It was pretty neat for the couple of games I played early yesterday, later on when I tried to login after work there were serious server issues though and I couldn't get into any more games. If they iron out connectivity issues it seems like a pretty fun f2p tarkov alternative
eh it could go that way if they decide to go in on le ebin character design, it has zoomershit like the battle pass
https://i.imgur.com/ANm8s3K.jpg
Is the Cycle Frontier good?
but to answer your question it "feels" like a more approachable tarkov, its the only other "loot, shoot, 'n scoot" type shooter i've played
i havent liked "a new spin on shooters" in a while but this format works out somewhat for me.
now if only we can have one that incorporates advanced movement
correct, it tries to be a casualized tarkov while the current state of tarkov isn't even what it wanted to be but got stuck as when it became a streamer bait
>old cycle was fun as shit
Frontier has its moments, but nothing beats working on contracts to the last minute, getting killed, and panic buying a hovercycle to outrun the storm while this was blasting in your ear.
any idea what triggers their melee? sometimes ill run into one that constantly goes for melee over its ranged atk even if i back off it zerg rushes forever.
also any info on the knife dmg to players? how any hits does it take to kill a green armor?
>also any info on the knife dmg to players? how any hits does it take to kill a green armor?
I don't know the specifics, but after being knifed in the back by a noob I was trying to help mine while wearing greens, I can confirm all it takes is two charged melees to kill someone in greens.
Pro tip: if someone is running around with nothing but a knife, just kill them; those bastards are treacherous loot goblins.
>outrun the storm while this was blasting in your ear.
my homie
im sad that they nuked the old game that had some problems but still had merit to make this soulless piece of shit tarkov wannabe
yeah. def 2 hits. i shanked 2 solos on Crescent. i was hiding cuase i heard fat stepping but wasnt committed to being a murderer until he peaked me after passing. figured he was going to shoot so i pounced. hit me once with the green 2shot shotty. then ganked a second guy while he voiped about checking out the room i was in. not sure he was with actual friends cause the 2 guys that came next didnt even care he was dead. we tried to do some questd but they both got clawed by marauders. cant recall if i extracted on that run. think i died too.
game has some kinda draw to it. people seem to talk more than shoot.
>there were vehicles in the alpha?
Old Cycle was a ffa mission-based br where you could squad up and solo on the fly. They kept it balanced by dropping everyone with only a pistol and suit abilities, squadding up also stripped your shields. Completing contracts gave you points and money, the cash was used to buy upgrades, new weapons, or in niche cases a hovercycle. Vehicles weren't really necessary since a fully upgraded suit could get you where you needed to go (except dragonfly, which was for pvp shitters who could only win with explosive round arbiter), but if you got fricked when the storm hit and respawned at your dropzone you weren't making evac unless you had the spare cash for a ride. Even then there was a chance you'd get left behind anyway. Fun as shit.
Played a few matches. Half with friends, half solo.
It's surprisingly pretty. Core gameplay loop is fun.
But severs are a little laggy atm.
Crafting needs a lot more items, hell I think their needs to be more content in general.
The only solid negative is that, especially in solo, because the game shows where you land in the match. You can be instantly killed the moment you start.
They need like a minor invulnerability window when you first land.
>Namegay
So far it looks like premium fun buxs is just for skins and crafting timers.
And you can use in game currency to do that aswell. In fact the game lets you generate passive income.
It could very well be p2w in the future. But reddit troony gonna male.
But it could also be a genuine fun product.
>But reddit troony gonna male.
You're the fricking redditor playing and being supportive of garbage F2P games. Look at you type like a fricking 16 year old. Premium fun buxs? Grow the frick up and get some taste you helpless Black person.
How do 16 year olds type and why are you so familiar with the concept? Spend a lot of time texting your upperclassmen?
2 years ago
Anonymous
never socialized over text in your childhood?
2 years ago
Anonymous
Of course, but my childhood wasn't last summer, so I have a bit of trouble remembering how a 16 year old talks. Seems like their vernacular is fresh in your head, though.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Yeah I guess when you're not bullied in highschool those memories don't fade as easy.
> I think their needs to be more content in general.
Definitely needs to be more monsters, there's just the basic b***h ones, the bug eyed ones, the ticks, the marauders, and then there's something else apparently called a crusher that I've never seen yet. >The only solid negative is that, especially in solo, because the game shows where you land in the match. You can be instantly killed the moment you start.
