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If you would read PCJoe's journal, you would notice that he reduced the ki-ball damage anyways. Just don't worry about it.
I never whined saying i was OUT of energy i've said the ki drain is pointless though.SaiyanPrideXIX said:My only point is, I'm not even that good at the game, but I have none of the following problems:
1.) Oh no! I'm out of energy!!!
2.) WTF, I swooped into him and nothing happened!!
3.) WTF, people kill me when I transform!!
4.) WTF, My graphics look bad!!
5.) WTF, the game is so laggy and crappy!
6.) Oh no!! I lost track of the enemy I was fighting!!
7.) Oh no!! Advanced melee doesn't do enough damage for it to be useful!!
8.) WTF, I blocked that guy but he still hit me!
9.) WTF, I can't do anything about being thrown, I just have to helplessly smack into a wall and wait for ki blobs to kill me!!
So I don't really see how you'd be able to beat me if your claims are all true. You basically said, You can't hit your enemies, can't seem to use advanced melee effectively enough to do any worthwhile damage, .
There's the one obvious answer--exploits. You'll hit me three or four times with teleports and swoops on simple melee before I can get to react. Well, of course your going to do more damage that way than advanced melee...advanced melee requires thought, you have to trick your opponent, etc. The ability to hit me five to ten million times while swooping with simple melee is a cowardly tactic, and if I had to pick one thing that I hate about the game, I'd pick that--because technologically speaking there is LITERALLY nothing you can do about it. And that makes it a might cowardly--I can do all this to the other guy without having to worry about what he might do to get away from it and mount an offense.
I mean hell. Let's address the actual points I made, shall we?
1.) Oh no! I'm out of energy!!!
Probably because you did nothing but whore on swoops and teleports since you say you don't use Advanced Melee.
2.) WTF, I swooped into him and nothing happened!!
If you swoop into an enemy with a beam or other attack selected, when you hit them it appears to be "buggy hit detection." It's entirely user error. Sorry Carl--get your mouse fixed. Some mice get worn out and get glitchy like mine is--sometimes it will select senzu beans while I'm in a swoop, and I'll think the game's broke, but it isn't. Pay careful attention.
3.) WTF, people kill me when I transform!!
Hide or wait till it's shorter. Idiot.
4.) WTF, My graphics look bad!!
THis is because people are tools and don't take care of/know anything about their computers. So Carl, you run it in opengl, good for you. Do you know about the config file problems? Did you edit the ati-specific half-life commands in ESF? There are any number of reasons why things like this happen. None of them are the ESF team's fault, suffice to say. Here's the deal, man: If the game works beautifully on even one machine, than it can't be a badly designed piece of software, because a badly designed piece of software would work like **** EVERYWHERE.
5.) WTF, the game is so laggy and crappy!
Learn how to use a ****ing computer. Go over to the "show your desktop" threads...every one of these kids has Bearshare or My Shared Folder or some such mother****ing crap on there. Those programs are dishonest, and are designed by selfish and dishonest ass-raping ****ers of mothers. You think they are legitimate? You think that the balance of things says there's no penalty for ripping off free media through the internet? Well, that's the price you pay. There are a number of options that you can exercise to improve the performance of the game...so like I said at the beginning...people need to learn how to use a ****ing computer.
6.) Oh no!! I lost track of the enemy I was fighting!!
Pay attention, Special Ed. The very fact that you lose track of the opponent your hitting says two things--"I whore leet exploits like triple tele simple hit and don't have time to pay attention" or "I just downloaded this game." And if someone interrupts YOUR fight...two for one sale the bastard.
7.) Oh no!! Advanced melee doesn't do enough damage for it to be useful!!
Learn how to use it. You can't just dive in and do three reps of the combos and expect it to hit. Blending in a couple of medium hits in the middle of an otherwise random combo is a great way to land heavy damage blows. And worse comes to worst, you can do all of a combo but change up the last arrow to be a heavy hit so they block wrong.
8.) WTF, I blocked that guy but he still hit me!
Learn to aim, and learn that blocking pre-punches helps stop throws completely as well as save you an assload of damage and time.
9.) WTF, I can't do anything about being thrown, I just have to helplessly smack into a wall and wait for ki blobs to kill me!!
Hold down jump when you get thrown, short bus kids. Hold down jump.
There. Every issue addressed.
Can't hit people is what I equated your hit detection complaints to. You said yourself that advanced melee is useless to you. That's about it. The rest of it was more aimed at the general existential complaining going on about all these things "wrong" with the game.You basically said, You can't hit your enemies, can't seem to use advanced melee effectively enough to do any worthwhile damage
because u use adv melee....u just made my pointSaiyanPrideXIX said:I barely get ten kills a session before the map changes.
exactly, i agree 100%, the only reason i play esf is to have fun.SaiyanPrideXIX said:It's not like I was aiming that at you directly. The only part that was, is this:
Can't hit people is what I equated your hit detection complaints to. You said yourself that advanced melee is useless to you. That's about it. The rest of it was more aimed at the general existential complaining going on about all these things "wrong" with the game.
