I've finally cracked

[Ashlocke]

I like to think that overall I'm a more positive person than negative, most of the time when I get hit by a bug, glitch, or some other happenstance that derails my fun, I try to work around such annoyances. Sure there are things I don't like and I complain about them like any normal person would, but at the end of the day I like to think that reason wins out.

I've had a chance to play recently because I've had more spare time than usual and I kept circling back to all of my weapons that I've painstakingly modded over the course of these months since the game's release. All of my favorite weapons had been slotted with the no longer existing red triangular scope.

I've tried to adjust to that change, but simply haven't been able to enjoy the game as much. I realize that might seem small and petty to some, but I have to be honest about it, I just feel that way.

Anyhow, beyond all of that, it's not even what pushed me to make this post, it's actually the fact that I keep looking at all of my fully slotted weapons with all blue mods and knowing that I can't do anything "reasonable" to fix the scope issue.

My only solutions are basically:
[A] Destroy all of the blue mods in a weapon in order to be able to replace one single scope mod with the only scope mod that currently exists that I can barely tolerate, which is the commando scope. I don't really want to destroy 3 perfectly good and hard earned BLUE mods just to fix a scope problem that Trion created.

or

[B] Destroy the weapon and recover the 3 blue mods in said weapon. This is actually the worse of the two options since the weapon itself was something that took a long time to acquire. I specifically save the best weapons with the best stats I can find and those are the ones I bother modding out to begin with.

Anyway, I know this is basically a negative post with nothing good I can say about this recent scope change and that bothers me because I like to try to mitigate the negative by saying something positive, you know, the whole silver lining and all that jazz, but I just don't have anything, I'm sorry.

All I can do is just hope that something good is done about it at some point in the future, but the future is probably quite a ways away, likely a long time to wait and in the meantime I have very little desire to deal with the new changes.

Thanks for reading and thank you for your understanding.

[Thomas1975]

I don’t blame you for this post. Trion could have added a new mod and kept the red scope as is. Many people have been upset at this change and I think if you had the mod to begin with, Trion should have found a way for you to keep said mod. Trion needs to be mindful when changing weapons and mods because they are changing things people worked hard to get. This was a change that was pointless.

[JxSiN]

I've fought this change before the patch and after. It has gone ignored by Trion. You are not alone in hating this change.

[SHADOWBROKER]

well after this next dlc we have 3 more so maybe they can bring it back if enough people are behind this. i am with you

[Bonehead]

well after this next dlc we have 3 more so maybe they can bring it back if enough people are behind this. i am with you

well said.
me too

[FDG SKULLS]

i have to say i really like the new scopes but i agree they should have just entirely made another scope instead of replacing the one. its stupid to me.

Edit- maybe trion just likes to hear people complain about things who knows?

[JxSiN]

I'm not against 3rd person scopes as I needed some for a few of my weapons, but they didn't have to remove one of the best scopes in the game to do so. Adding a new scope instead of changing one would have pleased more people. But like Skulls said, maybe Trion does like to hear people complain.

[crasher]

I'm not against 3rd person scopes as I needed some for a few of my weapons, but they didn't have to remove one of the best scopes in the game to do so. Adding a new scope instead of changing one would have pleased more people. But like Skulls said, maybe Trion does like to hear people complain.

All of the posts above mine are exactly on point.
I cant explain WHY, but I do believe Trion isn't acting in a responsible manner when it comes to the player base. They seem to be making capricious modifications to the assets in game that players work at achieving, while not fixing the things that detract from the game and are driving away the player base.

And making the changes to mods with the current system in place negates a lot of advancement players have made with little possibility of recouping much value from the assets.

If I'm going to be forced to virtually start a new game, I'll probably do it IN a new game rather than take a chance with this game again. I love the game I bought, but not the game it's being forced to change into. And I'm given no good reason to think theres going to be much benefit to stay while all my friends are leaving over the same issues.

I want to stay. Trion is giving me reasons to leave.

The ball is in their court.

[PhonJam]

Don't have one of these scope so the particulars don't apply here, BUT I am also in this game since it started AND I'm often tested by the constant variations in particular game elements. It is difficult to have a firm expectation in your equipment or your NPC opponents when their behavior fluctuates whimsically. If I just started playing yesterday I'd be, like, what are these people so gripping about??? But these variations and pointless changes ARE marring the game for the long time players. I'm in on this. Lets do a protest march... er, well, not you folks in Egypt.

[Blondin]

But like Skulls said, maybe Trion does like to hear people complain.

Or maybe they don't know how to add a new scope... you know they fired a lot of ppl, maybe the wrong one...

Also, it seems that they fired the guy who made the Craptor turret work, and the guy who made the arena a coop mod instead of a crappy solo mod... wrong ppl fired...