You did judge their Loadout. But, eh he over reacted.

But, welcome the community of most games. Lots of people are elitists.

It sounds like you're both at fault. It's their fault for kicking you, but there's no reason to berate others unless they're getting you killed. A truly good player can use whatever is available to him. No one is calling the Vana soloer a noob for using rocket hammer.

Also, how is Polaris outclassed by Volt Driver? They're different weapons...

I've already lost faith in the Spiral Knights community as a result of reading these forums, but I'm about to lose faith in your grasp of the English language.

"I'm about to loose faith in the SK community..."

It's up to you to find/make good friends in any community. It seems to me that the people you've described are not good friends, so remove them from your friends list. Despite my lack of faith I've found a couple of friends in Spiral Knights, and surely you can too.

I recommend just NEVER to go into PUGs, or even into "friend" groups unless you invite them to your party at the start of a run.

A lot of the time you'll just get "save me" invites from those on the list, so what I do is that if I need to find more people to play with, I go to my guildies, or I start a random group in the arcade and go thru a full run with them. If they aren't complete idiots who are mentally underaged, then I'll friend them and hope to encounter them sometime later. If they are complete idiots with no decency, then I kick them, and take photos of their rage in PMs.

Yeah, the community is horrible, and has grown even worse as of late. I rarely even play anymore (lack of content, not because of THOSE people.) but I sometimes check back to catch up with long time guildmates and maybe a run.

If you are on now then perhaps we could do a quick run? I'm going on a T3 run now, dont care which, so actually anyone that wants to just PM me.

Offtopic.

TL;DR

Yes the community sucks as of late. that's why I tend to stay away from PUGs and my friend list, only those that I've played with for a long time.

Find me on a run sometime or friend me with a message. I have a guild who's all friendly, and a friends list that's rather exclusive.

Btw, i use a bomber playstyle.

Polaris can be used effectively, more effective than the Volt Driver. IMO, comparing the two isn't exactly fair. Polaris is crowd control, while Volt Driver is damage. You use a Polaris to flatten enemies against a wall. You use a Volt Driver to kill them.

I judge Polaris users on how they use their Polaris actually. If they just stand perfectly still, fire 3 shots, and then reload, in addition to firing at the same guys I'm trying to hit with a sword, then I call them out for being a noob. If they know how to do the 2 shot/pause stuff, and actually are aware of where their teammates are/what their teammates are doing, then I don't bother yelling at them.

polaris stuns turrets on a 3rd hit. last time I checked, drivers don't.

also, this is easily solvable by not friending everyone and their mother who you talk to. I make it a point to run with the people on my friends list. that way I know whether or not I want to continue running with them.

that and I defriend people who ask me to save them. funny, I haven't had someone whining to me to save them in 7-8 months.

For one, I have to disagree with you calling them out for using a Polaris. It's an effective weapon; aside from the graphical drawback on Party members, if it's good I don't see why not use it.

However, if you were quoting them word for word, e.g "You can't do the Gun Puppy room without a Polaris noob" and "only pr0z use Polaris", then I am also irked at their childishness.

Weapons a good player does not make -.- I don't know how many more times I'll have to say that.

In any case, I never judge a player by their gear, unless advising what would technically be best for the stage. I met this player in a PUG, a friend of a random who joined me, and he insisted on being revived every time me died because he wanted to fight, also saying that his gear was better for the stage.

Problem: He was 2-3*. I was in T3.

The random who joined me was somewhat of a coward. After losing a lot of health revivng these guys and trying to keep them from dying, I ended up dying more than I normally would. This guy kept RUNNING AWAY from ALL the battles he could, because he wanted to get to the core.

The only reason he came back to get us was because the way was blocked by the final 'arena room' of the stage. No way he'd clear it without help.

They tried to add me for no reason later. I declined.

Sometimes I wonder how old a lot of players are...Played TF2 the other day, this guy on voicechat kept insisting he was 16, but sounded like an 8 year old.

Dont give up on Spiral Knights! Its all Twitter's fault.

"Nova driver charge attack always stun any turret by the way."

and unless you've got some serious UVs or gun ctr trinkets (hah), a 3rd shot from a polaris is much, much quicker. and the 3 shots do more damage.

but anyway. weapons are all situational and some loadouts call for a polaris over a nova driver or an AP or whatever you use. I myself have 2 different loadouts for FSC. one of them has a polaris, one of them has an AP. I don't own a nova driver.