Can you join somone elses doomsday hiest or is the only way to play it by buying a facility and setting the hiest up youtself?
you can join other to play the content. it wont cost you a dime.
Next to burnout paradise this is one of my all time favorite games, but shit if it don't seem like Rockstar is doing everything in their power to turn my friends and myself away from the game.
This new heist expansion doubles down on EVERYTHING that's been wrong with the game for awhile now.
First, hosts have to put up a setup cost to start, then you are forced to buy prep equipment for each setup mission which progressively gets more expensive. (because who in their right mind wants to go fetch this crap in troll filled public rooms which is required to do these?) Then hosts do not get paid for the setup missions, plus sinking money into restocking your 10 pieces of armor after every mission because they tripled enemy health for these heists and tripled the damage they do to you, two shots and your health bar is critical if not completely empty. The interior layouts of these missions seem designed against the game's mechanics. More people make it worse cause more targets for the AI to aimbot/wallhack and most people don't understand how to play this game properly.
By the time you manage to do a heist, by the time you split evenly, and actually manage to pass the heist, it feels like you've made nothing. And that's how GTA has been designed for awhile, a mindless grind that even after many many hours feels like you've barely moved the needle. It's honestly just as horrible as battlefront 2, just goes about it in a different way and nobody seems to care.
Horrified of how red dead 2 is set up...
ok, so theres multiple things that i have a problem with in your statement.
first of all, you dont have to pay anything to play this new content. you and your friends can join others games as a grouo with the match making built into the game.
second, if you dont want do the prep missions and rather pay, that seems like a personal problem. theres others, including myself who likes them and find them fun and challenging to do.
third of all, noooooooooooo one uses armor outside of pvp. its too expensive and its gone after one or two shoots. its a waste of money. you know what people do??? they eat the snacks whike in cover because of two reasons, no eating animation so your health fills instantly meaning you can spam the snacks to quickly fill your health and eating snacks in cover or while in a vehicle you get more health.
fourth, getting killed in two hits is highly unlikely. so i think your just blowing things a bit out of proportions here.
fifth, if your not having fun playing the base game and find it to be boring and a grind, then its pretty obvious its not the game for you.