melachi
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| After extensive playing with some of the best players the horrible imbalances and imperfections of q4 have shown themselves. Theres nothing which cant be fixed but;
if you want to win easily just whore shotgun. On most maps I can just run around with shotgun chase people down as they try to rail me. Youll have higher hit probability, the spread is very low and so for probability to hit and damage output per second the sg is much better than rl, lg and rail close to mid range. Rail was a bit of a mess at first because I found it so easy to hit. I could dispatch of someone whos won eswc and qlan2, coming at me with LG 200/200 when I had 50 armour and a railgun. Then as an experiment he started using SG only, whereas I only used the LG, RAIL and RL. If I was lucky I could hit two rails in the time that he managed to kill me, most of the time id only manage to scrape some damage off. Hed run away with 15 frags just using sg. So for the last 5 it was switched around, I used SG vs RAIL/LG/RL and not to my surprise I was going on a fragging run, this was on bliptourney1...
To further test this I went onto a pub tourney server, one was playing the "rail map" fragginyard1v1 (which is something like q3tourney3 in q3). Now everyone is basically trying to get the rail. I tried my tactics of using rail as secondary weapon here, trying to approach players short-mid range, lo and behold i crushed everyone on the server despite there being some handy railers there, its nothing when I have higher damage output % even at mid range. Again, I repeated this on the dark FLEET map.
The fact right now is that I would never use LG over SG, in any situation. I would use SG over 75% of the time and cruise through matches against players using rail/rl/lg combo using my sg and potshot-rail...
Sooner or later people will figure this out, if you havent already you know now. Basically, the rail needs to be nerfed and the sg needs to be nerfed. I dont think its supposed to be a weapon more powerful than the LG in a midrange fight. Sometimes it feels as if Im playing CS, because one railhit or one clean distant sg hit will comletely turn the game around...
I believe that Q4 can be a good game and there are only some simple changes to be made on damage output. The problem is that the general scene is so slow to discover this as theyre, well, shit. So theres this recurring moaning on forums "dont change anything!!!"..
At first I thought the rail was the only overpowered weapon, as I applied a lot of HITNRUN tactics with it. Where Hit and run means that I hit my opponent whos got maplock and make him run! Now I dont even need rail to break maplock, I can just stand behind a pillar and wait with my sg...
Im not saying Q4 should have the same weapon balances as q3 or be the same. I just dont think that SG should be a BFG here. It destroys the gameplay by far.
I can see the scene eventually waking up and smelling the cheese, I know some people are aware of these problems. The thing is to get everyone else to accept this and have a mod which will make changes for the better that will be accepted by the major tournaments and the general scene. With CPL Winter only 1.5 months away I dont really have much belief that things will change before then. If only people would think and act faster. Im not the only one who will be pulling out of the tournament if the game is played as is. Theres hardly any value in practise and skill when you can TAKE THE SG, WIN THE GAME! Thats just the first hurdle, then we have the railwhoring...
Right now Im not happy playing q4, if I play against someone who doesnt know about Sg 1st Rail2nd I just ravage him, if I play against someone whos got a decent aim and does know about sg youll be going frag for frag and maybe win a very close game on map movement.
another thing ive noticed is that I dont feel any difference between 30 and 60 ping which may be a good thing..
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