@SupaDupaNoodle Rookies no longer show as green on the scoreboard. Also, 59% of games are played in rookie only servers, so it is likely you would not see rookies outside of them.
EDIT: @_INTER_ not sure why you disagreed. I did not say anything factually wrong or give an opinion.
@SupaDupaNoodle Rookies no longer show as green on the scoreboard.
No wonder i haven't seen any... This is a bad change though. Oh sure it might help curb a little bit of the "you suck rookie" attitude higher skill players have, but it won't make enough of a difference to offset the bad..
Like it being much harder to recognize when smurfs are ruining the balance. Or being unable to try keeping rookies split across both teams.. I couldn't even begin to guess how many games we delayed until it was shuffled because someone noticed all the greens on one team... Now we won't know until halfway through a bad stomp of a game..
Come to think about it this could potentially stop people from defending rookies also... Example.. Elitist douche starts complaining that x player sucks... Now nobody will know to say "dude chill they're new" unless they look at their steam profile...
@SupaDupaNoodle Rookies no longer show as green on the scoreboard. Also, 59% of games are played in rookie only servers, so it is likely you would not see rookies outside of them.
This is a bad change. Is it for the reason that they get yelled at? Actually people are much more lenient and helping if they know they are Rookies (except going Comm).
Just recently people started to call someone names and starting votekicks because he was giving away our sneaky tunnel by biting the power. He later said in RR that he was new and didn't know.
If we knew earlier the team probably wouldn't go rage at him or even instruct him what to do beforehand.
I treat greenies different than regular people. I know what to expect and what to not expect them; It often helped judging a situation correctly. Not marking them anymore seems like a bad idea.
Also, a good rule of thumb is that a rookie is equivalent to an empty player slot on a team. Counting the amount of rookies on each team is actually a decent way of quickly checking whether teams are at least roughly balanced. (Or, failing that, you will instantly recognize that the team with four rookies is inferior to the team without any, no matter who else is in the team. Almost.)
Well it is kind of true, hive balance shuffle doesn't work at all so you have to balance manually, if you can see who is a rookie that helps a lot. Also it is better for the rookie because it is less pressure on him.
Could it be connected somehow? Hive is down (at least the non-web part of it) and as such the game doesn't know the playtimes and can't colorize the names. I also noticed that there are no badges at all now, this is 100% not intended.
@MoFo1 in my experience in ns2 you need to aim exactly at the model in order to get a high acc... ns1 was far more lenient... probably because the bullets regged better... not seeing the full alienmodel actually sucks for me... probably because I also predict how the alien moves... but its interestingly much easier for me to track lerks without these healthbars - especially when theyre in "dodgemode"
You can disable the health bars in the options by setting "Show enemy health" to false
You guys still don't get it. Disabling HP bars isn't a real option. If you turn it off, you give up all that vital information gain and basically handicap yourself. I find the HP bars ugly and distracting more than anything, but I'm forced to play with them because I don't want to be put at a disadvantage compared to everyone else who is using them.
or you could just shoot the same target all your friends suddenly start targeting. There, you know can play with no healthbars on and still kill the same target.
@MoFo1 in my experience in ns2 you need to aim exactly at the model in order to get a high acc... ns1 was far more lenient... probably because the bullets regged better... not seeing the full alienmodel actually sucks for me... probably because I also predict how the alien moves... but its interestingly much easier for me to track lerks without these healthbars - especially when theyre in "dodgemode"
You can disable the health bars in the options by setting "Show enemy health" to false
You guys still don't get it. Disabling HP bars isn't a real option. If you turn it off, you give up all that vital information gain and basically handicap yourself. I find the HP bars ugly and distracting more than anything, but I'm forced to play with them because I don't want to be put at a disadvantage compared to everyone else who is using them.
or you could just shoot the same target all your friends suddenly start targeting. There, you know can play with no healthbars on and still kill the same target.
Maybe, instead of wasting bandwidth on nonsensical arguments, you could actually try and comprehend the issue that I, as well as many others, have clearly explained over and over again.
Hopefully I can clear up some of the confusion regarding Crush vs players...
But before I get to that, just want to briefly explain the other half of Crush.
It does not affect the Type of damage done. It just increases the damage done to structures only, by 7 / 14 / 21 percent based on the number of Shells. Simple.
Now, for the fun part: Damage against Players.
Whenever any damage is applied, a long series of calculations are performed. One of the variables in those calculations is "ArmorFractionUsed". The default ArmorFractionUsed is 70%. This denotes how much of the damage done will be deducted from Armor. The leftover amount (after armor damage is applied) will be deducted from Health. Crush increases the ArmorFractionUsed by up to 21%. It does not modify the amount of damage done. On the surface, this doesn't seem to useful. However, the less armor a Marine has, the less effective Medpacks are. Combine this effect with attacks like Lerk Spikes, and an attrition-like effect is gained. It essentially gains a diminishing factor on Medpacks during combat. Hopefully that clears things up.
I noticed some audio glitching with the MG. It would suddenly get a super loud echo for a short time before going back to normal..
Only had time for two quick games so didn't have a chance to figure out what was causing it.
I'm fairly certain you're correct on this, and I'll be making adjustments to the sound's falloff to hopefully eliminate this problem.
The audio for the MG (HMG) is way too quiet from alien perspective. I will be a lerk/fade going right up to a marine to kill him and he will fire his MG and it sounds like its coming from a different room and then it's too late to realize that he has an MG and I lose my lerk/fade.
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EDIT: @_INTER_ not sure why you disagreed. I did not say anything factually wrong or give an opinion.
No wonder i haven't seen any... This is a bad change though. Oh sure it might help curb a little bit of the "you suck rookie" attitude higher skill players have, but it won't make enough of a difference to offset the bad..
Like it being much harder to recognize when smurfs are ruining the balance. Or being unable to try keeping rookies split across both teams.. I couldn't even begin to guess how many games we delayed until it was shuffled because someone noticed all the greens on one team... Now we won't know until halfway through a bad stomp of a game..
Come to think about it this could potentially stop people from defending rookies also... Example.. Elitist douche starts complaining that x player sucks... Now nobody will know to say "dude chill they're new" unless they look at their steam profile...
Just recently people started to call someone names and starting votekicks because he was giving away our sneaky tunnel by biting the power. He later said in RR that he was new and didn't know.
If we knew earlier the team probably wouldn't go rage at him or even instruct him what to do beforehand.
Also, a good rule of thumb is that a rookie is equivalent to an empty player slot on a team. Counting the amount of rookies on each team is actually a decent way of quickly checking whether teams are at least roughly balanced. (Or, failing that, you will instantly recognize that the team with four rookies is inferior to the team without any, no matter who else is in the team. Almost.)
LOL!
Harsh but true?
or you could just shoot the same target all your friends suddenly start targeting. There, you know can play with no healthbars on and still kill the same target.
Maybe, instead of wasting bandwidth on nonsensical arguments, you could actually try and comprehend the issue that I, as well as many others, have clearly explained over and over again.
The audio for the MG (HMG) is way too quiet from alien perspective. I will be a lerk/fade going right up to a marine to kill him and he will fire his MG and it sounds like its coming from a different room and then it's too late to realize that he has an MG and I lose my lerk/fade.