I realize it's part of the aging process for the game, but has anyone else noticed how quickly everything's gone stagnant in KF right now?
I don't know how to explain it, really. I guess the old thrill has died down. Me and most of my friends have maxed out our perks and aside from achievement hunting and training newbies (Two things we don't particularly like...), there's not much else to do.
Even mixing up the perks everyone uses, playing on different levels, and trying different spots can only keep things fresh for so long. Since Christmas, in my circle of friends, KF playtime has dropped from at least an hour every night to MAYBE an hour a week if we're lucky.
I guess it feels like the same-old-same-old. Unless we play on low-enough difficulties to not have a challenge, most "Fun" perk setups (All Zerkers, All Demos, ect) are painfully punished by a wipeout. So it ends up going back the the same few perks winning at the same few spots on the same maps.
And the mod community seems to be in a slump. We haven't found many good maps since the contest ended. DA2 (Which looked very promising) turned out to be very buggy and after the bugs were reported and everything, most forums about the mod seemed to disappear completely and the mod itself seems to have fallen off the face of the earth. Very few actual "Mods" that shake things up are out, either.
And TWI is, understandably, focusing on RO:HoS right now after having poured their hearts out into the last patch.
So it's all kind of stale. The community hasn't changed much, the levels haven't changed much, and no exciting new mods are out. Anyone else feel this way? And where does everyone think things are gonna go from here?
I don't know how to explain it, really. I guess the old thrill has died down. Me and most of my friends have maxed out our perks and aside from achievement hunting and training newbies (Two things we don't particularly like...), there's not much else to do.
Even mixing up the perks everyone uses, playing on different levels, and trying different spots can only keep things fresh for so long. Since Christmas, in my circle of friends, KF playtime has dropped from at least an hour every night to MAYBE an hour a week if we're lucky.
I guess it feels like the same-old-same-old. Unless we play on low-enough difficulties to not have a challenge, most "Fun" perk setups (All Zerkers, All Demos, ect) are painfully punished by a wipeout. So it ends up going back the the same few perks winning at the same few spots on the same maps.
And the mod community seems to be in a slump. We haven't found many good maps since the contest ended. DA2 (Which looked very promising) turned out to be very buggy and after the bugs were reported and everything, most forums about the mod seemed to disappear completely and the mod itself seems to have fallen off the face of the earth. Very few actual "Mods" that shake things up are out, either.
And TWI is, understandably, focusing on RO:HoS right now after having poured their hearts out into the last patch.
So it's all kind of stale. The community hasn't changed much, the levels haven't changed much, and no exciting new mods are out. Anyone else feel this way? And where does everyone think things are gonna go from here?