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OP, you know you can set privacy settings so you only get messages from
people in your FL and can only hear people in your FL? I have this
setting because I play Street Fighter 4 competitively and at a
reasonably high level and you practically can't win a game without
getting abusive messages or 'chat glitched' afterwards from people who
don't like the way you play (I use Dhalsim which means I tend to not
let anyone get anywhere near me which is percieved as 'cheap'). Just
an idea for you.
Back onto smartlink, my position is the same, it only works in public games against low level
players. Those who use smartlink and think they are reasonable/good at
the game either a) agree to play arranged team matches with other
fellow smartlinkers on their team and get destroyed (respect to them
who do that), or b) refuse to play arranged team matches, claiming they
play for fun or use some excuse like 'I don't have time for childish
games' etc. I am happy for people to use smartlink all they want
though, because anyone with half a brain has smoke (and much sooner
if loads of people are smartlinking on the other team). Regarding your
play (OP) I only ever recall being in your game once (since recognising
you from the forums), and I am not going to say anything about your
play, so don't worry, you did seem to be reasonable and that is all
anyone can say (if anything) from meeting in a random public game.
Being a troll player with resurrect even by mid-game is saying
something in itself and most the people I play with are happy to play
with anyone who has a decent sense of team-play and non-selfishness.
Regarding
stormbringer, he does do a fair share of complaining it seems, he wont
know me because I can't hear him in game and he can't hear me (because
of my privacy settings), I have had no issues etc with him. If he
reads this he will probably remember the day concerned below however.
Over the course of a week or so myself and a few friends noticed that
he rarely waits out games when badly down, and one day in particular I
was playing with the same 2 people in random public games (8vs8 games
usually) and he ended up in a few of our games, and every one that was
ending bad for him he left early, and 2 that ended prematurely by host
quit, when we pulled up our list of recent players he was at the
dashboard. I told one of my party that he posted on the forums and it
was brought up by the 2 people in my party (so he knew that we knew he
posted on the forums) and they asked him was he going to quit out of
this (the next game we entered that he was in) game as well as he was
on the other team, as well as him refusing 1vs1's with someone in my
party or an organised game of any size against people, after he sent a
message to someone in my party (who messaged him about his quitting)
saying 'wait until we meet again'.
Well, we did meet again
and to give him his due, once he knew that we recognised him from the
forums he didn't quit straight away and only quit after the games
ended, and after 2 consecutive 6-0 loses. He did however go
0(kills)/8(deaths)/0(resurrects) and then 1/8/1 in the second game, to
which someone in my party went on about so much that even I was bored
hearing it, and although I could only hear half the conversation, I
have to say someone in my party (a young boy who is extremely good at
shadowrun) was being quite abusive and he seemed to be taking it well.
The other member of my party who could hear him also concluded that
Stormbringer did seem a decent guy when it came down to it - we
actually contemplated sending a FR but decided against it only because
of the abuse he got from someone we regularly play with and thought it
could give rise to some uncomfortable situations.
The point
though is yeah, Stormbringer was complaining about my parties use of
EV, apparently all three of us were using it according to him, which is
nonsense because I almost always play a troll and regularly have 5-10
resurrects a game, I simply don't have the essence for EV with my build
(which is almost always Tree then Res to start with in rounds 1 and 2),
I never use EV and always resurrect as a troll when I can, but more
importantly even if we did all have EV then, so what? That day the two
people I was playing with would have had EV every game if they were a human, one after Tree, Res, Teleport, Smoke, and he would only be using it after all
the EV'ers on the other team were dead (he uses it so our party/team
knows where enemy EV'ers are, rendering them little threat, and then
only after they are all dead so he is not giving his position away),
and if the other player was human then he would have it very late
game after all of Tree, Res, Teleport, Smoke, Gust, AM's, glider (map
dependent), strangle (ninja troll dependent), minion (multiple troll
dependent) - basically so late in the game that it barely would be
noticeable. Summary, one of three of us may have been using EV
early-mid game (round 5 earliest).
The Shadowrun community needs to man-up a little though and accept both EV and Smartlink are in the game to be used (so yeah OP I agree, use it all you want). Where I (and the people I regularly play with) differ with my views is that I have not ever
seen a person who has smartlink as part of his/her regular/staple build
ever do well in an organised team vs team game (and 1vs1 as well, as if
1vs1 means anything though), because smartlink actually isn't that good
when people play as a team together, especially when they all expect to
be buying smoke reasonably early to counter (a good teams) EV. The
joke about these two 'lame' buys (according to some people) is that
they are both countered by the same thing - smoke, but yet many a time
I am in a game where everyone except me and a few others has smartlink
and I will look at my teams buys and only myself and maybe one or two
other people have smoke... The problem with smartlink is simply that
it does work in public games against people who do not seem to
be wise on how to deal with it, and even the best players can be cut
down fast in public games because smartlinkers on the other team get
the easy kills early game against the idiots running about themselves,
allowing them to keep up in the magic/tech race. In private games this
doesn't happen, they achieve very little with smartlink before the
other team all has smoke, and at that point smartlink was a wasted buy
that didn't help them early game, and now is little more than a 2000
costing tech that does nothing but stop them team killing (which should
be a rarity anyway except for bad/gusted back grenades), and uses up a
slot that probably would be better served with something else (eg smoke
[counter EV] or Gust [counter smoke] etc).
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