Title says it all... Just how I feel about the current state of things. Not a lot to say, I hope you all have a good one though and I will catch you in the next one.
The gear gap, the abyssmal end game where its forced pvp, the mass of players that try to farm but get shotdown by everyone and their godmother before they can even leave the zone. The zone entrance camping... yeah, averice and incompotence.
Thank you for putting this out. I stopped playing shortly after the winter event was over, so I have no clue how the game is now, but with this video my mind is put at ease knowing I'm not missing much. I've moved entirely back to Warframe at this point, that game actually values your time as a player and has enough content in it that the real time gates don't seem like a problem at all. Still, I can't help but feel bad for the 1k hours I put in, because the game genuinely was fun at first, but I can't see it getting any better with they way it's been going.
My bro your videos have helped me so much. I am new to SC still less than 200 hours and I have noticed that they don’t really care for balancing. I got battle pass like an idiot and most of my challenges are for pvp and you can imagine what that’s like for a new player, I’ve had like 30 kills in 150 hours and that’s while levelling in session battles I have no chance it’s like free money to them as I can’t even get far into the pass 🤣
I know the BP seems extremely predatory from the global version perspection, but from RU perspection these seasonal BPs are a huge step from a current p2w situation with loot cases. About the current BP. Yes, the 1 lvl/Day grind is really silly when you can simply buy the whole BP right away but I think its a huge mistake for whales because we dont know what would be the speed of progression during the event itself. Xmas event was really easy to grind with all that challenges and questlines. All we know right now is that the event will not be in the openworld but in some other area like anomalous Blizzard or Marathon Thank you for your content 👍
Regardless the speed of grinding with the event, if you buy all the levels now you can grind unlimited spare parts and tools from now till event end. And the thing that gates your progress the most in this game is serum... and tools/ parts to upgrade. So depending how much money you are willing to spend/time you are willing to put in after maxing your battlepass with money, you could +15 every piece of gear you wanted to and have a large advantage over most players.
I quit at Crow's Arena. I was sad, but I saw the writing on the wall back then. You're right. It could have been such a great game, but the devs aren't interested or don't know how.
this event definitely takes the cake for one of the most egregious examples of a pure greed driven event meant to squeeze money out of people. The fact they have the balls to make something this garbage and just deafen themselves until the event is fucking embarrassing. I don't think i've seen a company neglect their own product as bad as EXPO have in recent times.
Very well put. We have been neglected and treated with such disdain + contempt from the developers that it is absolutely ridiculous. Been hoping since launch for them to turn things around and make my sunk cost actually worth something at the end of it all. If you can avoid this game, do it. If you can avoid giving them money or metrics, do it. There is legitimately no hope the way things have been going for over a year now and how they continue to do things. They really don't understand there's a huge need to put their big boy pants on and improve themselves in nearly every single aspect a company + game developer can, the best we can hope for is a few minor pushes in possibly the right direction once every few months at best. They will never stop and realize their shortcomings, they would rather spend time trying to convince their players these shortcomings don't exist despite them being front and center every time you boot up the game. It's a huge shitshow of giant proportions and they'd rather grab the nose plugs to ignore the stench than the shovel to get to work.
If EXBO is a Russian studio then their money grubbing is at least halfway understandable. The worth of the ruble is pretty tanked. Hell even the USD has lost practically 90% of its value, but at the very least if they're going to be greedy at least rope us in with crafted content and stop creating artificial paywalls.
Precisely. We've all just been sitting around on our asses waiting to play the game. Its clear we can put up with A LOT. Just throw us a fucking bone.@@jerichosamurai
Thanks so much for all your work man. I gave up playing after winter event and felt a bit nostalgic but kinda makes me happy to see I took the right decision. It truly has the potential, it’s just sad…
New info about the chances for parts and tools, they did lower the chance.After they got a lot of complains they are reverting it ,this was like yestarday or 2 days ago and it will take 3 days they say to make the changes
well its sad to see how the game mistreats people, i remember playing on day one and everyone was so hopeful, thank you for your videos, we will be here if you make more videos, maybe you can make videos on some other games too? that would be cool, anyways thank you for your opinion, everything you said was true 100%.
I don't regret the time I've spent on Stalcraft, and that time was made considerably easier because of you Aggro, and comrades like you, but it is disappointing to see Stalcraft hampered by its own cynicism.
I bought the Season pass, got my 50 crates and levels. I got enough parts to make the FN SCAR SSR, i was incredibly lucky. I have a job, an income, not a lot of time/energy to play games when i get home. I love this game and i see the potential of it, no matter how unreachable it is due to current leadership. Winter event was my first event, even though i had joined the game in 2022. I worked really hard and got the Sig MPX, totally F2P, i was so proud of myself. i am not proud of myself for getting a master weapon (i am Veteran-tier otherwise) from crates. Edit: I just saw they've added a "Season pass nr.2" its absolutely retarded. Really? ANOTHER ONE?
@MaximumAggro its really a shame because I just discovered this game in the last month and ive had a great time playing it. I haven't even done the Stalker side yet. Your content is by far the most informative and streamlined when it comes to quests/guns. Im near the endgame as well and I can see where its becoming nothing but a slog. Got all my gear to purple, and im dreading going into Master tier because of how sweaty players get. I hope the devs watch this and actually learn from it because its become my favorite "non main stream" game if that makes any sense. I love the "Stalker" world setting and want to keep going. I hope like others have said that the event really gives us a way to smash through battlepass levels. I was gonna ask if you have a Discord channel to join but it doesnt sound like you'll be on the game much 😅 Thank you for the content and have a great day!
