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by draegohn » Tue Apr 10, 2007 7:22 pm
sessh X} your words are so cute as you refer to me :}
well, lets see..indeed, the ssr mini is essentially the "screw you" weapon because each shot of the flurry coming out is essentially the same powered shot from the enhanced ssr, but with less ability to aim perfectly, and each shot coming out a bit slower. in a crowd of monsters or bigger enemies, it will make the kills no matter who wields it. it requires no skill at all, none. but the alt fire does, and alt fire needs to properly be used with certain monster types...though i don't see alt fire used that much when it needs to be. such monster types like smiths, or the enemies of wave 8, 12, 18, and 20. otherwise the wands and such will get you first as most of the shots miss since primary fire has such a random spread. frankly, i would like it removed, or perhaps have its vampability removed to have using it be risky, like the wand's primary fire.
enhanced ssr is a red wand. period. even though its damage and speed are like half that of that wand, it vamps, and it can allow to have rages on it as well, which can't be done with the wand or regular super shock rifle. this could stay without criticism if it would lose the rage and vamp, because being able to wop it can be of great help. or maybe a better idea is to have it lose vamp, be unwoppable (unless wop attained by chance), be infinite in ammo, but have a firing rate it does like it does with 2 infs. that way it can't be superb, but be very useable. or simply..make the super shock rifle woppable again and allow 2 infs on to fire fast, and no rageability or vampability.
the ak47. what a dull-looking gun. please, someone, retexture and add a few more mesh objects to make it look good at least! now, this is the new lady, without needing to say why...super strong and with an insane rate of fire. i hear the lady's rate of fire was causing server errors...how is this any different? it vamps, it allows rages, and when a map does not lag, it is the best weapon. but sheesh, its just a darn ak-47. now the lady has half the firing rate and much less damage, and a real odd sounding fire. i guess for balance, they wanted another powerful gun not in the weapons slot of the shock rifle, which houses turbo laser, lady, and wand already. using this takes some skill in aiming, like the wand, and the smaller projectiles makes eyeing the aim harder too. no splash damage either, which the lady had a small bit of. i admit, i like using it, but i liked the feel of the old lady..and like the sexy lady on the gun..it felt soft..the effect of its killer effect very striking.
i don't know what to think fully. i do feel we have too many superduper powered things now that have no fallbacks in using, thats my major issue. i shot into a wall with ak47 with damage 6 with no heal pu. didn't hurt me as much as i thought it would. if i did that with lady, i'd be ghosted before i knew that got me. instagib-like weapons that can vamp as fast as one fires..this loses challenge in the game. if things stay the same, i don't mind really.
as for the W-A-N-D thing, i believe it should remain, but have limits. magic pu unable to summon letters, and each letter has to show up once per map, but only once. this way it is not so easy to get and fosters more team communication with them. that way, the full-team wand giving will be a rare, but treasured event that can give an extra zeal to the game at such times.
as for weapon configurations beating others...i still have beaten high level players or been very close to beating them in score with the mp5 with each of their super weapon type. i beat a highly experienced player with razor bomb while they has ssr mini the other day too. it does all depend on how many slots are available to me, sesshy, and i don't suicide to purple anything up as i said i wouldn;t. i seem to be doing all right enough if mp is a + something at least :} when mp5 was not available after the update, i cried. well, on the inside. the assault rifle simply ran out of ammo in a minute or two and had such a weak base damage. now, with resupply 4, i can go up to wave 10 without needing an inf and shooting properly, albeit more reserved than finger on fire button every second.
i like challenge, i like difficulty, i like knowing when the chance for success is not high. this is was the initial reason i stayed on this server than just playing a few days. hard as hell and lovin every minute of it. ortega, axe, and others choose hard maps because they like it too, and my favorite times to play is late night/early morning when fewer players are on to make things more difficult.
we cannot stop evolving the server and not deny new, enjoyable guns either. some of the guns on the HTC servers that hickey, axe, biteme, and deadlykisses play on are real fun and not insane killers. i think if you get full loaded weapons skill, you get like 50 weapons, one of which is a wand, every moment. the krispy seemed cool as a high rapid fire and strong sniper rifle, the riot shotgun's alt fire is like a big bad daddy flak with such a pleasing effect and spread range. sentinels are a cheap way to fight and don't belong in invasion. anyways, there will be more guns in time i am sure, and we can't hold back some worthwhile ones.
true though, things as they are with some gun setups and th magic pu make it overall easier than it once was. and this has been my more in-depth analysis :}
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draegohn on Tue Apr 10, 2007 7:45 pm, edited 1 time in total.
