Hello!

I recently got to try the game out for the first time. I think that there is some real potential for an amazing multiplayer game here; there is a lot unique and clever about the game. That said, from my time playing it, I do have some suggestions as to how to improve it.

1) Pre-Game Cutscene.
I think the idea of giving everyone some time to talk and emote is hilarious, and the presentation as a TV show is great. But we timed it; the cutscene lasts for 2 minutes and 8 seconds. Having to sit and wait that long before every single game, especially after queueing for a few minutes, slows the game to a crawl. Instead, what about a quick roll where each of the 16 players get a 2 second moment where they can do their emote/quote? That way you drop the time down to closer to 30 seconds, while still maintaining the fun.

2) Tutorial
This is a very in-depth game; you have to locate several items, summon a helicopter, there are numerous steps that have to be followed; it's not super complex, but there's enough to warrant an explanation. But the tutorial is just a 2-minute explanation that doesn't go into detail at all about these mechanics, and isn't even built-in to the game. I think that a tutorial where you actually let a player run through a very basic how-to of the game: controls, let them pick up a relic, then a flare, then win, will help ease new players into the game without feeling like it's dropping them straight in.

3) Voices/Radio
At a few times during the game, it became genuinely hard to figure out what people were saying, because you had so many voices in your ear. I had numerous teammates trying to explain the game to me, I had a radio on that was constantly making noise. It kinda feels like there's almost too much dialogue happening. Maybe that was just the games I got into, but I almost think something as simple as making the radio an item that can be found rather than given to everyone, and cut down the number of channels, could do wonders.

I think that there's a really great game here at the core, but it needs some fixing and work before it reaches its full potential.

Hello guys

I have a idea which makes the game more trustfull so when you dont trust your teammate you normaly kill him right? But what if there are Handcufs in the game you can find them in the tempel next to skulls. You can only atach to a player when hes standing still his Itemslots are locked then and it decreases the movement speed. Other people can open them with lockpicks or guns. You can only open them on your with lockpicks too (thats the only item you can use ) but this needs like 30 sec. The skin schould be like some rostet old prison ones not like new ones.