This happens every time with these Russian stalker mmo games. They're super diamond in the rough but once you get to the endgame you realize that whatever spark that the team had as they created the game is gone and was replaced by an unending greed and contempt for western players.
can't wait for the event, the last quest line I had to do it with worn PSZ 10 +3 and m4a1 (not cqc) now I have worn psz 10 +7 and almost full PSZ 10 +7 (only need like 160 more betas) and m4a1 cqc
Your guides have been super helpful so thank you for that, I saw you had a guide for the crow arena thingy I was wondering if you had one for the arena of suffering the ones that reed gives you they fixed the bugged werewolf fight so i got past that and the timed survival but the one after i cant imagine how you're supposed to do what i assume the last round is
I haven't done that one yet. It honestly seems to be a 2.0 version of the Champions warmup from the last arena event. I dont know if I will do it to be 100% honest unless the rewards are worth it.
@@MaximumAggro after find obscure videos of people doing crow arena, arena of suffering and theophilius fights i now think all of them are ramped up in difficulty i managed to do arena of suffering, theophilius fight broke for me and start summoning the crow fight enemies so i beat that fight on crow first and now theophilius doesnt spawn enemies at all so im hard locked there anyways but im about level 150 in the pass just a bit under with a fair bit of farming and unless i want to just constantly play bogyart arena to do the scaling challanges or buy levels i cant do much to level up so after doing mostly all i could ive plateaued at 150, also unrelated and maybe an issue for only me you seem fairly quiet in comparison to other youtubers I feel I'd be way more likely to watch any other content you might do in the future if I can hear you easier
ARCCDamon- Well said my brother! The devs have the biggest disconnect to the community and player base to the point they don’t listen to complaints. A BP where you can’t grind besides “dailies” is the most predatory practice to this date they have released. The greed has consumed exbo to the fullest to the point it makes EA and activision look like saints. Oh and the rates of the boxes being “low” for parts to be fixed 1-2 days after that was addressed as a “on purpose” issue, is insane.
They did the same thing eith the drop rates on events in the world for spare parts as soon as the battlepass dropped. They shadow nerfed them and didn't say anything hoping no one omwould notice.
Also the fact the people who swiped or spent all their roubles buying perun crates all opened them at "lowered" rates until they announced and "fixed" them.
To be honest the game gets more and more tiring the more you play it. The first 20 hours I think are those I had more fun, because the progress is fast and you see many locations in a relatively short time. After reaching the north, the game becomes a bore, you have to play in the same two - three maps forever and each run you have less than 50% chance of making it back to base alive. I think the system they have put in place is to prevent people from reaching the endgame too fast, because at that point there's really nothing to do. After 300 hours, I clock in for about 20 minutes a day and that's it.
Well, this is disappointing. I just started this game after looking for something like it for some time and I'm really enjoying it. Everything you mentioned in this video just piles onto what I've read about the endgame and how bad it is. The battlepass was going to be my first purchase, too. 😔
I got 2.1k hours on stalcraft and I have not played much outside of getting rank 109 f2p on winter event but out side of events I have done nothing on the game and idk if I am going to play much this event unless it is good when the event is fully out but when I get on the game and try to do anything in yanove I died to one or 2 people for 2 hours then log off sometimes I made progress then sometimes I didn't make anything and only lost time
I got to level 250+ on the winter event and still never got the Famas. I played 3-4 days a week, and when i played it was for at least 6hrs. FOR A MONTH. This event is my last try with this game. If I cant get the SBA Tank and hit lvl 500, then its clear the game isnt worth my time. If the content is LITERALLY unattainable without paying EXTRA, then no thanks. I'll 100% buy the battlepass EVERY season, but if its not possible to complete, then fuck no.
My biggest issue is the grind. the amount of mats needed and what you get sucks so bad coupled with the shitty gear gap and getting any little progress reset
I feel like they don't care. Global is such a small drop in their revenue stream that anything they make off global is just bonus money. RU is their main source of revenue. That and they know people are going to buy all 500 levels so
Hello Mr. Máximum and I love your Stalcraft videos and I would like to know, what are the best weapons and armor in the game for pvp and pvb currently?
AK-15 or A-545 for barter weapons for pvp, as far as armor goes its kind of personal preference between Centurion/RAPS/Skat-10/mule or Ace. you would have to look up arty builds and find one you like.
Yeah for sure all the notes i can think of were touched on a few of the guys i play with bought the full 500 the moment they got on. It just sucks how big the gap gets in this game every other event because I really do enjoy the gunplay and pvp but the grind is just so inane. Im 100% sure that the devs dont play this game and if they do they 100% spawn shit in for themselve because this grind is so boring man.
@@MaximumAggro they just need a couple of people to actualy focus on global rather than just bringing shit to ru and throwing it down the necks of global and it fixing nothing Even just a few tweaks to drop rates on global for varter and loot to compensate for the fact that most of shit on ru is attained via gambling
Thanks for putting that out here, gives me another reason to not install this game again and check it out since it's just a waste of time at this point. Keep on kicking ass Aggro thanks for your videos
I wish you good luck and the only thing we can do is HOPE that it might change from this shitty way they are putting the game. Only fun time I had and I am still quite having is with the friends I made along the way and even then the game causes my own mental health to decline by cheating, camping and just honest garbo playstyles people do and are allowed to just be better and there is nothing you can do. As I said, was giant fun with friends as the eng speaking community (at least the non RU/UA veterans) is 100% better :)
sad too see you stepping away but I don't blame you it's strait dog water what there doing right now the game has so much potential and there squandering it. the gear bracketing is a joke iv been killed by full +10 masters while I'm in a +4 legionnaire with a +4 AN94 purple. even in the lower areas this has happened honestly the most fun in this game is pre Bar where the PVP is somewhat balanced and fair. and then we get the season pass like they had a winning formula with the winter event who ever took that idea and made it PTW and gated to the non whales should be fired it's gonna hurt the game in the long run if this game even has a long run in it. sadly it's an all too familiar case for me I used to play a Korean MMO called Archeage and that died due to greed in a not so different fashion still one of the best MMO's iv ever played tho.
