Making snubs more appealing

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What we have right now in Disco is the scenario mentioned with the "noobtube", and the lack thereof. "You'd instead have a small community of veterans just churning through new players at an alarming rate--Just crushing each noob who dared to show their face in multiplayer. All of those new players would quickly get discouraged and quit."

That scenario sound familiar to anyone? Cos it certainly does for me.

I recall a time when Missiles were there to level the playing field, but someone probably suffering from terminal brain damage decided that such an item needed to go out the window for some utterly contrived reason. This kind of diachotomy is what we need back for snubs to actually be entertaining to the un-initiated again.

Did you watch the video yourself? It states specifically that the top dogs of those games generally don't use those noob tubes as they're objectively inferior to more skill-based weapons. This really wasn't the case with the initial ridiculous missiles. If five players came at you with firestalkers and you brought four friends (plus yourself, making five, duh) with six guns mounted rather than five guns and a missile, you lost. No amount of CMs ever stopped the missile swarm. You and your five buddies would get ripped apart before you even brought down one missile-wielding enemy.

That is why missiles in that state were flawed. Mind that there's some plans for missiles right now that should hopefully make them as a whole more interesting. However, I have no interest in making 80% of VHF damage output come from tracking, fire-and-forget weapons with near-zero skill requirement.