[SUGGESTION] Obligatory weapon balance thread!!111!!1!oneone!

I totally agree with Mirio. Nexuiz CTF got way out of control on certain maps. Vote calling on map changes caused a few specific maps to be always on. The players in them split into those who wanted to camp, those who wanted to flag capture at the speed of sound and then 'noobs' never standing a chance of learning the game properly and quite possibly never playing again. It was pretty rubbish to be on one of those maps over and over.

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Case in point.

It's almost 7 years since Nexuiz 1.0 was released and I can think of a number of times when the balance was just wrong. I still remember that in Nexuiz 1.0 crouching didn't reduce your movement speed. After a week, everyone was constantly crouching and 1.1 had to reduce the movement speed when crouching!

So I think we're at a point where things are a pretty stable level of balance finally. There is of course nothing stopping a server admin from changing the weapon balance settings on their server to target those who want to play some certain style of game. Call it a mod if you want.

Please don't change things again. The Stermy video I think should really be used as a case in point of how a new player might react, even if they are very experienced in other games. They may find things all a bit wierd at first but that first impression can lead on to a revelation. Look again at how Stermy picked up the movement finally.