colossalvoids wrote: »

Fight against the gankers/bombers and catering to 1vX/ball would always prevail so extensive calculations would be always present, players won't be dying and that's how community and devs decided priorities here. It's easier to cut whole mechanics right away instead of changing players behaviour or perception of what Cyro is.

It boils down to the volume and complexity of calculations the server can process each second. So why not just tone down what’s keeping all players alive (solo and groups alike) which includes nearly infinite sustain, unlimited streaking, unlimited cloak, unlimited cross healing, and big fat shields which effectively give people permanently exorbitant hit points you gotta damage through to kill the enemy.

If the server can only handle X amount of players at one time, why not make it so players are dying left and right, so the server ends up only having to calculate only X amount of players at one time because the game is designed around reasonable Time to Kill.

Funny, one of the points made is that they cater to 1vX. However part of the problem is that 1vX skills dont really exist in the game. They hard limited sources of population scaling skills. Like master 2h or proxy det are really the only 2 left. These used to be key in deflating larger clumps of players that bog the server down. Not only that, but it gave newer players the confidence to stop sitting in large groups and solo.

Without newer players leaving the flock, the flock only grows in size. It seems counter intuitive, but you need the skills/mechanics that help level the playing field when outnumbered. Think old ball of lightning, or wings reflect, or Annulment, or sunshield, cloak, sap essence. We can go more into detail on this if you dont remember the glory days versions of these skills.

Its almost a necessary evil in a way, because you will always have those few players that no matter what will pop off.

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The other big issue is that general power creep breaks down diversity and stat tensions. Inevitably as everyone gets every buff in the game instead of the trinity of tank/heal/dps existing now you start gettting tank healers with 50khp perma blocking bgs. Or you have heal bots with crazy damage. When stats had more tension and less power creep buffs, players who were healers wore light armor and had to be peeled for. The only tanks that really were used were trolls or guard utility tanks for those healers. Dps were just that.

The amount of buffs handed out on everything should be no surprise the servers are getting worse and worse. Many skills were only 1-2 effects, but now every skill interacts with 5+ passives and up to 4 proc sets and 5 CP and enchants, poisons, etc