Upcoming Release Balance Discussion (SVN)

[V-Man]

You'll have to figure out a few things:
1) You don't necessarily have to win in order to have fun. Well, maybe you do...

Like any newbie, I manage to have fun because of being able to play the game, not necessarily because of winning.
Now then... Winning is important, and gives a bit more motivation to play when I'm in an otherwise bad mood. (:-P) How this applies here is that a person should be able to find the weapon that allows them to win the most. I think what SiL3nT is pointing out is that the balance must be off if everyone is finding that the two fully-automatic weapons are their winning tools. If this is the case, we'd have to figure out exactly what numbers pertaining to them need to change in order to bring balance back to the force.

2) Like it or not, AC isn't just being played by clans. In fact, they're quite marginal compared to the total amount of players.

Just out of curiosity, do you happen to have more fun when you play against clanners or non-clanners?

3) Given that, I can't see why clan players and "highly experienced" players should be the only ones to have a say here. The game isn't being made exclusively for you.

One thing I've noticed is that clanners are more likely to have a forum account, giving them a say in things. I wonder how to reach out to non-clanners to invite them to have their say? Though I'd imagine lots (but certainly not most) of them don't care enough about this stuff to actually register.

Personally I think that the weapon balance should go back to the 0.93 settings, with a few minor changes and additions.

Woah! Harps wants .93 settings back?? What a crazy surprise. <3
My favorite thing about AC not being .93 anymore is the nonsensical grenade physics. Sticking in a wall is cool, but the bouncing was really weird and I could never get used to it.