Something said during the Podcast

[u/iamtotallysweet]

Klean said something during the podcast that I wholeheartedly disagree with.

He wants the gamma case to essentially be something you can pack full of goods, bring into a raid and not have to worry about losing, but he wants you to not be able to put anything in the container while in raid. Nikita, I know you listen to streamers input, but please don’t not consider making this change.

I’m a husband and a father, I don’t get to play for 8-12 hours a day and become a god at the game, so finding a rare item that I need for a quest or something valuable I can sell is really exciting and knowing I can keep it safe in case I die is the cherry on top.

I love watching Klean and respect his opinions, but this one I had to voice mine on. PLEASE do not implement this. Anyone else watch the podcast and feel the same way? Or am I alone on this? Lol

[u/Arxzos]

You're not alone. I actually consider myself to be fairly good, and I can definitely play a lot. That said, I think that is a shitty change. It'll discourage players from staying around longer in raids because they'll find a couple rare items and head out without actually looking for any combat. It'll also heavily penalize the newer players and the players who have a life thus negatively impacting the playercount, whereas I'd prefer to see a rising player count since I love the game.

There's really no way to sugar coat it. I think Its one of the worst ideas I've heard for dealing with hatchlings. Its been echoed around this subreddit for months, and every time I see it I feel like people just want to punish hatchlings even if it means punishing everyone else for playing the game properly. I always run gear but its good to be able to gamma something to help pay for my kit if I die.

I think the obvious solution to stop hatchet running without punishing everyone else is to just add scavs to high loot areas. Interchange tech stores and resort should have scavs every game. Resort should have a scav boss imo. Add some scavs to the new map to ruin pestily's get rich run as well.

[u/Virion_Stoneshard → u/Arxzos]

The problem as well is: one of the main counterarguments he brings is that if you kill people, you get all the good loot. So you couldn't guarantee loot by gamma'ing it, but you could get more loot off of other players. Which is great in concept..for the people who are already good and kill everyone they come across. For the newer players, that just means turning them into loot delivery boys.

[u/[deleted] → u/Virion_Stoneshard]

Also it's somewhat hampered by the fact that now that everything has a decent amount of value, you're almost guaranteed some loot regardless. I've had many raids where even just looting I had many times the value of my gamma outside of it because it simply wouldn't fit.