Newest Patch (personal review and thoughts)

As a The Culling veteran that played the game on every step of its way since the very first months and was excited to see stagger come back, I have to say I'm slightly concerned about the ups and downs of this patch.

Now I think most of people that put a lot of hours into this game and played it recently can agree that The Culling's player base seemed to shrink more and more and we all hope/hoped that the new patch is gonna fix many of the issues and maybe bring back some if not a lot of old players and on top of that maybe new ones.

And stagger was indeed brought back but at what price?

I've been playing some games after the patch rolled out and after the first few round me and my queue buddy started noticing some issues...things that have always worked up until now. Now we didn't want to jump to conclusion so we played quite a few round to get a nice sample of how reoccurring those issues are and to our sad surprise most of them are happening almost 50 or even over 50% of the time you play.

Issues found and how often they occurred for me and or by buddy before and after the newest patch:

Issue: Your teammate in co-op has no blue "aura" around him: before (0/10); after (4/10) Issue: Snare ropes do not properly align with its placed down "sticks": before (0/10); after (6/10) Issue: After you die (even after waiting a while) no mouse shows up and keyboard buttons don't work which results in you having to close down the game to exit a match: before (3/10); after (6/10) Issue: In lightning round it shows Random Airdrop for some people while it shows the content of it for others (in ESC menu): before: (0/10); after (3/10) Possible issue: Scoreboard doesn't show who you got killed by (not sure if that is on purpose or not...but if it is on purpose why can you still see how many people someone killed): before (0/10); after (10/10) Survival mode gets stuck at 84 Cullbots killed: before (game mode not present); after (every single game)

That is all so far but I will update this if I find more issues, its just sad to see that problems are introduced into the game with a patch that haven't even been there before like the issue with the snares. The Culling player base is already small and doesn't need any more reasons to get smaller.

EDIT: Issue (happening to 3 players I have asked including me):

Trident can make a small line appear just right of it:

https://i.gyazo.com/9b07dec358dcf9fbd39486a260979b56.png

Snares post patch:

https://i.gyazo.com/3d61e60e7991e791c4e4be38d3a64594.jpg

https://i.gyazo.com/a4a59c72bd8b15ab10c3832981bda38f.jpg

^ Also visible in the last picture is (in the back) my teammate, again not being marked by a blue "aura" around him.

EDIT2:

https://i.gyazo.com/dc996042ef2377e48abb725b99c0a0a8.png

Smoke Bombs description still says bleeding wound on them even though that isn't correct since like 3 updates ago.