AC 1.1 OR AC 1.0.4

[Habluka]

I know that no one really cares about my opinion on Brahma's reasons as to why 1.1 is better, but I feel like voicing it any way.

1.0 stuff

1) Legion of cheaters
2) Nade spammers (guys that think grenade is a primary weapon)

I feel like these issues actually have been dealt with very well in the update and these are in my opinion the best aspects of it.

3) Ratio whores (guys that hide and run for life packs, and never help the team)

I feel like this is still a problem because even though it does not specifically give a ratio, it still lists the number of deaths, which will only make people work towards getting more kills than deaths, which was the main problem with ratio whores in 1.0. The way to stop this would be to have a menu similar to that of Sauerbraten that does not even show the number of deaths and maybe have a small message come up at the end for each individual player that shows their own statistics and no one else's.

5) LSS bugs (nades between rounds)
6) Weird lag maps (HeadShot City, TwinTowers...)
7) Vote abuse (kick without reason)
8) Chat/voice spam
9) Sendmap/Getmap issues
10) Legion of cheaters

These are all things that I am glad will not be a problem any more because they were incredibly annoying. Thanks for fixing them.

1.1 stuff

1) One extra weapon

this isn't a very large change in my opinion as it really doesn't make it any more or less enjoyable for me

2) More value given to tactics (stronger armor, less nade spamming...)

In my opinion, stronger armor is actually taking a step away from requiring actual tactics. This is because I have played games where I camped and got full armor at the very beginning and just walked into the enemy base, without really paying attention to them or really even trying to kill them, and was able to take the flag without getting really badly damaged when there were 3 people guarding the flag with a shotgun and 2 smgs. This really reminds me of a game I used to play with my friends on my PS2 back when I was 12 where you could essentially stay alive forever by camping next to a fairly weak destructible object that over time would cause you to regain health over time. In my opinion, becoming a tank by hiding from the enemy team for maybe 30 seconds is not something that should be viewed with high regard as good tactics.

3) More weapon balance (it is not perfect yet, but it is far better than 1.0)

I actually consider 1.0.4 one of the most balanced first person shooters I've ever played for the most part because if you're good with a weapon, you can play well no matter which one it is. The only change to this in 1.1 that I consider good is what was done with the Assault Rifle, but other than this, the changes really only seem to have weakened weapons that really were not too strong to begin with. My main problem is with the sniper. Even though I almost never use this weapon, I still think that it should always be able to kill with 2 non-headshots no matter how much armor a person has in the same clip. What this does is it causes snipers to only be able to maybe get a single kill before they are left out in the open with no way of defending themselves while reloading. I know that this is good for players that don't use the sniper as it gets us extra kills, but it somehow does not seem very fair.

4) Extra voice coms

I don't really know what to say about these as I always mute them and never use them.

6) Less bugs
7) Less weird maps

Thank you very much for this as I don't like bugs or crap maps, but there are some actually good maps that do not meet the requirements that I do enjoy playing on (nothing like headshotcity. I only enjoy maps of high quality).

8) Less lag

This update really doesn't help with lag at all imo. The pings are still the same, but saying that you added things in that make it better for people with high pings does not make it acceptable to me to play with people that are getting pings of 300-500. Just because it looks smoother doesn't mean that they can't get incredibly annoying lag kills.

9) Less cheaters

Thank you for the anti-cheat. I feel that this was desperately needed for a long time. My only problem is that it tends to ban people who are not cheating, but I assume that this will be fixed in the next updates to 1.1

This ended up being longer than I wanted, but I don't feel like going back and shortening it. I am still going to play 1.0.4 while I can, not because I like cheaters or "weapon imbalance," but because I am currently used to it and I like how minimalistic it is compared to 1.1 and I will play 1.1 when I'm no longer able to play 1.0.4 on the masterserver. I'm not saying that I don't appreciate your work on this game because I really appreciate how much effort and passion is put into this game, but that doesn't mean I agree with every change. Please don't hate me for not liking all of the changes.