The new MCH is still a total joke

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Originally Posted by Valence

Now you're just using bad faith arguments. You're building stickers, you have to keep the loopium going, and adjust with hagakure, and of course hagakure is tied to midare since it's tied to your stickers... It directly feeds on the same resource, which immediately introduces choices. That's miles above than just pressing a button to reap the reward.

I don't think your ideas of boring tank combo followups applied to MCH tools is exactly my idea of an engaging mch rotation tbh...

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That's an exagerated explanation of Hagakure use case. You'll use it for the same purpose: To clean up your stickers.
Yes, it has implications for your loop, but so does the BS and FMF. But the effect is to ultimately to clean up your sticker.
That would be like arguing that Excavator and FMF are so big brain because they change your heat gauge economy and that indirectly it's linked to Hypercharge. That's mental gymnastic.

Then let's compare what is comparable. FMF is not Hagakure, it's Ogi Namikiri.
I don't think I've ever seen any complaints about Ikishoten and Ogi Namikiri?

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Originally Posted by CKNovel

I don't think I've ever seen any complaints about Ikishoten and Ogi Namikiri?

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That's because there's only like three of us who think they aren't great for design.

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Originally Posted by CKNovel

That's an exagerated explanation of Hagakure use case. You'll use it for the same purpose: To clean up your stickers.
Yes, it has implications for your loop, but so does the BS and FMF. But the effect is to ultimately to clean up your sticker.
That would be like arguing that Excavator and FMF are so big brain because they change your heat gauge economy and that indirectly it's linked to Hypercharge. That's mental gymnastic.

Then let's compare what is comparable. FMF is not Hagakure, it's Ogi Namikiri.
I don't think I've ever seen any complaints about Ikishoten and Ogi Namikiri?

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Ogi Namikiri is the same bland press a raid burst button, unlock a free of charge nuke as well yes.

You're not even trying to understand. There is zero logic behind what you're saying and you're grasping at straws with your heat gauge analogy. And Chainsaw/Excavator don't change the heat gauge, and FMF is a free button that comes with stabilizer, that also doesn't change the gauges at all nor presents building up resources nor introduce choices or agency. I think I'm done with this discussion, it's not leading anywhere constructive anymore.

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Originally Posted by Kreyd

Aside from 'it's expansion time so we get stronger' ? Probably just to increase the timeframe for heat window to be executed without stepping into a Drill charge.
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Oh yea but why cant they just make Drill a longer CD? Its jarring to see drill get charges for such a small thing

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Originally Posted by Valence

Ogi Namikiri is the same bland press a raid burst button, unlock a free of charge nuke as well yes.

You're not even trying to understand. There is zero logic behind what you're saying and you're grasping at straws with your heat gauge analogy. And Chainsaw/Excavator don't change the heat gauge, and FMF is a free button that comes with stabilizer, that also doesn't change the gauges at all nor presents building up resources nor introduce choices or agency. I think I'm done with this discussion, it's not leading anywhere constructive anymore.

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I'm trying to understand, but you're not explaining to me either how this makes it different from any GCD with a cooldown.
You can't even define the "more" you wanted but then you accuse me of not trying to understand?

The game always has been like that, cooldowns that just deal damages with nothing more. Why is it suddenly different?
To my perspective you're simply overthinking it, FMF is clearly enough and doesn't needs to be more. Same goes with Excavator.

You complain about Bioblaster getting a second charges when it's simply a consequence of the system, about Checkmate and Double Check to have the same potency/splash and FMF autocrit and not being able to reassemble it.
To me you have legit complains in your list, but those I mentioned seems just to be complains to complains about something about.

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Originally Posted by Valence

It's a problem in my eyes when it's your big lvl100 capstone nukes have to produce literally zero effort beyond pressing your raid buff button to unlock it. You know which of those I can at least appreciate a little more? Radiant Encore, since it's based on the amount of Coda stacks. Not that much better since you're just gonna get them anyway (unless you die), but at least you're building up to it a little. Well, is it so alien to imagine that capstones have to be earned? It used to be like that...

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I'm totally with you. Something that you have to build up or play correctly for will always feel more satisfying than just a huge dmg button on a cooldown. But this is what most jobs in DT seem to get. As for why? I dunno. Maybe they really are working on heavy Job reworks for 8.0 like they say, and just want to play it safe for DT. Wouldn't put my hand into fire for it, but it would make sense.

