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llAnxiety2Kll
Rising Traveler
2 years ago

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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Snaake-838
Rising Rookie
2 years ago

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.

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reconzero
Seasoned Ace
2 years ago

@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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