ArachnidOverlord

As long as they don't cause confusion with actual outlander bodies it sounds good. But BI isn't into giving us more so if they gave us this they'd take more from us then they'd end up giving.

The things I completely agree with you on are the fact that we should be able to choose all maps again, that added life to the game cause you knew what you were dealing with. And I also agree that boosting things is particularly low lately, it's because crates keep getting nerfed and daily challenges too. Now people have less gold to work with without buying it. I suggest playing in duo's because things seem to get boosted more that way. The P90 (ADR) is an incredibly powerful weapon and if you're losing to the SVD then you need to assess what you failed to do in this situation with your fully automatic, dead on accurate weapon that can pick them off from 500m. The SVD, HBAR, AKM and related rifles do not need a nerf. In fact it is popular demand that the P90 gets a nerf. The SVD is semi auto with heavy recoil and is a two shot kill unless you're able to land the headshot, the P90 is 4 and you can land those shots in rapid succession due to its impeccable accuracy. Also the SVD costs more to make. The HBAR is a 4 shot according to the damage stats but not the dummies so it's kinda confusing, but the P90 is still way more powerful. Also the HBAR costs the same to make. The AKM is a 4 shot along with most other 7.62x39 rifles. It is cheap to build, yes, but it is without a scope. And again your P90 is way more accurate and powerful.

Pretty straightforward, being able to spam portable signal detectors is quite possibly more powerful than the P90 or any other weapon in the game. It gives you the ability to constantly track down players who would otherwise be well hidden without them even knowing they're being tracked by a COD style "radar always on". Thus giving you a massive advantage and the ability to basically kill the one you're tracking with little effort. The very least that could be done is to make the portable detector warn the victim that they've been spotted similar to the actual signal detector but distinctive so you know it was a portable one spotting you. A cool down could also be added to prevent players from using it like a UAV sort of thing. Or you could make the portable detector reveal the user's position to the victim in addition to notifying them they're being spotted to at least give them a chance to fight.

There are other ways to combat teaming then to remove selecting maps. And I never had a problem with queue times. They say they removed the choice to get rid of teaming and speed up queue times but we all know some maps are much easier then others so really it helps their bottom line too, which is more then likely the actual reason they removed it. Hard evidence of ammo prices being increased, food crates being nerfed several times, actual crate drop loot being butchered, XP gains ruined and daily challenges destroyed proves that they're not intending on helping the player whatsoever. It's very likely more will be taken from us. If they wanted to make the game better and remove teaming they can restrict it easily by making the matchmaker stop you from joining the same session as recent players or friends. The only time you should be able to be in the same game as friends or recent players is if they're in an actual party, thereby automatically your ally. A more aggressive way to combat teaming could be to highlight on the map all players that are not in an official team and travel in close proximity to each other for a certain period of time without fighting each other. But that'd be very difficult to implement and may still affect the non-guilty.

Now you're just putting words into my text box lmfao. I already said it doesn't matter much if they're after you it's pretty easy to sneak up on somebody, especially if you literally have radar always on equivalent. It gives a huge advantage and you haven't dealt with it yet. It will become the meta for this game and it will probably make the game a lot worse when it does. It's like if you could get premium ammo that increased your damage but costed gold, people spam it all the time in other games and it's pay-to-win beyond belief. It is not the people's fault that they took map choice away open your damn eyes, they made ammo more expensive, reduced food crate loot and nerfed it twice, destroyed daily challenges, reduced XP earnings from everything and also diluted all crate loot with a bunch of garbage. You better believe it that that "the john" is named after a go house because it was made to dilute the special issue pool, reducing its value and saving the devs more money. Again with putting words into my text box lol. When did I say I wanted the game as simple as possible? I'll bet the both of you I'm quoting happen to spam these and don't want them nerfed lol. I never said I don't fight, I never said I just loot and exit, in fact I very rarely loot and exit. I always go for barred house, signal detector and crate. I will fight to the death for shit constantly and I've gotten countless kills and crates from it. The random selection is bad but it's not because of people "whining" that it was ruined, it was ruined because some maps were too easy so the devs wanted to protect their bottom line by removing player choice. I also never said anything about the regular signal detector but clearly you haven't read the title "PORTABLE SIGNAL DETECTOR". I like the regular signal detector and it is really well balanced actually so you just wasted your time because you couldn't read what I actually wrote and put a response to something unrelated.

They are a bit expensive but that doesn't matter to an end-tier player with all material-makers maxed out. This item in my opinion is one of the most powerful consumables in the game next to healing consumables because it can easily and single-handedly change the entire outcome of a game. And players who spam insurance can have a field day because they can carry as many of these as they want without having to worry about losing the ones they didn't use. Also even with knowing you're being tracked the user of these detectors is still at a massive advantage because they know where you are but you don't know where they are. If you re position and they're near they can ambush you and kill you. If you don't re position they know exactly where you are and sneak up on you to kill you. I strongly disagree with your thoughts that people are going to just stop using them, it is a meta item especially with the insurance spammers or those who have a ridiculous amount of materials saved up. It allows you to effectively use a sort-of equivalent to a signal detector without having to risk yourself going to one. It may spot only one player at a time but in solo play that is still incredibly powerful and in team play it helps you find their nearby allies as well because teams usually travel close together.

It's all about the money. In this most recent update they made daily challenges much less rewarding, reducing rewards from once military grade crates and 135 crowns down to white crates and 5 crowns respectively. They also made it so you can't choose maps anymore because some maps were too easy to get the crate/barred house in which was making them lose money so they removed player choice to protect their bottom line. Reimbursement is not something they have ever done, if they did they'd lose money. They're probably hoping you'll buy more gold because you lost so much. And crashing means you lose gold, chances are they'll make it worse rather then better purposely so you keep losing gold and buying more respectively. Last update they nerfed crate loot, increased ammunition costs, nerfed XP and nerfed food crate drops. This update they nerfed food crate drops again, have beaten daily challenges into nothing and ruined being able to choose maps. Next update they'll probably make the game even harder for those who don't pay for it. It's just a matter of what they've done in the past and continue to do.

I believe I have stumbled upon a bug because I used to always get a new plan when there's ones I have not yet received. But now I can't anymore for common and special issue for the newly released mosin nagant and SVD both of which are not battle-pass related. The mosin nagant plan is not appearing in new crate roll tables even after a few common roll tables. I think that the replication to this bug (for fixing) is based on if you have all the plans at one point. For example, if you have all the plans for a tier before new ones are released (I had all for plentiful, common and special issue) then you can no longer receive plans for newly released weapons of that specific tier.