Assault Chileanme
Molon Labe.
Public Disorder.
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Posted - 2014.01.24 16:53:00 -
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I was thinking about this last night, when I logged on for the first time in a while to try to get some of this bonus SP that I had heard about. It became pretty obvious early on that a lot of the game has become Anti-Fun.
I don't have too much time to play these days, so I don't have 30 million SP and a dedicated squad to run with, but I do think that I am pretty decent at the game in general. In my first game however, it was a skirmish in progress where the other team had two ADSs and two or three HAVs roaming the field. I had read on the forums about how overpowered vehicles are now since the last patch and how Swarms are useless, but I figured that surely it wouldn't be that bad if I just waited until they stopped shining and unloaded some swarms at that point. So I pulled out my ADV swarms with two Enh Damage Mods and started going after one of the ADSs. Much to my surprise I didn't hardly scratch his paint, and any damage that I did do was fully regenerated by the time I could get more shots off. Then he just came over and killed me with his missiles.
After this same thing happened a few times, I went to the other side of the map to try my luck at a MLT HAV. This was at least as bad since my swarms did practically no damage and the AV grenades that I tossed his way when he rolled right up on me may as well not have exploded. This prompted my to try using my MLT Forge suit, which yet again proved fruitless. After spending the whole match engaged in a personal struggle against the vehicles, all I had to show was the 150 WP that I got for killing the infantry that tried to come after me.
The following few games were all basically the same situation, and if the vehicles weren't a huge problem at any point then a squad of heavies with PRO Rail Rifles would appear and make short work of everyone until the vehicles returned.
All of that to say that I love this game and think it has a lot of potential, but everything seems to balanced and created completely independently from the rest of the game, which leads to a high degree of anti-fun going on. There is no amount of SP that would make me want to endure any more of that than the hour or two I went through last night. I know that people might think that LoL is easymode that holds your hand and caters to infantile desires, but it is difficult to deny that they are very good at creating a balanced and enjoyable ecosystem and interaction between all of the content that they have. |