i was waiting so bad for the new seasson but i stoped playng when i saw you only got 1 level a day the chrismas event was the best event it didnt feel like a soules grind i even bougt the seasson pass
hey its ghille ive said this since the start, the only reason they keep doing things is because whales keep paying, ive stopped playing stalcraft alltogether after 1k hours, the last story i heard on the game is that the OG merc clan came back got 30k dropped on them and they all left, from the inside i can see how 30k is a sign of doing something right, but it isnt the way most people want this game to go, i also hope they fix it i wanted to love this game but they need to go back to the drawing board on how they make money or they are gonna drown you can see how the numbers are dropping like you said, ive been saying this for a while its just truly coming to fruition
There was a guy who had the RPL-20 and the SBA TANK 3 days after the battle pass dropped. He still died a lot and I had never seen this player in Merc faction's base until then. He apparently got so tired of dying to covenant players because he's such a noob that he then paid to switch teams and then still managed to die just as much. I haven't seen them anymore. It would appear that some noob kid paid hundreds of dollars for the levels to get the RPL-20 and then rage quit forever, funnily enough, I stopped seeing him online after my squad encountered him in Red Forest and killed him. That's what paying to win will do for you. Can buy the gear, can't buy skill or game sense. Personally, Covenant can keep him. Bro's ass.
A tip: Leave, you’re done. That’s it 😂 Wanna know what you got left now that you’ve gotten to 100rads? A literally endless grind, guaranteed chances that you loose 1-2 hours worth of farmed materials to a neckbeard in a centurion with a +15 red gun, camping an entrance/exit, and unlimited, takes 4 months to get one fucking master tier armor.
Exbo has absolute no idea how terrible their game are at the moment, sadly. I want to say a lot, but it seem I don't need to. At this point, I'll just stay till event then quit after that. Dungeon, my reason to stay, won't come at least till summer, or even much later. So there's no point to wait anymore.
I was excited and got my friends excited about this game when it first came out. We chipped away and leveled rather quickly. My bestfriend and I stuck around for awhile until we stepped away do to some asinine updates. We returned during the last Christmas update which was fun and enjoyable. Now once again they decided to screw all the (working men) average players.. They tried to fleece us. No doubt they will try and save it with popular streamers they pay to play this hot garbage. A damn shame too. They will justify pay to win with the little money they make off of the average viewer of those streams until the players realize the structure of the game. It had so much potential but was once again ruined by GREED. Now I will push my other friends to get away from this money grab. There are plenty of games to enjoy with your friends and this is no longer one of them.
the fact that it is gated to one level a day is just plain dumb... that just pushes people away, why not let people gain as many levels as they want based off how much they want to play. This is rediculous how bad it has gotten despite having such a good winter event(prob the most fun I've had in Stalcraft since it launched). Every event the money grubbing gets worse... I gave up on Stalcraft after this last "seasonal bp" it is just too far. When the devs don't want me to play for long periods of time to achieve in game goals then there is quite honestly no reason for me to play nor support these devs.
I know the game is shit now, but damn I think it got bad where the game doesn't allow you to have any good guns before you get to BAR lvl 2 - 7, So you have to fight an unfair advantage for those who do have the better guns since they camp BAR & go to Cordor from time to time.... Now this shit too. Personally I won't walk away, Free gun games are hard to find, So I'm sticking around till the end.
I haven't logged in to stal in around a week and it was glorious. Been playing prominence 2 modpack on minecraft with some people and having a fucking blast
I was taking a break after the last event came back when they dropped the battlepass i should have stayed away. Good luck with quest video bet it will another exbo clusterf##k masterpiece
I only started playing weeks ago. Game is enjoyable and are currently learning the economy. Got the battle pass with rubles. Im going to do my best to not pay for this game. Seeing your news is a little heartbreaking. 😢
Why can't they just make decent skins for the the lootboxs instead putting game changing loot in there it ruins the balance of the game I just wish it was all farmable I'm sick of the fomo bullshit
I mean you can buy the BP with ingame currencies by buying it from other person for 4-6mil rubles, so for endgame player this event is just daily tasks with extra steps. Also it is not the main event yet so yeah i hope the main event will be much more fun :>
Yep，the zone is only 30% finished and the game is only 20%finished，yet they make the game 300% grindy and 500% p2w，you dont see much retarDment like this in any orther mmo on this planet😅
Ok i dont get it and im not completely defending Exbo but its legitimately something they already mentioned that it would be slow pre-event, then it would be picked up during the event and after, mentioning the Christmas event the battlepass was too short and was done super quickly, would people have rathered that they just didnt add the pass until the event then instead of letting you get progress first? You get 50 levels for free from doing the main quest even, and the objectives *are* doing things out in the world, where is the hatred of it coming from? Like legitimately asking because i dont see the logic in hating on it, yes Whales exist but they exist on any F2P, people seem to be overlooking the things they have changed for the better with this pass like the Act 1 tickets, yes you can buy the pass but you can't buy those and they can be used to skip the RNG of the crates by just outright buying the special gear pieces or getting special crates that only have the pieces in them, EXBO has faults yes but it's unfair to overlook their positive changes when they happen imo I appreciate your content regardless and look forward to your coverage of the event though 👍
Its being able to buy/farm unlimited spare parts and tools when people who dont swipe are not going to get the same luxury that I have a problem with. Spare parts and tools are the main bottle neck of this game on global. If we had the same ability to buy spare parts outright that RU has it would be a non issue. But people who swipe through the battlepass and are able to farm unlimited spare parts and tools, while people who dont have to wait realistically 2 months to be able to do that is kind of bullshit. It just further promotes people swiping to make sure they are at the same level as everyone else which is what EXBO is planning on. They arent stupid and know exactly what will make people spend the most money.
