I'm close to calling it here, holy crap.

I'm in the academy, and theres a helpful guy telling everyone, go Caldari logi, concentrate on getting AR, flaylocks and shields boosted......
Was great, I acted like a n00bberry asking him about other playstyles, he was having none of that. I asked him about my cool lazer rifle (knicknamed the bacon elk), he gave me a great answer. "I will **** your *** in a match if you bring that thing out".

Then I get my lazzor numpty out of academy. The lazer rifle is by far the weakest weapon in the game, movement means its hard to hit someone running dead on, its range offers no benefit, other than hopefully making my name harder to see..., it does no damage, I took 3/4 my shield overheating before my target lost 1/4, was crazy.

As much as I like the new colors on maps, better stability ingame. The game is now a joke, pre 1.2 was hanging onto the "it can only get better thought", now its obvious, don't like doomsayers or what they bring with them, but after 3x weekend, this games gunna be slower than before the patch. Unless you like a deep and time consuming game that is plagued by poor design and gimmicks like the flaylock.

I'm gunna try to still like it, but only time you'll see my sniper is if your counter sniping the red zone, or if your on my team in the warbarge.

I'm close to calling it here, holy crap.

I'm in the academy, and theres a helpful guy telling everyone, go Caldari logi, concentrate on getting AR, flaylocks and shields boosted......
Was great, I acted like a n00bberry asking him about other playstyles, he was having none of that. I asked him about my cool lazer rifle (knicknamed the bacon elk), he gave me a great answer. "I will **** your *** in a match if you bring that thing out".

Then I get my lazzor numpty out of academy. The lazer rifle is by far the weakest weapon in the game, movement means its hard to hit someone running dead on, its range offers no benefit, other than hopefully making my name harder to see..., it does no damage, I took 3/4 my shield overheating before my target lost 1/4, was crazy.

As much as I like the new colors on maps, better stability ingame. The game is now a joke, pre 1.2 was hanging onto the "it can only get better thought", now its obvious, don't like doomsayers or what they bring with them, but after 3x weekend, this games gunna be slower than before the patch. Unless you like a deep and time consuming game that is plagued by poor design and gimmicks like the flaylock.

I'm gunna try to still like it, but only time you'll see my sniper is if your counter sniping the red zone, or if your on my team in the warbarge.

first a history lesson -

laser rifle used to fry people bacon.....2 seconds( if that ) it could deal over 1000 damage.

as one would expect this weapon was nerfed, sad part is their was a mathmatical problem with the damage calculation which was also fixed at the same time as every weapon in the game had their range reduced.

so in the course of a single nerf the laser rifle lost 60% of it's damage and about 25% of it's range.

as one would suspect this caused the laser rifle to more or less become useless over night, I suspect this weapon to get buffed in teh coming months but I have no idea when. their are plenty of viable weapons in the game atm.

Don't forget it got heat build up escalated ridiculously while having the feedback damage tripled to quintupled depending on version.

So range down, base damage down, heat management down (meaning less damage boost from a continuous ray).

Also terrible iron sights added, tracking speed reduced and until this latest patch the Blue Fog of Can't See **** Captain.

Oh i don't need advice, I know how to have fun: make new char, run the academy, delete char. only time this game has close to balanced). or just sit in my redline laughing at what people do, there are some weird people in this world.

I'm using LR not because I was hoping it would be an awesome choice, but purely because its Dust's biggest insult atm to be killed by one.

Either way this game has a lot to be worked on, at the rate were seeing, its guuna be a long long long ride home. CCP are a 2 steps forward 1 step back company, which is the most annoying part, the best part of 1.2 is a fix to perfromance in "full release" content. They seem to run tests in tame atmospheres, with little understanding of FPS/PVP mentality.

As I said though, I like the game, I'll continue trying to like it. I have a lot more patience than most gamers to, come from the land of 3-4 hour mmorpg boss raids.