Season 21 Mix Reviewed
I'm going straight into the frying pan on this one. 1) Solos plague with cheaters and guess what pc players it's not just you guys, because console is also plague with the cheaters. I've played 20 g...
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2) I'm guessing that we play in fairly different areas of the skill spectrum. Where I play the havoc is devastating with the turbo and virtually worthless without it. And you'll find three hammerpoints and two boosted loaders and a disruptor before you find a turbo, if you ever find one. It's always been a top gun with the hop up, and I assumed the rarity of the hop was Respawn's way of ensuring that we all go through life wanting things we can't have.
And you're right that the nemesis isn't as popular as it was when it launched a few seasons ago, but I still hear at least one in virtually every engagement. Don't know what that says about it, or about my lobbies.
Volt has always been a winner, like an under-appreciated version of the r99.
I'm not really sure what makes guns go in and out of vogue with players - I guess it depends on what they see their favorite streamer using, and those guys pick based on optimal damage numbers that a normal player couldn't duplicate on a bet. Makes no sense to me at all.
3) I can't tell you you're wrong for wanting a path back into the match, whether for yourself or for a teammate. I can only say that the entire respawn mechanic leaves a bad taste in my mouth, and it gets worse every time the dev makes it easier to come back instead of harder. To me it's a crutch for a weak or unlucky player. And in my personal opinion, an unlucky player is a weak player. Managing luck (or randomness or whatever you want to call it) is a skill, and people who don't have it deserve what they get. And what they often get is killed. They're dead. If it was up to me they'd stay dead. I know it's harsh, that's just how I feel about it.
2) I'm guessing that we play in fairly different areas of the skill spectrum. Where I play the havoc is devastating with the turbo and virtually worthless without it. And you'll find three hammerpoints and two boosted loaders and a disruptor before you find a turbo, if you ever find one. It's always been a top gun with the hop up, and I assumed the rarity of the hop was Respawn's way of ensuring that we all go through life wanting things we can't have.
And you're right that the nemesis isn't as popular as it was when it launched a few seasons ago, but I still hear at least one in virtually every engagement. Don't know what that says about it, or about my lobbies.
Volt has always been a winner, like an under-appreciated version of the r99.
I'm not really sure what makes guns go in and out of vogue with players - I guess it depends on what they see their favorite streamer using, and those guys pick based on optimal damage numbers that a normal player couldn't duplicate on a bet. Makes no sense to me at all.
3) I can't tell you you're wrong for wanting a path back into the match, whether for yourself or for a teammate. I can only say that the entire respawn mechanic leaves a bad taste in my mouth, and it gets worse every time the dev makes it easier to come back instead of harder. To me it's a crutch for a weak or unlucky player. And in my personal opinion, an unlucky player is a weak player. Managing luck (or randomness or whatever you want to call it) is a skill, and people who don't have it deserve what they get. And what they often get is killed. They're dead. If it was up to me they'd stay dead. I know it's harsh, that's just how I feel about it.
I agree that the Havoc is (and Devotion was, last season) pretty crap without the hop-up, due to the spooling time before it actually starts firing. Probably not going to pick it up at all this season, unless I first find the hop-up, or it's in the first bin when I'm not even looking that much what the gun is.
But @reconzero regarding your stance on the "weak and unlucky" players, speaking as a new player, seems like you would be happy not having any new players stick with the game at all. The respawn mechanics give at least some incentive to stick around and see what other are doing differently, often better. Also, even in the first week or two of playing I could already be useful by respawning teammates as support (because I wasn't looting fast enough and randoms were running ahead of me to get killed, not because I was avoiding fights). Assuming they stuck around to see if I'd get to a replicator and then a respawn beacon, but still.
@Snaake-838
Never thought too much about the respawn from the perspective of a new player. But I have a hard time imagining the lack of it would be the thing to drive a new player away, especially given the steep skill curve, the cheating, the smurfing, the struggles of the matchmaker, and the huge population of players who have been doing this for five years now.
No, I tend to think about it from the perspective of getting killed. If some guy kills me do I really want to run around and give him an even better chance of doing it again, and making it easier for him to get my squadmates as well? If you're killed in this game, it doesn't mean the game is no good or that your night is finished. It means you re-queue and get a fresh start instead of coming back hobbled into the same match where some 95% accurate Master can have a second crack at you.
And I know this runs contrary to the sage advice of all the streamers, but dying repeatedly is not the only way to learn the game. It isn't even, imo, the best way. It's only the fastest.
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