I love that BFS runs a Squid, but it's only really worked against Muse so far. 5-3 against DToid? Not so good :/
Muse it had good firing angle but it was a mess due to the patch, you didn't see it's full potential. Polaris it was plagued by lag so bad it could hardly move or react. This week it wasn't lag so much as it was slo-mo mode. Destructoid commented on the problem too and after the match it had clearly been a deciding factor in the outcome of the match for both sides. We were both afflicted with it. If you watch the match you can see the Squid is moving at like a quarter or a half it's speed. That forced us to fight defensively when we would normally dominate on Canyon. I didn't take Squid out because I expected an easy win, or that I underestimated their threat. I took Squid out because it was Canyon Ambush and I intended to show no quarter. They'd be coming at us all out, so I wouldn't gimp myself by going a slower ship just because they were the new team.
I gotta give props to Destructoid for holding in there so well because with that much slowdown that we were all getting I can imagine how painful it was to turn that Pyra. I've been there and seen it on 4v4, it is not pretty. Heck if I didn't know better I'd have sworn we were in a 4v4 Canyon or something with a couple Galleons.
The Squid will be back...the problems with it have all been on Muse's end. Fly with me when its not a mess like this and you'll swear its a totally different ship. I have been able to get around the hell Muse did to Hydro but its still about 90% as effective as it used to be. Heck I've had Pyras with kerosene keeping pace with me with kerosene...going backwards...that is how bad Muse screwed things up! Fastest ship my butt! Before it took them kerosene just to catch me at normal speed in a similar engagement. I know cause I used to duel Pyras often. 1.2 is probably the worst patch I've seen since I got the game. I'm still pissed about Hydro and I still want a proper explanation for the balloon hp nerf. Muse says it isn't but the numbers don't add up. Eventually it will sort out and Muse will realize the massive error of their ways...till then...sigh.
I decided against it for Duel this time because it was the first match and I was not confident Muse had fixed all the issues. Specially not with such a heavy crowd. We ran some practice together before whereas last time we hadn't. The server situation was a deciding factor and it sucks that we're at the mercy of it. Might as well have just played on the test server. I was originally going to go in with a Pyra before the servers went down. Galleon was a last second change based on the server problems. Figured if something would go wrong, the chances of recovering with a giant turret would be better than a Pyra.
Btw...Shinryaku! means "invade". It is part of squid girl but the word itself means invade. The Japan players have liked it a lot so the name stuck. Although I switch it now with Black Maria just because that one goes with the name of the group.
