Why is PvP so damn difficult?

[Sabru]

At this rate i predict "this time next year" we will see this game dead, or with only 10 players at peek time (probably same 10 players that are so called pvp elite).
One can even draw conclusion that was goal all along , to clear game of all except them, kind of "we conquer all, we chase them all off" achievement.

Before i get to my 2 cents, i have to agree with this a bit. Ever since i returned a little while ago, i've been wondering a similar thing. It feels like the mod has taken a VERY radical change in management and direction and the new 'controllers' seem to want to make the mod so unplayable for most that everybody leaves of their own choice.

But that's neither here nor there. Anyway......

As someone who's spent a fair bit of time playing here over a few years, and falls in the 'not very good at pvp' category, i have to agree wholeheartedly with Nom and others in this thread.

I mostly gave up on pvp because the ability/learning curve for it became so steep (kinda EVE style steep) that it just wasnt fun anymore to even try to pvp. I'm not some sort of wannabe pro gamer who will happily spend hours upon hours to become a 'leet' pvp whore.

The last time i properly pvp'd in a snub was late 2014 or very early 2015. The last time i ever properly pvp'd, and one of the few times i actually enjoyed it, was sometime in 2015.
That was a pure GB pew with just guns where it was a 2 vs me and i still managed to kill one and almost kill the other with my mediocre skills. It was simple but i felt accomplished after it because it was truly fun to put up a really good fight.

From early 2016, the 'openness' of pvp to all players really began to deteriorate in my opinion. It killed a fair bit of motivation to log and play and, judging by this thread, im not the only one who was put off.

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