Aeon Amadi
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Posted - 2015.03.15 04:41:00 -
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I'm honestly just fed up seeing entire teams of Scouts in Pub Matches just auto-win.
There's really nothing you can do about them. Scans don't work because all Scouts can get underneath even the best active scanners, they move so fast they basically dodge bullets (which is sillier than Myrofibril jumps), and then you have the fact that just about all of their weapons have such high alpha damage that there's nothing you can do unless you're conveniently facing them when you're being shot.
So then CCP listened to the Nova Knifer whiners over in The Barbershop, who basically grabbed pitchforks anytime anyone had a differing opinion, and nerfed backward movement speed saying "it doesn't make sense" / "other FPS games" / and "nova knifers don't like it".
But alas, here we are, trying to shoot these little bastards who strafe so quickly that bullets just phase through them. Don't see a 15% reduction to strafe speed across the board, oh no, no-one in The Barbershop asked for it so it ain't gonna happen.
I'm sure they'll instantly take off in popularity in PC now that HMGs got nerfed and a year from now someone will finally get around to looking at the Data, see the extreme favor toward their use, and suddenly get the bright idea that maybe they're a little too good. Or I could just be insane, need to "stop scrubbin and git gud", and just accept the fact that this is the permanent meta.
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Aeon Amadi
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Posted - 2015.03.15 05:18:00 -
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Adipem Nothi wrote:Can't tell you the last time I saw more Scouts than Assaults in any match. Probably pre-falloff. Is the fantasy above a pre-falloff fantasy, Aeon? Ever since Falloff, the majority of the infamous "scout players" have been running Assaults just as often as than run Scout. Now -- with Echo -- they've all the more reason to run Assault.
Today, you have everything you need to get away from a shotgunner or nova knifer consistently, even when they get the drop on you, even when they do everything right. All you have to do fit a precision enhancer and a couple myofibs, pay attention and leap away when one gets into range.
That's why I'm willing to bet that Scout performance and usage rates are both going to tank this build. Assaults, on the other hand, their performance and usage rates (which were both already higher than Scouts) will continue to climb. What do you suspect will happen next?
PS: The vast majority of Barbershop supports inertia; most there have been anti-wiggle for as long as there's been wiggle; the record is very clear should you ever care to actually read it.
Go watch my most recent 'Past Broadcasts' video on Twitch livestream if you honestly need proof and are so blind as to have never seen more scouts than assaults.
And I really don't care what the Barbershop supports - whatever it is they're likely not going to listen to what anyone else has to say about the matter and I don't play one-sided arguments. In fact, just because they support 'inertia' I'm about willing to argue against it just because I know that the only reason they support it in any 'vast majority' scope is because it somehow benefits Scouts.
So that being said, I recant my statement about the reduction in strafe speed. Keep it the way it is. Permanently.
EDIT: Allow me to re-iterate. If I had my way, The Barbershop would be permanently locked, deleted, and all attempts to re-create it given the same treatment. It is literally the scum of the forums and there is absolutely nothing beneficial that will ever come from it.
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