Ok so - I have been with SOS and seen Outpost change for the past year since June 2017, and I have to say - There are LOTS of changes since then to the outpost team and the game. First of all - Changes since the alpha. It seems that Outpost wants nothing to do with SOS alpha for some reason? Witch I dont understand, they scrapped the old map (Unnecessary) the old intro (Completely unnecessary) and the old main menu (BEYOND unnecessary). Imagine doing all that hard work for a game and it just being completely scrapped from the game? On top of this, they want the alpha SOS out of there face SO BADLY that they even made game society (That made a funny video for SOS alpha) re-do the video in the CURRENT STATE, which is just horrid! Game society version with alpha : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yeHu-CE98s Outpost Version that made them re-do it with new clips: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLpNkBR59xA . Now, SOS is pretty much changed and I want to see it improve and get better, I have alot of ideas to help the game state -
1. Add in alpha intro and main menu back - "But what about the current one? hard work was put into this one as well", well of course it was, and to solve this just make the intro and main menu like SOS day and night - Each get a 50/50 chance of appearing.2. (Amarant runs the show) - There has been ALOT and I mean ALOT of discussion about how SOS isnt feeling like a game show anymore, well heres how to fix that simply - Add in the old intro, that made it feel alot like a gameshow with all the obvious cameras pointing and the studio setting - another way to fix it is by adding in an announcer to the game to make it feel like a real game show - kinda like how the culling did with chaz. I can already imagine an SOS announcer - "Oh goly! The cynic just bashed slackers brains in with a skull! add in pun here", of course theres other ways to fix this as well like - adding in amarant guards in the background, add in WAY more posters showing off the game show and more artwork for SOS.
3. Add in a viewing system that dosent revolve around streamers - SOS was supposed to be indicated as a T.V. Show to the death, and of course, ALOT of people must be tuning in if lives are on the line - Thats why there should be a viewing system that gives you viewers based on random NPCS that are watching the t.v. that will interact based on what you do - and on top of this, the higher your fame rating is - the more people will watch you.4. Get rid of armor - I have talked with some people before and have heard how Outpost wanted to try there best to avoid becoming another PUBG copy and to be unique, and ofc I have NO IDEA if the person running outpost still has those morales, but seeing that armor was added in (WITCH WANTED TO BE AVOIDED BY OUTPOST BACK THEN) it seems that he dosent have those morales anymore, Now let me tell you Armor and Helmets in an island game does not fit or go well AT ALL. I think they should be removed and improved with other things to make it feel more islandey
5. Better tutorial and better intros - Outpost use to brag about how Outpost team size went up twice its size back in the alpha, and later we found out, THAT WAS A HUGE LIE. I dont know how big Outposts team is currently, but I gotta say - If the team is big, they shoulnt be releasing stuff as bad as the current tutorial video, back then there use to be cool videos like this one showing off SOS, and I feel like they can again - I hope the team can release a WAY better tutorial video with instead of it feeling like "Oh wow, a outpost employee took a bunch of clips, threw them together, and uploaded it, Without teaching me anything essential about the game" they could instead get the feeling like "Wow, Amarant Corp seems to be holing a game show on a cursed island! There teaching me how to play the game and the basics of survival! The announcer for this video sure is cool! I hope to learn more about Amarant!"(edited)
6. New map - I dont know why they removed the old map and replaced old birds and eagle - They were so cool and had 3 rooms in them that could be explored to loot up on knives quickly. On top of this, they removed secrets skilled players could use to their advantage (Jumps over cradle, Birds advantage view on stone, Cliff jumps), adding the old map cant hurt, and on top of that it may even be refreshing instead of having the same map with weather changes
7. Add old character cosmetics back - I dont know why you guys got rid of them, you removed Slackers beard and even removed scarfes and cynics collar vest. adding this back in cant hurt, I dont know why Outpost would waste someones time to make them and then just completely remove it
8. Scarring's and battle marks - There use to be cool scarring's and battle scars back in the game that you can add in that added into the islandey affect of the game and even added a tribal feeling, why did outpost remove it? Yet another question we wont find out. But it would be cool to have it back.
Now these are all ideas to help Outpost and the game improved, and I hope you can all help make it better.

Hey all,

Just some thoughts having spent quite some time playing.
The obvious one:

Guns Gunz Gooonz:

So right now as it stands imo, the guns have lost all balance, partly due to the addition of armour and the new guns.
The Schnauzer (Aka The Pea shooter) - When a person has body armour, it renders this gun completely useless,
due to its higher clip size, and higher recoil when spammed it was pretty balanced, but now I have to unload an entire clip and hit every shot just to get the armour to fall off.

The Revolver - Now takes 100% accuracy to get a kill when an enemy has armour. Its removed the need for skill shots, and replaced it with spam.
You still need to hit every bullet in the clip, but people tend to spam it now, and maybe its partly relearning how to use the gun, but its made it harder to fight someone with a shotgun.

The Wilcox - Still relatively balanced, maybe it needed a slight nerf before (but i thought it was fine)

The shotgun - the TTK (time to kill) has dropped massively, its just too strong against anyone without armour, and still quite strong when people do have armour.
Due to the low ttk - there is no outplay ability at all.
Remove the shotgun

The rifle - Its pretty well balanced, but it does nothing against someone with armour/ helmet.

Body Armour/ Helmets:
IMO of playing shooters for so long, they need to be removed from this game, the rifle needs to be a skill shot like the Kar98 from PUBG, where its reload time is longer, but it still does a decent amount of damage.

There are way too many guns, and way too many armour spawns, both of which turn the game into more of a TDM than anything else.
Ive seen extractions change, where people that have found guns and armour/helmets just camp an extraction and mow down players that have less loot.
Why was the skill shot removed?

Im all for shooters but this isnt a shooter, else you would have true ADS (Which Im still for btw).