@@MaximumAggro I can understand the parts and tools thing but thats much the reason for making this pass 500 tiers instead from what I've seen, it makes it *prohibitively* expensive to swipe it. I'm not sure how it looks on the RU client but from having played the NA client from the update until now every day I've seen exactly 1 person with the end pass gear
I can name at least 4 that had the new lmg less than an hour and a half after the battlepass released on NA. And that number has risen much higher since then.
@@MaximumAggro Oof that's a lot of disposable cash, I could understand the people who bought the Christmas one but having to multiply that price by 5 is bonkers, guess we'll have to see what the event is like, but my brain keeps going back to that the Christmas and especially Dead Man's were way more cash-grab than this one, if you're cash grabbing you don't want to make it so expensive that you exclude your regular customers, that might just be my thought process being different though, thinking of things like WoW where you not only pay a subscription but also are paywalled on any expansion content, I'm ok waiting to slowly progress my optional reward sheet xD
I feel like each time they are increasing the price more and more to see what the limit is honestly. Once they don't make much money off the battlepass/event they will lower it and keep it there from then on.
The devs are currently working on "I-Movement" (aka improvement movement) that will add way better animations for characters in 3rd person, and new parkour mechanics. Also, they are working on "North revamp" (new activities to farm, improved locations (for the new I movement tech) and other stuff) So right now, they are very busy, and well, they aint a really big group, so i dont really see any problem with the battle-pass right now, they must be cooking something.
They say that they are working on movement and parkour and this and that every time the community expresses unhappiness in a current change or state of the game. At this point, it seems more like a way to appease us by saying, "something bigs coming, which is why we can't attend to these issues you are bringing up." All the while, the issues never get addressed, but they figure out loot boxes and the like since that's where the money rolls in.
well.. they do have to revamp almost every location for the new movement + some main story ones too, but yea i understand the frustration, but they really dont focus on money that much, they said they will be making some other stuff to monetize (not lootboxes, not sure if they will remove them). and like, if you look at some really p2w games and companies stalcraft looks like heaven imo, the grind kinda sucks yea, but well, you can just stop for some time and come back. its quite the interesting situation@@MaximumAggro (hell, in one of their interviews with the CEO - He told us that he saw a stalcraft trailer (in like 2012) that looked awesome with working anomalies, mutants etc, he bought it from him cause he was burntout and just "would give it to anyone for some money" and well he just got scammed for 45k rub (around 450$, can be more idk), he made stalcraft as a revenge plan lol)
@@AndeeC The problem is not them monetizing things its the fact that when they monetize things the people who dont pay get punished. Fuck at this point NA would be happy with the straight RU lootboxes and ability to buy spares.
The game is good but they have to stop thinking about money and think about the players and they opinions and how to make the game more like its fun to farm and not buy and spend am much as you can more free to play less pay to win i hope ass the game falls on the ground its gonna come back better and stronger
There's plenty of ways to monetize the game without punishing the players who don't want to swipe their way through battlepasses early. He'll even I bought 4 battlepasses for 4 characters
Not even the greed but this game isn’t balanced one bit, it’s entirely bandit sided and that side is so much easier they can’t get to our area faster than we can
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"Monetary predatory" - That's literaly exbo, well said
Can't wait to not have to play stalcraft. As soon as Pioner is out, let's start migrating ^^
LETS GOOOOO
Fuck this game looks sick, how did I miss this!
Make the shift when it drops. "Insert Palpatine do it meme here"
whats that game? is it on steam?
The gear gap, the abyssmal end game where its forced pvp, the mass of players that try to farm but get shotdown by everyone and their godmother before they can even leave the zone. The zone entrance camping... yeah, averice and incompotence.
I wrote on steam about the same thing, and somebody commented: "skill issue"...
@@Gabarhun ppl who says skills issue in a game with a unfair sistems normally never hugged their own parents
Wait for July)) Exbo will release a new rebuild North. 9 locations were every fraction will b able to easily farm.
The solution being to wait 5 months for the game to be good is a terrible business model lol
Thanks for sharing your thoughts with us and always helping us out, you have proven invaluable to the community.
I appreciate that!
Thank you for putting this out.
I stopped playing shortly after the winter event was over, so I have no clue how the game is now, but with this video my mind is put at ease knowing I'm not missing much.
I've moved entirely back to Warframe at this point, that game actually values your time as a player and has enough content in it that the real time gates don't seem like a problem at all.
Still, I can't help but feel bad for the 1k hours I put in, because the game genuinely was fun at first, but I can't see it getting any better with they way it's been going.
My bro your videos have helped me so much. I am new to SC still less than 200 hours and I have noticed that they don’t really care for balancing. I got battle pass like an idiot and most of my challenges are for pvp and you can imagine what that’s like for a new player, I’ve had like 30 kills in 150 hours and that’s while levelling in session battles I have no chance it’s like free money to them as I can’t even get far into the pass 🤣
I know the BP seems extremely predatory from the global version perspection, but from RU perspection these seasonal BPs are a huge step from a current p2w situation with loot cases.
About the current BP. Yes, the 1 lvl/Day grind is really silly when you can simply buy the whole BP right away but I think its a huge mistake for whales because we dont know what would be the speed of progression during the event itself. Xmas event was really easy to grind with all that challenges and questlines. All we know right now is that the event will not be in the openworld but in some other area like anomalous Blizzard or Marathon
Thank you for your content 👍
Regardless the speed of grinding with the event, if you buy all the levels now you can grind unlimited spare parts and tools from now till event end. And the thing that gates your progress the most in this game is serum... and tools/ parts to upgrade. So depending how much money you are willing to spend/time you are willing to put in after maxing your battlepass with money, you could +15 every piece of gear you wanted to and have a large advantage over most players.
