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General Discussion / Re: To all HA
« on: November 29, 2012, 01:34:48 am »
This thread makes me want to go back to horse archery.
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General Discussion / Re: 30 pierce dagger is insane
« on: October 31, 2012, 12:10:13 am »
BTW bring back ladderpulting.
Also, just bring back ladders!
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Game Balance Discussion / Re: How to discourage no-risk playstyles?
« on: October 25, 2012, 07:37:08 pm »Who the hell are you?
I am Oggrinsky! Lancer rapist and horseman aficionado!
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Game Balance Discussion / Re: How to discourage no-risk playstyles?
« on: October 25, 2012, 07:12:15 am »
I've been playing HA for a while now, and pretty damn well at that. If I want to light up the score board I have to play high risk. If I want to get within enough distance to hit someone consistently (not firing into a group), then I have to open myself to all sorts of enemy ranged rape. My horse, a Champ Desert Horse, typically takes 2-3 shots. There are plenty of foot archers who will easily shoot my horse twice before I'm out of distance or can take cover. Of course, if I ride full speed all the time my horse gets hit a lot less because of it's awesome maneuverability... but once I do that I open myself up for a speed bonus against my horse from enemy projectiles. Besides, have you tried to hit something consistently while riding full speed? It's pretty tough, at least for me.So, I can either ride slowly and become an easy target or I can ride fast and risk the speed bonus.
I score better than the majority of the horse archers on NA1, (I guess I'm easily forgettable though), but that's because I'm way more aggressive than most horse archers. I go for close range shots because that's where the damage is. I also focus on assisting my teammates in melee because I have the accuracy necessary to do so. At no point in time have I felt as if I wasn't exposed to risk. If anything I feel like I expose myself to more risk than the average foot archer. With foot archers long range shots can be deadly. Long range shots as a HA aren't impossible to line up, but the damage is sad. You might have to shoot an armored infantryman 10+ times from long range for a kill. GOOD LUCK WITH THAT. All the glory is in shooting from mid to close range. So, sure, a horse archer can evade damage pretty easily from long range but his damage output will be pitiful. Evading enemy ranged from mid range while pretty much keeping a 360 degree vigil for lancers or infantry; all so you can shoot some dude for probably less than a quarter of their health. Does that really sound no or low-risk to you?
HX are a different story. They don't need to, nor want to, stay in range to line up shots. As a HX you can fire and then ride to a safe distance, reload and rinse and repeat. I'm not going to say HX is easier to play but I will say it has significantly lower risk involved. Still though, even with HX, to really light up the score board you have to play aggressively.
By the way, when I'm the last player on my team and I feel like I have no chance of winning I just get off my horse and die. Not all ranged cav are douchey in that way.
TLDR: low-risk playstyles yield little reward for ranged cav
aggressive playstyles are where the glory is
fuck HX
screw you guys for never name dropping me
I score better than the majority of the horse archers on NA1, (I guess I'm easily forgettable though), but that's because I'm way more aggressive than most horse archers. I go for close range shots because that's where the damage is. I also focus on assisting my teammates in melee because I have the accuracy necessary to do so. At no point in time have I felt as if I wasn't exposed to risk. If anything I feel like I expose myself to more risk than the average foot archer. With foot archers long range shots can be deadly. Long range shots as a HA aren't impossible to line up, but the damage is sad. You might have to shoot an armored infantryman 10+ times from long range for a kill. GOOD LUCK WITH THAT. All the glory is in shooting from mid to close range. So, sure, a horse archer can evade damage pretty easily from long range but his damage output will be pitiful. Evading enemy ranged from mid range while pretty much keeping a 360 degree vigil for lancers or infantry; all so you can shoot some dude for probably less than a quarter of their health. Does that really sound no or low-risk to you?
HX are a different story. They don't need to, nor want to, stay in range to line up shots. As a HX you can fire and then ride to a safe distance, reload and rinse and repeat. I'm not going to say HX is easier to play but I will say it has significantly lower risk involved. Still though, even with HX, to really light up the score board you have to play aggressively.
By the way, when I'm the last player on my team and I feel like I have no chance of winning I just get off my horse and die. Not all ranged cav are douchey in that way.
TLDR: low-risk playstyles yield little reward for ranged cav
aggressive playstyles are where the glory is
fuck HX
screw you guys for never name dropping me
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General Discussion / Re: I've never understood...
« on: October 24, 2012, 01:13:49 am »
A Song of Fire and Ice names? Lame.
Names based on anything by Raymond E. Feist? Fucking awesome.
Names based on anything by Raymond E. Feist? Fucking awesome.
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General Discussion / Re: Aim on horseback
« on: September 15, 2012, 05:39:19 am »
I, for one, would love to see a buff for horse archers and horse throwers.
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Game Balance Discussion / Re: Bumpslash
« on: August 11, 2012, 10:14:03 pm »
While getting bump slashed can be really annoying I think it's a necessary mechanic to make 1h/2h cav a fun and viable option. That being said; bump lancing and bump couching are completely unnecessary because lancers would be perfectly fine (balance wise) without them.
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Spam / Re: NA ALLSTARS - the best players by US/CA states (now with votes!)
« on: August 11, 2012, 08:33:30 pm »39
General Off Topic / Re: Gay Marriage? You'r Thoughts?
« on: August 11, 2012, 12:09:55 pm »But all hot hetero girls should be single. And available. And unable to say 'no'.
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Faction Halls / Re: Cherusci (NA RECRUITING)
« on: August 11, 2012, 09:24:01 am »I'll just lay it out for you,
Ricky finally posted proof that he/she was a 12 year old cuntmy old friend tranny from another planet, where all people are hugely raging homosexuals,
so after this revelation the entire community bid farewell to the poor tranny alien, however hated he/she was.
TL;DR, Ricky is a 14 year old tranny and got scammed 3 times.
E: also, no offence to the LGBT people, ricky is in a class of his/her own.
lol Good stuff.
Ricky is from South Africa if anyone is wondering. He's actually a really nice kid.
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Faction Halls / Re: Cherusci (NA RECRUITING)
« on: August 11, 2012, 04:42:09 am »My point was that he just straight up lied. He was in a clan less then four months ago.
It appears you have a very loose definition of what a "clan" is. Rabbi was just Ricky and I. In fact, the post that was made specifically said "WE ARE NOT A CLAN" and that if you wanted to join the tribe you were welcome to add the tag for some shits and giggles. Case in point; you're kind of being a cunt right now. Go take your shitty trolling elsewhere.
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Faction Halls / Re: Cherusci (NA RECRUITING)
« on: August 10, 2012, 04:53:18 am »What about Rabbi?
Sadly, there just wasn't enough support.
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Spam / Re: NA ALLSTARS - the best players by US state (now with votes!)
« on: August 08, 2012, 12:19:34 am »
Man I'm glad I don't live in NYC anymore. That's some pretty stiff competition.
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Game Balance Discussion / Re: throwing is broken
« on: August 07, 2012, 07:03:31 am »
What Combaticus said.
Throwing is in fine shape at the moment.
Throwing is in fine shape at the moment.