Ive been in multiple extractions getting riddled with bullets, and still managed to extract without the need for healing.
Due to the speed at which the extraction still pulls me up, the meta is body armour + helmet and sponge bullets to escape.

Melee was balanced but against the new meta, its rendered it all useless.

Spectating - I know a lot of players wanted the fix for ghosting and its a welcome one, a way to improve it that I think is better:

1. No player should be able to directly spectate their team or see player names
2. The fixed TV/CCTV camera poles should be placed around the map with a lot more density with a player being able to cycle through them
2a. No player names should be revealed, and if some is spamming through the cameras too much (I.e attempting to provide said info to others) - then maybe their feed statrts to look all static
3. Each of the camera locations should have limited visibility i.e FoV

In all honesty the player count has been in decline throughout the whole of March, I suspect many felt the game became a little stale and although the latest content update provided a whole load more content, the game isnt the same.

http://steamcharts.com/app/619080#1m

In recent weeks the "Asia server/ ping issue has become really relevant" but its so very clear most EU/NA players have actually left, i know you guys will never provide player pool numbers but its so obvious.
Since the patch the numbers have falled even further as per the 1m link from steam charts

Since the update Ive been playing the game less, it doesnt feel like SOS, and the disadvantages of not having a shotgun, or armour/helmets is just too big.
Fine tuning these wont help either, because rushing a shotgun is still the meta.
I used to be able to 1v4 or 1v5 (Ive got plenty of clips on my twitch), now if a team has armour i will dump all my ammo trying to shoot 1 person, then get destroyed.

Currently I feel like I need to take a break from the game, most of the skill shots seem to have been removed, the outplay potential has gone and now you can just eat bullet damage and still casually get extracted.

The other additions like hanging loot boxes, weather etc all pretty good, but the imbalance completely outweights any of the positive changes.
Also defibs - there should be a max number of times a player can get picked up, i.e 1.

-r1sh12

There really needs to be some optimization, I get that the devs have more important things, but this needs to be done. Im loading in late (past my turn in the intro) and I can never break 60 fps on medium settings (The game sets me automatically to high/epic) my specs are Ryzen 5 1600, Radeon 470x 8 GB, 8x1 GB Corsair Vengeance. I've been holding off posting this for awhile in hopes you'd all put out an optimization hotfix, or put it in a content update. I've been told to use an SSD, but I shouldn't have to spend another 100$ to buy a premium product just to play this game. if my settings are on high/epic, I dont even break 50, and the first few minutes of the game are way laggy and I have occasional lag spikes. I wish to one day stream this game but as of now with how bad the optimization is, im going to have to hold off.

There is no reason for anyone to team up ever... Nothing is more fun than joining a game and then 1 minute in getting shanked by some random guy who isn't using voice chat, while all I have found are fruits. Almost as fun as playing for 20 minutes looking for a gun or lock picks, to be randomly shotgunned by some guy who doesn't use voice chat. NO ONE WANTS TO TEAM. It's virtually impossible to get weapons unless you get lucky with loot. Solution: everyone spawns with a gun and 3 shots. Or BE ABLE TO BREAK LOCKS WITH AXS.

Hello. As always, great game, lots of fun. Keep up the good work.

I have been a first person shooter gamer for many years and have come accustom to certain sensitivity settings when it comes to aiming in those games. When it comes to melee everything is fine because I can set my look/off the hip sensitivity, but when it comes to aiming the gun I cannot set that sensitivity. In fact, the sensitivity is much higher. As a low sensitivity player, I can deal with it as is, but it isn't ideal.

I was curious if you were planning on allowing the player to adjust the aiming down sights sensitivity when aiming/shooting the gun in the settings menu. If so, wonderful...I'd be looking forward to it. If not, would using any third party tools to adjust sensitivity or some other type of workaround be bannable? Are there any settings I can add to the userconfig ini file to adjust it from the current scale? I really enjoy the game and would not want to jeopardize my account. I am 100% for playing within the rules of the game but I would really like to feel 100% comfortable when it comes to the controls in the game.

Thank you for reading this and taking it into consideration.