skill difference

[MerCyKiL]

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Didn't you say something negative about snipers when we were in GS's server today?

erm...no. i snipe myself...but i saw the comment i think you over reacted lawl


your argument is interesting but i think my point stands. i think we are looking at different "AR players". I'm focusing primarily on players from oNe and MyS. These players move around the map with at least some strategy. The players you are talking about (and I know who they are. theyre players that literally sit in a corner on a map as you said and shoot) would have a pretty tough time competing with the players I'm talking about.

While there really isnt a lot of things to do to cure camping (i suppose edit the maps???), there can be things done for players who do run around and make a valid effort at scoring flags/making frags etc but just do not have the agility and aim of stronger players.

take "quickening" for example. you can find him often on the BoB or TyD ladder servers. the guy has been playing for years but overall has a negative K/D ratio. he doesnt camp. he doesnt use a shotgun. but not matter how hard he tries, i still see him everytime with a rotten score. to transform a player like this into a better one by changing the characteristics of the game might make improvement a short cut for him but it would add another competitor into the AC community.

the point of making this game easier, as i see it, is to revive a withering multiplayer game. all i hear on these forums is "AC is dead". this is one of the reasons why. the game is just too hard for some. to make AC come alive again, you need to make it appealing to a larger audience

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I dont see the connection between the crosshair idea and an easier game.

making the crosshair light up gives the player a cue to shoot. this may sound silly but i think some players actually dont give an effort all the time to shoot.

before i learned that reaction time is everything, i used to see many players across the map and never bothered to shoot at them. they shot at me of course and the result was usually a death for me. but for those that, have half a brain (as Boomhauer said) and dont learn to shoot no matter what, can be subconciously swayed into shooting when an indicator gives them an instruction to.

just my hypothesis on what i think an interactive crosshair would do.

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I think the gap between "elites" and "noobs" is made wider by no mid-skill clans existing really. From what i've seen, new clans show up, get battered about by more established ones, some members leave, the clan dies.

^^^definitely this