Those people are simply whining because they got killed in Lockdown. If they're too lazy to change their loadouts or class, then they really shouldn't play. Some people are just too ignorant to realize that Skolver and FF doesn't automatically make you invincible. My strategy for LD is using tons of loadouts and utilizing each class for specific situations. If more people did this then we'd probably see a lot less whining in Lockdown.

But normally I just tell those people "Either change your strategy or quit complaining because you died, your '(insert name of weapon you got killed with here) spammer noob!!1!' argument is invalid. Good day to you sir."

Every person has a weak spot. Just find it :c Otherwise, I just peg them with my valiance and be like "ooooo a gunner with no polaris just killed you. what now >:l"

is lag an ld excuse too

The only excuse I agree with is when AA is used on cloaked recons; it's the only thing that seems truly unfair in LD as it entirely defeats the point of hiding if someone can just not even bother looking and zone in on you, especially from 160 degree backwards angles...mid-combo.

AA the rest of the time though, idc about. Some say it helps, some say it hurts, some say it's cheating, no one can agree. Fact is that "aa, spam, noob, lag" etc are all just short for "I'm a whiney wee lass who needs to throw a tantrum, if you'll excuse me". If you didn't kill them with polaris and instead went in and killed them with a teethpick, I'm sure they'd find another word to throw around to rationalise their death.

First of all, some "excuses" are legitimate at times such as lag or AA in the case mentioned by Darkbrady.
However, as legitimate as these excuses can be, they're obviously used by those of us who just
aren't man enough to say "I suck" or to compliment the other player on a kill.

I really don't want to get into another debate about AA but I'll just quickly say that I have nothing against it.
I personally do not use it, mainly because it throws me off at times, but I have no problem with someone else
using it.

And of course there's the "I only had one bar of health left" excuse that, even though it's a good explanation
as to why you got killed my the "noob" in 3* gear, still brings into light the fact that people just don't like losing
and, in any situation, will come up with some excuse as to why they were defeated.
In short, I basically agree with Darkbrady:)

If they blame shock, spam your Polaris. If they blame AA, spam your toothpick/Gun/Whatever. If the blame lag...
go to their house and do something to their connection. Have a little fun xD

And Doctorspacebar, good luck with that Calculus. If your teacher gives you an F.....blame lag.

-Guardianknight.

...I thought consensus was that AA didn't track recons.

What I usually see is that us guys who've played LD for ages anticipate where a recon will likely be, then just strike out and hope to get lucky. Or we just go crazy mode and swing everywhere (throw down enough attacks and you'll hopefully hit something). Once hit, the (usually new) recon cries about AA.

I don't do anything that people use excuses to justify their deaths for, but normally I would simply respond with ":3"

YESH, that's the solution I have been playing SK for 2 years now and i never use AA but miss it so much because haters just rage all day and it screws with my reputation but now I see that I can bypass by saying ":D" or "derp"

Autotarget doesn't lock on THAT drastic of an angle

Aye, it does. The particular example I'm thinkin' of I was just trolling the guy, letting him swing madly around while I ran on and off the CP to decap; he had absolutely no idea where I was then it swung backwards mid-combo and hit me. Whenever I do use swordy, I use AA and I've seen that kind of sudden change in angle as the AA takes over and re-aims your target. I've had some cheap kills that I certainly should not have got because AA swung my target around the last second, exactly like many people do to me while I'm cloaked. It most certainly does affect it at that kind of angle. How are you supposed to get your own hit in w/o walkin' towards them to some degree? By that attitude, recons should never be able to get hits in becasue they always have to get within range. But you can still see a difference in players who are making clever guesses and players who rely on AA. There's no question, you'd have to be blind to not see the difference in styles.

Either that or some players are omniscient; who am I to judge people before I know their full story?

I'd like to be omniscient, that way I can ignore recons, too. Hell, I don't even see the footsteps when I play, I have to use good ole'-fashion panicking when someone cloaks like the game intended. Lucky me.

Also, people will just spout spammer at everything. People have done "pure voltedge/teethpick" runs for mass damage and gone around calling others spammer. I've been called a spammer because I used hazes to protect a CP. Bomb spam. Yup.

as I play rather decent amounts of lockdown:

AA is fine, it is fine for those with skill who know how to use swords and swing in the direction of the enemy; In my experience, it provides very few bonuses as the enemy has to be within 3 blocks in front of you to activate.

AA does, and I must stress this, however, increase the range of a person's attack.

This is as the range is furthest directly in front of you, and so because it automatically straightens your attack, you get A LOT more range than a person without it.

Despite this, AA is rage inducing if used by a person who repetitively uses the full flourish line combo.

And to those arguing polaris spam is annoying, this is false as the bullets are slow and easy to dodge.
But if it is used by two people at once, it is a nightmare. The only way to counter this would be two or more of your own team using a pulsar XD.

That's all I wanted to say

~ Th-Urret

(P.S If you don't believe my auto target theory, try it out, you will see a consistent difference (as in I consistently get over 11k damage with it and die in seconds without it))

I don't like polaris. It's stupid easy to dodge, but you still have to dodge it, which I do not find enjoyable. And if both teams spam polaris, it is very easy to lose track of which shots are whose.

I don't like auto-aim. AA directed attacks are predictable and boring. I would much rather play against a real person.

I don't like the hammer. It is almost exclusively used with AA, and with the movement on the second attack, this means the computer controls the player's movements and attacks much of the time during combat...very boring.

Having a bad connection sucks. Having a slow computer also sucks. But no one wants to hear about it.

If you get stomped with no UV's you'll still get stomped with them. They're much less important than people make them out to be.

My dog ate my homework.

Lolwut?

^and that, my fellow forumites, is either a prime specimen of a silly troll or an example of how virtual PvP and anonymity bring out the worst in people.

Actual or not, I'd like to give the benefit of the doubt that it could be trolling more than poorly placed pride...