User blog:RefillSunset/Busy and Disappointed. Quitting SAS4 for good

I’ve decided to quit SAS 4.

My exams need more time than I would have expected.

Golden Apple, you can take away my admin status if you want to.

But more so, I am VERY disappointed in NK and SAS 4.

First, it’s been 183 days since the last map was released, and this blog was posted. There’s still no sign of any upcoming update to change that situation. That’s half a year without anything new to play with at all, just looping Pods every single day for daily rewards, and nothing else.

Yes, Nightmare was a good addition, but that, too, was released in early February. Also, NMs are still based on old maps. They are significantly less fun than an entirely new mission. The lack of anything new makes the game repetitive and increasingly boring.

Contracts were, imho, NK’s bad way to make up for lack of new maps. Not only did they create these not-really-new-mission missions, they also practically created a new farming area for people to get anything they want.

This is a direct slap to the face to older players, like “Oh, you invested in Field Supplies? Well, screw you, that’s totally wasted now” “Oh, you got Pods Map Master for grinding xp? Well, now you can grab xp here. Good luck with the time you wasted earlier” “Oh, you spent thousands of dollars upgrading weapons? We’re only releasing augment xp progress now, and you will have to spend twenty times the money you did to get these cool rewards, because we are too lazy to do calculations on the money spent on your current weapons”.

Second, NK has shown no care for the players at all. Not only do they ignore all the requests for new maps, they have also done nothing to improve the loot in boxes. This here is not just ranting. I have gotten a 10*** RED clean Mixy from a Nantonium, which is more than fair loot, but I’ve also gotten NORMAL Ronson 55s, and it just pains me when I grind through a particularly difficult round of Nightmare, seeing my other teammates get Nantoniums (not complaining about this. It was well deserved, and I didn’t get HR), then all get sh*t like Ronson boots, Ronson 55, Starburst, and many others. Sadly, NK has decided not to accept opinions on changing the loot range for some weapons, or giving you a selection of weapons to choose from in Blacks and Nantoniums, and a bunch of other suggestions that would definitely help with improving the game.

What’s more, there are dozens of bugs around different maps, which NK for some reason did not patch at all. In worst scenarios, at least you could compensate players who lose loot, right? However, when I lost a Nantonium from a elite savage devastator because of a disconnection bug (fireworks), I sent the image to NK, and they compensated me with 3 Molybdenum boxes. It’s as ridiculous as it sounds.

Third, NK has literally done NOTHING to deal with the massive amount of hackers. Seriously, there is a website for people to get all the hacks for SAS4, from free Nantoniums to 10*** clean Black weapons, to infinite augment progress xp, to infinite skill pts (my friend tried this, and you’d think it would be easy to detect, but NK actually took 4 whole months to ban him) and NK has done less than sh*t to rectify the situation. This is no fun and extremely unfair for honest players who are spending months grinding on something other people do with a few clicks. What's more, banning does not work at all, as anyone can go and create a new account and do what they did earlier in an hour or less.

Fourth, as if the large number of hackers did not unbalance the game already, NK decides to add in WEAPONS that are not balanced for the general gameplay (Trident, M1000), for a few privileged individuals, making the strong ones get stronger and destroying any hope of players catching up with those godlike players. It also creates a window of opportunity for the hackers to get these weapons, while honest players once again have no hope of getting.

Ranting? Perhaps. But it’s rather apparent that these problems are existing, and not just for a couple of weeks. It disappoints me so much to see the honest people suffering or grinding and the hackers getting their way, especially when NK could have just corrected the programming and solved the problem.

For God’s sake, if they are making games, then it falls upon their head to maintain them as well.

And looking at the other games coming in 2015 and 2016, I have more incentive than ever to study hard and get into university, so that I can get myself a good computer with my savings for upcoming games. Tom Clancey’s The Division. Star Wars Battlefront. Assassin’s Creed Syndicate. Most of all, Overwatch, by Blizzard. It’s one AWESOME game that will be worth putting down another not-as awesome-slowly-deteriorating game.

I’m sorry to say that I will be quitting this wikia as well, since I see little reason to contribute to a wikia when I no longer play the game. The final analysis for the last few Nightmare maps and assault build will, as it appears, not come, if anyone had actually bothered to read the last few block of words I posted.

<p class="MsoNormal">I am happy that I made some friends during my time here, and there may come a day when we meet elsewhere in some other games.

<p class="MsoNormal">Until that day, goodbye and good hunting, my fellow zombie hunters.