MCH remains as crap as it was before, what they added isnt much but my complaints remain the same:

Aoe is crap

DNC has the best aoe kit, BRD is getting improvements on theirs, and MCH is still boring as hell. To this day autocross isnt tied to recharge so no Autocross/Rico spams. Shotgun absolutely made flamethrower obsolete now that it gives double the heat, and since its the only skill to press besides the gadget skills which play horribly on a aoe kit on a post bloat pandemic.

ST kit is still meh

Idk why they are so focused on a singular heat blast button spam for hypercharge. When not even most tanks have those anymore (looking at you PLD and GNB) yea its supposed to pair with OGCDs but come on. Wildfire still as unimpactful as balls, im shocked they didnt auto add heat to its execution rather than Stabilizer. Even more shocked a explosive device doesnt do AOE damage. Or rather! Remove/rework stabilizer and just add autoheat to Wildfire! Might as well its the same CD! I still cant vibe with the loose structure of the job but its been like this for 5 years so guess were doomed.

Ect

The job still is weirdly bloaty despite being the job with the fewest skills rivaling SMN, its one of the only DPS with a generic 1-2-3, RPR and I assume VPR being the only ones. The gunner aesthetic is dead being overly reliant on Fleche like skills. The job is so thin they separate its 1-2-3 upgrade for 10 freaking levels rather than all it once like in SB. Battery is useless in AOE situations, automaton is boring and arguably worse than rook and bishop in SB which could invuln and blow up on command rather than autonomously. Its missing something vital but the job is such a janga tower of crap ideas it would best to let it rot

For Flamethrower.
You are able to move with it whether at full speed or a nerfed movement (like pvp filler attack machinist movement) Flamethrower should also interact with bioblaster maybe making it add an effect that the dots have small explosions for splash damage if flamethrower is used on it and finally either it gives you a free hypercharge if you do the fullcast or flamethrower potency increases for every tick its out. I would also switch the levels you gain bioblaster and flamethrower to make it clear to new players that this is a combo action for bioblaster and should be used for aoe (its rare but i still see people sometimes use it on single target.) The only problem with this idea I see is where auto-crossbow would fit into this, it obviously can't interact with flamethrower, im thinking maybe the free hypercharge proc slightly buffs the potency of auto-crossbow or something?
If you have any other idea let me know.

Flamethrower back in Stormblood used to generate heat (as it was an integral part of the rotation at the time). Removing that just shifted its usage down, and shotguns just make it a less viable option. Maybe it's time flamer generates heat and refreshes double check/checkmate when it pulses out, and/or burns off bioblaster's dot. Couldn't tell you what it needs, but until it has more or does more damage, it's just right on the meme ability. Which it's funny to say something like meditate has more of a use than flamer does.

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Originally Posted by Ruminous

Flamethrower back in Stormblood used to generate heat (as it was an integral part of the rotation at the time). Removing that just shifted its usage down, and shotguns just make it a less viable option. Maybe it's time flamer generates heat and refreshes double check/checkmate when it pulses out, and/or burns off bioblaster's dot. Couldn't tell you what it needs, but until it has more or does more damage, it's just right on the meme ability. Which it's funny to say something like meditate has more of a use than flamer does.

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1 heat per tick per target. 9 targets? You get 99 heat at the end of the skill. Something similar. But they wouldn't do it because it would make the heat gauge not follow round numbers I guess. Or a low-ish % chance to give 5 heat per target per tick.

Burning the bioblaster dots and making them apply their full remaining potency as suggested above is my favorite since it fixes the charges issue.

(why not both?)

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Originally Posted by Valence

1 heat per tick per target. 9 targets? You get 99 heat at the end of the skill. Something similar. But they wouldn't do it because it would make the heat gauge not follow round numbers I guess. Or a low-ish % chance to give 5 heat per target per tick.

Burning the bioblaster dots and making them apply their full remaining potency as suggested above is my favorite since it fixes the charges issue.

(why not both?)

