The top post on the subreddit today is a meme titled "The game is dead, literally unplayable." It's a joke, and with 1,109 points and a 0.83 ratio, it's one most of the room is in on. u/IamSwedishSuckMyNuts posted an image of a skeleton at a keyboard captioned "Devs don't listen to ME," a parody of the doomer essays that have become a fixture. The comments double down.

u/d4nger_mouse's top reply: "After only 1000 hours of play time I have nothing to do. Dead game. Bored." u/Downsey111 adds: "Unbelievable, I paid 40$, got over 400hrs worth of gaming but I have to wait until October for any more content!? This is an outrage." The sarcasm is so thick you could spread it on a barricade. Yesterday's most-commented thread was a genuine wail about the ship sinking. Today the subreddit ate it and spat it back as comedy.

The mood isn't all laughs. A bugged weekly trial asking for damage on Bombardiers doesn't count Bombardiers, and the workaround (Rocketeers and Vaporizers) isn't noted in the game. u/upper_mangement's complaint got 251 points: "How about announcing this in the actual game and not on Discord?" That one isn't satire. It's the familiar sting of a developer who still doesn't use their own client to talk to players.

Cheaters and teamers got their usual airtime. u/Patara's clip of shameless teaming with what looked like duplicated Bobcat IVs drew a weary comment about the bobcat kinetic duping having "ruined this game." Yet u/Kizdo_'s "Embark may have finally cracked the code" thread, with 74 mostly positive comments, argued the last two weeks of matches have felt cleaner. The room is giving the anti-cheat update a cautious nod.