Re: Plants Suck

Ye whilst I agree with zaheen about k/b and mouse seriously skewing scores on console, I also agree with IIINCORRUPTIBLE in regards to balance. 

@Zaheen1337

I'm ex-pc as well. I had stop after CoD4 as I was missing out on my daughter growing up - spending way too much time playing scrims, league and cup matches. Besides everything after it was *e. What games did you play competitively? What was your alias? You never know we may have bumped heads before.

I agree with what he is saying when he says things like, my opinion of overpowered is just an opinion.

Both him and you disagreeing is also just an opinion, and well the majority are zombie players so I may not win this battle. Not claiming you or him are however, I'm just generally speaking.

I am sure you've heard of games like Halo and Call of Duty. I use to play the game that, the developers of Halo and the like based their game around. Starsiege Tribes was the best FPS shooters I have ever played, that game will never be surpassed by anything for me. Nothing comes close, and almost 15 years later Call of Duty is using a few mechanics that game did. I stopped playing PC games when my PC expired, and my gaming laptop couldn't handle Battlefield II so well, in fact it was whatever came out in 2011, I stopped playing on the PC because there were and still are too many cheaters and aimbots around.

I change my name too many times in online games, but I used to use the name Goat coincidentally, Alias, Unknown...but those names are common so I doubt we bumped heads. I played a few MMOs, Age of Conan, WildStar, and a few Steam games like Worms Revolutions, helped the devs balance Clan Wars, and well was one of the best at that. I play for fun now, and I only play fun games. That's what games are all about 🙂

My skill level is usually amongst the higher tier players when I want it to be, but my mentality isn't always about winning anymore. I only do that if I'm trying to prove a point, or someone wrong etc.

@Zaheen1337

Strange most pc players I know, and I knew alot, kept the same alias, only using different ones for mixes, irc scrims etc. When you said high skill I thought you meant competitive play, like in a team maybe? My team topped various cod2/cod4 leagues and ladders in various gametypes back in the day. Even got an invite to the CoD2 CTF eurocup on clanbase. We also ran one of the most popular rifles only servers on CoD2 (it was called shagpad). We was pretty damned good 😉 

When we wasn't busy with the above we'd be playing scrims, pugs and mixes or sat on IRC looking for them. So you could say I have plenty of experience with shooters. 

So if you was 'high skill' as you claim you'd have been in a team no? 

I had my own team with my IRL neighbours.

We were ranked very high on ladders but back then there weren't any and they were all revolved around kills and kill ratios. Neither of which determine skill, something you need to understand. 🙂

Me and my team, the handful of players we were constantly wiped out teams of 10 and 20, to the point where admins would refuse to let us play because we were just too good. Mods started coming into the game, silly ones and well they took over.

Call of Duty is like Doom, skill less. Unreal Tournament, and games alike don't really require a high level of skill to play. If you haven't heard of Tribes or played it, you haven't lived the same gaming life I have. Imagine being able to, with jet packs, go anywhere you like, skiing down hills and getting mid air shots all day, every day.

Your arguments, and many players alike are opposed to my balance ideas because you feel it'll make the game stale. If a balanced game makes it stale then why are all the most populated games perfectly balanced? I am not suggestion clone classes, I'm merely asking the question as to why it is fine for one side and not the other. It is the same as giving one side invisibility and not the other, that's what this game feels like sometimes with poor balance.

When I was younger I use to change my name almost every time I logged in, in order to be able to play in peace without everyone voting to kick me, or team changing to my side. I was young, I didn't like the attention or knew how to deal with it. These days I just use my real name, but back then I had an endless amount of names, on was Alias, another Unknown etc etc...