I’m really enjoying surviving on Arrakis. I’m also incredibly impressed by the sheer determination and ingenuity of some players to find ways to inflict grief in the absence of direct PVP.
Building bases in chokepoints to prevent vehicle traversal. Building bases around precious resources/water. Drive your buggy up to someone’s door and remove one of the wheels, can’t get in and out of that door, now. Need to park your ornithopter to scout for resources? Better hope someone doesn’t pop out from behind a rock, claim the land under it and then build a structure around your expensive toy, trapping it inside forever.
Absolutely impressive levels of architecture-based warfare.
That sounds absolutely stupid. I was on the fence after seeing a few trailers, but that helps make the decision.
My rule of thumb for me is if other players have any capacity whatsoever to be an asshole and if you do not have absolute 100% total control over who you might run into, I just don’t play it because one in ten people online if not more tend to be like this.
Yep some a…hole also blocked my favorite aluminium farm route with a building the other day … luckily he was gone after 2 days.
You know you can store your vehicles in the vehicle backup tool, right ?
Not if they are loaded with a ton of resources.
Also not if it’s anything larger than a Sandbike
aaaand I’m out.
I play for fun and relaxation. I meet enough assholes in real life, thank you very much.
This is 100% of the reason I don’t play MMORPGs. I have considered, so many times, Read Dead Online or GTA Online. Really love those games. (Esp. with my new killer machine.) But… people. Ooof. Also, I had a friend at work who left almost every day, promptly at 5pm. “Where are you going?” “WoW raid tonight.” I do NOT want that kind of obligation. I like to open a game, be able to shut it down immediately if something comes up. (I also lean away from games where you have to get to a “save point”. GTA is like… Read more »
War, wat never changes
Yeah, that’s basically the reason I don’t play multiplayer games at all – the other players. 😉
I’m with the non-buyers; I don’t want to have to carefully find a path through the game to avoid all the schoolyard bullies actively trying to ruin everyone’s enjoyment.
I’ve personally run into none of this.
Same here… it’s very isolated incidents. It is far from being a rampant issue.
“Schoolyard bullies”. That is the most apt description I’ve heard for this. And it’s 100% accurate.
Begone, Fortnite; you have been bested!
Those people should be IP banned
Yet more reasons to not play more Funcom garbage. That’s it. No more notes.
It’s not Funcom, it’s just humanity as always being a massive asshole and getting kicks out of causing suffering to other people. Crap like this has been around since the OG days of WoW, nothing new.
As someone else already said, the number one thing that ruins any multiplayer game is other people.
The couple times I’ve encountered this, its been more of an annoyance than anything genuinely obstructive. Thankfully I have yet to encounter the vehicle tread removal griefing, but that seems easy enough to counter with the full-refund structure demolition. Turn door into wall and move door one panel over.
Saw that behavior with a 1800s survival sandbox game called Heat. Never fails to astound the lengths some people will go to in order to compensate for how pathetic they think themselves to be.