You are such a good content creator - would love to see what you continue to produce, whether stalc or not.
Thank you for the kind words
Dropped this game about a week after launch. Looks like I made the right call. Thank you for your videos, they helped me while I was playing.
I quit at Crow's Arena. I was sad, but I saw the writing on the wall back then.
You're right. It could have been such a great game, but the devs aren't interested or don't know how.
this event definitely takes the cake for one of the most egregious examples of a pure greed driven event meant to squeeze money out of people. The fact they have the balls to make something this garbage and just deafen themselves until the event is fucking embarrassing. I don't think i've seen a company neglect their own product as bad as EXPO have in recent times.
Very well put. We have been neglected and treated with such disdain + contempt from the developers that it is absolutely ridiculous. Been hoping since launch for them to turn things around and make my sunk cost actually worth something at the end of it all. If you can avoid this game, do it. If you can avoid giving them money or metrics, do it. There is legitimately no hope the way things have been going for over a year now and how they continue to do things. They really don't understand there's a huge need to put their big boy pants on and improve themselves in nearly every single aspect a company + game developer can, the best we can hope for is a few minor pushes in possibly the right direction once every few months at best. They will never stop and realize their shortcomings, they would rather spend time trying to convince their players these shortcomings don't exist despite them being front and center every time you boot up the game.
It's a huge shitshow of giant proportions and they'd rather grab the nose plugs to ignore the stench than the shovel to get to work.
Agreed
Well said indeed.
If EXBO is a Russian studio then their money grubbing is at least halfway understandable. The worth of the ruble is pretty tanked. Hell even the USD has lost practically 90% of its value, but at the very least if they're going to be greedy at least rope us in with crafted content and stop creating artificial paywalls.
Precisely. We've all just been sitting around on our asses waiting to play the game. Its clear we can put up with A LOT. Just throw us a fucking bone.@@jerichosamurai
@@garbolingno If you ask them for a bone they'd toss you a milkbone dog biscuit.
Thanks so much for all your work man. I gave up playing after winter event and felt a bit nostalgic but kinda makes me happy to see I took the right decision. It truly has the potential, it’s just sad…
bro i swear i feel u are the only 1 that says pure FACTS bout this bs of game... and its SAD that it has insane potentional
Thx u for your time spent making quest videos about the game. Wish you happiness with your next games dude !
I appreciate it!
Thank you for your honest opinion and for your time that you put into videos just for us.
New info about the chances for parts and tools, they did lower the chance.After they got a lot of complains they are reverting it ,this was like yestarday or 2 days ago and it will take 3 days they say to make the changes
Which means they thought they could do something shady and get away with it, but then got called out and had to fix it
well its sad to see how the game mistreats people, i remember playing on day one and everyone was so hopeful, thank you for your videos, we will be here if you make more videos, maybe you can make videos on some other games too? that would be cool, anyways thank you for your opinion, everything you said was true 100%.
"We're into games, not business!" ~Exbo
I don't regret the time I've spent on Stalcraft, and that time was made considerably easier because of you Aggro, and comrades like you, but it is disappointing to see Stalcraft hampered by its own cynicism.
I couldnt have said it better myself
I bought the Season pass, got my 50 crates and levels. I got enough parts to make the FN SCAR SSR, i was incredibly lucky.
I have a job, an income, not a lot of time/energy to play games when i get home. I love this game and i see the potential of it, no matter how unreachable it is due to current leadership.
Winter event was my first event, even though i had joined the game in 2022. I worked really hard and got the Sig MPX, totally F2P, i was so proud of myself. i am not proud of myself for getting a master weapon (i am Veteran-tier otherwise) from crates.
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I just saw they've added a "Season pass nr.2" its absolutely retarded. Really? ANOTHER ONE?
@MaximumAggro its really a shame because I just discovered this game in the last month and ive had a great time playing it. I haven't even done the Stalker side yet. Your content is by far the most informative and streamlined when it comes to quests/guns. Im near the endgame as well and I can see where its becoming nothing but a slog. Got all my gear to purple, and im dreading going into Master tier because of how sweaty players get. I hope the devs watch this and actually learn from it because its become my favorite "non main stream" game if that makes any sense. I love the "Stalker" world setting and want to keep going. I hope like others have said that the event really gives us a way to smash through battlepass levels. I was gonna ask if you have a Discord channel to join but it doesnt sound like you'll be on the game much 😅 Thank you for the content and have a great day!
Sadly they won't. The dev has already stated that NA are just whiney babies who don't know what they have.
@MaximumAggro Great.. meaning the game will slowly die off. Its a shame.
This happens every time with these Russian stalker mmo games. They're super diamond in the rough but once you get to the endgame you realize that whatever spark that the team had as they created the game is gone and was replaced by an unending greed and contempt for western players.
Well now the event is insanely fucking expensive.
can't wait for the event, the last quest line I had to do it with worn PSZ 10 +3 and m4a1 (not cqc)
now I have worn psz 10 +7 and almost full PSZ 10 +7 (only need like 160 more betas) and m4a1 cqc
you are a Legend .
Yep, said everything that needed to be said, and it's nothing but the truth, such a shame.
Your guides have been super helpful so thank you for that, I saw you had a guide for the crow arena thingy I was wondering if you had one for the arena of suffering the ones that reed gives you they fixed the bugged werewolf fight so i got past that and the timed survival but the one after i cant imagine how you're supposed to do what i assume the last round is
I haven't done that one yet. It honestly seems to be a 2.0 version of the Champions warmup from the last arena event. I dont know if I will do it to be 100% honest unless the rewards are worth it.
