Maybe not as sour of a take as Hex's here. Dev is an often thankless job and it's not easy.
Having tried Open and Legends today with an open mind. The biggest thing I'm missing is the punch. The game feels a lot more muted. I had a lot of hype going in for Beskar and Whistling Birds for example. After playing with them, they had little-to-no punch. In sore need of buffs and general game juice. Attunement was also confusing. Sabering had no weight.
I hope the game can get a bit more love in making it juicy and dynamic.
Maybe I'm just old. New music sounds like ass, movies are predictable and my donger no longer works as it used to. Perhaps it's the same with this game.
I know I have a playlist of MB2 videos saved in my youtube profile.
Could you go into details why it's less fun? The lack of admins, the number of trolls and timewasters can ruin it for sure. But beyond that how would you word it?
I personally play a lot and still find it enjoyable for the most part and I also spend equal time on modding/dev stuff. The environment of both the current community/dev team and the actual state of Star Wars make the situation a bit uneasy I could say.
I'm also confident the community wanted new classes, new weapons, new force abilities for years. It's been like 15 years since the last new class? 13 years since the last new weapon? Decades have passed and new stuff didn't really happen in Open - excluding maps/models. However you can do those in Legends easily. That might explain why it has become so popular. Now, I'm still more of a fan of Open than Legends but I can understand the psychology and evolution behind the situation we're in.
U guys are right
There's been a trend of taking away the punch of things such as mindtrick (MINDTRICK HAD MAYBE THE WORST CHANGE EVER), nadejump, force lightning, repulse and superpush (apparently unintentionally, I still feel its to do with 'collision fixes'), dueling, and more.
The swings feel weird, swingblock still isn't working right, perfect blocks and counters feel weird, and the hitboxes of saber swings are way too big still.
There's been a trend of fucking bloat in the keybinds especially for melee moves
And there's also been a trend of not adding any of the creative or original ideas for force powers / new classes / weapons. Rather all that has been added instead are ideas from other pieces of media and games. Like seriously, charged lvl 3 push was seriously considered as an idea?? That was from the force unleashed. Grip had the idea floated of you could hold it to drag people towards you? Seriously? That's from jedi fallen order and jedi survivor. Amban and whistling birds? Who asked for that? Some american players? Nobody wanted that cringe disney shit. Do not even get me started on the changes to speedlunge. Like literally that was changed because of people crying their eyes out from being speedlunged while standing above people on stairs on smuggler probably. And it was super fucking nerfed even before that with the changes to the camera lock. It wasn't an issue of an 'unfair death', those people just wanted to have it changed so that they never had to think about being speedlunged while having the high ground on a staircase.
Nobody wanted to be limited in choosing between saber and blaster defense. I don't personally think there was a problem in the availability of force powers. Now you either choose attunement 2 and blaster def 2 so that you can be half normal and still neutered, or you choose attunement 3 and may get bodied by total noobs due to the continuous increasing of fp drains as well as having blaster def 1 or even 0.
In the past you could take on a room of 2-5 gunners as a single force user, with or without saber defense. Now, you are lucky to not get pushed across the room from a single blaster shot that you swingblocked on, that also took at least 15-20 of your fp (nice knockback mechanic btw its really shit, maybe bring back flinch or reduce knockback for once?).
Really guys, nobody wanted to ever be limited in any dumbass thing like a delay between using pushes and pulls, OR A MINIMUM DISTANCE TO USE PUSH OR PULL?????, or their class building, or mechanics like nadejump being locked behind a higher level of quickthrow.
It really reflects the woke/DEI/PC culture of the past 45 years, neuter everything, make everything bland and gay, make it so everyone is included. Hell, add disney to the mix! we want disney and DEI! Why not try to attract investors from blackrock capital while we're at it? we really need to focus on our ESG in these next 3 quarters guys or we're gonna lose our funding!
It's just depressing. A good starting point to perhaps rebuild MB2 would be around 2017/2018's patches, before the game began to feel restrictive for me.
I personally still have fun in the game but I don't know how much longer that will last.
I really don't know how much more I can endure
