A Few Suggestions and Potential Fixes

LORE

Please consider bringing back lore and interactive story elements. The game is seriously lacking in character stories/development as of late. I’m sure this is an intentional decision based on metrics surveys and player retention data as I have seen this topic skirted around by many devs in AMA’s and such. Even I reported in a survey that I do not care about in game lore, but after some time of a lot of nothing I I have come to change my opinion on the matter and now believe it’s an important component to the game. I would also like to include a personal anecdote from when the bloodhound lore mini game was added to World’s Edge. I remember running into solo bloodhounds who were just there to complete the quest having a good time agreeing not to shoot each other, having fun a way secondary to the games main objective. Options like this increase player agency in how they express themselves and have “fun” in the game. This seems like something that would attract newer players and get them invested in the game and the story. Anyways I think that Catalyst had a weak story, Alter lacks any story and Seer was the last really fleshed out story. Actually vantage had a pretty decent one but you guys should continue the lifeline octane, Maggie fuse, loba revenant, and bang Newcastle stories or come up with new ones. Also please stop with bloodhound romances no one wants that.

DEATH SCREEN MENU

Could you resimplify the death screen menu when spectating teammates or another team it used to be so easy now it’s really trash and confusing. I know I’m not providing explicit details on why but I don’t care too it’s honestly really boring it’s a menu.  It’s ok on mouse and keyboard because you can just click submenus but on controller it’s actually a nightmare.

PUNCHING

Please take another look at punching I know it was broken a long time ago but it’s broken in its own weird way now. You HAVE to hit the lock-on on the initial punch otherwise you cannot rotate your camera towards the enemy to make the punch accurate at all. It works like this: you have to both be looking exactly at the enemy and be within melee range and it’s a guaranteed hit. If those two conditions are not met there is a 90% chance you will miss the punch. Please take notes from games like overwatch where punching is much easier to land consistently at close range and doesn’t even have a lock on mechanic.

DIVE EMOTES

Please add more dive emotes to the game. I promise people will pay good money for dive emotes. I personally have been playing the game consistently since season 9 and have ONE dive emote on my main pathfinder. That’s ridiculous and I would seriously pay money for fun dive emotes on characters I play. I see no reason why those can’t be in the store. I promise this will be a bigger hit than stickers and I think you could make previous dive trails that were battle pass exclusive now available in the shop like you do with old battlepass skin rotations.

KNOCKDOWN SHIELD GLITCH

I know for a fact you guys are aware of the knockdown shield glitch where the knocked players head pops out in front of the shield. This exclusively happens when a player is knocked and backing up into some type of wall or obstacle the game does something like move the knockdown shield backwards without moving the player backwards allowing enemies to effectively shoot someone through their knockdown shield while they have it up. I’m sure everyone has seen this happen if they’ve played the game long enough and I’m hoping you have the resources to fix it as it has been a glitch in the game for quite some time now.

DEATHBOX GLITCH

On the topic of glitches please fix deathboxes not showing the appropriate color corresponding with the loot tier until a player gets close enough/interacts with that death box. It’s frustrating and hopefully a simple fix. It’s obviously annoying because you use that information to know if 1) a deathbox has been looted already and 2) what order to loot deathboxes on a team wipe.

Thank you for taking the time to read my post I hope some of these changes can be considered/implemented in the future. This is my favorite game and I want to see it thrive.