Anybody else just leaving the game until the devs get their head out of the sand? I got the game at the end of december and already have 473 hours in it. I absolutely LOVE dark and darker, or at least what it was. At this point I can't enjoy HR because it's just a sweatfest of players with named items running around farming everyone else (who are just trying to find a portal) and leaving 95% of their kits to be lost since there's no gobby recovery anymore.
I go to play norms and repeatedly deal with things that should be impossible (like me as an agility rogue getting chased down by a full plate fighter in the space of a single room, and the fighter didn't even have sprint equipped) or me as a half-plate fighter getting randomly killed by a rogue who somehow went from fighting the skeletons in square to being down below in the golem area killing me as I mine the ore WITHOUT HIM OPENING EITHER OF THE DOORS, WHICH HAD BEEN CLOSED SINCE BEFORE HE ENTERED THE MODULE.
I go to play 124's to try to find a middle ground, and get mobbed by naked barbarians with nothing but a bis weapon, lightfoots, and 3 +1 all green jewelry. I play primarily longsword fighter, so I can usually deal with the first one just fine since they usually use easily-parried weapons when playing that way, but then as soon as I finish killing the first one there's another one coming at me popping his screams. On a few occassions I have managed to kill however many there were and get out alive, but their jewelry and weapons generally come out to a profit of like $800 per, meaning that while my balanced out fighter kit (near-bis gemmed out blues and greens with a purple chestplate and my own +1 all jewelry) costs me at least 4k to put together, the barbs can make four or five of their "kits" from selling only one of mine.
I started changing my playstyle to adjust to what is apparently the "new meta" and started playing perma-hide agility rogue so I could just avoid all fights and never be seen. That's when I started dealing with back to back games with rangers who I can only assume are running gamma mods or some other cheat to reveal my location who just one-tap me with a windlass headshot as I sit in a dark corner across the module from them (and I'm running pickpocket so there's no possibility I accidentally had a potion on my belt or something like that giving me away)
I finally decided that I was just gonna play arena, since they couldn't screw that up, right? Wrong. I have an amazing kit of legendaries I found, and an even better crafted kit, but now I'm just completely irrelevant since now everyone is running BIS legendary that they didn't have to work to find. It used to be that if you got absolutely gear-diffed it was because the other person had ground the game out and earned their gear, but no, now all it takes to absolutely gear-diff everyone in arena is about $17.99 depending on what site you use (I got frustrated enough I researched it)
I was an enormous advocate for this game the entire time I've played it up until now. I stuck with it through the market crashing due to religion (I lost 90% of my net worth because I had been holding my value in gold keys) and I even learned to work with all the changes they made taking HR back to playtest versions, but its finally to the point where I just can't enjoy it anymore. I really hope they manage to get the game back to a playable state when they do the wipe, because I really enjoy the game, but right now it's just a hot steaming mess.