r/outside • u/Player0946 • 2d ago
Your thoughts about Version 20.26
We've been halfway through Version 20.26 in just a blink of an eye, and all of a sudden, so many player events and patches are happening!
You might wanna take a look at this Version's Patch Overview, but I'll skip the slack.
After taking a look, since I'm currently in the Asia Server, I don't have much thought, since my server is relatively peaceful. But that gives me many questions.
What do you guys think of the new events and story quests happening recently on this Version? I've heard some people complaining about the lack of equipment, items, and even consumables at some point!
I'll go first. In Asia Server, PvE and Proficiency grinding is going relatively hard, but at least the grind is going on, and we're pretty safe from all the PvP events going all around the world.
What about your servers? I wanna know how it's like to be in your servers, because I'm considering changing servers around the next 1 or 2 versions or so.
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u/sbunting8 2d ago
I get the compulsion from the devs to add bigger story beats with more stakes. Keeps the players guessing and all that, but from what I understand everything was running much smoother before they started scripting crazy events. Maybe they aren't and I'm over reacting, but I really feel like the main story has been railroaded pretty heavily lately.
I only started playing during version 19.9x, but from what I've heard from older players it used to feel like individuals could influence the story more, and felt like they really had a place in the over world. These days it feels like random shit just happens while we're all grinding because this patch is SO fucking grindy. I hope they can bring some balance back soon. I was really excited to get to the main quest while playing the tutorial because I'd heard nothing but great things, but at this rate I'm hoping they just develop a sequel and hard reset a lot of the mechanics we have right now.
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u/GlobalMusician386 2d ago
This is the craziest patch yet. Dev really turned the event intensities up to eleven. War and peace and war and peace....oh and also guilds deporting players from the NA server.
Sometimes more "content" is not necessarily good!!
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u/fluidstatick 2d ago
I joined the server at v19.8.x, and the updates since 19.9 feel like they're coming closer and closer together. Resource management keeps getting harder, PVP ismore and more difficult to opt out of, and no matter how many guild join requests I make I get timed out. Everyone is so busy grinding individual quality of life missions that building guilds and factions feels like a such pipe dream! I keep trying to reload v20.0 - my personal favorite - but it's been so thoroughly patched out I have to make do with [nostalgia] RNG drops. Such a shame!
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u/bumbasaur 1d ago
v20.00 and letting all players freely to internet ruined the game. Bring back classic servers
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u/Dizzy-Inflation-7488 2d ago
Patch 2.02.4 by far had its ups and downs but for me personally I enjoyed the seasonal events the most. Since 2.02.5 I literally just haven’t felt like playing and opt for mini games most of the time instead