If you really want to fight, I'd have to brush up. I bought UT a couple of weeks ago and haven't been playing ESF. For good reason, too--I'm tired of people acting like *******s in every server. Almost the entire community of kids who play ESF are a bunch of pussies, with minimal exception. Complete lack of sportsmanship and enjoyment--not cause of the GAME being bad, but the PLAYERS abusing its quirks. And yeah, even those people who think, "he's not talking about me, I win all the time!" are wimps. With the exception of most of the big names in the community, everyone I play in this is. People sit around and fiddle with the game to try and find the best ways to kill lots of people easily with the least chance of dying themselves. Strategy? Maybe. I call it lame, personally.
That's the one thing ALL of the exploits have in common--more death to enemies and less to the exploiter. So I consider them all byproducts of a general fear of competitive play. Nobody plays ESF to have fun--just to win. That doesn't make a good game at all.
In fact, I haven't really seen a "gg" or "good game" at the end of an ESF match in over a year. I miss that sporting good-natured competitive atmosphere. But it's OUR fault as a community I do not see that--not anyone else's. That's why I went back to the UT guys after so long.
If you really want to fight, like I said, I'll be glad to, but it's not going to be for settling anything. I'll never kill you ten times; I barely get ten kills a session before the map changes. If you can do any of those exploit "tactics", of course you'll destroy me. Because I play games to have fun, not be the best. Being the best isn't fun. I think of people like Optional and Halorin...it must suck to be so good at the game that you destroy everyone put in front of you. I used to be like that in the old UT. It was only fun when I fought people of equal ability--it's the same with ALL games.
I'm not gonna say no to you. But I'm not going to say I'm better than anyone, either. At the game or in general. But lastly, I'm also not going to give you a game of 10-2 so that you can bring it to the forum and flame up the boards with it like it means something. Nah. When you see me ingame, you won't know its me. I think that way it'll be more entertaining. In fact I'm going to go play when I get home in a couple of hours and see just how much rust I've collected.
The thing is, i use advanced melee 80% of the time, i usually get within the top 3 or 5 players on most servers, and believe me, some people are great teleporting, and hitting u while u cant do crap, but they suck at being able to press arrows, i can lay a whole advanced melee bar (no combos) on some people that get 300 odd kills on a server, it isnt as easy as people say :S. Simple melee woops my ass, because i loose all my ki wen i fight players that, i dont know how but it happens, im cool with it, but imo, once sum1 has hit u once, they got a free hit, sumthin not hard to do but can in sum situations end the fight, and i dunno about u, but if i told u every time u cud shoot a ki blast at sum1, u cud have another one free, would u say that was fair on the opponent? look back at 1.1, if u knew how to do it, u cud get a 5 hit combo easy (on anyone providing u got the first hit right), and ur opponent cudnt ****, is that fair?MysticUub said:because u use adv melee....u just made my point
like pain said theres nothing wrong with the chain hits...the only difference is its easier to do...in 1.1 i used to pull off 3,4, even 5 hit combos with no problem and id never hear anyone complain about it...and just like now back then they couldnt do anything about it...ud think that them reducing the max hit number to 2 would please u ppl that get ass raped all the time...but i guess not...now its a "cheap exploit" just because it beats u easier than adv melee....what about the ppl that fly around and do nothing but prepunch...and those that fly around and do nothing but prepunch and throw?...once i get hit by the first hit theres nothin i can do about it...but u dont hear me *****in about it or callin them "exploiters"...i think that they balanced it when they changed it...they made it easier to do chain hits...but limited it to two hits....what more do u want?...them to take it totally out of the game so that maybe ppl like u will have a better chance of beating ppl?...that was the whole point of 1.2...to give ppl like u that couldnt grasp how to use the 1.0/1.1 system effectively (without howing) a chance to maybe land a hit instead of just being owned 24/7...but because the system that they gave u doesnt help any u call our tactics exploits....i guess thats just like the pull throw thing in Jedi Academy...OMGZOR HE DID THAT FROM ACROSS THE MAP STUPID EXPLOITER!!1eleven...give me a break
random arrows arent unfair, u can get them wrong....... or..... u can get them right, its not quite the same as having to take the flak cuz u cant do nothing. u actually, have a chance, u can actually do something about whats happening...Pain said:fair? are you kidding me?
random arrows
nuff said
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in responce to davids post not you pride
I wouldnt mind it being like that.pain said:knockback speed and distance were increased slightly
chain hits were uncapped
therefore making successfull chain hits less cheap, but more skillfull.
and with the reduced swoop speeds and teleport delays, it will take some real skill to do it.
Pain said:i think it is safe to say that it would make everyone happy if:
knockback speed and distance were increased slightly
chain hits were uncapped
therefore making successfull chain hits less cheap, but more skillfull.
and with the reduced swoop speeds and teleport delays, it will take some real skill to do it.