I've never seen anyone land close to me, or seen anyone shortly after landing. Actually coming across other players feels a bit too infrequent which makes me wonder if the Australian servers are just dead and it's meant to be more populated than it is. There has to be a fine line between the threat of other players and the ability to reasonably scavenge and escape but right now it feels too easy to do the latter. I haven't had a single person ever show up while upgrading data drives yet either, never even seen anyone else doing it for that matter.
>Namegay
So far it looks like premium fun buxs is just for skins and crafting timers.
And you can use in game currency to do that aswell. In fact the game lets you generate passive income.
It could very well be p2w in the future. But reddit troony gonna male.
But it could also be a genuine fun product.
>So far it looks like premium fun buxs is just for skins and crafting timers.
Yeah. And the character customisation is a joke. There's like three outfits in the game at the moment and they're all paid. I guess most of the content is meant to come with the Fortuna Pass that isn't being added for another two weeks?
I wanted to play it but then I saw that everything gets wiped after 3 months, I don't mind the inventory disappearing but I don't want to have to grind back all the tech trees and faction affinity bullshit. I can barely put 3 hours per week into the game, at least let me keep the meta progression. I guess I can't ask for anything since I'm in the minority.
FAQ in the Steam forums says : >Will there be server wipes? >Yes. The servers will wipe with each Season and the economy will be reset. You will keep your Aurum and your cosmetics, everything else will be reset.
The gameloop is quite addicting and I can play it with my toaster unlike Tarkov. They need to fix the gunplay and tune down some of the mob's hp, though. Your character being a prospector is smart but the actual mining is really dull.
You can use heavy melee attack (hold left mouse button) to one shot ticks and striders. I've also learned to melee rattlers to death without taking hits.
any idea what triggers their melee? sometimes ill run into one that constantly goes for melee over its ranged atk even if i back off it zerg rushes forever.
also any info on the knife dmg to players? how any hits does it take to kill a green armor?
Rattler's ranged attack has a pretty obvious charge up animation so it's easy to dodge. When it does that you can sidestep its projectiles and heavy melee it from the side. When it gets staggered you can follow up with a light attack or two, then you need to back away. Its melee attack triggers whenever you're close and it recovers from staggered animation, and it's an AOE meaning even if you're behind it you can still get hit. It takes a bit of practice, but you can just drop down naked to learn (they're mission objectives anyways)
Biggest problem I have so far is the missions because of how much fricking luck is involved. >Three different missions currently to deliver 24 cloudy velcite between them >Velcite only spawns at the waterfalls at the very top of the map >So you first need to spawn somewhere near that part of the map and/or have an extraction point near that part of the map >Then you need to actually get there without getting ganked >Then you need the velcite to actually be there and to not have already been mined by someone else >Then you need to mine the velcite without getting ganked >Then you need the cloudy velcite to actually drop from the ore veins instead of the three other types of velcite it could drop >Then you need to get the velcite back to an extraction point without getting ganked
And that's just for one item, the entire mission structure has this problem.
I still like Tarkov more IMO, but if they time their wipes around a mid-late season Tarkov that would be the perfect game to be able to bounce between the two
Game's fun, but it has fundamental problems that are going to tank it within a month, and that's excluding the inevitable hackers that will swarm it like flies on shit. >long ttk heavily favors numbers in every engagement >gear disparity further disincentivizes pvp; way more profitable to drop with nothing but a backpack and just bumrush nodes >matchmaking is determined by consecutive extraction profits; nothing to stop players dropping naked to foam themselves until they can join a noob mmr map with a full set of epics and only leave when they run out of ammo >full wipes; have fun grinding out faction ranks and room upgrades every three months >the devs have no fricking clue what they're doing besides shoehorning assets into a genre they were not designed for
They'll need a small miracle to prevent Frontier from going the way of it's immediate predecessor.
>>long ttk heavily favors numbers in every engagement
I don't even know about that, shit feels super inconsistent thanks to armour and weapon values, of which there is zero way for the player to identify them while playing. Which is a problem when using a shotgun because you'd think you can kill someone with two shotgun blasts to the face, but then they have too much armour so you don't, and then you get fricked while reloading because ARs seem like the best weapon in the game anyway.
