I totally agree with all of the things said above, the game died due to the lack of updates and EU servers shutting down which led to no tournaments or community events for the players. I liked the gamestyle in surge or pre-surge with all of the variety in weapons and parts which you could combine to get you to be a more advanced player. The pay-to-win spectre of the capsule machine giving better drops than normal shop items weren't an issue in the end of surge due to all of the coin drops and different events which gave you a chance to get some rares from the capsule. Now if "Recharged" just released "Surge" again it would have issues with pay-to-win. I believe a way for them to get the community to build again is to release the game with surge shop items while they work and release capsule items (mp/rt) with BALANCED (doesn't need to be the same, variety is not an issue) stats in comparison to the MP and ADV weapons in the shop. This would also be cool for the old players and kind of give a vibe like WoW classic where they go through the expansions and updates again which made all of the players fell in love with the game in the first place while working on new content. Reworking all of the weapons from the ground up is in my opinion, and from what I've seen pretty much the rest of the community, is not the way to go about it but rather release the game with the working basics of the old weapons which players want.

SadFaceS / hz / Hazzible, level 66 before surge shut down. Been in most clans for a while but I only played FFA so I never got to know anyone 🙃