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[dv8]

I've found that plasma weapons (pistols, rifles) seem to reduce shields more quickly than their human weapon counterparts. And conversely, human weapons (magnums, smgs) seem to kill faster once said shields are down. Whenever I'm "dancing" with someone dual-wielding a pair of smg's, and I've got a plasma + smg, I'll more often than not, win. Also, an overcharged plasma pistol shot will kill the shields in one shot (even against an overshielded opponent!), so pair that up with a magnum for a follow-up-headshot-2-hit-kill-spectacular! Only thing is, the plasma pistol's shot moves pretty darn slow, so it's best for when you know you'll be getting in close and you'll most likely need to lead your shot.
I've got that habit of jumping in a fight too, but I think it does more harm than good. While you can change directions to some degree, your maneuverability is pretty slow and is very limited in the air. A good sniper will know where you're gonna land. Despite knowing this, or rather despite thinking this, I still can't help hitting the jump button anyways, so what do i know?


EDIT: agh~ i must've skipped page 79 when i wrote this reply, as it's been addressed. Well, at least I get page 80 w00t!

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[IcyMidnight]

[ROBOGriff]

Stats in Excel

[water10]

This excel file is awesome! It'll be essential if they start to purge old game stats. They already said they will be purging game viewer from old games, but I'm sure they will have to start stats eventually.

[Eclipse]

Waters..Thanks for the invite last night. I wasn't ignoring, I logged off shortly after your message.

[Clayfoot]

Waters makes a good point about the shotguns in close quarters. I'm thinking that you want the shotgun when there are lots of nice, sharp corners. The corners allow you to wait for someone to come in at close range, so you can blast 'em.

I played last night on a LAN game with 6 other people. Two of them are devastatingly good, so we finally split them up. Those two prefer to play on a 2 man team against everyone else, working together and picking off the rest one by one. This is what Rendon and a few others prefer.

I tried out the handicap mode to see what happened. Here's the thing: when I turn on the handicap, I become apparently slower. I move slower, and my hits are slower. When the timing is close on a mutual hit, I lose. When I locked and lunged with the energy sword, my opponent didn't die.

Has anyone else tried out the handicap settings? I know the best players disdain handicaps. RoboGriff just tells me to "get better", but if players are wildly separated on skills, then the game is only fun for the best players. For the players last night, I turned the handicap off. I could see it's use in beekeeper matches, especially with very new or casual players. If I recall, the settings are mild, moderate, and servere. I could see myself with a mild to moderate handicap, and the better players with a severe handicap. After some experimentation, we could have games where any combination of teams would result in close matches.

[water10]

I played some team slayer matchmaking last night! Apart from getting my ass kicked quite a lot, it was nice to notice that team work is necessary on these matches!

I played by myself and most matches I lost (5-5 record) was against parties of 4 that played very coordinated team work! I got tons of deaths when it was 4x1 or 4x2 close range combat!

The "bad" thing is that most level 1-2 team slayer players are not really level 1-2. They just didn't play before ... So I think I got some matches against level 10-13 guys.



And Clayfoot, what are the handicap settings? Not familiar with those.

[Eclipse]

I don't think that you can set a handicap in matchmade games. You can, however, set a handicap for split screen and LAN games. What the handicap does is as Clayfoot said, it slows you down, reduces the amount of shield you have, and makes melee less harmful. It may do some other things that I'm not aware of yet.

It makes it really nice for people like Clayfoot played against last night. Makes a challenge for the really good people, and makes things much more fun for the people who aren't otherwise able to kill them.

[Clayfoot]

[water10]

[ROBOGriff]

[water10]

[krystyn]

[water10]

Good point.

Maybe use handicaps only for slayer/team slayer matches? I'm afraid this might overcomplicate things! Who's gonna use handicap? At what settings? These kind of things.