Lol, Zell and Ratskiller, and all others who support these changes.
I find it funny how you guys keep bashing people who are just just saying that they don't like these changes just because they haven't had a day or whatever you guys say it's "NEEDED" to understand this and that. Who the hell are you to judge anyone's opinions after really having tested it and disliking it? Who the fuck are you to call every single person who dislikes a "kid" ? Whew, I thought this should be the place where people would transmit their thoughts to the developers and not be judged about it by other people, just because they have different ideals. Call me a retard, call me whatever you want, but you will only lower your level of intelligence.
Before the patch being released I kind of got it, yea people still hadn't tested it and were already whining, I also bashed some people for that, but because it was stupid to flame it before even testing, but after testing it, I don't think it's good, heck, I find it quite horrible and non-balanced. Why? I'll tell you why
1. The maps. The maps are very hard to make both defence and attack seem "balanced" as you say. Until now I have only seen skill-less camping at a pole and then doing a Nucleus spam (which is kind of impossible to dodge while at the pole), I have seen brain-less rushes where all 3 defenders had a rail gun, which was a sure death to the attacker, and even more because of that thing where if you hit you get 50% of the rail gun charged already, I have seen maps where the score would last up to 13-13 and not a single attack had been successful.
These new updates are obviously making the defence way too over-powered, and putting in an attack is almost impossible now, as clumsy and brainless tactics are starting to prevail.
2. As some here said, nucleus is not useless, I think it's over-powered as well if used in mass while playing as a defender. I have tested it already, and unlike when you are facing rockets, where you get an instant rail gun recharge, if you hit the nucleuses it's just like a normal shot, where it takes the normal rate to reload. Why? I have no clue! This just makes it unbalanced at such a high level that as I stated here before, a nucleus "shower" is just the thing that kills you so often that it makes me disgusted, trust me, I have tested it, seen other people test it too and having the same opinion as I do.
3. This is the first update I'm not really understanding and I know why. On the other updates where the walljump, the laser vs. rocket and such things appeared, they were a bit hard to get used to, but when I strted to try understanding them, I actually could do something, hell, I learned walljumping in 15 minutes or so. Still, this update makes me think that people that play this REALLY competitively (and some others that don't), will just keep on playing on the old Elite mode, the one that is by far the most balanced, and I can already predict organizations such as ESL and IPL making it mandatory to play on the Elite Beta 2 gameplay, because unlike some people here that have this wrong idea of "balance", they can understand that the previous mode is just the most balanced we have until now.
@Nadeo, I hope you get my point of view. Obviously you have to try pleasing everyone, but I think that the competitive as well as the fun-based future of this game lies on keeping the old structure for Elite, and I hope you will change that back to default mode.
Some other things that I would like to comment:
-Walljumps: Not a big change, but I think it's good, and congratulations on that, it's awesome
-Sounds: The sounds are alot better, and I can now actually calculate where the sound is coming from, great job in there as well
-Graphics: I have seen some maps that are darker now, and some others which are a bit lighter than before, does this have to do with having been made before this new patch? Also, when I check my Ping and the SnapShotDelta Time, I seem to be getting the following instead of the exact value : SnapShotDeltaTime:Label. What is this and why is the real snapshotdeltatime value "hidden" now?
I have nothing more to comment on now, tomorrow I will be checking the higher values on the graphics and see the fps drop while streaming, and then also make some comments about that.
Greetz,
Tunga
KEEP!!