09 Nov 10, 11:00PM
jAcKRoCk: you're probably not aware that the sniper now has some "spread" (think "imprecision") to it if you're not actually scoped. Once you open the scope it will require a tiny amount of "settle time" to be a 100% precise weapon.
We've finally started adding new weapons and logically this requires us to re-balance them; if we didn't see to it that all weapons have more-or-less the same effective "punch" then it'd make no matter how many weapons we added, everybody would only be using the overpowered BFG-11K.
Similar to how currently 19% of all games over the last week were played on ac_desert, 16% on ac_douze and 4% on ac_shine, nearly 3% for ac_scaffold and ac_mines and only ever lower from there on.
26% of the games were in CTF mode, 23% TOSOK and about 10% for both OSOK and DM and tDM. LSS at 6.5%, HF at 4% and coop-edit at 4%.
Definitely lopsided .. I bet if we polled for the gun-usage we'd still be seeing the SMG ruling the scoreboard, closely followed by the SR .. and the rest huddling at the lower end of the scale.
Of course, we could just kick out all other modes except for CTF, OSOK and DM - just one team mode, yes - and eliminate all weapons except for SR and SMG.
Would anybody notice?
We've finally started adding new weapons and logically this requires us to re-balance them; if we didn't see to it that all weapons have more-or-less the same effective "punch" then it'd make no matter how many weapons we added, everybody would only be using the overpowered BFG-11K.
Similar to how currently 19% of all games over the last week were played on ac_desert, 16% on ac_douze and 4% on ac_shine, nearly 3% for ac_scaffold and ac_mines and only ever lower from there on.
26% of the games were in CTF mode, 23% TOSOK and about 10% for both OSOK and DM and tDM. LSS at 6.5%, HF at 4% and coop-edit at 4%.
Definitely lopsided .. I bet if we polled for the gun-usage we'd still be seeing the SMG ruling the scoreboard, closely followed by the SR .. and the rest huddling at the lower end of the scale.
Of course, we could just kick out all other modes except for CTF, OSOK and DM - just one team mode, yes - and eliminate all weapons except for SR and SMG.
Would anybody notice?