5.2.0.9

[Oggdo Bogdo]

People are seriously missing the bigger picture. This argument that "it makes things easier for bad players to aim" isn't a valid one. There are MANY things that you can do to unambiguously buff weaker players without making literally every single thing you do sluggish. They already gravitate toward missiles and class 1 guns while most good players avoid them for their low dps. You could easily buff their damage or hit rates if needed. The current change benefits literally every single gun to a different amount, which not only puts a massive question mark on the current state of balance, but makes even high skill cap guns a lot easier to hit with.

This whole "newbies vs aces" thing is just a false dichotomy to justify a change that regular snub players find awful and is a massive smoke screen that ignores the issues with strafing in the prior patch that were brought up.

There was absolutely no reason to make everything about a snub movement's worse and the idea that it makes things easier is just questionable at best, because it unlocks a whole host of balance problems since most of the other stats in the game from ships to guns were not intended for this level of mass, and having a mathematical understanding of the change benefits you immensely.

Aside from that, most people learn the game from going to conn for DUELS. Group brawls happen far less frequently than going to conn and pinging the discord. The idea that you will make brawls more accessible by making duels more inaccessible is also entirely counterproductive. There are already lower level players who have tried the changes complaining in discord about the changes screwing up their muscle memory.

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