>gear disparity further disincentivizes pvp
This is the main reason I can't fully enjoy games like this, specially Tarkov. The whole idea of being some kind of scavenger looting whatever you find to make enough profit to live another day goes down the drain when you have fully geared military psychos running around with overmodded guns. I'd rather get a game where the upgrades are mainly focused on your base, stats or faction reputation rather than the items you bring to the raids.
For me, the genre should be about the rat race of some cheeki scavs fighting for literal garbage rather than the streamer friendly, squad focused pvp galore that we have. To each their own, of course.
I fully agree.
I wish the "upgrades" were more about increasing the variety of what you can bring along and other utility stuff.
I can't imagine playing double digit hours in this game, getting my ultimate weapon setup, only to lose it the next moment because I got sniped or ambushed.
The game is too much risk and barely any reward.
does anyone know how many other "kill X number of prospectors" quests there are? i did the osiris one and gibbed some white armor in the swamps after cornering him in a building and i felt like i was killing myself (had been murdered like that a few times). felt dirty. can't really tell who you're shooting at until you get those white/green/etc hit marks. suppose i should have let him go when i saw the white hit marks but i also didnt want to spend time searching for another only to get duo'd.
As someone who didn't play Tarkov, Frontier is pretty cool so far. my only real gripe is how deadly the monsters can be, specially with how tanky they are. Also the sound effects of my footsteps on the different types of ground is making me paranoid, I always feel like there are other people around because of how varied the footsteps sound can be if i stepped on a plastic bag.
I think the problem is that the environmental sounds for things like stepping on broken glass are generated separately to the normal footstep sounds and so when you trigger them yourself it causes the sounds to play slightly off-centre, which makes it sound like they're coming from somewhere else instead of being your own noise.
I've seen several FPS games have this problem it usually results in playing the players sounds as 2d vs 3d audio. That is to say if the players own footsteps are 3d audio its gonna sound like you're walking circles around yourself.
I almost didn't make it out of my first raid in time because my own footsteps made me think there was someone sneaking up on me waiting for me to get it, I was just kinda ADAD strafing and it sounded like someone walking 5m away.
The footstep sounds in this game are the worst of any game I have ever played. They sound like they are coming from 5m behind you and they lag almost a full second behind your actual movements. Also your leg movements are chained to your aim so you trigger footsteps with even the slightest turn especially when standing on rocks or glass.
The footstep sounds in this game are the worst of any game I have ever played. They sound like they are coming from 5m behind you and they lag almost a full second behind your actual movements. Also your leg movements are chained to your aim so you trigger footsteps with even the slightest turn especially when standing on rocks or glass.
get your hearing checked? did the same just now, at least your own footsteps sound fine
fair point about the aim footsteps though
We are two different people anon and other people on steam and reddit have said the same things. It may vary depending on your sound drivers and speaker setup but it is a real problem.
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please point to where i deliberately said you were samegayging
beyond that, im getting "lots of people have hearing issues" out of your response m8
They're fine for general pve purposes, serviceable for pvp if you catch a sucker unawares or distracted. A single nade in your safe pocket as an opening is a major boon to the pvp fight even just in terms of mindset.
Man mode drops with nothing but the safe pocket nade and a backpack can be fun.
It was fun before they reworked it into a tarkov clone.
Im not big on tarkov, but tarkov does tarkov better. Cycle 2.0 feels like a tactical game where you move 1mph, but instead of a small submarine or killhouse, you're transversing a giant open world. The old map from the original, better Cycle does not fit the new Tarkov-Clone style gameplay at all. Also its buggy as shit.
It has potential but I am having a hard time playing solo because every time I die, it's because there's a team of 2 or 3.
Creature spawns are all over the fricking place, it sucks having to kill 10 monsters on crescent falls when there's nothing but marauders, other types rarely spawn and the map is full of cheaters, no reason to take expensive gear when you'll just lose it all.
They need to tackle the cheater problem somehow. The game shines in group play. The gunplay is arcadey but fun, whereas tarkov's realistic shooting is great, this game fills a different niche.
I like the faction system, focusing on the faction whose weapons you want to use, the PvE would be fun if the monster AI was consistent and their hitboxes weren't such garbage. Questing is quite fun and gives an alternative to just going to kill players.