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It used to just be like 5 heat per second until it forced your gun into overheat back in Stormblood. I'd probably just do that again. Flamer, if you let it pulse for its full 11 ticks, is 55 heat if it's 5 per tick. That's enough for another autocrossbow combo. The extra drill charge means you're not likely to let a bioblaster drift and lose value on a tool not being used immediately. The other thing they could do with flamer is not require us to stand still, but allow us to move at half our movement speed and turn so if targets are out of it, we can adjust it. Currently, any movement and just cancels itself. That's way more restrictive than the other ability that forces you to stand in place, ten chi jin. You can still pivot if a target moves out of your line of sight on that, why can't you do that with flamer? If that's a problem with how the ability is set up, then, change how it works. Give it 10 charges, and each tick reduces a charge and the ability gains a charge every 6 seconds when not in use. It can still functionally work as it does now, but canceling it wont waste it, and makes flamer much more integral to a lot of machinist's play. At least, that's the goal. I don't know if it's a good idea, but it's at least a new one.

But also I'd have it reduce the cooldown of gauss shot/ricochet by 5 seconds each tick, which should get you close to full charges or full charges. Just some thoughts off the top of my head. Maybe they're good? I don't know. It'd still give flamer a lot more utility for group killin' and even if you cancel it halfway you still get a little value out of it. Not that you'd want to, but at least flamer would be worth using for other than looking like a nerd in towns. If it's too much it could be adjusted, but flamer needs something to at least be more useful than meditate.

Still, it is one issue, among many. Still have the wildfire thing, robot doing nothing for groups...Phys ranged in general just needing something to make it appealing other than to fill a 1% boost and limit break...Yeah.

It was 10 heat per second after 4.05, which made you require 5s to overheat from opener, than it was one or two ticks for every burst depending on the rotation type. I don't think 5 heat per tick fixed is bad, but the problem is that it may actually start competing with single target rotations and I'm not totally sure how it would behave there. If it doesnt threaten it though, then fair enough, go for it I say. Would be kinda stupid looking though to see a player using the tool during downtime like a samurai using meditation unless it requires actual hits on a target.

The problem with pivoting is that I play with legacy keys, I cannot do that. And honestly I don't care much if it's rigid. Learn to position and play around the constraints like with leylines and TCJ and whatnot. If you have to abort in the middle, then so be it, but it's not a total loss, you'll still have inflicted damage and accrued some gauge, just not the full extent. I don't mind the charge idea, sounds cool.

Recharging gauss/ricochet, why not. I'll take anything that makes sense tbh.

Honestly, even past all those ideas, the very simple fix they can do if they don't feel like doing any daring effort regarding more, is just to push its potency to 100+.

What I mean by pivot of course is TCJ lets you turn in place so if a target moves out of your line of sight, it's just a mouse turn or camera turn. I think if "face target to cast" or whatever the option is on, your character will do that. Leylines is less restrictive than that, since even though it occupies an area, you aren't forced to stand still in it. You have some degree of freedom in how you can move within it. With flamer, you're stuck in your facing until you cancel it or the ability runs out. Allowing us to turn is a way to make it useful if targets move out of its line of fire.

That being said, yeah, the idea was to have it generate heat as long as it's contacting something. Using it willy-nilly for heat generation makes it a 1m barrel stabilizer that forces you to sit still for 10 seconds.

Still, I was throwing out ideas mostly because it's a good way to get the thought process going. Refinement is always going to be what makes things, but much like the scientific theory, you have an idea and ask the question before you start testing. Personally, the more I think about it, the more I like the idea of flamer having charges and generating heat. It'd be more akin to bursting rather than letting the gas flow. You can tune the damage and such some if it becomes oppressive, and if it doesn't work, then it doesn't work.

The thing i'm asking is, how do I turn if it was possible? I have literally zero keys under legacy that allow me to do that.

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Originally Posted by Valence

The thing i'm asking is, how do I turn if it was possible? I have literally zero keys under legacy that allow me to do that.

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If you're using legacy on PC, you can either right-click and drag to turn your character along with the camera, or just hold your A or D key (if they're not set to strafing). No clue about controller though

i know theyve been going this route for awhile but seeing gauss and ricochet turn into tossing random laser beams kinda sad. feel like mch loses more and more of the gunner aspect every xpac. i really wish the next physical ranged is a dual pistol gunner that only focuses on guns and not throwing random robots and tools.

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Originally Posted by seolhyun

feel like mch loses more and more of the gunner aspect every xpac.

