Guys I wish you would all stop fighting with each other. ALL of you are leaving valuable feedback and ALL of you have warranted opinions in this case. I really think we need to go for a middle ground here instead of one or the other because of this.
There are plenty of valid reasons to keep higher speed projectiles such as:
- Higher aim consistency (less guesswork).
- Better long range suppression, especially against classes like snipers.
- ADAD spam being less viable.
- Better defense against highly mobile classes.
- Easier to get into/understand for new comers.
Just like there are plenty of valid reasons the higher speed can be detrimental:
- Classes that relied on mobility for survivability now have a harder time.
- TTK Reduction / harder to stay alive (particularly for lower HP classes)
- Easier to hit and drain saberists that rely on blocking rather than HP for survival.
- Lower percentage variability between speeds of each individual weapon.
- Some weapons becoming really strong.
Now obviously this isn't all the points (or the most important) for both sides but were the ones I saw/thought of quickly. I just wanted to illustrate 5 points for either side that show that both are valid.
Like I said with other polls that we have run: A forum poll gives us an idea but should never be treated as fact because a large majority of people who play MB2, and a good chunk that visit the forums, don't vote on things like this. This poll doesn't even account for the people who have downloaded through ModDB. We can't make a decision off of the poll but we can use it to educate ourselves on how the community is feeling and move forward with that information. We need to take feedback from everyone, and even if a majority of the people like faster projectile speeds we need to see why the people who don't like the speeds dislike it. If they dislike it for valid reasons like they do currently then we should try and do something about it.