Game needs a lot of QoL work, but I'm enjoying it a lot. Made a couple friends already from voip. Most of my quests now are on Crescent Falls now which I'm dreading. Already been there 15 times or so and ran into a hacker once that was trying to wallbang me for like 2 minutes straight before he got on voip and told me to get out of the corner. I managed to run away but still died later.
They need to adjust the spawns and the players per map by 10-20%, especially on Crescent because it feels like you can't walk 5 step without stepping on a trio.
>try playing >do a mission and finish the task to kill a trash mob >go back to station >barman gives me upgrade mats and tells me to go get better gear >do it >decide to wait the 15 minutes >while I'm waiting my wifi drops and I disconnect >reconnect and it now the gear printer tells me the action is blocked until I finish barman's tasks >barman has no tasks and just tells me "you're all set now! be sure to upgrade your quarters too!" >go inside quarters >all of the interactions are blocked with the same message to finish barman's tasks >go do another run in the field, finish another faction job to see if I can trigger anything >nothing >cannot progress further
well this sucks
meh i like it. it feels like a less PvP focused but less confusing tarkov. you dont need to know what ammo goes in this specific gun while also knowing special ammo it can also take and you dont have to hunt for GPUs. its still far from polished though and dont get me started on evacs taking a million years so to actually leave so you can die
judging from the pic its chink sjw feminist horseshit
It was pretty neat for the couple of games I played early yesterday, later on when I tried to login after work there were serious server issues though and I couldn't get into any more games. If they iron out connectivity issues it seems like a pretty fun f2p tarkov alternative
anon are you ok
eh it could go that way if they decide to go in on le ebin character design, it has zoomershit like the battle pass
but to answer your question it "feels" like a more approachable tarkov, its the only other "loot, shoot, 'n scoot" type shooter i've played
i havent liked "a new spin on shooters" in a while but this format works out somewhat for me.
now if only we can have one that incorporates advanced movement
The original cycle was better, Frontier is fricking boring
correct, it tries to be a casualized tarkov while the current state of tarkov isn't even what it wanted to be but got stuck as when it became a streamer bait
old cycle was fun as shit
Only advantage this game has over Tarkov is the queueing time.
>old cycle was fun as shit
Frontier has its moments, but nothing beats working on contracts to the last minute, getting killed, and panic buying a hovercycle to outrun the storm while this was blasting in your ear.
>also any info on the knife dmg to players? how any hits does it take to kill a green armor?
I don't know the specifics, but after being knifed in the back by a noob I was trying to help mine while wearing greens, I can confirm all it takes is two charged melees to kill someone in greens.
Pro tip: if someone is running around with nothing but a knife, just kill them; those bastards are treacherous loot goblins.
>outrun the storm while this was blasting in your ear.
my homie
im sad that they nuked the old game that had some problems but still had merit to make this soulless piece of shit tarkov wannabe
yeah. def 2 hits. i shanked 2 solos on Crescent. i was hiding cuase i heard fat stepping but wasnt committed to being a murderer until he peaked me after passing. figured he was going to shoot so i pounced. hit me once with the green 2shot shotty. then ganked a second guy while he voiped about checking out the room i was in. not sure he was with actual friends cause the 2 guys that came next didnt even care he was dead. we tried to do some questd but they both got clawed by marauders. cant recall if i extracted on that run. think i died too.
game has some kinda draw to it. people seem to talk more than shoot.
there were vehicles in the alpha?
>there were vehicles in the alpha?
Old Cycle was a ffa mission-based br where you could squad up and solo on the fly. They kept it balanced by dropping everyone with only a pistol and suit abilities, squadding up also stripped your shields. Completing contracts gave you points and money, the cash was used to buy upgrades, new weapons, or in niche cases a hovercycle. Vehicles weren't really necessary since a fully upgraded suit could get you where you needed to go (except dragonfly, which was for pvp shitters who could only win with explosive round arbiter), but if you got fricked when the storm hit and respawned at your dropzone you weren't making evac unless you had the spare cash for a ride. Even then there was a chance you'd get left behind anyway. Fun as shit.
Played a few matches. Half with friends, half solo.
It's surprisingly pretty. Core gameplay loop is fun.
But severs are a little laggy atm.
Crafting needs a lot more items, hell I think their needs to be more content in general.
The only solid negative is that, especially in solo, because the game shows where you land in the match. You can be instantly killed the moment you start.
They need like a minor invulnerability window when you first land.
It’s fricking garbage what are you talking about.
