(05 Dec 12, 09:56AM)XFA Wrote: Undead is right, the answer is re-balancing the weapons
On a side note, anyone else noticed that we have been playing 1.1.0.4 for over two years now?
you completely missed the point of my post. i'm quite sure everyone did actually, it wasn't a weapon whine.
Undead Wrote:if you want better players, find a way to get new players to stick around and give them a way to play in a match environment with people at their level.
the most important bit is getting new players to stick around. they aren't getting frustrated by the difficulty of the game, because a game of ac_douze helps anyone get a kill, but frustrated by the game itself and bored by it, there isn't much reward or an "xp jitter" when you kill someone, you can get killed for reasons completely beyond your control all the time, extremely frustrating and makes kills seem not worth it when you can just slapped in the face by a shotgun at any time in a 10v10 ac_shine.
10v10 isn't good in AC, and you cannot balance both randomized pub gameplay and structured match gameplay. decent players only play pubs because of a lack of better options and to rape noobs. if you want the greatest, most time consuming and probably slightly expensive solution to the issue of players leaving that I can think of, offer an inbuilt matchmaking system that puts players up against other players of similar skill, present it as the first option in AC, and have matches other than 1v1/2v2/3v3 under a custom list, along with gemas and custom modes. encouraging an AC mod community couldn't hurt either. there is a very good reason why games such as league of legends and starcraft are absurdly popular, and it doesn't have everything to do with gameplay.
i absolutely guarantee with the implementation of such a system, people will be driven to play AC and increase their rank/level/whatever, get them a bit addicted and stick around, perhaps room for a bit of monetizing too. a proper user interface would be fabulous as well.
another way to get players to stick around would be to somehow make AC more aesthetic and put it on the par of other popular games, could be a bit of a slap in the head, maybe if the game wants to get exponentially more popular it needs to move onto another engine.