Negative Nancy time.
HIGHLY disappointed with the clan tag system. As a member of a VERY small clan (~90% of which are on extended hiatus due to the lack of competition outside of/inability to attend COGs-prime-time
), I was really hoping for some type of actual clan tools - Recruiting , a clan roster, admittance, kicking, reserved tag, etc. All we get is the ability to add four characters before our names. For quite a while I have purposely not been recruit spamming chat, voice, and forums in anticipation of this patch, hoping I'd be able to finally get some pull against the big clans, but I guess not. As it stands, the only ways to be an attractive clan to new players are: 1) Be Ducks/Gents 2) Do well in COGs. Completely ignoring my personal dilemma with COGs time, the problem with 2 being that it's hard to put together a team for COGs if you can't recruit. That leaves you the option to get 3-7 players that you know outside of the game, and form a team or half-team and fill the rest of the slots with random players. Other than that you can SPAM and blindly recruit and accept everyone, which doesn't seem cohesive in a game where actual coordination and teamwork is paramount, but I guess I'll have to give that a try. Cohort is recruiting:
https://gunsoficarus.com/community/forum/index.php/topic,825.0.htmlI love that fire is no longer a total joke, but I don't like it being due to changes with fire-control. Lets say you're about to get hit by flamethrower(s). Your best bet is to constantly run back and forth between components and guns "pre" spraying, which means you're not shooting. Miss one component, and it's gonna have a LOT more than 3 stacks of fire on it before you can say "Mobula" - Taking the time to remove multiple stacks of fire with chem spray is not a good idea, so that component is now effectively dead. Or... you could bring extinguisher, and constantly run around putting out fires, except you won't be able to ALSO be repairing things. So as soon as the fire is out, you're gonna get another one during cooldown. Components are slowly chipped away, and your ship is effectively locked worse than during "Artemis Buff Week". Any other strategy that I can think of involves using multiple engineers, usually 3 (one repairing, one spraying, one extinguishing) but maybe you could sneak by with two (chem/extinguish). If you've got nothing but repairs going on, yeah you could keep up with the fire, but again you're effectively "locked", as you won't be putting out any damage. Parking on top of an enemy with an all flame squid is stupid effective. I understand that this makes fire more powerful (MUCH NEEDED), but it makes it that way by making the repairs less fun for engineers, not by increasing the strength of flames.
I understand WHY it's there, but I'm very scared about mines having team damage, not to mention the only weapon with the possibility of a team kill. I've never rage-quit a match before, but I can't guarantee that once this patch goes live. Between trolly players, new players, and strategy-impaired players, I'm assuming there will be a lot of friendly mines floating around. Without any way to spot them or have them on the map, and considering that you CANNOT see behind and above you on the pyramidion (probably other ships too but who cares), backing up in a brawl just became a nightmare. Some type of automatic spot on friendly mines would totally fix everything about this complaint.
Now some quickies:
The new heavy clip: Could someone explain to me WHEN it is supposed to be useful? It's totally completely and utterly useless now.
Mercs: Why did they get a buff? Seriously. Just WHY?
Mobula: Seems easier to kill than spire, especially with ~50% of the ship being a blind-spot. Best bet flying it is 3 AI crew, all mercs. Park in a corner, F2. Scary effective.
Lets end with Good Things: UI looks way cleaner. New ship/gun models are very nice. Forming a party has good potential, but between 'form party' and 'form crew', also the potential to be confusing as hell. Enjoying the new room-chat, and party-chat.
PS. Cohort is recruiting:
https://gunsoficarus.com/community/forum/index.php/topic,825.0.html