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In all fairness, gauss and ricochet have always been technology based. Next time you're in game, gpose them and take a look at what's actually happening when you cast them. As it currently stands, the only skills we have that can really be counted as us just firing our gun are Heated Split Shot & Heat Blast, if you count shooting a massive ball of fire as gunplay, lol. Point is, the job's about technology first, and will likely continue to evolve around its technology. I do also hope for a more gun focused job down the line, though. I just don't think MCH was ever meant to be that.

BRD has received more aoe QoL in 7.0 with Pitch Perfect becoming aoe and Shadowbite + Straight shot sharing the same proc.
NIN has recieved more aoe QoL in 7.0 with both Mug and Trick Attack becoming aoe.
RDM has recieved more aoe QoL in 7.0 with aoe melee combo requiring the same gauge as single target.

Meanwhile, MCH aoe still feels disjointed 3 expansions later with no QoL in sight. Wildfire either needs a complete rework or it needs to have an aoe effect like the other classes.
Anything to do with battery feels so useless in multi-target situations aside from Chainsaw. Queen should have aoe, or just let use Bishop Autoturret again.

My 2 cents in case this actually ever does get brought back to the Devs behind MCH:
1.) Automaton Queen's Pilebunker & Crowned Collider should both be AoE (with fall-off, of course) so we can have some reason to burn battery during AoE situations.
2.) Wildfire should also be AoE. Again, with fall-off, of course.
3.) Auto Crossbow needs to refresh gauss & ricochet. If it's going to only be available during Hypercharge like Heat Blast, then it needs to function the same way as heat blast.
4.) On that note; Double Check & Checkmate seem fine to me. Guass Round and Ricochet were pretty much the same skills anyways, outside of their VFX. These upgrades just bring them further in line with the job's ever evolving fantasy, and are a boost to both our single target and AoE damage. Now if only we could get that Auto Crossbow fix.
5.) Not gonna lie, I think Flamethrower is fine the way it is. The only change I could see it receiving is mobility, perhaps by giving it the PvP MCH walk as it channels, cancelled by pressing the skill again or activating another. This would make it the game's first and only mobile channeled AoE. Just a matter of if the devs can program that into it, or care to at that.
6.) This might be a reach, but extend Hypercharge just a little bit. Let's say.. 12 seconds? Just to help those higher ping players out a bit more. We went from 8 to 10 seconds in 6.3, but I still hear some complaints. So, y'know, help'em out. 12 seconds.

I think that's all I have, for now.
Keep in mind, this is coming from a casual player's perspective. I do not do Extreme/Savage/Ultimate content, that's too much effort.

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Originally Posted by Baf0

Meanwhile, MCH aoe still feels disjointed 3 expansions later with no QoL in sight. Wildfire either needs a complete rework or it needs to have an aoe effect like the other classes.

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Going on a tangent here but not gonna lie, I truly miss the old damage compilation type Wildfire, especially now that we have actual stacks for overheat and a more lenient timer. Would probably still suck for high latencies due to the amount of mandatory weaving with gauss and ricochet recharging like crazy. But I do miss it, because it was directly based on the damage done and not just a weaponskill count check. It does work remarkably well in pvp, but in pve, it feels meh in comparison, since MCH used to be THE premiere burst job in the game, and now it's just mid.

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Originally Posted by Memyx

5.) Not gonna lie, I think Flamethrower is fine the way it is. The only change I could see it receiving is mobility, perhaps by giving it the PvP MCH walk as it channels, cancelled by pressing the skill again or activating another. This would make it the game's first and only mobile channeled AoE. Just a matter of if the devs can program that into it, or care to at that.

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I mean, I'm not against the idea, but the fundamental problem with FT right now is that using it is mathematically inferior to not using it...

My main complaints about MCH is that what they did with Rook Autoturret.

Queen should not replace the autoturret. We should be able to have both. And we should be able to place the turret as before. Autoturret should just be a CD with no battery need and only queen should need battery.

I like Flamethrower. It is relevant in AoE. It ticks every second instead of every 3 seconds so it out-damages your normal AoE combo. If this is not the case in the media tour it will certainly be adjusted in the final build or the first two weeks of the expansion.

You should be using Flamethrower in AoE (dungeon pulls) as close to off-cooldown as possible without drifting your other skills like Bio-Blaster and the like. It's a super unique skill which we don't have many of left in the game and it's cute to be able to take your hands off the keyboard for 10 seconds in dungeon pulls in the midst of an otherwise super busy job.

