hm, so much talking about abuse of weapons
On the one hand, you´re right: lots of weapons can be abused and it´s too easy to take down skilled players with them. Also it´s true that cRPG is a bandwagon-community; if there´s something pretty uber, people are going to use it/try it out. (as seen with the current HA wave)
Nevertheless, what I´ve learned from competitive online gaming is this: It is no use, NO USE, if you play "fair" and don´t take uber weapons, when the rest of the people do. Last time I realized that was 3 years ago before I joined Mount and Blade and played some COD:MW2: all those fuckers were running around with grenade launchers (tubing), g18 pistols (or simply "little overpowered machineguns") and that imba intervention-sniper rifle. You needed NO SKILL for those things and you were able to rock the whole enemy team with it. And everyone was using it (online gaming communities are all "bandwagon communities") Back then I didn´t take these items on purpose, because it was a douchy way to get through the game and it was against my honor...
After I quit the game, I realized: dude, fuck online game honor; already sounds douchy if you just say it. You don´t play with "uber" weapons because you want to impress some random internet people? (sorry Sabjorn, but playing "clean" leads you nowhere :/ ) If you use the items, they´ll swear at you; if you don´t use the items and you´re successful with something else, they´ll still find a way to make you look douchy and still will swear at you.
Come on, let´s see, what class isn´t douchy:
2h? Douchemy old friend 2h hero
shielder? Skimitar/Military Hammer/blabla spammer, 1h stab asshole coward
xbow, archer, ha, hxbow....rangemy old friend
thrower....throwmy old friend/easykill thrower
shield/rondel dagger...stabbermy old friendger agiwhore
agibuild....agiwhore spammer
cav....fucking cav, lancecav, 1hcav, ha,...
polearm...I wont start with that. Warspear, Awlpike,...
And I bet there´s even more imba stuff
SO, what class is actually left to play so you won´t be yelled at? Naked guy with strawhat n club?
I just wanna say that there´s a lot overpowered stuff out there, and f.e. compared to COD, we got a way BIGGER collection of imba stuff than COD, where you only needed 3 weapons and 1,2 my old friendgy abilities (like "commando" instantstab), in other words, 1 build to rock them all.
Hm. When I hear "imba items" in a game, I imagine 1,2 things which are way better than all the others. Looking at cRPG, we got a whole list of those imba things...there can´t be something imbalanced if nearly every class and every weapon in a game is imba...that almost sounds like...
...no don´t say it, they´ll kill you, Ikaruz...
...that almost sounds like...
...like balance.
In a nutshell: choose one of the imba classes, pick the one which suits you the most and master it.
I´m taking my knockdown-spam-hammer and my 1-shot-my old friend-arbalest and shoot some HA now.
Peace.