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Originally posted by Akashura

Sorry that my response isnt the most thought out, theres definitely better ones in this thread, but i just wanted to get my feelings about this out.
I just think that Solo/Private play is JUST as important as Free play with randoms.
As an example, i used to play tons of Warframe back then. I had some amazing Public experiences, sometimes just sitting with randoms in a survival mission for an hour straight just having a GREAT time (and i hope i will have times like that in the hunting grounds aswell).
But there were just as many times where i wanted to play solo or with a friend or two for various reasons that honestly dont matter, the thing is that i WANTED to do them alone/with friends.
I will use public hunt in the hunting grounds a lot, yes, but i also KNOW that i will want to be alone or with a friend there, without some random person running in and ruining my/ our experience.

Originally posted by Vozu_

Got it, that makes sense. To touch on the point about 3 bad teammates - Hunting Grounds will have a rebalance of multiplayer scaling so that hunting with people will feel better than it has.

As a person whose preferred way of hunting has always been to have 2-4 man private party of close friends, I am a little worried that there are too many variables here to account for.

If you make the scaling too generous (to make bad teammates not pose a problem), then an isolated squad of good players will face even less challenge than before -- and we are hurting for enjoyable challenge already. But if the scaling isn't generous enough, then yes, the added random teammates will be worse to have.

This is a complex issue, just as everything around the topic of private matchmaking is.

Originally posted by Koshaibloom

I am a solo player, i have no problem with playing with people, i don't do solo hunt just to make run faster, i do it because i like doing things alone time to time.

No solo hunting grounds is not the only thing that i don't like about this update, there is also the new progression system that looks a bit too grindy, being forced to nerf yourself to get an end-game material is not something i like ( I am not going to reforge my weapon classes and weak myself, please add another way to get aetherheart ).

Now there is another problem, i have a golden crown and you know what happen when you have one in ramsgate?, rando rando in coming with FRIEND REQUEST, so imagine in hunting grounds, i can already see myslelf BEING STALKED EVERYWHERE I GO. And thats something i deeply want to avoid.

Originally posted by Satyrox

Forced co-op from fresh new players with no gear to maxed veterans, this is tooootally not going to lead to any kind of toxicity.

Originally posted by EmmerichVibiana

When I answered "saving time" I meant I don't want to fight a health-scaled behemoth with 3 bad teammates. Removing pursuit and patrols seems like a really bad idea.

Originally posted by Akashura

I really dont like that this reads like "We've heard your complaints and decided you're wrong, and here's why", why are you asking people if they want a solo option if you're gonna dismiss them anyways.
Sometimes i just wanna hunt something alone without some rando running in, and no i dont wanna do trials, which btw you guys said thats its not in a good state.
Just give us a solo mode

Originally posted by Serrishtar

"make it feel like a co-op game that you may choose to play alone."

How do I choose that if Hunting Grounds has no solo queue? I'm confused.

Originally posted by MagganonFatalis

want instead to make it feel like a co-op game that you may choose to play alone.

Why are y'all not allowing solo play in hunting grounds then?

And why are there so many un-solofriendly mechanics in in Dauntless?

Originally posted by RainbowSixThermite

I can't answer for OP, but this looks like it was supposed to say something like "Quanti anni hai" which asks how old you are, instead of just saying how dare you.

I would assume the answer to that would be yes.

Originally posted by frostyjokerr

As an end game player, I see your grievances and can agree in many fashions, but boring?

I got to the point where the game became a lull and me and my boy just steamrolled through everything, completing Hunt Passes by the weekend’s end, completing missions and eventually finishing most of the mastery.

After a while, we were just like “what do we do now?” So we just got innovative and challenged ourselves. We would make just bullshit classes, still powerful because weapons and armor are max, but we would go cell-less, or use ridiculous combos of cells. It keeps us entertained, challenging ourselves with ridiculous shit. Lol

Maybe, though, you are fading away from the game. You’ve lost the flame you once had for it, and that happens. I’d wait for Dauntless Reforged to make any final decisions about leaving though.. seems pretty fun!

Originally posted by Coromaru

I think you really hit the nail on the head. Specially when talking about playing with friends.

Dauntless use to be a much harder game. A game that required you to work as a team. Rare drops were earned by focusing and breaking the same part 2-3 times.

Ultimately for me the issue is the game has become to much of a joke. Killing a behemoth without it moving isn’t a challenge and our power allows us to do this. Every behemoth is slowly getting a interrupt which is more free damage.

Where as fighting a constantly active behemoth for 10-20 minutes like we use to can be very challenging.

Originally posted by danydh

thats why i quit the game.

yes the game is fun buts legit all grind. grind to increase damage unitl you can post your one shot videos on reddit. that seems to be the end goal. if you want a game to waste time with a friend, then the game is fun. but solo playing is braindead boring

Originally posted by obsalex

I agree on around 50% of what you said, as in yes the game needs to require mastery of a weapon to kill things fast, yes we should have a diverse party to take care of monsters BUT with changes as such the game would feel WAYY to much like monster hunter's small copycat brother, because what makes dauntless beautiful IMO is that you can become strong, it's not monster Hunter where a hunt at max level lasts an hour, it's instead possible to become stronger thanks to "risky" Cells for damage up, and I'd like to remind you how did it FEEL to fight and beat your first shroud/riftstalker, it was hard wasn't it, but now they are way easier to defeat all because you grinded the equipment, became stronger and this is your reward, kicking a monster, who previously destroyed you, so hard they disappear in aether dust.

Originally posted by superbhole

This is a lot. I'ma do my best to find your best points. Some of them repeat.

You're kinda late to most of the conversation, though.

A lot of the very stuff you addressed is changing in December.

The game just boils down to damage.

They're removing lantern power that we got from Escalations. It was pretty pointless, and made skill less important.

Half of the items in this game makes no sense.

We all agree, slayers and developers alike. Cell rework is literally at the top of their list, if I'm not mistaken.

Why can't my molten edict cannon ball interupt someone but my weighted chain blades can?

This one's pretty off-topic, but since I'm a real molten edict main, I'll answer.

It was supposed to be a tradeoff, every other hammer got a concussive blast with stupidly short range ...

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