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Originally Posted by velswen

I like Flamethrower. It is relevant in AoE. It ticks every second instead of every 3 seconds so it out-damages your normal AoE combo. If this is not the case in the media tour it will certainly be adjusted in the final build or the first two weeks of the expansion.

You should be using Flamethrower in AoE (dungeon pulls) as close to off-cooldown as possible without drifting your other skills like Bio-Blaster and the like. It's a super unique skill which we don't have many of left in the game and it's cute to be able to take your hands off the keyboard for 10 seconds in dungeon pulls in the midst of an otherwise super busy job.

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Liking it is one thing, but mathematically you have to go down a long check list before you consider using it because of how weak it is. That's what most of us are complaining about with that particular skill. Making it do more than tickle an enemy to death is what machinists want and why stuff like "make it give heat gauge" and such get passed around.

But right now flamethrower is only one piece of the machinist problem, because there is much more to it than just that currently.

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Originally Posted by Ruminous

Liking it is one thing, but mathematically you have to go down a long check list before you consider using it because of how weak it is. That's what most of us are complaining about with that particular skill. Making it do more than tickle an enemy to death is what machinist's want and why stuff like "make it give heat gauge" and such get passed around.

But right now flamethrower is only one piece of the machinist problem, because there is much more to it than just that currently.

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It's true. I just use scattergun with Reassembly. Not only is it roughly the same DPS but I build heat gauge too for auto crossbow.

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Originally Posted by Memyx

In all fairness, gauss and ricochet have always been technology based. Next time you're in game, gpose them and take a look at what's actually happening when you cast them. As it currently stands, the only skills we have that can really be counted as us just firing our gun are Heated Split Shot & Heat Blast, if you count shooting a massive ball of fire as gunplay, lol. Point is, the job's about technology first, and will likely continue to evolve around its technology. I do also hope for a more gun focused job down the line, though. I just don't think MCH was ever meant to be that.

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they are tech but the character animation uses the gun atm and in dawntrail the char just spams the same tossing animation for both. it is very noticeable with how much they are used.

I still miss the bishop autoturret/overload for the huge chunk of AoE burst when desired.

I'm confused as to why we still don't have an AoE battery spender after all this time.

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Originally Posted by velswen

I like Flamethrower. It is relevant in AoE. It ticks every second instead of every 3 seconds so it out-damages your normal AoE combo. If this is not the case in the media tour it will certainly be adjusted in the final build or the first two weeks of the expansion.

You should be using Flamethrower in AoE (dungeon pulls) as close to off-cooldown as possible without drifting your other skills like Bio-Blaster and the like. It's a super unique skill which we don't have many of left in the game and it's cute to be able to take your hands off the keyboard for 10 seconds in dungeon pulls in the midst of an otherwise super busy job.

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Flamethrower is stronger than the base combo, but you need to consider that your normal combo builds up heat and heat has a value on its own when it can be spent on hypercharge > autocrossbow, which blows flamethrower out of the water. As I've said already, we had calculations and spreadsheets for ShB showing that FT was barely a gain, and with Endwalker and the addition of scattergun (10 heat instead of 5 and more potency), it's just probably inferior.

I want to believe they'll fix it for release and at least make it useful, but as a matter of fact it was never fixed or adjusted for EW in spite of people already sending warnings about it back then, thus why I'm not hopeful.

I wasn't expecting anything at this point but still, no AoE spenders on battery, a worthless charge on bioblaster, and more importantly, Flamethrower is still even more useless, and because scattergun's and auto crossbow's potencies have been increased it's probably gonna help even less...

WHY IS THIS STILL A THING? What's your problem with flamethrower??

I kinda like Flamethrower, to be honest. It has no falloff and it ticks per second. I use this after applying Bio Blaster and everytjing melts.

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Originally Posted by rawker

I kinda like Flamethrower, to be honest. It has no falloff and it ticks per second. I use this after applying Bio Blaster and everytjing melts.

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The problem is it's a CD that's actively a DPS loss in most situations which isn't really a thing on any of the other jobs.

It is an extremely slight potency gain over spamming Scattershot if the enemies you're fighting are going to die before you can build enough heat to hypercharge and spam Auto-Crossbow, but that's it...though that's still technically a net DPS loss because you'll have less heat to burn on the next pack of enemies.