@@MaximumAggro after find obscure videos of people doing crow arena, arena of suffering and theophilius fights i now think all of them are ramped up in difficulty i managed to do arena of suffering, theophilius fight broke for me and start summoning the crow fight enemies so i beat that fight on crow first and now theophilius doesnt spawn enemies at all so im hard locked there anyways but im about level 150 in the pass just a bit under with a fair bit of farming and unless i want to just constantly play bogyart arena to do the scaling challanges or buy levels i cant do much to level up so after doing mostly all i could ive plateaued at 150, also unrelated and maybe an issue for only me you seem fairly quiet in comparison to other youtubers I feel I'd be way more likely to watch any other content you might do in the future if I can hear you easier
ARCCDamon- Well said my brother! The devs have the biggest disconnect to the community and player base to the point they don’t listen to complaints. A BP where you can’t grind besides “dailies” is the most predatory practice to this date they have released. The greed has consumed exbo to the fullest to the point it makes EA and activision look like saints. Oh and the rates of the boxes being “low” for parts to be fixed 1-2 days after that was addressed as a “on purpose” issue, is insane.
They did the same thing eith the drop rates on events in the world for spare parts as soon as the battlepass dropped. They shadow nerfed them and didn't say anything hoping no one omwould notice.
I think If EXBO continues to serve game like this, it's only a matter of time before the game service ends...
Also the fact the people who swiped or spent all their roubles buying perun crates all opened them at "lowered" rates until they announced and "fixed" them.
Yeah thats an entirely separate issue that needs to be addressed.
Spot on dude
For me, the Matchmaking is the worst part. People with master gear harassing veterans made me outright quit NA.
Also a problem that has never been fixed since launch
To be honest the game gets more and more tiring the more you play it. The first 20 hours I think are those I had more fun, because the progress is fast and you see many locations in a relatively short time.
After reaching the north, the game becomes a bore, you have to play in the same two - three maps forever and each run you have less than 50% chance of making it back to base alive. I think the system they have put in place is to prevent people from reaching the endgame too fast, because at that point there's really nothing to do. After 300 hours, I clock in for about 20 minutes a day and that's it.
amen
Well, this is disappointing. I just started this game after looking for something like it for some time and I'm really enjoying it. Everything you mentioned in this video just piles onto what I've read about the endgame and how bad it is. The battlepass was going to be my first purchase, too. 😔
Honestly, save your money, bide your time, and swap to pioneer when it releases.
I got 2.1k hours on stalcraft and I have not played much outside of getting rank 109 f2p on winter event but out side of events I have done nothing on the game and idk if I am going to play much this event unless it is good when the event is fully out but when I get on the game and try to do anything in yanove I died to one or 2 people for 2 hours then log off sometimes I made progress then sometimes I didn't make anything and only lost time
I got to level 250+ on the winter event and still never got the Famas. I played 3-4 days a week, and when i played it was for at least 6hrs. FOR A MONTH.
This event is my last try with this game. If I cant get the SBA Tank and hit lvl 500, then its clear the game isnt worth my time. If the content is LITERALLY unattainable without paying EXTRA, then no thanks.
I'll 100% buy the battlepass EVERY season, but if its not possible to complete, then fuck no.
My biggest issue is the grind. the amount of mats needed and what you get sucks so bad coupled with the shitty gear gap and getting any little progress reset
The devs are forgetting that if they dont make the event good, we could just go and play Helldivers or something instead
I feel like they don't care. Global is such a small drop in their revenue stream that anything they make off global is just bonus money. RU is their main source of revenue. That and they know people are going to buy all 500 levels so
Hello Mr. Máximum and I love your Stalcraft videos and I would like to know, what are the best weapons and armor in the game for pvp and pvb currently?
AK-15 or A-545 for barter weapons for pvp, as far as armor goes its kind of personal preference between Centurion/RAPS/Skat-10/mule or Ace. you would have to look up arty builds and find one you like.
Yeah for sure all the notes i can think of were touched on a few of the guys i play with bought the full 500 the moment they got on. It just sucks how big the gap gets in this game every other event because I really do enjoy the gunplay and pvp but the grind is just so inane. Im 100% sure that the devs dont play this game and if they do they 100% spawn shit in for themselve because this grind is so boring man.
Sadge 😮💨
The fact he recored this on the rus server says alot about the state of the global release
It's where I spend most of my playtime now. Global is a joke of a game that I don't even like logging into.
@@MaximumAggro they just need a couple of people to actualy focus on global rather than just bringing shit to ru and throwing it down the necks of global and it fixing nothing
Even just a few tweaks to drop rates on global for varter and loot to compensate for the fact that most of shit on ru is attained via gambling
Thanks for putting that out here, gives me another reason to not install this game again and check it out since it's just a waste of time at this point. Keep on kicking ass Aggro thanks for your videos
same reason why I have been playing DF2 more often than stalcraft
I wish you good luck and the only thing we can do is HOPE that it might change from this shitty way they are putting the game. Only fun time I had and I am still quite having is with the friends I made along the way and even then the game causes my own mental health to decline by cheating, camping and just honest garbo playstyles people do and are allowed to just be better and there is nothing you can do. As I said, was giant fun with friends as the eng speaking community (at least the non RU/UA veterans) is 100% better :)
sad too see you stepping away but I don't blame you it's strait dog water what there doing right now the game has so much potential and there squandering it. the gear bracketing is a joke iv been killed by full +10 masters while I'm in a +4 legionnaire with a +4 AN94 purple. even in the lower areas this has happened honestly the most fun in this game is pre Bar where the PVP is somewhat balanced and fair. and then we get the season pass like they had a winning formula with the winter event who ever took that idea and made it PTW and gated to the non whales should be fired it's gonna hurt the game in the long run if this game even has a long run in it. sadly it's an all too familiar case for me I used to play a Korean MMO called Archeage and that died due to greed in a not so different fashion still one of the best MMO's iv ever played tho.
