I like all the systems in place so far, the game has a lot of potential to be a great 40k game. My mates and I just didn't find it new player friendly, so we'll be moving on for now. Just wanted to mention a few things we would of liked to have seen. * More of those fortress map types in matches, or a way to select fortress maps to play in. * A lot Faster character leveling. To me it would have been fun exploring all the different factions and character classes with all their perks but sadly we aren't going to even see what a level 3 character will play like. * Make an easier tyrannid pve mode. Normal was too tough. Its better to have us easily kill the swarms for 30mins and explore the map, instead of making the swarm just kill us in 5 mins. Waste of an opportunity to appeal to players who just want to kill stuff for a while and test out classes against ai. Trust in your game mechanics and variety of classes, and make some more fortress type game modes. In my opinion you don't need any sort of leveling grind for longevity. For us at least it, that's what basically put us off this game for now. Maybe getting our chars to level 5 would have solved most of our struggles, but for now we'll never know.
- Fortress maps got a heavy problem with performance. For alot people the fps drops there horribly. - Faster lvling is not good. If you got to the highest lvl you will see that theres nothing to do and to achieve. Also its quite easy to get to lvl 3.
Personally I liked this game much better before all the pointless grinding was "gifted" to us. But Kampfy boy is right, rank 3 is nothing to achieve really. 2 days of casual play gets you there. I totally agree that PvE needs much tuning it's annoyingly difficult on normal and insane on hard. I don't think bE truly understands the amount of work a horde mode takes to make worth playing. You can't just plop it in haphazardly and expect it to work out. Just a bad idea all around if they want to make it a serious game mode. Better to make it a relatively easy stomp for people to blow off some steam.
Reasonable sentiments, but fortress maps have always had the worst performance due to the number of players involved and the low quality of EC's servers. If server performance could be improved, more fortress maps would be awesome. The current level grinding system is literally the only thing in place to keep people playing EC, since there is no persistent world and no strategic objectives beyond boring campaigns. PvE should be removed. Its in a shitty state and always has been, BHVR obviously can't make it good any time soon so there is no point in keeping it. It would be wiser to devote more resources into making the main part of the game better than trying to improve the worst part of the game that nobody plays.