yea and...
This is kinda how everyone feels. I don't understand the point of the article.
How can you not understand the point? Unless you probably didn't read it.
There's one thing I entirely disagree with the article and it's this:
I’m not even that obsessed with the treasure system, but when I invest an hour of my time and walk away with squat, that time feels wasted.
I can see where he is coming from, but I personally don't feel this way. Since he mostly focused on co-op arena, that hour of time playing with others is worth it to me because I find the mode fun. It's one of the few modes where I don't get frustrated playing with randoms because most people seem to "get" it and it's even more fun when you're playing it with friends.
Now on to the treasure system...it really does need some improvements. The constant amount of duplicate treasures can get annoying ESPECIALLY when you get the same one in a co-op arena match. The "rarity" of rare treasures is a little bit too extreme for co-op arena because they honestly won't drop after playing games over and over again. Again, this is where I can see the frustration in people (including myself) because it sucks when you're only missing one drop to complete a set, but since the last treasure is rare, the chances of you getting it is slim. There is no treasure hunter booster either to increase the drop rate in co-op arena, so its completely random. you can play 3 matches without getting anything while you can get a shit ton of treasures in one match, but they're all duplicates. I've had the displeasure of completing most of my co-op sets playing Hunter, but that mode is broken as fuck. It's not fun and the new DLC maps don't even have a chest where you can get three medal pick ups and that IS a problem because without the chests, it imbalances the game. Not to mention that the chest themselves also increased the chances of getting a rare treasure. You have more chances in acquiring a treasure drop with a chest than you do in killing a human player in Hunter and it really sucks that the DLC maps don't have them. I'm OK with the lack of them in co-op arena, but it's not OK in Hunter Arena. I'm tired of seeing the same constant duplicate treasures in co-op arena and not being able to complete my final 5 sets. All I'm missing is the baseball cap for Drake, the headwrap for Desert Drake, the fancy hat for Marlowe, the glasses for Eddy, and the bandit mask for Flynn. I'm just missing the final drop for each of them, but I keep getting the same common treasures over and over again including for those sets.
I have noticed that ever since the title update or whatever it was, the amount of treasure drops have increased in co-op arena. Previously for me, sometimes I would get at least one treasure drop out of every 2 or 3 matches. Just one. Now I'm getting constant treasure drops in every match, which is nice. It'd be nicer if they weren't duplicate treasures, but at least I can say that I've noticed more drops occurring.
If there's ONE mode where the treasure system is even worse than co-op arena...it HAS to be Hardcore. THERE is a mode where the treasure system is complete bullshit. You can play god knows how many matches in that mode and not get a single treasure drop. When I play Hardcore, I always get around 20 kills per match, and it's incredibly FRUSTRATING that I get no treasure drops whatsoever, but when I do...it's the infamous Just Cash. Fuck that shit. Just Cash needs to be fucking REMOVED from Hardcore. i can't believe that piece of shit medal is there especially considering the treasure drops in Hardcore are even RARER than co-op arena. Since you can't use boosters in Hardcore, you can't use Treasure Hunter to increase your drop rate. How can this be remedied? Either increase the chances of a treasure dropping, REMOVE Just Cash, or introduce a Treasure Hunter booster. Shit, it could act as the bronze version of it for all I care, but at least it'll be something.
ALSO:
On maps like The Highrise/City of Ass, if you kill a NPC or human player while they're jumping from a building to another building and they drop a treasure, guess what? You're fucked because the treasure drops all the way to the bottom of the map and there is no way for you to retrieve it. If that happens, the game should just give you the treasure automatically instead of screwing you over.