Gaming

These exact types of players are why it is actually shittier to be IN a tank than outside of one and why everyone just plays as Engineer in Battlefield.

Also dudes who get killed 50 times in the same spot, to the same dude, who then bitch about campers. My brother in christ, you know exactly whwre they are! Flank them! Use a grenade! Literally anything other than what you keep fucking doing.

The only time I agree with this is with aircraft. Aircraft are extremely vulnerable to small arms fire in real life. But for whatever reason games decide they have the same health as a tank or submarine.

I mean, Battlefield usually has aircraft survive tanking a direct hit from AA rockets, which isn't very fun to play against. It usually leads to exactly what happens when you join a BF lobby: 1 guy hogging an attack helicopter all game with a K/D of like 145/3. Even when players pick Engineer, the kits are too specialized to provide meaningful ways of dealing damage to both land and air vehicles, forcing you to generally focus on only one. Which are you going to kit for, the land battles, or that one guy that obliterates everyone when he has the heli but can't do anything against all the other vehicles in the lobby?

What is this, helldivers players lol

There was this really interesting indie game called Atlas Wept. I played the demo and it was really high-intensity fun using new and innovative systems. Loved it. But then reviewers on YouTube tore the game apart and the dev made the game so much easier that you could finish the game without really interacting with the core mechanics at all, without providing separate difficulty settings.

The game was still feeling good, but I feel like we really lost something, and people would have realized that if the dev had listened to more than just the people who are financially incentivized to be impatient with the games they play.

That's what I like about Helldivers 2, AH looks mainly at the numbers to decide what gets nerfed or buffed, not at big mouths.

Not to say they can't do a better job at it, but still.

I wonder if there could be a game where players decide the balance at the start of the game. So everyone has sliders with all the damage values for all weapons, and the game sets the balance to a median of all the votes.

This is what WoW did to MMO games.

Wait for someone to leak the classified plans of the tank onto the War Thunder forums proving the Devs are deliberately making the game unbalanced by not including the clearly inbuilt weakness.

This is how TF2 got absolute shit tier autobalance after a bunch of braindeads complained on reddit to remove auto balance, which the devs did to absolute disaster, and then they "fixed" it by readding autobalance with live team switches so you get screwed even if you don't die.

y'know instead of just adding a round timer/objective buffer to prevent getting auto balanced right before the match ends.

Also how items like dead ringer, ambassador, righteous bison, etc got ridiculous nerfs because some failures couldn't handle losing to those weapon loadouts despite all three having obvious downsides over stock and requiring extensive skill to use.

Last time I opened that cesspool, people were still making 5k upvote posts abut nerfing sniper as a class.

I hate games where they show the person who killed you on the map or similar.

What is the point of getting a good spot with the sniper if after one kill I get hunted down when they respawn. I need to move instantly. That's stupid.

I really REALLY want a game where its like 40 vs 80, where the 40 have great tech, information and drone systems, but long respawn timers, vs 80 insurgent style players with cold war weapons, little to no armor, and litte information, but have fast respawns. And the game tries to keep weapons realistic rather than balanced.

*coughOverwatchcough*

Noob, did you even try to knife it?

It is very annoying, especially because whenever you advocate for vehicles being balanced to be more powerful/tough there is immediate pushback from engineer run-and-gun players... but they don't understand how it often takes a lot of preparation to get an armored fighting vehicle into a useful position vs them spawning in and randomly running across an armored fighting vehicle, pulling out the rpg and shooting.

Armored fighting vehicles are temporarily not part of the main servers for Operation Harsh Doorstop though I imagine they will be coming back soon as vehicle UI is being worked on currently but I recommend OHD as an alternative. The game is more like squad than battlefield, but it is free and moddable.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/736590/Operation_Harsh_Doorstop

There are IFV apcs, MRAPs, jeeps, trucks and helicopters in the mod currently, but they are all very refreshing in that they are powerful while still being vulnerable.

Also check out Easy Red 2 an awesome fairly realistic but easy to get into WW2 game and I do have to give credit to Halo Infinite here that vehicles feel very skillful and powerful in multiplayer, especially in objective games like CTF.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1324780/Easy_Red_2/

I still have LoL balancing PTSD... 4 years clean BTW!

This describes Planetside 2 quite nicely.

Damn, imagine being on a team with John_KillingOfWar, inventor of KillingOfWar, and doing this. He's gonna be so disappointed in you.

Alternate take: The patch happened because John_KillingOfWar saw this happen to his teammate and decided out of spite that tanks should be nerfed because he really likes gamer_gary12.