God Hates Lags
Fatal Absolution
General Tso's Alliance
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Posted - 2014.12.01 06:49:00 -
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It had some good things and some bad things to it.
Pros: The skill tree was longer and more comprehensive, Vehicle/AV balance was way better, heavies were balanced with assaults and TTK was quite a bit up. Corp battles were a lot better than the current PC system and faction warfare, while annoying actually was rewarding from a factional basis.
Cons: It was buggy as ****, filled to the brim with lag and was graphically unimpressive. Also a good number of weapons were OP, including assault rifle and HMG, while others didn't work at all, like shotgun.
I think the real reason people look back so fondly on Chrom is that it was the last time people could look at dust and get excited. It was about to be released and they knew big things were on the horizon. It was the last time people could say "it's a beta, it will get fixed on release." Uprising was a huge **** up that the game took a full six months to recover from. At that point everyone but its die hard fans had abandoned it.
Rail Rifle and Bolt Pistol Champion
Fatal Absolution Director
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God Hates Lags
Fatal Absolution
General Tso's Alliance
1428
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Posted - 2014.12.01 18:03:00 -
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I should also add that the corp landscape felt a lot more dynamic and exciting back in chrome as well. Nowadays you have almost no chance of starting a corp out of nothing; all the major corps now have either been around for sometime (KEQ, Molon), piggybacked off of the success of another corp they were in an alliance with (Cap Acq, GAM, random guns) or be the reformed version of a dead corp (Fatal, Murphy's, Bloodline). Since there was no inherent hierarchy of corps based on who held the most districts, there was a greater sense that anyone could beat anyone. There were a lot of massive upsets with previously unknown corps suddenly putting their name on the map by winning a bout with a larger more well known corp. Nowadays people join corps not even because they want to win, but because they want the status that comes with being in a top tier corp.
Rail Rifle and Bolt Pistol Champion
Fatal Absolution Director
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