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all right guys let's be real everyone
clicked onto this video for a very
specific reason but before we get to
that reason before we get into the meat
of the video and the discussion itself I
wanted to make sure that this disclaimer
was put forth I know that this is a
controversial topic and is going to be a
controversial video however that is
intentional this is not something I'm
putting out there with big de eyes
saying oh I had no idea that people felt
a certain way I'm not doing this to
generate views or something similar a
lot of people often times you know bring
that to light and say that that's a
motivation behind a lot of content
creators not just me um I'm putting this
out there intentionally knowing that
there will be negative feedback towards
me uh based on my views on this topic
and hoping that people can limit the
negative feedback to each other but the
end result is really to have a positive
discussion about the betterment of the
game uh and realizing broken different
game mechanic interactions it's
something that I've thought about a lot
and I wanted to put this video out there
it is intentionally controversial to
Spur discussion but I hope it can remain
respectful now now that that's been put
out there everybody knows uh there's no
pretense why I'm putting this video out
there there's no pretense what it's
about you've all seen the title I'm
going to get right into the meat of you
know the discussion and actually what's
going on
here the first example that I have of
why alphab bridge is and will continue
to ruin the PVP and Tom Clancy the
division is Provident the sniper weapon
Talent now this is the biggest example
as well and that's why I decided to lead
off with it uh the reason that this is
something that we should all look at and
understand why it's kind of a lightning
rod or a Herald or a profit of what's to
come is because of the way that the
whole process was handled and how it all
ended up now The Provident sniper Talent
up till patch 1.5 was not used by hardly
anyone it was not something that a lot
of people look to H to create builds
around it was not something that really
mattered and you wer going to see a lot
of people you know showing off their
builds that use this mechanic in the
dark Zone you would have the odd player
here and there that used it and got a
one- shot kill with it or something like
that uh and was super happy about and
they rightfully were so I mean it was a
really cool mechanic to have it's
something that not a lot of players were
using but uh it was not something in the
spotlight Now by itself it's actually a
really interesting Talent 60% damage on
the last bullet of the magazine is you
know it's not super overpowered it's not
60% damage across the board but it's on
the last bullet and there were no
weapons in the game that allowed you to
take full advantage of that and use it
100% of the time until patch 1.5 now
after patch 1.5 with the model 700 even
after you fired all the bullets in the
magazine it did not reload in one
continuous go it actually did it thum
loaded one by one each round and that
allowed you to break that chain and then
continuously fire 60% increased damage
on top of your very high bolt action
sniper rifle damage to begin with over
and over and over if you had the right
other talents that resulted in constant
one shots now one shots are not a fun
thing a lot of people disagree with that
uh they some people like One Shot some
people hate them but a lot of people
really dislike running up against them
in the dark Zone getting killed in one
go by any mechanic is something that's
very frustrating they don't like sticky
bombs for that reason a lot of people
don't like shotguns for that very reason
even though they've been ch change now
uh there's a lot of animosity towards
the one shot mechanic so that was not
something that massive wanted to allow
to remain in the game so they removed
the Provident Talent from the 256 gear
score sniper rifles now one would think
that since the 256 gear score sniper
rifles have the highest base damage in
the game removing that 60% buff from
them in particular would result in the
problem being fixed and one would be
correct if it weren't for the alpab
bridge gear set now just to get back and
mention again that we were talking about
Alpha Bridge ruining the game uh not
Provident or the model 700 now if you
can't roll Provident on a 256 gear score
weapon that's fine uh enter the alpha
Bridge gear set where you can roll it on
any other gear score sniper rifle and
then have it active Not only would it
then be active but it costs less and
does not even require it's not required
that it be rolled in the third slot uh
if you have a much lower gear score item
because you're going to always have the
base amount of stat points needed to
unlock every Talent if you have a low
enough gear score item so you can have
provenant with two sniper rifles one
being 256 that still has it active even
though it was intended to not be able to
be rolled on those sniper rifles and you
can do huge amounts of damage with five
other talents as well to augment The
increased damage of that sniper build
with an alpha Bridge full tank build and
what that allowed you to do is have a
super tank build that could on-shot
every single player that it came across
no problem and just would have destroyed
the balance in the dark zone now this
has been removed from all weapons now
Provident cannot go on any weapon type
but it was not retroactively changed
which means some people still have this
build some people are still running
around with this build that is
completely overpowered blatantly broken
and is not something that could be
allowed to remain in the game uh and let
alone more people to obtain it every
single day so what happened is enter
Alpha bridge and they had to remove a
weapon Talent from the game they had to
cut down on T on content in the game
they had to remove and strip away
content and mechanics that they had pre
previously created that were previously
fun because of the alpab bridge gear set
now by itself it's one instance sure but
the same way that patch 1.3 heralded
that the balance was out of control and
that every patch that then forward would
have more and more profound impact on
that balance and it would just
absolutely become unplayable I think
that alpab bridge is showing its true
colors and the interaction of weapon
talents as well as gun types as well as
gear set talents is so diverse now and
I'm a big fan of diversity so it really
pains me to say this um but it's so
diverse in such a bad way that there's
always going to be every time they
release new content uh and try and do
cool you know new talents it's going to
break something and something's going to
go wrong and the metag game is going to
suck because of alphab bridge now
another obvious parallel is we have the
assault rifle meta build but that's more
of a perfect storm and there's a lot
more at play than just alpab bridge now
any one thing by itself that contributes
to why the alpab bridge assault rifle
meta is so consuming right now in the
dark zone why everyone is running it uh
wouldn't be that big of a deal it's a
perfect storm there's so many different
