You're fun at parties aren't you? Honestly, you're missing the point of some of this. inb4 i get something silly like this agen The definition of the word "abuse" IS the improper treatment of an entity. Of course someone is going to whine about that. Why do you think there's hotlines for ___ abuse and ___ abuse, and any other hotline that involves abuse. And turning off the chat does nothing, you can still see the most recent messages for about 30 frames or so. If anything, the people are whining because they feel the game is unfair but are ignorant to the point where they just blame the person. Who goes to the internet to become a jerk? srsly tell me when going on the internet on your free time has made you feel worse and makes you more inclined to be a worse person. You shoudn't even be acting differently on the internet, it's not as if you decide to change your personality when you get on the internet. Although I will just expect "oh why did you take so long to type this"

1) Not killing can be considered rude, especially if people don't have a proper keyboard. If my delete key is broken for some reason, and I get flipped not being able to participate in the battle for whatever amount of flags is goig to make the whole opposing team look like inconsiderate people. 2) So people get in the action more quickly? :S 3) You feel worse when you get killed duing an SD sequence than you do when someone kills you during that time. Then again, I haven't played this game in a while and I don't really plan to either.

Being professional means being paid to do a profession, such as sports or a certain field in science...Hence a "pro player" is a person that makes money playing video games (in this context).

I wish I was still good with FireWasp so i could get my M2 FireWasp, join that battle, and get the same result.

Sure, I'll tell you to use Internet Explorer. In all seriousness, have you ever tried a different browser?

I wish that was true.

oh wow, many of the problems that I had with all of the turrets last rebalance got fixed here. I might actually play this game for a while now.

I pity you.

^I run around you a few times, if you're still locked on, I kite you. Well, that was when I played the game, because most of the game community is horrid.

if you get piled with twins, good luck. that brick won't save you.

"I really wouldn't recommend speculating about the "game balance" from a player's biased perspective, nor would I try to lecture the Developers themselves on how it "does" or "should" work. They are the ones with the statistics/data and exact knowledge of the game's mechanics, not us. Since the game is their business, I trust them to at least keep it in "good" shape, else they lose their job. ;)" (Windows 8 is weird) If you're going to set up a poll for metrics, you want to make the poll as effective as possible. There isn't a single reason wrong with trying to do that. The most recent rebalance poll was not very effective, regardless of there being bias or no bias. Player input also catches problems that are not intended in playtesting. Player input is risky, but that's the audience you're trying to please. For example, when was the last time someone said twins was too powerful or too weak? A small minority of the EN forum community. (i'd love someone to translate the RU forums for me, i'm not going to learn 2 languages at once) Why radically change it? The only thing I would like for them is to SAY WHY THESE BALANCES IMPROVE THE GAME. Why should X turret have Y stat buffed and Z stat nerfed? Why was Y stat too weak? Why was Z stat too powerful?

Rebalance the game properly.

