Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-30677836-20191118043610

i doubt any of you know who i am or remember me, but i used to be pretty well known in this community. recently i was unbanned from the game and decided to try it out again, and it was the most boring experience i had. today ill be telling the major problems with game and community

Game Problems: Survivor vs Zombie

game suffers most from grinding, which is obvious and well known. took me 1 year to get max rank and it was a waste of time. but another problem that most people dont really talk about is gun balance. balance is most crucial to a game and if game is unbalanced people wont play. in this game there is no balance between zombie and survivor. most zombies are 4 shotted by machine guns and 1 shotted by shotguns, and have almost no chance to do something. but when they do get to do something, they somehow do either crap ton of damage or 1 shot you. what???? its not a fun experience for survivor or zombie, and balancing changes need to be applied so zombies and survivors can get a chance equally regardless of rank

Game Problems: FFA

rn battlestation is the most toxic and boring mode rn. this is because of the even worse balance in guns and items. for example the grenades tripping you for a long time isnt fun. also most players in ffa use only 1 gun and vote the same map (victoria harbor) and it is the same people winning. ffa needs to be fixed and some guns need to be buffed just a bit so theres diverse amount of gun use instead of barret barret barret (also make it so you can only play a map once in a row so victora isnt spammed)

Game Problems: Bosses

this is probably the worst issue ive seen with the game. it is a continous cycle of event is announced, people get hyped, play event, get bored and leave. bosses itself are extremely hard and only cater to no lifes with op guns. it is also so boring as you constantly have to repeat the boss just to get the event items and weapon. whats worse is that bosses now adays seem lazily done or recycled. halloween boss and quest were recycled from last year, summer boss was delay and it was just a squid with no context, and easter was a duck???? bosses need to be reworked so its a challange, but low ranks can win as well, and somehow more than 1 person can get the event item, so people dont have to waste their day grinding for it. also bosses should be more original and interesting, rather than a baby squid. final note is that bosses attacks shouldnt 1 shot???? makes no sense and just makes the boss more repeitive when you get 1 shotted by everything.

Game Problems: VIP Servers

along side bosses vip servers are a major problem in the r2da game. now everyone instead just goes on grinding servers, instead of playing the offical servers like default apocalypse etc. theres also a post from a dev (Rockynic) who goes more into this issue, his thread is in this category somewhere go read for yourself. vip servers offer almost no variety, and instead are usually just spam same gamemode forever. it isnt fun and it is extremely reptititve. and if someone wants to join a default server then theyre out of luck cause mostly everyone is in a prison farm or cafe arena grinding server, which also connects to the grinding problem. in my opinion vip servers should be removed as all of them are stale repetitive

Community Problems: Community

now that i am done with the game, here is problems with the community. r2da community is one of the most immature and toxic communties ive been in, and that is honestly dissapointing. most people in the discord are very immature, and usually have to act that way due to the strict rules( which ill get into in next point) unfortunately nothing can really be done about it, as thats how the community acts. no one can change it, but its just sad and dissapointing to see how r2da 2016 has gone super downhill community wise.

Community Problems: Rules

for a roblox game r2da discord has some of the strictest rules ive ever seen. the fact that you have to be 13 to use discord, yet you cant say swears, cant speak another language, and cant do tons of other stuff, is strange. many users have complained about rules, so i wont go that much into it, but have a look at the rules yourself, and then compare it any other roblox game discord server. i gurantee i will 10x less than r2da's rules.

MAJOR Community Problems: Drama and Staff Team

byfar this is one of the major reasons why r2da is dying. r2da has been notoriously known in roblox community for the drama its been. (remember the rainbow flag drama?) there has been constant drama in r2da community due to some questionable things they have done, and that is a huge problem. as for the staff team, i will not name any names, but there has been many cases where there has been abuse and corruption, publicy and privately. many staff members have gone rogue and raided discord and game, which honestly shows how staff picking isnt the best. there have also been cases of false banning ingame and in discord, and no one can do anything about it

How can these issues be fixed?

These issues are definetely the reason why r2da can barely reach 600 players, and never crack 1k players. (remember when r2da had 3k players in 2016? i do too.)

However, these issues could easily be fixed, but it will take some time and consideration

Game wise:

r2da devs should pause adding new and new content, and work on balance changes, and fixing grinding. as of now im pretty sure grinding is trying to be fixed(?), but it is still a big problem ingame. for just 1 or 2 updates, there should be some sort of gun balancement in pve, and pvp. rank system should be reworked, maybe by being cut in half, or making guns cost less OR: making guns stats fit the rank and being able to OBTAIN the gun at that rank.

Community wise:

the entire r2da staff team needs to be reworked. every single staff should be fired, and r2da devs should handpick at first who should be head staff. then, there could be applications for mods and cmods. because currently, there are i think 40 mods? 40 cmods? all that for the discord server. ik a game that only has like 8 cmods, 110k members, and can easily ban rulebreakers. r2da needs 40 cmods, and still suffers rule breakers getting away with doing stuff(not sure about this some verify) rules also 100% need to be nerfed, so that people can be themselves, instead of putting on a fake persona and being annoying and childish (ik many people who are different outside r2da discord)

Drama wise:

if r2da does something wrong, they should apologize for it and own up to it, instead of trying to hide it or make a bigger problem out of it. the rainbow flag drama got so out of hand r2da discord was banning people just for posting the flag like what????

A few pet peeves i forgot to add:

-make event weapons actually useable (and not op like boo buster)

-all mounts should be buyable whenever (unless this is done in finicial perspective it is not fair for new players who missed an event to not be able to have a mount just because they didnt play during that said event

-give back fatal5 to retired mods( seriously? mods who retire after doing all the work for the game dont even get to keep the gun? (btw r2da devs i still havent gotten back the skin crates from fatal5 which i bought about 5 months ago)

-remove trip from grenades in pvp ( ruins experience and is unfair unless you buy the flak vest)

TL/DR: read what i wrote lazy :)

Final Thoughts:

r2da used to be an amazing game. community was much better and game was actually enjoyable. unfortunately game is now boring and stale, and reminds me of a mobile game especially with things like premium skin crates and grinding. if no changes are made game wise and community wise, game will inevitably die and r2da devs will never get a bloxy. plus as a game inspired by l4d2, it has almost no resemblance anymore, and seems more like a preschool version for kids. r2da devs, PLEASE listen to community and fix game. thanks

ps. please unban me from the discord i was falsely banned (EricisFreaker#7831)

Also i would love to hear your guy's thoughts. please comment your opinions so we can discuss the fate of this game  