@Turtle_Proxy "Optimal" yet takes 4 minutes to leave their own spawn. Complains about camping in cryo yet sees this in the killfeed and instead of seeing it as an opportunity to third party decides to sit back and do nothing just to get punished for it later. Very "optimal" gameplay
@ZobrosZ@blex1_@airwaro@reyneill_@MacieJay The game went F2P in June 2025. May 2025 has a higher average player count than 2016's peak. Not proving any point whatsoever
@blex1_@airwaro@reyneill_@MacieJay The game in 2016 had a peak player count of 40k with it's highest average being 17k. Last 30 days had a peak of 120k and 64k. No where near the same, you just love being stupid.
@fireaxe0@HypeDrop@MacieJay It definitely would be and I was hoping Extraction would cater to that when it came out but it never did, doesn't help that it has gotten 0 meaningful updates since release. Hopefully their new game is able to succeed with that in some way
@HypeDrop@MacieJay "Lame esport" is apparently when the competitive scene is giving out it's largest prize pools with the largest esport orgs competing in it. Also has a larger player count currently than it did on release up until February 2018 when the game already took on a competitive identity
@reyneill_@MacieJay It's a competitive fps, where a majority of the player base plays ranked, a competitive game mode. So no surprise that balance changes cater towards the larger audience, not sure how this is surprising to some of you
@BurningIllini@ALDIshopper14@reyneill_@MacieJay Operator bans are only present within unranked and ranked since they're the competitive game modes. No maps or night maps have been removed because of pro league, they have their own curated map pool that they play on. Pro league is not always to blame for changes