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And i didn't do alright, I was a second gunner who babysitted a side gun half the match, then left to get my wits together in sandbox, and I'm not 9, though I sound like it.
I also play Dwarf Fortress.
Plasma summed it up perfectly. Serenum, I understand that you care about your level and that's fine, but to say you're being forced to do anything is just false. I ignore the achievements I don't want to do and my levels are just fine. Having a higher level doesn't unlock anything for me, so it's not like I'm forced to put up with farming achievements in order to use a play style that I haven't unlocked yet. I can play the game exactly how I like from level 1.
One time I had a 9 years old kid in my crew that constantly shouted ALL THE TIME and hardly followed orders but with a bit of patience and undertanding I was able to put him to good use, turns out the kid was a crack shot with the lumberjack...
I don't think that I should push my idea further, being polite and helpful to other players shouldn't be something that needs to be justified.
Was that me? I think iwas on your ship once, when I was using the worst mic ever, which was from 2005 and low quality. and that was my first game.
I think giving gunners a passive buff is the way to go, but I wouldn't give them anything that buffs damage, directly or indirecly, because that would either be too insignificant or too strong and ruin the game balance.
There is one thing that would make the gunners have a real advantage over engineers:
-give gunners more firing arc with all weapons, maybe a 20-25% more?
This would be something really really useful, that potentially allows for a much greater offensive capability but still depends on the gunner skill to be used effectively.
What do you think?
This too would indirectly increase the damage of guns because they can fire on you from more extreme angles. It would also break any chances of dodging in the game, leaving us less options when considering maneuverability. We learned this with when the artemis arc was buffed and became OP, and god forbid a gatling gun gets any more arc than it has already...
Roman hits it on the head. The difference is not super great between vets and newbs. But there is a perception of it being really vast.
That is when problems come in and the L2P attitude gets used. Vets do try to help out and teach but often we find players who just don't want to learn. One of the CAs tonight I piloted for found out why I have one player on my block list. When he joined and the CA tried to help the player told him repeatedly to F-off and took heavy offense to being helped.
I've ran against a lot who QQ all the time but when you try to help them they respond harshly or they just spout a lazy line that they don't like it so they don't want to learn. Mostly this involves pilots. They perceive it to be too hard so they never want to try. Then they just twiddle thumbs on guns shooting clouds.
When you have to deal with a lot of that, you just stop caring and say..."read the manual, watch a guide" or "L2P"
I'm glad the surge is down a bit because yes it weeded out a lot of the crap players from the quality ones. Trouble is, how many quality ones got lost because of the crap ones? Can't have CAs giving everyone a good experience in game when you have numbers in the thousands.
while your at it, can you make it possible to let harpoon attach to the surface.
for sharp turning and making a trap for enemy ships passing by.
Not a fan of this achievement system at all.But it doesn't force you to do anything. If your goal is to complete every achievement ever, then you're probably not the type to care about unnatural gameplay. If your level matters to you as you say, then that's fine. You can still reach quite a high level even if you ignore all of the achievements you don't like. I still don't understand when people say they're forced to play in a way they don't like. I don't feel forced into doing anything. I haven't completed that gunner with extinguisher achievement because it'd be silly for me to take an extinguisher as a gunner, and that's okay. If I was a completionist, I'd worry about it. But I'm not.
It forces often unnatural and counterproductive gameplay (gunner with fire extinguisher?) and it forces me to use ships I don't like. I struggled to get the Goldfish achievements because the Goldfish is my least favourite ship, playing with it was a chore and no mattaer how many games I did with it I didn't like it any better.
Thing is, if you want to give incentives to experiment and try other ships then make it totally optional and separated form leveling. It could maybe give specific cosmetic items, but leveling should be something natural, that everyone can do just playing the game however you want. Level matters to me in this game because I'm a pretty good pilot and I want my level to represent that.
I shouldn't have to cripple my stats because I was forced to play a ship I don't really like in order to level up.
(Also, in my humble opinion, a good pilot is able to fly with any ship -- or at least most of them.)
5 weapons all on the same side?Firing all five weapons on a single target will indeed be tricky with a crew of four.
I'm guessing the ones on the right and the left will have a limited firing arc so that being able to fire with all 5 on the same enemy is going to be tricky. Maybe all the weapons are going to be light ones?
The squid is simply not fun for everyone else except the pilot
Very, very wrong. It's ridiculously fun to engineer on a Squid.