It's a mathematical loss and has been since EW no matter if you get 11 ticks of it. It directly conflicts with heat generation. FT was a VERY slight potency gain in ShB. It's never been since scattergun has been introduced and people have somehow stuck to it even though it's not been true for years anymore.

In DT, we're getting potency increases on Gauss and Ricochet and Gauss gets an AoE component to it. Since only HB/Blazing Shot recharge those, and not Autocrossbow, it means that autocrossbow directly loses efficiency comparatively in AoE situations. Asking around apparently ACB becomes inferior under 5 targets in AoE, which is ludicrous.

I am seriously starting to wonder if the devs actually play this job.

i for one say you don't pay my sub so i will decide by trying out mch and seeing how it works out and giving back feed back on improvements for the job.

The thing is, the new skills dont seem to change the rotation much. So we're going to play the same gimmicks for another 2 years with few "reskinned" animations and 1-2 new buttons?
I really wish MCH would become a bit more busier. And that's probably my biggest issue with this job...

And I've been complaining about FT since a while now. It's odd that they refuse to address this skill. Also, crossbow being inferior is ridiculous.

I'm just kinda laughing at how the 'finishing move' potency is like... 2/3 that of any other job. IF that. I guess it might make up for it with APM and the fact that it's a guaranteed crit direct hit ? I've never struggled to be top of the aggro list up to lvl 90 in a lot of content, without even double weaving so... we will have to see if it works out!

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Originally Posted by george357

i for one say you don't pay my sub so i will decide by trying out mch and seeing how it works out and giving back feed back on improvements for the job.

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That's the thing. You don't have to actually play any of the jobs to tell whether or not their gameplay is changing meaningfully from EW.

They gained a charge on Drill, a follow-up to Chainsaw, and a follow-up to Analysis, and that's it in terms of buttons you get to hit more often. Though ironically, that's still better then what some of the other DPS jobs got (NIN literally only has a follow-up to Ten Chi Jin as their sole source of rotational expansion).

MCH is already the most rigid out of the 3 rphys when it comes to downtime adjustment, mostly due to Air Anchor that can end up drifting or lost uses, as well as potentially Chainsaw as well. Not only do they add a follow up on one of those skills which increases the potency attached to problematic long recast GCDs (long recast GCDs with fixed rigidity like that are annoying), but it's some of the most impactful capstones as well that directly translate into high potency and heat/battery effective potency. The job is getting almost worse than it is already when it comes to flexibility, and that's saying something, even though it gets laxer on Drill due to the blessed addition of charges there.

It's amusing to think that the extremely finicky, clockwork version of Stormblood still managed to retain a lot more flexibility when it came to playing around downtime, which also required some skill expression, by using flamethrower to make up for the lost amount of heat, or by using the old heat blast to cool down and readjust the heat gauge for the next burst..

I didnt see any mention about MCH and crossbow, flamethrower and literally aoe rotation in YoshiP announcement. So, I'm using my chance and bump the thread. Please look into it, it feels god awful to use auto crossbow without refreshing Checkmate and Double Check.

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Originally Posted by Aravell

Since they're giving Bioblaster/Drill 2 charges anyway, the least they could do was to rework Flamethrower into an instant conal AoE that ignites Bioblaster and removes the DoT, then it'll be a button worth pressing in dungeons at the very least.

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I would only want this if the ignition was always the same damage, therefore you could set it off right before the DOT ends which actually requires some thought.

Also I hope they don't remove flamethrower because it's a button with actually unique use cases which i think is cool

There's a lot more that needs to be fixed with machinist than flamer. We're back to bottom of the barrel again like Asphodelos.

Its obvious that the team designing the jobs and balance give the least amount of care to physical ranged. They have clear biases towards making sure melee classes are given care and they are still holding on to this ideology that physical ranged "freedom of movement" is actually a real thing.

No clue why MCH has to do 10-15% less damage than SAM/BLM and now even PCT when they are supposedly a selfish DPS class and yet you can't even feel the satisfaction of seeing big numbers on your screen.

The 5% Party bonus was literally just created to make sure they could keep the physical ranged jobs and certain casters (RDM and SMN) in the dumpster when it comes to DPS so that melee can feel good about themselves even if its been piss easy to keep uptime and hit positionals with true north charges the last 2 expansions.

I still have no idea who made the decision to do any of this when it doesn't make anyone being reasonable feel better about the game.