What the F have you done with the game with last update?
RejZoR
Slovenia Join Date: 2013-09-24 Member: 188450Members, NS2 Playtester, Reinforced - Shadow
Slovenia Join Date: 2013-09-24 Member: 188450Members, NS2 Playtester, Reinforced - Shadow
Like seriously? Till the update release, I was doing really good, having negative KD was something I basically never had and we actually won games quite regularly as aliens. Playing with aliens was really enjoyable. Post 319 update, aliens are basically unplayable, huge negative KD's, ambushing almost impossible, 2/3 of bites just do nothing, out of 10 games, we won like 2 as aliens, like WTF. I don't know what you have changed or what has changed, but something has to be connected to the update because weeks before the update, game was actually enjoyable. Now it's just a raging cringefest. Marines don't seem to be affected much or at all but aliens, damn. I literally don't want to play as aliens anymore and if this crap continues I'll be just quitting from any server where I get shuffled to alien side. And spare me the "git gut" bullcrap. I know I'm not the best player out there but I was doing fine. What's happening now just isn't normal or some random occurrence.
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Alternatively, you may have had bad luck and played against some very skillful marines that can certainly make aliens feel less fun. I've noticed a few older players seem to have come back to try out the latest patch.
Nothing major was changed relating to balance this patch that could've resulted in this much of a change for you, unless your constantly being killed by flamethrowers as they are the only major marine change in the patch. If anything the 4 biomass additions and map changes would be considered a pretty serious buff to aliens.
I am also very much interested to see video footage of any problems.
The people I played with in last days seem to be regulars I played with few weeks ago. So, I doubt that's the case. We got noobs around all the time and we won games with them if they are willing to listen even at least tiny bit.
If it is performance related, here are some useful instructions.
In the end, it is probably the rookies from the sale. Game quality for veterans goes down for a bit everytime there is a sale.
5820K @ 4.5GHz on all 6 cores, 32GB 2666MHz RAM and GTX 1080Ti @ 1950MHz. I don't think there's a performance issue running it at 1080p where it's basically locked at 144Hz... Mouse lag, I doubt it. Network taking shit, could be. I'm just not sure it's on my or server side but NS2's bizarre network behavior...
B318 has a 51% alien win rate.
B319 has a 52% alien win rate.
You can see in this graph that although median skill has been increasing, the 25th percentile skill dropped off recently. This supports the theory that there are a significant amount of rookies. "Game Skill" is the same average skill value you would see in NS2+.
Rejzor, you probably just had a loosing streak. It happens.
Fair enuf, I'll make a note of this in the book of "git gud scrub!"