I decided to quit for a while, and I decided to come back. Many of the same issues are still there. Some new ones have been made. Players vs Helpers: As soon as I saw Helpers winning, either the Helpers were good or I was right. It took me four pages of a search term to find something related to the match, and supposedly the helpers were good. If I searched through the hundreds of posts pertaining to the drug reward, I would get carpal tunnel before I could finish. This speaks an awful lot about the community. The Metagame: According to the V-Log multiple times, every second hull is a Hornet. Let me guess, those are the people who complain that Hammer is OP? The reason you don't see Mammy-Shafts or Vik-Thunders or Dictator-Rails have a problem because THE GAME IS BALANCED. (This is speaking post-nerf, obviously) How Balance is Made: So after the most recent rebalance (Testing on April 20, 2015, because there was no release thread/it was deleted), there was a poll. Here are the questions: What is your current/favorite hull? What is the best hull? What is the worst hull? What is your current/favorite hull? What is the best turret? What is the worst turret? EVEN IF the questions were not precisely accurate, they are still something along the lines of that, and they are also not a great way to measure player feedback or collect metrics from. Let's say turret X here has Y issue, and is neither the "worst" or the "best". Let's say turret Z is "the worst turret" due to a complete mechanics change. Tell me how the metrics above is going to interpret that. At the best, it's going to say "Turret X is mostly fine, but we need to buff Z, but we have no idea what is wrong with it". Unless machines have some year 20XX mindreading advanced mlg techs, you're not going to get anything really useful. I decided to quit for a while, and I decided to come back. Many of the same issues are still there. Some new ones have been made. Players vs Helpers: As soon as I saw Helpers winning, either the Helpers were good or I was right. It took me four pages of a search term to find something related to the match, and supposedly the helpers were good. If I searched through the hundreds of posts pertaining to the drug reward, I would get carpal tunnel before I could finish. This speaks an awful lot about the community. The Metagame: According to the V-Log multiple times, every second hull is a Hornet. Let me guess, those are the people who complain that Hammer is OP? The reason you don't see Mammy-Shafts or Vik-Thunders or Dictator-Rails have a problem because THE GAME IS BALANCED. (This is speaking post-nerf, obviously) Why is XP "Pro"? What makes it require any more skill than any other combination? If you can't answer this question, I could stop here. The answer: IT DOESN'T. If you want to refuse, you can PM me, but don't use that certain thread as an example. How Balance is Made: So after the most recent rebalance (Testing on April 20, 2015, because there was no release thread/it was deleted), there was a poll. Here are the questions: What is your current/favorite hull? What is the best hull? What is the worst hull? What is your current/favorite hull? What is the best turret? What is the worst turret? EVEN IF the questions were not accurate, they are still not a great way to measure player feedback or collect metrics from. How come the polls are considered unimportant, being overshadowed by everything else? Why are so many of the polls considered unimportant? Not to be a jerk, but I would much rather have a question about "do you still feel like the game is balanced, since you now all have had time to get used to it for a while" rather than "do you watch live streams of battles on our esports channel?" Polls aren't even that difficult to create. I could create one here. LOOK I JUST DID MA LOOK How the community responds to balance (or most things really): You already know the community reacts violently. If you don't wait for a few weeks or so if you want to experience the full effect. If you have common sense and you don't want to do that, this picture is a pretty good example: ...and I only covered half of everything I could have.

They at least can change the logo from a Wasp-Smoky to a Hornet-"Railgun"

I'm 300 ft directly north of the cornucopia, sitting in a tree at about 40 ft. The tree is about 60 ft. I'll say that my sharpened tree branch is a crude 3.5 ft long skewer.

never said you were. I was saying that datadyne was telling the truth

I shine-cancel jump, stunning you for long enough that I can Fox Illusion past you. 14 frames later and how i'm clearly in first. :P

I grab the backpack, run to the forest, and break off a tree branch. I attempt to carry kindling in my backpack, and try to sharpen the tree branch in hope to get a crude weapon or tool. I attempt to hide in a tree with a heavy amount of leaves.

Mkay, so some questions: What types of trees are there? Species would be nice. How large is the forest? Is there any borders? Do you decide who lives and dies, or how would combat be initiated? Say that two people wanted the knife. How would this work out? Who are we exactly? Do we just assume we're older teenagers, like in the Hunger Games? What's the quality of the items in the Cornucopia? This also sounds silly to ask, but how would we "survive"? There's not really a sheet of paper to keep stats such as hunger, thirst, current bodily harm, rest, our skills (what we are more proficient in, etc)

i'll join for the lulz

Four times in a row :O 1, like the #1 player I am!

I'm kinda scared to make my own opinion about this topic, otherwise i'll be banned for bullying. Not only that, that is a double post and a necro post.

Zeoriginalityhasgoneoutthedoor

Because they said I couldn't JV5 with my Fox. So...uh...How do I get my parents to stop fighting?

^yayyyyy Soo...Vandal (M3 Twins-Hunter and Graffiti) or Cardinal (M3 Titan-Twins and Picasso)?