[2023] Stealth is nearly useless in many POIs, 2 potential solutions

Originally posted by Pipann:

Originally posted by esthergray: I took the hospital by nerd poling up on the rooftop just below the one they are on. I would use a bow and crouch , this would help me take out almost half of them without waking the rest up. When the rest wake up I take out a gun and go to town. Now having said that, I never took on a tier 4 or 5 until I had good guns. I could have mowed them down from the start but it was more fun to try and take as many as possible out before waking the others up.

Yeah, I think stealth kills and playing it smart has its own 'fun-value'. Though it would seem the devs disagree on that and end up nerfing those things to ruin the fun for players of our type. Luckily we have mods to ruin their fun too.

The problem with "stealth", was that is was way too OP. In a game where the developers never want you to feel safe, being able to nuke a top-tier POI with little effort just by being sneaky defeats the objectivity of the game.

I mean let's look at it this way. Before you could take a literal level one character with a wood bow and some stone arrows and put a single point into stealth. With only that you could take out an entire T5 POI in about an hour and take all of the loot freely. Where is the challenge there? Where is the danger?

Now is it perfect? No. They really need to fix the zeds spawning out of thin air right in front of you on the current triggers. It is a step in the right direction for fixing the sneak mechanic. You shouldn't be 100% invisible anywhere.