Pay2win trash.
Weapon rarity bullshit. Legendary guns literally cost a million credits.
Only four types of enemies.
It’s shit.
>Namegay
So far it looks like premium fun buxs is just for skins and crafting timers.
And you can use in game currency to do that aswell. In fact the game lets you generate passive income.
It could very well be p2w in the future. But reddit troony gonna male.
But it could also be a genuine fun product.
>But reddit troony gonna male.
You're the fricking redditor playing and being supportive of garbage F2P games. Look at you type like a fricking 16 year old. Premium fun buxs? Grow the frick up and get some taste you helpless Black person.
>type like a 16 year old
>grow the frick up
>get some taste you helpless Black person
sure showed him, 14 year old.
How do 16 year olds type and why are you so familiar with the concept? Spend a lot of time texting your upperclassmen?
never socialized over text in your childhood?
Of course, but my childhood wasn't last summer, so I have a bit of trouble remembering how a 16 year old talks. Seems like their vernacular is fresh in your head, though.
Yeah I guess when you're not bullied in highschool those memories don't fade as easy.
>crafting timers
Excluding match 4 phone games, crafting timers are the second most profitable pay2win scheme in mobile gaming today.
> I think their needs to be more content in general.
Definitely needs to be more monsters, there's just the basic b***h ones, the bug eyed ones, the ticks, the marauders, and then there's something else apparently called a crusher that I've never seen yet.
>The only solid negative is that, especially in solo, because the game shows where you land in the match. You can be instantly killed the moment you start.
I've never seen anyone land close to me, or seen anyone shortly after landing. Actually coming across other players feels a bit too infrequent which makes me wonder if the Australian servers are just dead and it's meant to be more populated than it is. There has to be a fine line between the threat of other players and the ability to reasonably scavenge and escape but right now it feels too easy to do the latter. I haven't had a single person ever show up while upgrading data drives yet either, never even seen anyone else doing it for that matter.
>So far it looks like premium fun buxs is just for skins and crafting timers.
Yeah. And the character customisation is a joke. There's like three outfits in the game at the moment and they're all paid. I guess most of the content is meant to come with the Fortuna Pass that isn't being added for another two weeks?
It’s gonna be dead by the end of the month from how shit it is.
i like it
had a few server disconnects and the friend lobby system is fricked up but its fun
It’s not fun, it’s shit.
I had fun
add walker as a playable character then we will talk
It's alright. Needs more content.
its fun
Anyone else a pacifist?
I wish this game was pay to win. In Escape from Tarkov the EOD version gives you the 3x3 pouch and maxed out inventory space from the very start.
I wanted to play it but then I saw that everything gets wiped after 3 months, I don't mind the inventory disappearing but I don't want to have to grind back all the tech trees and faction affinity bullshit. I can barely put 3 hours per week into the game, at least let me keep the meta progression. I guess I can't ask for anything since I'm in the minority.
factions and tech tree too? i thought it was only inventory
FAQ in the Steam forums says :
>Will there be server wipes?
>Yes. The servers will wipe with each Season and the economy will be reset. You will keep your Aurum and your cosmetics, everything else will be reset.
So I'm guessing we keep nothing.
>no solo queue
wtf were they thinking?
The gameloop is quite addicting and I can play it with my toaster unlike Tarkov. They need to fix the gunplay and tune down some of the mob's hp, though. Your character being a prospector is smart but the actual mining is really dull.
You can use heavy melee attack (hold left mouse button) to one shot ticks and striders. I've also learned to melee rattlers to death without taking hits.
>heavy melee attack (hold left mouse button)
I don't think the game ever told me this existed.
any idea what triggers their melee? sometimes ill run into one that constantly goes for melee over its ranged atk even if i back off it zerg rushes forever.
also any info on the knife dmg to players? how any hits does it take to kill a green armor?
Rattler's ranged attack has a pretty obvious charge up animation so it's easy to dodge. When it does that you can sidestep its projectiles and heavy melee it from the side. When it gets staggered you can follow up with a light attack or two, then you need to back away. Its melee attack triggers whenever you're close and it recovers from staggered animation, and it's an AOE meaning even if you're behind it you can still get hit. It takes a bit of practice, but you can just drop down naked to learn (they're mission objectives anyways)
Biggest problem I have so far is the missions because of how much fricking luck is involved.
