The Gameplay Seems Way Less Fun In High Roller [For A Reason]
I noticed the player-base is bad at the game and needs to compensate for it by abusing gimmicky mechanics that are boring. Let me describe the last two interactions I had playing high roller [which I rarely ever do because this is always the experience].
Scenario 1:
I run into a survival bow fighter that I had to repeatedly tell in VOIP about how there's a class that does what he is doing, but just better. It's called the Ranger. I shit you not the gameplay consisted of me sitting there and closing a door repeatedly while he wasted 5-6 minutes trying to hit me through the window and refusing to engage in a fight unless he had an artificial HP advantage from first landing arrows [he's bad and anyone playing like this is bad]. What ended up happening ultimately is he kept opening the door [sometimes even popping sprint while B hopping away] and hoping I'd enter so he could score some free damage to give him confidence that he could win the fight. So what did I do? I sat there and closed the door until the time ran out and we had to extract. For context, I am playing Cleric so I do not have ranged damage so I am forced to let him LARP as a Ranger even though he is absolutely playing Fighter.
Scenario 2:
[You will find this to be nearly exactly like scenario 1] I come up on a rogue in GC high-roller. What does he proceed to do? Well, you guessed it! He NEEDS to get this artificial HP advantage as its the ONLY way a noob could possibly win a fight. So what does he do? busts out his double crossbows, throwing knives, and proceeds to wastes several minutes running away, re-engaging, and attempting to gain an artificial HP advantage that will help his noob-brain be at ease that he can certainly win despite a lack of skill if he just re-engages repeatedly with ranged damage. What ended up happening? Well, essentially the same exact thing.
Can IronMace make the gameplay more dynamic than this? Every pansy in High-Roller with gear fear plays in the same one dimensional way and its actually pathetic and boring. You kids would sit next to the extract and do this same exact thing if you could.