I've been playing since beta and I really have enjoyed this game despite some of the glaring flaws and issues... This patch though has really revealed Bethesda's hand and how they're going to come across issues in the future. Where most developers would have taken and given in the same play, Bethesda has come through with a hammer and really crushed not just one type of weapon or build, but multiple types of weapons and combat builds.

I spent so much time farming Whitesprings, Watoga, and the Scorched Queen for my gear and weapons and despite and dupers and glitches, the bugs and server crashes, I stuck it out because I saw a vision of where this game was going and I was having fun with the people I was meeting along the way! Most of them quit though because of the issues and the dupers but my core group of friends really stuck with it. Now with all these old issues coming back and the giant slap across the face nerf I'm out.

I never had a TSE build but I didn't agree with how hard they nerfed two shot and especially not with how they treated explosive considering it's more than just a weapon damage type for shotguns... my issue was more with how hard they're working on smashing all the builds down into nothing before they've even stabilized the damn game! Not only that but in the process of destroying one of the fundamental damage types in the game, they actually managed to make the game worse now than it has been since beta.

Bethesda you're probably not reading this but on the off-chance that you do, focus on fixing the biggest issues like your server stability issues and the glitches that are destroying your game. You did great getting rid of dupers that were causing server stability problems but now you're focused on ppl running around killing things disproportionally because of your own build design. Most people didn't care about TSE specifically, they cared about glitches that led to imbalance like bobblehead stacking where they were insta-dying to PvPers or griefers. I don't know if it's too late or not, it seems like it is but maybe you still have a chance with this game, just now at the bulk of your most dedicated player base. I hope it was worth rushing this mess of a game out before the holiday season rather than releasing it in the beginning of second quarter this year when it would have been most likely balanced more and stabilized.

to the people that have helped along the way with your random purified waters you would drop for me or maybe throwing out some extra frag grenades or spare ammo or whatever because you were acting like good Samaritans and friendly neighbors, you guys are awesome and my core group you were amazing. This game I feel was more of a social experiment than anything else and despite running into griefers every now and then, I ran into 10 times as many people that were willing to help me or let me help them without acting like tools. This community is awesome, I hate that it was abused so much. Take care everyone, thanks for the memories!