>Three different missions currently to deliver 24 cloudy velcite between them
>Velcite only spawns at the waterfalls at the very top of the map
>So you first need to spawn somewhere near that part of the map and/or have an extraction point near that part of the map
>Then you need to actually get there without getting ganked
>Then you need the velcite to actually be there and to not have already been mined by someone else
>Then you need to mine the velcite without getting ganked
>Then you need the cloudy velcite to actually drop from the ore veins instead of the three other types of velcite it could drop
>Then you need to get the velcite back to an extraction point without getting ganked
And that's just for one item, the entire mission structure has this problem.
>call evac
>get gunned down by 2 dudes sprinting at me and screeching war cries the entire time
im not even mad
keep on meming lads
I still like Tarkov more IMO, but if they time their wipes around a mid-late season Tarkov that would be the perfect game to be able to bounce between the two
You can evac in The Cycle in the time it takes for Tarkov to find you a match lol
>green armor
>get killed by ''common'' AR in a split second
why even wear armor? it's fricking moronic
How’s the gun variety and gunplay?
Game's fun, but it has fundamental problems that are going to tank it within a month, and that's excluding the inevitable hackers that will swarm it like flies on shit.
>long ttk heavily favors numbers in every engagement
>gear disparity further disincentivizes pvp; way more profitable to drop with nothing but a backpack and just bumrush nodes
>matchmaking is determined by consecutive extraction profits; nothing to stop players dropping naked to foam themselves until they can join a noob mmr map with a full set of epics and only leave when they run out of ammo
>full wipes; have fun grinding out faction ranks and room upgrades every three months
>the devs have no fricking clue what they're doing besides shoehorning assets into a genre they were not designed for
They'll need a small miracle to prevent Frontier from going the way of it's immediate predecessor.
>>long ttk heavily favors numbers in every engagement
I don't even know about that, shit feels super inconsistent thanks to armour and weapon values, of which there is zero way for the player to identify them while playing. Which is a problem when using a shotgun because you'd think you can kill someone with two shotgun blasts to the face, but then they have too much armour so you don't, and then you get fricked while reloading because ARs seem like the best weapon in the game anyway.
>long ttk heavily favors numbers in every engagement
this shit alone will destroy the playerbase
>gear disparity further disincentivizes pvp
This is the main reason I can't fully enjoy games like this, specially Tarkov. The whole idea of being some kind of scavenger looting whatever you find to make enough profit to live another day goes down the drain when you have fully geared military psychos running around with overmodded guns. I'd rather get a game where the upgrades are mainly focused on your base, stats or faction reputation rather than the items you bring to the raids.
For me, the genre should be about the rat race of some cheeki scavs fighting for literal garbage rather than the streamer friendly, squad focused pvp galore that we have. To each their own, of course.
I fully agree.
I wish the "upgrades" were more about increasing the variety of what you can bring along and other utility stuff.
I can't imagine playing double digit hours in this game, getting my ultimate weapon setup, only to lose it the next moment because I got sniped or ambushed.
The game is too much risk and barely any reward.
Just play scav main and treat PMCs like NPCs.
anyone want to play? drop your username
does anyone know how many other "kill X number of prospectors" quests there are? i did the osiris one and gibbed some white armor in the swamps after cornering him in a building and i felt like i was killing myself (had been murdered like that a few times). felt dirty. can't really tell who you're shooting at until you get those white/green/etc hit marks. suppose i should have let him go when i saw the white hit marks but i also didnt want to spend time searching for another only to get duo'd.
anyone been trio'd yet?
As someone who didn't play Tarkov, Frontier is pretty cool so far. my only real gripe is how deadly the monsters can be, specially with how tanky they are. Also the sound effects of my footsteps on the different types of ground is making me paranoid, I always feel like there are other people around because of how varied the footsteps sound can be if i stepped on a plastic bag.
Yeah there's definitely something off about the footstep sounds
I think the problem is that the environmental sounds for things like stepping on broken glass are generated separately to the normal footstep sounds and so when you trigger them yourself it causes the sounds to play slightly off-centre, which makes it sound like they're coming from somewhere else instead of being your own noise.
I've seen several FPS games have this problem it usually results in playing the players sounds as 2d vs 3d audio. That is to say if the players own footsteps are 3d audio its gonna sound like you're walking circles around yourself.
