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no dethreater is going to get that extra high threat no matter how much they win in bronze districts, both because dethreaters are generally bad at the game and because the threat system is set up to mitigate that very situation skill vs numbers might be slightly more fair but in the end it generally just ends up with skill getting dozens of kills and winning anyway, so the outcome is the same

i don't see anywhere that i implied that so i'm going to say no

ok i read your post, lets get into it you can disagree all you like but another threat color (which would actually be another 10 threat levels) won't solve anything because poor matchmaking is a result of the small pool of 40v40 not the threat system - when the matchmaking can't find a balanced fight that highest threat player will still be shunted into a match with people far below his/her skill level if anything another threat would likely make current issues worse, i'd be willing to bet a lot of money that a significant portion of players would simply rage quit rather than play a mission against a highest threat player as for phasing, what else would you have orbit do? there is no other solution that deals with matchmaking, threat, and their exploitation all at the same time putting resources into rewriting massive chunks of the current code in an attempt to mitigate these problems makes no sense imo, like trying to pave a dirt road next to the construction of a highway

r6 siege? cs:go? hitscan based gunplay isnt some mystical art lost to the ravages of time

adding more threat levels wont help matchmaking phasing green/bronze/silver/gold all have 10 individual levels behind the scenes dethreating is hard to prove individual instances are too small a pool for matchmaking threat distribution is static upthreating is easier than dethreating hopefully one of these standard responses is related to the thread, because i didnt make it past the first sentence tbh

i'd rather learn to salsa dance with a bear

weapons get balanced thats how game development works personally i feel that the ogre is fine (probably underpowered/limited but thats how its designed), the best bet is just to give constructive feedback whenever the balance test goes live - altho little orbit doesnt seem to do well with feedback but w/e

anything from my list really rfp is basically like having another primary 45 and thunder if you can aim fbw if you want a good all rounder showstopper for pure cqc focus nano if you’re silver

best to worst: rfp 45/fbw thunder showstopper nano ‘connoisseur’ altho rfp looks like it’s getting tanked into the ground g1 style so i guess this list is temporary

just revert the pellet mechanics, then we don’t have to come up with “creative” solutions to stop shotguns from being too good

what?

ftfy

dear god don't encourage him

i havent said the pmg is op and if you don't think its good at longer smg ranges then a 5m range nerf wouldnt affect it anyway

spotter (and all tagging effects) needs to be reworked, its just ridiculously strong

even if it doesnt min ttk the ability to consistently (right word this time) do full damage at longer ranges than most other smgs is a problem - the manic and vas-c2 are marksman smgs which comes with its own drawbacks, and the whisper is lol

perhaps "consistently" was a bad word choice since it implies there's no rng, lets go with "easily"

it’s been a very strong option since it’s last rework - afaik there’s no other smg that can consistently rack up min ttk kills at 40m, hence my suggestion that it’s range be lowered

as others have said it’s just a pmg reskin the pmg def pushes the op line, i think a simple range nerf would be enough to fix it tho

i used to be like you but over the years ive met so many people in apb who are actually that clueless, its just safer to pretend everyone is an idiot

did you somehow miss the big pinned post and the new blog post?

it’s automatic

???? considering we still have at least 2 coders on staff that were also present throughout almost all of g1, what are you talking about?