@Highway @orrire
My feedback regarding this update:
Honestly, the numbers are far too high. It would take many long months to possibly obtain even the most basic Cynergy Core. The number of achievements, crowns, and overall effort required is absurd, especially regarding the Cybers bosses, which need to be searched for manually. There is no fixed icon on the map and no global notification, which most games usually have — at least a skull icon or something similar that shows their location.
Besides having to search for them, progress is often not counted, even after the update that was supposed to fix this. I play on the America_5 server, and I do not live in Brazil, which means that when I play, very few players are active because it is late night there. Today, for example, I was only able to find two players to help me. We killed two Cybers bosses (leaders) using the Peacemaker, and the achievement was not counted. This is extremely frustrating, especially due to the absurd difficulty of the achievement, with 5–6 bandits attacking a specific player at once.
The reset area is extremely small. You shoot and pull a bandit, but it moves away because the leader walked slightly. If you get closer, five of them attack you at once, and there is no way to survive. Players who play during unfavorable server activity hours will be heavily disadvantaged.
The number of crowns required is extremely high, in addition to the specific achievements. You have to be lucky enough for a bandit to spawn and randomly find it across the map, and that bandit must also randomly spawn with a specific weapon that helps you complete a certain achievement. Basically, everything is luck-based, and even if you find what you need, there is still a chance that it will not count toward the achievement and that is only if, when this happens, you have enough players on your server available to help you.
It is extremely frustrating and difficult, and it makes me feel that it is not worth the absurd amount of effort and time required. I cannot imagine how it would take months or even years just to obtain one Cynergy Core.
I don’t usually use the forum — in fact, I never have — but this time it was necessary. This update is not balanced. It might work well on full servers, where multiple players can roam the map searching and many players are active at any time to kill the Cybers bosses. But on less active servers, it is practically impossible. I don’t see the purpose of an update that only works well on full servers.
In this regard, it would even be better to shut down less active servers since they are incompatible with updates and gameplay styles. Or there should be fair balancing, where difficulty is directly linked to the number of players attacking the Cybers boss. That would be a simple but effective solution: the more players attack, the more damage the boss deals. This would solve the inactivity problem on some servers.
Additionally, the achievement counting system should be improved, the reset area for bandits and dinos expanded, a limit on simultaneous attacks on a single player implemented, and a global icon added to the map so we can locate bosses without having to wander around aimlessly.