I almost didn't make it out of my first raid in time because my own footsteps made me think there was someone sneaking up on me waiting for me to get it, I was just kinda ADAD strafing and it sounded like someone walking 5m away.
The footstep sounds in this game are the worst of any game I have ever played. They sound like they are coming from 5m behind you and they lag almost a full second behind your actual movements. Also your leg movements are chained to your aim so you trigger footsteps with even the slightest turn especially when standing on rocks or glass.
get your hearing checked? did the same just now, at least your own footsteps sound fine
fair point about the aim footsteps though
We are two different people anon and other people on steam and reddit have said the same things. It may vary depending on your sound drivers and speaker setup but it is a real problem.
please point to where i deliberately said you were samegayging
beyond that, im getting "lots of people have hearing issues" out of your response m8
pretty cool game. I wish it had its own general on /vg/
How good are the starter weapons in this game? I'm a chronic cheapskate and like bringing low cost loadouts whenever possible.
There are no good starter guns. You should rely on your melee to kill creatures
They're fine for general pve purposes, serviceable for pvp if you catch a sucker unawares or distracted. A single nade in your safe pocket as an opening is a major boon to the pvp fight even just in terms of mindset.
Man mode drops with nothing but the safe pocket nade and a backpack can be fun.
It was fun before they reworked it into a tarkov clone.
Im not big on tarkov, but tarkov does tarkov better. Cycle 2.0 feels like a tactical game where you move 1mph, but instead of a small submarine or killhouse, you're transversing a giant open world. The old map from the original, better Cycle does not fit the new Tarkov-Clone style gameplay at all. Also its buggy as shit.
>no solos
suck a dick
i rmbr when 16 y/o typ lik dis ^^~
how grindy is the season pass?
doesn't seem very grindy. most of the stuff you gain experience for is just stuff you normally do. i gained 4-5 levels on the pass in like 1 hour
if I didn't calculate wrong, you can even buy it without spending money. if your aurum generator is high enough level
It has potential but I am having a hard time playing solo because every time I die, it's because there's a team of 2 or 3.
Creature spawns are all over the fricking place, it sucks having to kill 10 monsters on crescent falls when there's nothing but marauders, other types rarely spawn and the map is full of cheaters, no reason to take expensive gear when you'll just lose it all.
They need to tackle the cheater problem somehow. The game shines in group play. The gunplay is arcadey but fun, whereas tarkov's realistic shooting is great, this game fills a different niche.
I like the faction system, focusing on the faction whose weapons you want to use, the PvE would be fun if the monster AI was consistent and their hitboxes weren't such garbage. Questing is quite fun and gives an alternative to just going to kill players.
Game needs a lot of QoL work, but I'm enjoying it a lot. Made a couple friends already from voip. Most of my quests now are on Crescent Falls now which I'm dreading. Already been there 15 times or so and ran into a hacker once that was trying to wallbang me for like 2 minutes straight before he got on voip and told me to get out of the corner. I managed to run away but still died later.
They need to adjust the spawns and the players per map by 10-20%, especially on Crescent because it feels like you can't walk 5 step without stepping on a trio.
this game somehow runs worse for me than tarkov despite having way simpler graphics
>try playing
>do a mission and finish the task to kill a trash mob
>go back to station
>barman gives me upgrade mats and tells me to go get better gear
>do it
>decide to wait the 15 minutes
>while I'm waiting my wifi drops and I disconnect
>reconnect and it now the gear printer tells me the action is blocked until I finish barman's tasks
>barman has no tasks and just tells me "you're all set now! be sure to upgrade your quarters too!"
>go inside quarters
>all of the interactions are blocked with the same message to finish barman's tasks
>go do another run in the field, finish another faction job to see if I can trigger anything
>nothing
>cannot progress further
well this sucks
Game is going to die in under 3 months more than likely without a massive change of trajectory
kek
anon, the current game was a massive change of trajectory
NO!!!!!!!! unless you’re trying to fall asleep then it’s pretty good
meh i like it. it feels like a less PvP focused but less confusing tarkov. you dont need to know what ammo goes in this specific gun while also knowing special ammo it can also take and you dont have to hunt for GPUs. its still far from polished though and dont get me started on evacs taking a million years so to actually leave so you can die
>evacs taking a million years so to actually leave so you can die
You can just wait around until they start taking off and then dash into them.