Official 'what is Dota anymore' discussion - Page 9367

this is Mav's fault

"our sound balance is the worst thing ever and nobody in the history of the world cares what cars sound like so long as they are distinctive and don't destroy your ears, but not only did we re-record every car sound to include shifting noises, we are now re-re-recording every vehicle sound to include suspension noises!"

literally

wat

Also "adding different breathing noises for running vs walking" man can u imagine anythign worse than breathing noises fuck that shit.

And that's just the sound part that they are actively making worse instead of addressing the HUGE issue that they have.

Then they are adding a map 1/4 the size with literally no options for loot, so that everybody can drop at 1 place and enjoy that laggy RNG fest where you hope your loot loads before the other fuckfaces loot does so that you at least have a chance to have your weapon reload register properly and shoot the guy teleporting around because servers are 6-8 tick at game start.

They are adding emotes because they can't understand why fortnite is absolutely burying them in every way, so they figure maybe adding really really poorly animated emotes that nobody wants and that vastly don't fit in their "realistic" game might help popularity (note: this is actually just a money grab lul). Also weapon and parachute skins announced too, because skins really are the only thing they care about.

"Committing" to a 2-month content release cycle, when they've committed to many various release cycles in the past and repeatedly failed to deliver on those commitments after one or two lacklustre attempts at hitting the timeline. Don't promise good patches, MAKE good patches.

In game friends list: i mean it already has that with steam
In game voice chat during lobby: literally every human that plays pubg with friends already uses 3rd party voice, and there's no way in game will be better.
Still no mention of in-game text chat: because they actually cannot fire a single synapse between every employee at the entire office

"in 2018" overhaul of all animations and parachuting. Parachuting is literally trivial to fix yesterday and nobody wants new animations. Plus this is supposed to be a roadmap not a promise of somehting vaguely "this year". In fact almost nothing had any sort of timeline whatsoever

To be fair i can't actually think of a roadmap that would make me happy or optimistic for the game, but sometimes you've already burned ur bridges you know? I'll still play some cuz its' fun but goddamn are bluehole terrible at making games. They didn't even mention making lobbies actually work instead of feeling like somebody copy+pasted their first-year compsci course code to make the lobby which is the literal first thing you encounter and have to fight every single time you want to get into a game.