This isn’t something I think much about since I’ve long since reached the time played to unlock it, but I feel the excessive amount of time you need to unlock the Xeno name prefixes is very unfair for new players.
125 hours to unlock just the 3rd prefix is insane, most people rarely play ANY video game for that long.
I feel it just limits player creativity in assigning their own name. Whilst you do unlock earlier the postfix (which is 25 hours which is still a lot of playtime by video game standards) that I feel is still not enough.
We already have xeno caste ranks if you need to know if someone has played the game a lot, but I feel we should be kinder to new players and open up their name choices far, far, earlier.
I mean, I feel much the same could be argued for the marines too. Your regular PFC isn’t meant to be too creative in an ideal world. You just want a soldier who’ll listen to orders and not question you. But even in real life, marines get incredibly creative and have ways to distinguish themselves from the crowd. I don’t think it’d be too bad to make the same for xenos a little easier to do.
Yeah, I feel like xeno prefix & suffix playtimes are a relic. It was introduced as a way to reward people for playing xeno, but maturity getting slashed from in-round buffs to the xeno equivalent of playtime medals kind of just made that obsolete. They’re literally that player’s name as xeno, I don’t see why we should restrict it.
It’s been years since people objected to extra characters being added out of fear of giving too much “individuality” to what’s meant to be a collective hive mind, I think that’s enough time.
Great, let’s go full TGMC way and have full names instead of tags. Can’t wait to be killed by a ravager named “coldbloodkiller” or something. This is sarcasm, don’t fix what’s working.
I need to flex my ebiceps and have something to validate that im better than others for spending 1.5k hours of my life playing this server and it wasnt time that wouldve been better spent on something else smh