I haven't played in a few months, I come back and sure enough, Lockdown is still completely dominated by Flourishes with auto-aim and Pulsars. Has OOO just decided they aren't going to nerf or buff anything anymore?
It would be nice if OOO made any attempt at all to balance Lockdown
Tue, 02/21/2012 - 16:41
Tue, 02/21/2012 - 17:15
#2
-Meh?
To be honest, you cant really just point fingers at OOO and assume they don't care (not saying you said that). OOO is busy making new content like the mission system. I know where you are coming from though. I despise polaris, I despise auto lock, and I Despise them combined. Im sure hey will fix this in he future... but not in the near future. It's the least of their concern.
@Aylnine
yea, the team randomization and balance also seems to be broken.
Tue, 02/21/2012 - 19:22
#3
I think we just need better
I think we just need better peircing armor that buffs something like bombs. Jelly mail with a medium bomb buff would be nice. It's not that the flourishes are "overpowered", they just don't have much armor that defends against them. Polaris on the other hand is meh. A strong gun, but not that overpowered. The problem with it is the ability to easialy block off paths like a shiver, but you don't have to charge it. The bullets should delay longer before expanding I guess, so people can have time to get through, keeping it from being a complete roadblock. Younger brother let my try out his polaris, it seems like I only get enemies with the expanded rounds. Anything in range of the little bullets just gets stabbed with a sword.
Tue, 02/21/2012 - 19:43
#4
SAY NO!
No need to balance the Lockdown. Because it's already balance. Don't say the Barbarous,Flourish or Granfaust is too overpower because you doesn't equip right armour. Just buy a Shadow,Piercing and Elemental armor and save it as loadout. Then you can change your equipment in PVP at anytime you like. For my opinion, It would be not nice and worse if the player give the same equipment at Lockdown. People should try to use their own weapon too.
Tue, 02/21/2012 - 19:51
#5
OOO's idea of 'balance' would be to buff swords and nerf gunz
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What?
Tue, 02/21/2012 - 20:01
#6
BUMP
Bump.
Tue, 02/21/2012 - 20:14
#7
@Twindoms:
...What? Why are you bumping something that was posted on 10 minutes ago?
Anyway, I think Aylnine's comment explains this fairly nicely.
~Sev
Tue, 02/21/2012 - 20:21
#8
Ouh Sorry :P
Severage.. you got me again. Actually, What is Bump mean? The people kept saying bump in their thread.
Tue, 02/21/2012 - 20:44
#9
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"Actually, What is Bump mean? The people kept saying bump in their thread."
Tue, 02/21/2012 - 20:50
#10
Iron...
love how you find these images... they always make my day xD
Anyway, balancing lockdown is simple... develop a code of honor to abolish toothpicks and trollaris... those who fight with honor won't use them... those who don't will be gang***** by the other team when they're found. Makes things simple.
Tue, 02/21/2012 - 23:09
#11
WAY off topic
@Twindoms: I'll give you the general gist of things here:
Iron is the one who is constantly post small pieces of hilarity for us to enjoy
Skold, Aemicus, Blue Phaze, and Sev are some major Suggestions posters, always bringing up good points and such.
The New Recruits sect is filled with, you guessed it people who are "new here".
The General sect has about everyone.
This is going to be long, as the Treasure Vault is my natural habitat. Wuvvums, Psycho, our generous Kuger, Kaiju, Azure, Frost, Hip, Inco, the troll Nyan, Lordofnecromancers, Tovvok, Shadow, Atgatg or Skolverbyte as she is now known, Faronel, Xair, the Spiral Spy genius Happy, Spiral-Spy himself, our EoS friends Nj, Dogrock, Provi, Fallout, Xerox, and more, Varisan, our missing explorers Avlein and Sheps of the Sbdajpplifrozk, Mejezfeld, Xlpad, Iskender, PDot, Venrock, Kurozu, Axonio, Diamond, Darkbrady, Maai, Fallen, Windsickle, Our sick friend Doggies, Fallconn, Me (Isis), and perhaps the most talented artist/RPer/Author, Tev are the usuals around the TV.
You don't want to know about Jim Dale other than Jim Dale is much more funny than Not Jim Dale.
You'll figure out Bumping pretty soon. :D
@The actual purpose of this OP: I did Tier One LD on my Alt over the Holidays, to get the Santy Hat instead of something useful. I came back, facepalmed, then vowed never to go back. Something most be done.
Wed, 02/22/2012 - 01:30
#12
@Isisdelltion:
"Skold, Aemicus, Blue Phaze, and Sev are some major Suggestions posters, always bringing up good points and such."
Aww, you're so sweet Isis.
@Iron: LOL. Okay, you've posted some silly stuff before but..that was the best I've seen yet.
You sir, are a database of memes.
@Skold: Haha. I um..I use FF in LD. =[
But I don't use Trollaris (Don't have it) or Auto-aim (Most of the time)! I swear! I can't help it if my only other 5* sword is DV Striker.
EDIT: Oh, something to add...Rank points should actually DO something. I honestly don't think they have anything to do with the matches you get, or anything else for that matter. I typically get horribly unbalanced teams, with 3+ players getting 10K+ damage/6+ caps on the enemy team, and people with under 1K Damage on my team. Then, the next game, the opposite happens. The 3 players who dominate the previous game shouldn't be grouped together after winning like 900-200.
~Sev
Given that the same weapons are used in PvE against enemies far sturdier than we knights are, I'm not sure how much balancing OOO can actually do with the weapons.
However, I would like to suggest a better team randomizing algorithm or implementing one if we don't have one right now. I remember one of the most awful games I had was a team of 1 skolver, 1 vog, and 2 ash tail against 3 skolver and 1 dusker. If we just look at pure gear level, sure, a 3* and a 5* "equal" two 4*, but in practice we all know that's not true -- a 5* especially with buffs and trinkets can dominate two 4* easily, which is exactly what happened. The game was so unbalanced that my friend, who was a skolver on the winning team, refused to play at all, and they still won utterly with 2 skolver against 4. A better way is to actually make the rankings mean something in play, so that we don't end up with a team of newbie 4* in T3 against a team of leaderboard dominating players.