Oh My Fucking God There Are More Than 40 Players Online On A Wednesday Night

wait a few weeks of bullshitting around and its gonna be empty again ...

 

This. We peaked at around 35 people today.

 

yeah either ppl get their shit together, the game gets fixed or GG

 

you know, if testing means district, just no ...

... also ive been there twice - sry i have a life besides playing - writing up (obviously nonsensical) posts takes me minutes, playing (and be it only testing) means an hour at least.

in case not everyone knows already, im usually named "no" nowerdays, i like how its such positive nick

you honestly think all this is because of last week? i just forgot how it was during the last year i didnt play. nothing has changed really, i give you that tank armor is a tiny bit better now, also i like that you overheat faster, but thats all minor - noone ever targeted the real issues the game has and that is that rush and ninja tactics are promoted by implementation. i think the most pressing issue is that you just can drive pass everything, it doesnt even require much skill, if anything a somewhat decent ping and if you dont drive with defusal maybe a second try because you found the one cookie hindering you the first try - except for when the map enforces it by design there are no clear frontlines in empires EVER. its all about who can pull their rush/sneaky/exploity tactics first - not about diggin it out in a trench warfare which the game suggests revolving around.

also

• there still are jeeps that turn you more or less invincible for around 70res, they aint armored at all, yet they take null damge from small arms fire and due to their hitboxes and unpredictedness its close to impossible to hit the driver reliably. well it might be understandable that 9mm doesnt hurt the motorblock, but it would go through the rest of the vehicle hurting the driver and probably destroy electronics, tubes and other small parts - for 5.56 or 7.62mm it would be differently, it might aswell damage the engineblock or penetrate the tank. also, and this probably is the most bullshit thing about jeeps, RPG hits dont destroy them instantly, nor do ML turrets.
• there still are basically only two classes, engi and gren - and gren not because of tanks, they suck against them but because its the best anti-infantry class (yey mowtar, mines, shotty, defuse and punch). if empires is about tanks, tanks and tanks alone, why have infantry in the first place?
• there still are walls that let you fire at enemies while they turn you more or less invincible behind them (another reason why gren is overrepresented, its the only class which lets you fire behind those walls)
• there still are heavies that make up for 5 grens minimum - and you also need engis to repair the damage they have done - with the excuse that you could just focus targets. yes you can, but they can aswell. and there is nothing hindering you building as many heavies as there are enemies, except for a generally low level of organisation in pub games - how to multiply my team? oh right i cant. and oh fuck i forgot, its tanks countering tanks, like its engis countering engis, roffles countering roffles, grens grens and scunts scunts - or did i get that wrong aswell?
• there still are bioml, hit missiles and arty which are not bad by default, but they dont let you fight back anymore - get a stray hit by one of them, you dead - unless ofc the map is designed to mitigate this. and i thought being able to fight back would be essential - isnt it the excuse for all the other shit mechanics?
• there still are plenty of ways to end the game prematurely.
• there still is boomtanking - which is nothing but egoistic. its fun at times, yet its an utterly shitty game mechanic and nothing of value would be lost if itd be gone.
• there still is decaying scout sabotage that force you to play capture the scout in small games.
• there still aint turrets strong enough to pose an actual threat to tanks - not even lvl3s. newbies might feel threatend, but once you tell them they just drive pass them, just like most of us do (except for to get more points).
• there still are level 3mgs with absurd range and/or RoF
• there still is a scout rifle that has no practical use in the game other then being either imbalanced on wide open maps or useless in confined spaces - apart of being a nub magnet.
• there still is hide which lets you turn completely invisible except for your eyes, forcing player to switch class ending up without any mines or removed walls, turrets and no calc juice if you switch back (i resort to killing myself rather then switching back to engi since its faster to fill up the calc, great implementation)
• there still are unpure servers and im quite sure theres still a lot of cheating going on - because hurrdurr custom content - but maybe i should just go through all the vtfs and vmts and make a publically available cheat-version to put everyone on the same level?
• there still are no measures whatsoever to target stacks - because hurrdurr again, "we want to play with our friends". yeah at best all on one team to steamroll and stomp regular players who just want to enjoy shooting at eachother.

and this is only what hasnt been targeted in the recent yearS and not the new imbalances/quirks/exploits introduced with this version - a lot shouldnt require to change a single line of code, because this usually is another handy excuse (i fully understand btw)
also i didnt rank the points i made, they are in the order they came to mind, and this list is everything but complete ...

 

There's not one point on the list that I don't agree with flasche on.

 

Ideas are nice but they still need effort to becone reality, that's the issue.

 

my major gripe with this is that we argue about those things for years now, i could go search the topics, im quite certain id find most points in 2007 aswell.
yes there has been mootant the obstinate dev and jephir had enough shit to do fixing what he cba to fix - but if its moving in the direction i described above you manage to hide it well from us and tricksters excuses doesnt make it look like either.