Then why does LLJK Heavy Cav bitch about them so often despite still topping the scoreboards -_-
Whiny no-skill NA cav... Says something when Torben comes over and steam rolls the team despite high ping...
Archers are unarguably the worst part of the game, and as the class's popularity soars with each patch, enthusiasm for the game and Strategus gets quite noticeably less and less.
Where small nerfs here and there might be given to Archery, the meta game consistently keeps Archers in a nearly untouchable position. Strategus is the absolute worst example. With nerfed armor and no heavy cav (or cav at all for that matter) archers have free reign to take the most sloped hill or unreachable roof and rain 2 shot death down on everyone with bolt action like accuracy and stopping power. Before this Strat went live, I heard chadz mention a rework of archery to make it less accurate but faster firing, however instead he just nerfed the fuck out of everything but bows and Strategus is, for all intents and purposes, completely dead. The dynamics of Strat battles that I've grown to love, the skirmishing, pushes, asserting cav superiority, has been nerfed away and replaced with battlefields where PD stacked archers scavenge over masterwork bows to ensure their sweet KDs as peasants charge with cardboard shields into the slaughter.
This overwhelming power advantage bleeds into our typical battle server brawls, and what do you know archery, because of the (mostly placebo) bodkins buff and Strategus, is more popular than ever before. I admit plenty of people make low content shit posting about "lol nerf ranged" but many players who understand balance and enjoyment the game have been vocal about their issues, mostly the kiting the playstyle promotes, to keep the game accessible and popular. I know archery has been continuously nerfed, but people find new ways to work in the system to really ruin the game's enjoyment for the other classes.
Very unsurprisingly here, Archers killing infantry is the most popular response, and probably causes the most people to rage quit cRPG, only so many times most players will quit the server in disgust at ranged spam until they just uninstall the game entirely.
Heavy Cav is certainly OP and requires merely a modicum of skill to outperform the other classes. Unfortunately you are gonna see nothing but heavy cav as the game continues along these lines because they are the closest thing we have as a counter to archery, even if PD stacked MW Bodkin MW Rus Bow archers can 3 shot a Cataphract.
In essence, I am trying to say to you Tears, "Deal With It." Also, Fallen archers are bad but their cav is worse, USA is the greatest country on earth and best clan in calradia, ranged spam is almost as trash as your posting, etc etc
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