All Gucci wrote:Lol back then the skill difference was vast between players I'm sure if some of these "legends" came back we would smash their faces in. until we are allowed to have 1v1 tournaments we will never know if that player was good at stomping noobs or if they actually had gun game.
The thing about games that have lower playercounts than mainstream games is that the community is smaller, most people know each other and the people who are seem as top competition get to know each other and run into each other often... This means that anyone who claims to be good because of pubstomping will not last long before facing someone who DOES have a good gun game then that match will show that they are not good. Especially if people are highly competitive about it like I remember in chromosome, then you have a bad game and everyone there recognizes it; especially the opposing good players who know you have a reputation.
Long story short... The bad players who claim to be good are weeded out by getting stomped by other good players.
I said this back then and still say it now, pubstomping means little to nothing. Competitive matches are where skill is shown. Getting high kill games can be achieved just by being above average and playing enough, eventually you will encounter the perfect circumstance: your random team sucks, the other random team sucks even more but are invested enough to keep pushing instead of rage quitting or sitting back behind their red line.
You put a pub stomper in a match against other competition and they don't know what to do or how to react. In competitive matches your hunting prey that knows better than randoms, they think ahead, move together, cover each other, actually use spots that give good vantage points and cover, the list can go on and on. That's why most people who are known as being good back then, are known for doing well in corporation battles against other good groups. Hard to fake being good at that point.
As for who would be better... I could care less, but honestly we also didn't just run around in proto suits all the time. Actually played a lot of games where I got STUPID amounts of isk from running near basic suits against bad players splurging in protos so they can compete (think I remember getting over 1 mil isk without blowing up tanks in one lol, idk how that translates in todays Dust). So.. it's funny to see people claim that it's all proto stomping. Though you technically could run protosuits as long as you could do really well and only die once or twice a match.
Someone said I used to ring with protoman xD Nope never happened, the closest thing that happened was joining his group around the time I decided to quit Dust because I wanted to stay competitive after PFB had it's internal issues and shortly after lost interest after a patch hit that ruined most things I liked and put in aim assist. Whichever one that was.
I can understand people not appreciating being told that they aren't better than someone who doesn't play anymore. I didn't play Dust has much as most good people, same as I treated MAG, kind of quit 4 times and took month long breaks and eventually got bored and came back. Not into games enough to keep my attention span on it, especially when CCP kept changing things for the worst.