Originally Posted by Spencley
With the finishing blows you can at least mitigate the luck aspect by using a hard hitting weapon when the boss HP is very low. (Most notably a sniper rifle.)
Data recorders, on the other hand, are nothing more than an easter egg hunt that prompts everybody to check a video to see where they all are.
+1 to OP, especially the part about those blessed people who put the info on you tube.
i'm a completionist, and i love getting data and backround stories about the world and love the game, but to say there is any diversity in the structure from one mission to the next (even every solo missions follows the same structure) is being too generous by far. i'm not saying the game isn't fun, but the lack of mission diversity does draw a bit from my over all enjoyment. also having 30 odd recorders to find gets repetitive as it takes you out of the game in the sense of doing missions/arkfalls/co-op/pvp to just drive around to every corner of the map. i think the idea of having them as rewards for missions or even as the reward for the completion of a pursuit would be an acceptable compromise for those who really like the data recorders and those who don't care. making them a part of pursuit completion is a redundancy, i believe
*edit* there is diversity in the enemies and locations, but the basic structure of each mission follows the same formula
I love data recorders, but I wish they were not hidden... they should be in your path of natural progression. Some of the COOP data recorders are behind crates, places you would never look.
Considering all the world there is, it is CRAZY to look everywhere for a data recorder.. I did it for a while, not wanting to cheat, and most of the time the data recorders are either not where you would think, or they are so hidden you miss it anyway.
<3 the people for making the guides, especially Arkfalls.com
I like the data recorders.
I don't like that they're part of the pursuits. There's no good way to find them in an enormous world, and they don't exactly stand out; some of them that I did get I'd walked right past more than once prior to finding them. They're pursuits that tend to boil down to just looking up where to get them online and then going to get them already knowing where to go.
I am glad they are part of pursuits, otherwise I would miss most of them for not knowing the existed.. then youd be dealing with lists online of where there were recorders, etc. At least this way we have an ingame list keeping track of it for us.
Sigh....
Ok- in no particular order:
Don't do the quests if you don't like finding recorders.
---That could work if there weren't so darn many of them tied to so many ego points. Ignoring data recorders is ignoring a big chunk of the so-called "content" of the game.
I like data recorders- don't take them away.
---Read.. Seriously.. Really read the post. I like them too, but please keep them out of the goals that I need to advance. Make a million of them. Backstory is good, but mindless wandering is not.
You don't want to work for your rewards. It's hard to find recorders.
---Crazy wrong on this one. I LIKE challenge. Finding recorders is the mission equivalent of of a word find puzzle. Not difficult- just laborious. Finding little boxes is favored by people who like putting little pegs in little holes.
Just use you-tube videos to find them.
---Sure you can DO that. Someone please tell me how tabbing out of the game to defeat the intent of the Devs who hid those little boxes is fun.
Feel free to disagree, but please don't say things like this post is silly. Clearly- many people agree with my position on this issue.
I for one will no longer be running around finding data recorders. Mind numbing & boring
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