things U but if you take any one of them
and isolate them it isn't a problem
let's look at the uncomplicated talent
for one that's a really cool Talent on
the Famas weapon type it's a really
interesting way that you have this high
RPM Famas with low stability uh and low
accuracy to get to take advantage of
this 15% extra damage and someone using
just a Famas rifle is going to have a
fun time that's a cool new play style
it's a cool new you know batch of
content and I'm really excited about it
I was back at release of 1.5 and I still
am I think it's a really awesome weapon
type enter Alpha Bridge the
uncomplicated Talent is 15% flat
increased damage that is unconditional
as long as you actually have done it
right uh you haven't modded your gun
because the Famas by itself has lower
stability high RPM uh but other gun
types have very high base stability so
you can get the uncomplicated Talent on
a gun that doesn't really suffer from
from the fact that it doesn't need
stability and then it is super super
high you 15% now 15% is higher and
unconditional if used properly again
than the 10% from responsive you have
something like responsive which up till
now was a top tier talent and very good
and still is uh but only had 10% and you
had to be within 10 meters so that's a
conditional 10% now you have 15% from
all ranges that's active in addition to
all the other percentage weapon damage
bonus types uh this is something again
by itself if someone uses a Famas with
some other gear set it isn't a problem
enter Alpha Bridge it becomes a problem
and it becomes something that can kill
too quickly because you have a high RPM
alternative gun type with high stability
and gets the full uncomplicated bonus
and just makes an already super potent
gear set even more powerful uh enter any
other you know list of mechanics you
have enemy armor damage that by itself
isn't a problem but again with alpab
bridge and the interaction of all six
weapon talents considering now that by
increasing percentage weapon damage
bonus increases you're just making uh
the alpha Bridge you know gear set
stronger much much stronger uh because
percentage weapon damage bonuses will
always be super super strong they can't
really put any more in the game because
even just by putting one in the
uncomplicated Talent Again by itself not
doing anything uh you know gamebreaking
Alpha bridge then makes it gamebreaking
so what you have is a gear set Alpha
bridge that is now preventing the
content creators of this game not me
that does YouTube content not you know
twitch streamers the actual producers
and developers of this game are
handcuffed by alphabridge they can't put
in cool new diverse uh weapon talents
because they're going to break the game
not because the talent itself is broken
but because the alpha Bridge gear set
allows it to interact with too many
other things uh in a lot of different
broken and unforeseen ways so you have
something like Provident they've had to
actually remove content from the game
because of alpab bridge you have
something like uncomplicated which
hasn't been removed yet but I'm sure
there's a rework coming uh where it's
not working properly it's overpowered
because of the alphab bridge gear set
and this is just with one batch of
content I am 100% sure and I will stand
by this determination that alphabridge
in the future if they release any more
batches of content with new awesome
diverse mechanics uh they would be fine
on their own and they could calculate
for that on its own but as soon as they
start to interact with alphabridge we're
going to have a broken metag game I kind
of called this whole Trend back in 1.4
or actually 1.3 before then but more so
1.4 when they up the gear score when
they up the main stat amounts something
like alphab Bridge becomes stronger and
there was no slated changes they nerfed
a lot of gear sets they buffed a lot of
gear sets alphab Bridge received little
to no changes in the way that it
functions and as a result of that and a
whole bunch of other reasons we are now
going to see it break the game every
single batch of content uh with every
single batch of content is release in
the future now I am passionate about
this game that's no secret I'm very very
passionate about this game something
that hits very close a home for me I
built a whole a channel a community and
kind of a whole entire job around this
title and we are expanding to more you
know as days go on but this is our our
home base we really love this game at
upper Eon and I love the alpab bridge
gear set and it used to be a breath of
fresh air it used to be a new way to
combine weapon talents uh and make
things interact that was diverse that
was awesome that was fun and I never
thought that I would say this because
what it does do is cut down on diversity
in the end but I would like to see the
alpha Bridge gear set either removed
from the game or re worked entirely and
I know that that's controversial I know
that a lot of people are going to
disagree and I hope that they do and I
would hope that they contribute their
feedback in the discussion below however
I do not think that this is going to
function in later content patches with
dlc's whether it be Last Stand or
something similar because the longer
that this goes on the more mechanics are
going to interact and the more Alpha
bridge is going to actually handcuff uh
the mechanics and the release of content
in this game it's not going to allow us
to do anything cool we can't make any
more Talent I say we because I feel so
you know connected to this game but the
developers at massive or at redstorm are
not going to be able to release cool new
content because alphab bridge will break
it and I think that that needs to end
and I think that this gear set itself is
the primary reason why this game you
know is facing some more struggles it
really wasn't facing as many with 1.4
1.4 is fantastic 1.5 brought a whole new
set of problems and it actually also
kind of woke us up to previous problems
and that is alphab bridge and the way
that they interact now this is extremely
ranty I understand that this is a very
rambly video with a lot of different
opinions and again I would hope that a
lot of people would chime in on this
give me your feedback and I know that a
lot of people are also going to hate on
this they don't want to see Alpha Bridge
change they don't think it's a problem
but I hope that the Provident talent and
the uncomplicated talent and the
parallels that I've drawn show you why I
believe that this is just going to
spiral out of control and would spur a
lot of people to think about it um and
to contribute to discussion again so I'm
going to end it there this is a total
rant it's very early in the morning or
late at night whatever you want to call
it um and it's something that I thought
I would put out there I wanted to put
out there I thought a lot about this uh
people talk about this concept on our
live streams all the time and it's
something that I wanted to put out there
and raise awareness too so let me know
your thoughts let me know why you agree
or disagree uh again sorry for ranting
as long as I have it's an extremely long
video here uh but I appreciate the
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