My opinions on the pvp balance changes and 4.88 changes in general.

[Omi]

I wondered how long it would take for this thread to happen.

Protege, I hope you don't take it as being rude that you're one of my least favourite people to fight in all Disco. You do a very good job at coming across as reasonable on the forums, but I've rarely seen someone use so many 'dirty' tactics (shieldrunning, suiciding deliberately to deny blues, atmosphere hugging, borderline missilespam) while also both having so little actual ability and trash-talking so much. Again, you shouldn't consider that as me talking smack - it's a statement of fact. If you had any substance to back up all that big talk you keep giving out, maybe you'd be capable of doing hull damage with anything other than judicious nuke spam and repeated pressing of 'launch sidewinder'.

Outro, I have no idea what your little paragraph about hardware is meant for. Do you want us to ban all laptops or desktops from playing the game simply because they can run it better? Do you want everyone to be forced to play the game on the exact same specs? That's not how other games work, as I'm sure you know. Oh, and by the way - my performance tanks to horrific levels in large groupfights (or, sometimes, just at random) thanks to my AMD GPU, so I'm in the same boat here. Regardless, you're not going to balance anything around hardware issues.

Meanwhile, the same old tired argument gets trod out from five or six different people about PvP 'elitism', whatever that's meant to mean. Again, I don't mean to be rude, but while the same old faces make excuses about 'not having enough time' or 'not enough of a nolifer to dedicate 200000000000000 hours to Conn every week xdd', there are other people out there actually getting good, if you'll excuse the turn of phrase.

Seriously - I can name at least two people who have drastically and noticeably improved in terms of their aim. I won't, in case they'd prefer me not to, but one is now a very credible threat when you let him 2.00 you in the back, and the other hadn't even given snub PvP a serious go for years before he started throwing himself into Magellan fights.

It really isn't hard - and, plus, if you wise up and start doing it now, you might actually be decent by the time missiles return to being even marginally useful.

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