Suppressors... doing more than they should!

**SmokenSherriff_** · 01-12-15, 01:48 PM

What is the number one spawning item that needs to be tweaked? What has a bigger impact on player count? Is it backpacks? Is it special guns?

SUPPRESSORS!!! They are a deterrent for everything that is being worked on. Want more action? Want more connects and less disconnects?

Think about it... Do you ever hear a random gun shot? Do you ever have a need to go and check that gun shot out? Think about if you connected and ran around on a server for 45 minutes and heard nothing?

WHY? Cause suppressors spawn like candy.

Guys when possible we all have talked about connects being based on "Quality of Product". One of those main factors is action on the server.

Reduced and rare spawning of suppressors, means more action situations, which means less disconnects, equaling server growth.

Probably a pretty important priority...
We all appreciate the hard work being put in, these posts aren't to say get busy, lol, but more to keep you busy, until the product is good. Tell us how to help in the process as well.

Smoke

**KromMonkey** · 01-12-15, 02:11 PM

we can tweak the dynanic loot spawns of silencers and silenced weapons.

**dreaddman** · 01-12-15, 05:41 PM

Got a point, but not too much of a reduction. I would think that making the big guns much more rare would help action even more.

**Mr_Blonde_OPS** · 01-13-15, 01:15 AM

Smoken mentioned this to me the other night in TS; I completely agree now that he did so. I never thought about it till he brought it up, but he's right. Silencers are as easy to find as food and drink. To so easily give players the ability to silently move through the map killing AI, Zappers, drones, or other players, probably reduces the amount of engagements significantly.

I'd vote to try it out. See how it changes the atmosphere of the server.

**maximusboomus** · 01-13-15, 06:41 AM

Can we make them pickup items only? Then have them super rare? Same with the m107 and other amazing rifles. They should be rare, coveted, and not available at the traders, make them not be an easy find.

**SmokenSherriff_** · 01-13-15, 07:10 AM

Originally Posted by maximusboomus

Can we make them pickup items only? Then have them super rare? Same with the m107 and other amazing rifles. They should be rare, coveted, and not available at the traders, make them not be an easy find.

Yes, Yes... I like it. Add some value for our treasure hunters and pick up server action... Win/Win right?

Smoke

**maximusboomus** · 01-13-15, 07:14 AM

Originally Posted by SmokenSherriff_

Yes, Yes... I like it. Add some value for our treasure hunters and pick up server action... Win/Win right?

Smoke

Exactly. I notice there are some players with massive amounts of play time, we need to make things interesting for them too.

Another reason for the slower pace is the server spawns us more northern. Electro and cherno are basically ghost towns now. There's no real reason for people to go there, in overpoch it's an absolute mayhem pit each time you Goto those cities, especially since new spawns find high caliber guns like candy.

**KromMonkey** · 01-13-15, 08:38 AM

I updated the wepaons spawns that occur via the dynamic spawner and in this update all silenced weapons were removed. YOu can still find suppressors randomly but you should no longer just be able to pick up a silenced weapon via the dynamic spawns.