam make the first few acts really engaging, and overall I just think that a new player is going to find a lot more to like.

They also buffed rare monsters' HP by about 50%, and it feels really bad. I think it was the wrong decision. Even as a veteran player who is playing a decent build with reasonable enough luck with weapon drops, killing some of these while leveling took eons, and the rewards for doing so just aren't there. Spending several minutes chipping away at Stinkhuge the Evertanky and being rewarded with a nothing but a blue pair of mittens and a dozen white mobs worth of XP is not worth my time.

The last I played, the difficulty of your map was highly dependent on whether you spawned in a forest or a desert. Since foliage consumes pollution, starting in the forest makes the bugs a non-issue.

Regardless though, the game isn't all that difficult - I'd try tweaking pollution absorption modifier down to about half and slightly increasing the evolution rate however you'd like. As a newer player that should keep you on your toes!

I got myself a power knife and have been having a lot of fun with it, I was surprised about how quiet it is. It's just a gentle hum when activated, no one can hear it if there's more than a dozen people fighting. It's really good as it is, especially at night, but there's apparently an implant that gives you a semi-cloak on melee kill that you can attack during. That sounds dirty.

Implants in general feel like they've gone in a more questionable direction. Things like Carapace, Athlete, and the Nightmare implant I mentioned above are just a bit too... direct, I guess? Back when the implant system was new, none of the implants had a direct combat advantage. You weren't going to lose a fair fight and be like "oh, I lost because that heavy had X implant", because there were only things like rangefinder, regen, minesweeper, etc. Really high level implants were also incredibly rare back then, almost everyone was just running around with Regen I and Enhanced Rangefinder. Now you can expect almost everyone to be running top tier implants at all times.

I honestly haven't played in a long while, and I feel kind of bad about it. Warframe is a lovely game, but the power trip gameplay just got boring to me. Beating a mission doesn't make me feel like I accomplished anything, there's no real reward once you've gathered enough resources, and acquiring new weapons just becomes tedious after a while. That last bit in particular really bugged me - I managed to acquire just about every weapon but ended up giving up once I realized just how samey the 200-some weapons I tried actually were. If you've played with a single bow, shotgun, sniper, launcher, rifle, etc. you've basically played with all of them. Melee weapons in particular are really bad about this, there's a metric ton of them and they all feel exactly the same.

I wanted to try this out again but I was having horrible lag issues. Every ten seconds or so, every player on the map would start wildly warping around. Had the same issue before the latest patch, so I can't quite blame the new engine... it's just frustrating because I used to play Planetside 2 on a lower bandwidth, higher ping, and less stable connection back in the day without serious issues.

The NS operatives have really good models, I guess. That's really the only thing I could experience in the hour or so I tried playing!

I miss having some "downtime" or "sideline" activities in Factorio.

I think this hits the nail on the head, and if Satisfactory is to become real competition, this is something they need to continually design around. Factorio will always be a better factory management game, there's just so much polish and time put into that exact thing. However, every Factorio patch I find myself secretly wishing they added something else, gingerly waiting terrain changes, native life additions, new ways to explore and interact with the world. But that's clearly not what Factorio is really about, and that's fine. Satisfactory can be a good factory game too, but pushing that exploration and interaction with the world is the way I would like to see them deviate from Factorio's path.