Hell, I wish more games just had humanity. It might be due to me being antiwar, but when playing MMOs (whose MO is pretty much always ‘kill each other’ PVP) I wish folk were not so quick to kill, especially not when the kill isn’t imperative. Face it, some of the best ever moments in gaming are when folk have the option to kill each other and dont. A shred of humanism.
Universal signs in COD existed to plead for mercy, such as switching to a knife and looking away. In Black Ops II there’s a rave room in a map and several players spent a minute bobbing their characters around until someone else came and mowed the other team down. One time in Battlefield I spent the majority of a game (no mic mind you) chilling on a roof with half a dozen players from two teams. I came to multiplayer FPS games for the combat, stayed for the randoms I met.
Overspark@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Honestly Arc Raiders is (or can be) more about collecting stuff while staying alive than about killing stuff. Evading 100% of the fights is a totally valid play style. So your vision problems might not be as big a deal in this game as you would expect.
early_riser@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Other guy: “Grab the supplies”
Me: “Where are they?”
Other guy: “Over there”
Me: “Where is ‘there’?”
I know next to nothing about Arc Raiders, so I may be assuming wrong. It’s not just about PvP, it’s about how fast-paced the game play is. I can bumble through a game of Deep Rock Galactic with friends because it’s (I imagine) slower paced and everyone is working on the same goal. My friends are also patient enough to deal with my issues.
noobdoomguy8658@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
If you buy ARC Raiders, you’ll have your money’s worth by the time you decide whether you’re enjoying it.
You can easily avoid PVP most of the time by not engaging in combat with other players - the game will put you into like-minded lobbies in a few raids.
ARC is often fairly big and has multiple ways to destroy, as well as multiple points to damage them, with some weapons definitely being easier to use, let alone the grenades. On top of non-combat ways of dealing with them.
And most importantly, the people. You can just join raids solo and run up to people and team up to go do whatever together. You can get helped on most, if not all, things that you might wanna do, but struggle with due to your vision.
And even if you don’t, you’ll love the game for what your vision won’t affect: the chatting and the community and the cool shit you all do.
I’d say go watch some specifically friendly videos, but they just do such lobbies justice.
Overspark@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Deep Rock with friends is indeed a very awesome game!
I have no idea how bad your vision is, you do need decent situational awareness in Arc Raiders to stay alive. And you need to get to an exit point before the mission is over (15 minutes I think? Been a while since I last played it). But other than that you can solo in your own tempo, tagging along with others is completely optional.