quitting stalcraft was one hell of a good decision for me ngl
i was waiting so bad for the new seasson but i stoped playng when i saw you only got 1 level a day the chrismas event was the best event it didnt feel like a soules grind i even bougt the seasson pass
I agree as well unfortunately...
stalker 2 coming out me no more stalcraft playing that shit with every mod possible as many time i can
hey its ghille ive said this since the start, the only reason they keep doing things is because whales keep paying, ive stopped playing stalcraft alltogether after 1k hours, the last story i heard on the game is that the OG merc clan came back got 30k dropped on them and they all left, from the inside i can see how 30k is a sign of doing something right, but it isnt the way most people want this game to go, i also hope they fix it i wanted to love this game but they need to go back to the drawing board on how they make money or they are gonna drown you can see how the numbers are dropping like you said, ive been saying this for a while its just truly coming to fruition
You'd think they could see the tracks and where they lead but they obviously cant
Very sad considering how promising this game was😢 Anyway aggro i expect a shadow of the erdtree stream when it comes out 🎉
Oh for sure
There was a guy who had the RPL-20 and the SBA TANK 3 days after the battle pass dropped. He still died a lot and I had never seen this player in Merc faction's base until then. He apparently got so tired of dying to covenant players because he's such a noob that he then paid to switch teams and then still managed to die just as much. I haven't seen them anymore. It would appear that some noob kid paid hundreds of dollars for the levels to get the RPL-20 and then rage quit forever, funnily enough, I stopped seeing him online after my squad encountered him in Red Forest and killed him. That's what paying to win will do for you. Can buy the gear, can't buy skill or game sense. Personally, Covenant can keep him. Bro's ass.
He was around before the battle pass, swiped for famas/glock as well. You just never noticed him since he is bad.
@@devinsizemore2658 Ravinss_? It was something like that.
I'm very new to this game
I just got to the point of unlocking 100 Rads
I only think the cost of the battle pass alone without levels is too expensive
A tip:
Leave, you’re done. That’s it 😂
Wanna know what you got left now that you’ve gotten to 100rads?
A literally endless grind, guaranteed chances that you loose 1-2 hours worth of farmed materials to a neckbeard in a centurion with a +15 red gun, camping an entrance/exit, and unlimited, takes 4 months to get one fucking master tier armor.
Exbo has absolute no idea how terrible their game are at the moment, sadly.
I want to say a lot, but it seem I don't need to. At this point, I'll just stay till event then quit after that. Dungeon, my reason to stay, won't come at least till summer, or even much later. So there's no point to wait anymore.
Join us on pioneer and hope the devs for that game are better at their jobs and seeing what the game needs .
@@MaximumAggro Will pioneer be f2p? amazing if it will be
honestly? i hope to god the actual season has a system akin to the previous winter event.
Short sighted development decision. Make a bucket of money > make the game more popular.
I was excited and got my friends excited about this game when it first came out. We chipped away and leveled rather quickly. My bestfriend and I stuck around for awhile until we stepped away do to some asinine updates. We returned during the last Christmas update which was fun and enjoyable. Now once again they decided to screw all the (working men) average players.. They tried to fleece us. No doubt they will try and save it with popular streamers they pay to play this hot garbage. A damn shame too. They will justify pay to win with the little money they make off of the average viewer of those streams until the players realize the structure of the game. It had so much potential but was once again ruined by GREED. Now I will push my other friends to get away from this money grab. There are plenty of games to enjoy with your friends and this is no longer one of them.
May u make a showcase f rpk? I wanna see what the difference compare to rpd, many rpd vids, but so less rpk
Which RPK? The crate one from RU?
@@MaximumAggro the barter tree one rpk 74
the fact that it is gated to one level a day is just plain dumb... that just pushes people away, why not let people gain as many levels as they want based off how much they want to play. This is rediculous how bad it has gotten despite having such a good winter event(prob the most fun I've had in Stalcraft since it launched). Every event the money grubbing gets worse... I gave up on Stalcraft after this last "seasonal bp" it is just too far. When the devs don't want me to play for long periods of time to achieve in game goals then there is quite honestly no reason for me to play nor support these devs.
I know the game is shit now, but damn I think it got bad where the game doesn't allow you to have any good guns before you get to BAR lvl 2 - 7, So you have to fight an unfair advantage for those who do have the better guns since they camp BAR & go to Cordor from time to time.... Now this shit too.
Personally I won't walk away, Free gun games are hard to find, So I'm sticking around till the end.
whats this pioneer everyones talking about,a new game?
TH-cam it , it a game with similar style basically its what everyone asks this game to be with awesome graphics
@@gerardleonard7944thank you
I did two battles today but i just cant do it anymore, with shity hit Reg and dailys now only in event im done after 1200hrs
I haven't logged in to stal in around a week and it was glorious. Been playing prominence 2 modpack on minecraft with some people and having a fucking blast
Honestly sad that there's a quest for the event since I have to record the video on it lol
I was taking a break after the last event came back when they dropped the battlepass i should have stayed away. Good luck with quest video bet it will another exbo clusterf##k masterpiece
Apparently it'd already bugged
Wow, whats going on in eng version of this game?
Just EXBO being EXBO, it's the same on RU but not as big of a deal since you can outright buy spare parts over there so it's not as big of a deal.
Farming is fun when u cant pay to skip it
Then
I don't mind farming, I wish you could farm and get credit for this battlepass but here we are.
Quit the game and go play Pioneer new mmo rpg coming out.
