06 Dec 12, 04:45PM
Im my opinion the biggest problem in AC is the lag issue. On your screen you are definetely hitting your enemy, but you dont receive any hitsounds or at all he isnt dieing. If you will watch the demo you will say wth that are two different pictures.
Futhermore hitreg can be improved still in my opinion, especially for smg. In comparison to other games that i have played there isnt such a bad hitregistration and lag like in AC. Most of all this is of course due to the connection and stable fps each player have and as well how stable the server is and where each player is living.
Moreover the current weapon balance (1.1.0.4) hasnt been perfect yet in my opinion. I think the smg is still a "bit" too weak, really just a bit compared to the AR, especially if there is a greater ping difference between each player (smg is more affected by "lags"). Unlike in 1.0.4, everyone (like 90 % of the better players in AC) is using now AR instead of smg or sniper, probably due to the higher amount of kevlar (helmets). As well the public games arent anymore so "competive" like in the past. Just remember the HI-SKILL-Server or Wotan-Fragland which were hosted by Drakas and where it was not quite easy to get a free slot. A "overpowered" AR in this version isnt saying anything about skills in my mind.
Also the amount of "elite" players has decreased, a part of them left with the ending of 1.0.4 and just a few returned. Seriously some players have improved a lot, but most of them are old players and not new talents and on the other hand the amount of "noobs" has improved dramastically.
This game is living from players and competition. We need to attract new players. First of all we need to fix the anti-cheat or need to release a client like the one of rofl for important tournaments. Then we should try to include our game to ESL for example. At all we need more competive events, for instance a ladder/league like in sauerbraten (swl/psl) and ofc an acwc every year. Also the "marketing" should be improved, the results of the most important leagues/ladders/tourneys should be added to ac wiki for example.
Another negative aspect that i have observed is that modes like tosok, lss and tdm are dieing. These modes should be added to some tourneys, this would improve "skills" of each player. Also i would like to see some old maps re-added to the map-pool.
Summarized, about following points we should think:
Futhermore hitreg can be improved still in my opinion, especially for smg. In comparison to other games that i have played there isnt such a bad hitregistration and lag like in AC. Most of all this is of course due to the connection and stable fps each player have and as well how stable the server is and where each player is living.
Moreover the current weapon balance (1.1.0.4) hasnt been perfect yet in my opinion. I think the smg is still a "bit" too weak, really just a bit compared to the AR, especially if there is a greater ping difference between each player (smg is more affected by "lags"). Unlike in 1.0.4, everyone (like 90 % of the better players in AC) is using now AR instead of smg or sniper, probably due to the higher amount of kevlar (helmets). As well the public games arent anymore so "competive" like in the past. Just remember the HI-SKILL-Server or Wotan-Fragland which were hosted by Drakas and where it was not quite easy to get a free slot. A "overpowered" AR in this version isnt saying anything about skills in my mind.
Also the amount of "elite" players has decreased, a part of them left with the ending of 1.0.4 and just a few returned. Seriously some players have improved a lot, but most of them are old players and not new talents and on the other hand the amount of "noobs" has improved dramastically.
This game is living from players and competition. We need to attract new players. First of all we need to fix the anti-cheat or need to release a client like the one of rofl for important tournaments. Then we should try to include our game to ESL for example. At all we need more competive events, for instance a ladder/league like in sauerbraten (swl/psl) and ofc an acwc every year. Also the "marketing" should be improved, the results of the most important leagues/ladders/tourneys should be added to ac wiki for example.
Another negative aspect that i have observed is that modes like tosok, lss and tdm are dieing. These modes should be added to some tourneys, this would improve "skills" of each player. Also i would like to see some old maps re-added to the map-pool.
Summarized, about following points we should think:
- fix hitreg
- fix lag issue
- more competition (ESL, ladders, tourneys, etc.)
- fix anti-cheat
- fix weapon balance
- tdm, tosok and lss should be added to some tourneys
- re-add some maps
- maybe add crosshair-changing feature
- better "marketing" (results --> ac wiki)