This thread is neither an accusation nor a confession,
and least of all an adventure,
for counter-trolling is not an adventure
to those who stand face to face with it.
It will simply try to tell of a group of players who,
even though they may have escaped the posts,
were destroyed by the trolls...
This is coming from an experienced PvP player who had to deal with bullshit produced here for quite a long time... I don't know, probably over a year, starting from the old forums. Look. The combat system, as it stands, is balanced. People are using BG, SG, EW and heck, even throwing - and there's no way of telling what's DA STRONGEST. As it stands, unless there comes a build to kill them all (I don't think it'll ever come though), combat is graded A+. My suggestion is: quit allowing suggestions on weapon stats. Quit allowing suggestions on combat mechanics. And if you have to do some shit, treat it seriously. Do a closed beta test. This kind of balance is not easily achieved, and you could ruin it with something as trivial as increasing the AP cost of some weapon by 1 or changing the values for a box of ammo. Let's face it. This is the best original Fallout mechanics have to offer. To do any better as far as realism goes would mean to depart from source material... because honestly, the source material ain't that good when it comes to that. To do any better as far as balance goes... well, you can't, really. Kudos to the dev-team for that. Let's just wrap it up and move on.
I suggest making a serious decision whether we should:
a) keep it close to F1 and F2
b) develop an entirely new combat system, changing the guns etc. as we go and basically start from scratch.
If we choose a) (because honestly, who cares if the minigun fills the rl role of a submachinegun or the grenade takes 0.001 of a second to throw - as long as it looks cool), let's just stop it. At this time the only thing that's hurting combat is stuff-other-than-combat. Drugs. Preview. The economy. Shit like that.
No more insta-kill nerfs. No more major BG adjustments. No more anything that would flip the table upside-down. Endgame weapons are good as they are. And yes. This is probably the first suggestion not to do something instead of doing something. But saving what we have is well worth it.