Praying its good so we can all go over there lol
Dec 31, 2024 release date?
exbo has always been greedy, nothing new XD
I only started playing weeks ago. Game is enjoyable and are currently learning the economy. Got the battle pass with rubles. Im going to do my best to not pay for this game. Seeing your news is a little heartbreaking. 😢
After putting in more than 3k hours its heartbreaking to see the game being flushed down the shitter by the devs
Why can't they just make decent skins for the the lootboxs instead putting game changing loot in there it ruins the balance of the game
I just wish it was all farmable I'm sick of the fomo bullshit
na : no pay to win xd
Stopped playing after dead mans marathon, it's disheartening to see that stalcraft keeps messing up things like this
I mean you can buy the BP with ingame currencies by buying it from other person for 4-6mil rubles, so for endgame player this event is just daily tasks with extra steps. Also it is not the main event yet so yeah i hope the main event will be much more fun :>
Yep，the zone is only 30% finished and the game is only 20%finished，yet they make the game 300% grindy and 500% p2w，you dont see much retarDment like this in any orther mmo on this planet😅
play pioneer and quit stal
Already ahead of ya, hoping its good so we can all migrate lol
@@MaximumAggro hope we all get pioneer tbh, we would kick ass on it
I quit after 800h. Horrible dev team and horrible descisions
stop playing the StalCraft and im tried of farming for everything of the game that has to offer
dude i went to stay out, stalcraft is just a waste of time at this rate, i feel sorry for those who still play xD
Ok i dont get it and im not completely defending Exbo but its legitimately something they already mentioned that it would be slow pre-event, then it would be picked up during the event and after, mentioning the Christmas event the battlepass was too short and was done super quickly, would people have rathered that they just didnt add the pass until the event then instead of letting you get progress first? You get 50 levels for free from doing the main quest even, and the objectives *are* doing things out in the world, where is the hatred of it coming from? Like legitimately asking because i dont see the logic in hating on it, yes Whales exist but they exist on any F2P, people seem to be overlooking the things they have changed for the better with this pass like the Act 1 tickets, yes you can buy the pass but you can't buy those and they can be used to skip the RNG of the crates by just outright buying the special gear pieces or getting special crates that only have the pieces in them, EXBO has faults yes but it's unfair to overlook their positive changes when they happen imo
I appreciate your content regardless and look forward to your coverage of the event though 👍
Its being able to buy/farm unlimited spare parts and tools when people who dont swipe are not going to get the same luxury that I have a problem with. Spare parts and tools are the main bottle neck of this game on global. If we had the same ability to buy spare parts outright that RU has it would be a non issue. But people who swipe through the battlepass and are able to farm unlimited spare parts and tools, while people who dont have to wait realistically 2 months to be able to do that is kind of bullshit. It just further promotes people swiping to make sure they are at the same level as everyone else which is what EXBO is planning on. They arent stupid and know exactly what will make people spend the most money.
@@MaximumAggro I can understand the parts and tools thing but thats much the reason for making this pass 500 tiers instead from what I've seen, it makes it *prohibitively* expensive to swipe it. I'm not sure how it looks on the RU client but from having played the NA client from the update until now every day I've seen exactly 1 person with the end pass gear
I can name at least 4 that had the new lmg less than an hour and a half after the battlepass released on NA. And that number has risen much higher since then.
@@MaximumAggro Oof that's a lot of disposable cash, I could understand the people who bought the Christmas one but having to multiply that price by 5 is bonkers, guess we'll have to see what the event is like, but my brain keeps going back to that the Christmas and especially Dead Man's were way more cash-grab than this one, if you're cash grabbing you don't want to make it so expensive that you exclude your regular customers, that might just be my thought process being different though, thinking of things like WoW where you not only pay a subscription but also are paywalled on any expansion content, I'm ok waiting to slowly progress my optional reward sheet xD
I feel like each time they are increasing the price more and more to see what the limit is honestly. Once they don't make much money off the battlepass/event they will lower it and keep it there from then on.
The devs are currently working on "I-Movement" (aka improvement movement) that will add way better animations for characters in 3rd person, and new parkour mechanics.
Also, they are working on "North revamp" (new activities to farm, improved locations (for the new I movement tech) and other stuff)
So right now, they are very busy, and well, they aint a really big group, so i dont really see any problem with the battle-pass right now, they must be cooking something.
They say that they are working on movement and parkour and this and that every time the community expresses unhappiness in a current change or state of the game. At this point, it seems more like a way to appease us by saying, "something bigs coming, which is why we can't attend to these issues you are bringing up." All the while, the issues never get addressed, but they figure out loot boxes and the like since that's where the money rolls in.
well.. they do have to revamp almost every location for the new movement + some main story ones too, but yea i understand the frustration, but they really dont focus on money that much, they said they will be making some other stuff to monetize (not lootboxes, not sure if they will remove them). and like, if you look at some really p2w games and companies stalcraft looks like heaven imo, the grind kinda sucks yea, but well, you can just stop for some time and come back. its quite the interesting situation@@MaximumAggro
(hell, in one of their interviews with the CEO - He told us that he saw a stalcraft trailer (in like 2012) that looked awesome with
working anomalies, mutants etc, he bought it from him cause he was burntout and just "would give it to anyone for some money"
and well he just got scammed for 45k rub (around 450$, can be more idk),
he made stalcraft as a revenge plan lol)
@@AndeeC The problem is not them monetizing things its the fact that when they monetize things the people who dont pay get punished. Fuck at this point NA would be happy with the straight RU lootboxes and ability to buy spares.
@@MaximumAggro yeaa, the NA/EU servers are kind of left out, some Russians even migrate there to play w/o lootboxes
The game is good but they have to stop thinking about money and think about the players and they opinions and how to make the game more like its fun to farm and not buy and spend am much as you can more free to play less pay to win i hope ass the game falls on the ground its gonna come back better and stronger
There's plenty of ways to monetize the game without punishing the players who don't want to swipe their way through battlepasses early. He'll even I bought 4 battlepasses for 4 characters
Not even the greed but this game isn’t balanced one bit, it’s entirely bandit sided and that side is so much easier they can’t get to our area faster than we can