Roanoke, did you even try any of the changes or just comment and quote what I have written??
First things first, we still need to tweak the crylink and mg, but as for now, the primary of the crylink is meant to be slower then the secondary but the speed of the primary needs to be increased still I think, but will do a lot of damage if you hit someone close, also it ricochets well around corners.
Secondary still needs to be tweaked, but atleast they are useable.
Secondary of the crylink can be used for long ranges, I mean your idea of long range is probably one end of facing worlds to the other.
Do you just want to make every weapon really quick, where's the balance then?
Having a mg secondary that 'forces campers and snipers to hide' as you so elegantly put it..the mg secondary as it currently is in nexuiz was the cause of so many complaints about it's strength on open ctf maps.
There is the RL that is faster now that can be fired, also use crylink secondary to shoot at snipers/campers, and you can still use the mg secondary to hit people its just not as effective at super-long ranges which means you won't be getting mowed down by the mg, and can atleast get closer to use other weapons more effectively.
As for the nex, we haven't got round to balancing that yet, will also work on the camping rifle.
The best thing would be for you to join me and FrutieX on the server and play on suitable maps, or some of the maps like implosion and test the range out, otherwise I get the feeling no matter what change is done your just going to knock back anything any one comes up with.
Oh and for the record, we didn't just try it out on a tight close-quarter DM maps, we did some range testing too so far, like I said before we didn't spend 15 minutes doing this latest stuff, we spent a whole evening doing it, and I mean a whole evening.
First things first, we still need to tweak the crylink and mg, but as for now, the primary of the crylink is meant to be slower then the secondary but the speed of the primary needs to be increased still I think, but will do a lot of damage if you hit someone close, also it ricochets well around corners.
Secondary still needs to be tweaked, but atleast they are useable.
Secondary of the crylink can be used for long ranges, I mean your idea of long range is probably one end of facing worlds to the other.
Do you just want to make every weapon really quick, where's the balance then?
Having a mg secondary that 'forces campers and snipers to hide' as you so elegantly put it..the mg secondary as it currently is in nexuiz was the cause of so many complaints about it's strength on open ctf maps.
There is the RL that is faster now that can be fired, also use crylink secondary to shoot at snipers/campers, and you can still use the mg secondary to hit people its just not as effective at super-long ranges which means you won't be getting mowed down by the mg, and can atleast get closer to use other weapons more effectively.
As for the nex, we haven't got round to balancing that yet, will also work on the camping rifle.
The best thing would be for you to join me and FrutieX on the server and play on suitable maps, or some of the maps like implosion and test the range out, otherwise I get the feeling no matter what change is done your just going to knock back anything any one comes up with.
Oh and for the record, we didn't just try it out on a tight close-quarter DM maps, we did some range testing too so far, like I said before we didn't spend 15 minutes doing this latest stuff, we spent a whole evening doing it, and I mean a whole evening.
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