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Off-Topic Discussion / Re: TL:DR Ra2 is sucky
« on: September 01, 2019, 04:09:25 AM »
ra2 is boring and hella ****ing stale and thats why i dipped from the ra2 discords i was in yesterday because i cant bring myself to play the game while watching it slowly spiral to its death.
ai tournaments are dead. period. redace is killing it with deathmatch but its the same old routine. you can tell whos going to win just by looking at the splash and picking the bot that can win most easily by driving forward and gut ripping whatever comes its way. multiplayer is the wave but the game is so broken that skill is hardly rewarded, especially since the main online tournament going on seems to prefer number of entries over actually arranging a proper fight schedule. ive voiced my concerns over on pws several times and they seem to have fallen on deaf ears.
the existence of gtm as a community going forward has to hinge on rr2 and how robust of a robot fighting sim it can be. ra2 thrived when the community played to its strengths and worked to optimize the sh** out of unrealistic murder machines, and that ship sailed once hax mode came out and everyone that played the "standard" metas realized there were no further horizons to pursue.
gtm would also do better as a whole if the main discord wasn't run by total sh**posters who seem to not care theyre controlling the figurehead of the entire ra2 community, and i think it gives the rest of the groups sort of a bad reputation when it comes to spreading out and roping in new blood
also orc's "if you have an argument youre a bad person and need to go away" moderating style is the worst thing about him and is probably the reason that discord has the problems hop mentioned
ai tournaments are dead. period. redace is killing it with deathmatch but its the same old routine. you can tell whos going to win just by looking at the splash and picking the bot that can win most easily by driving forward and gut ripping whatever comes its way. multiplayer is the wave but the game is so broken that skill is hardly rewarded, especially since the main online tournament going on seems to prefer number of entries over actually arranging a proper fight schedule. ive voiced my concerns over on pws several times and they seem to have fallen on deaf ears.
the existence of gtm as a community going forward has to hinge on rr2 and how robust of a robot fighting sim it can be. ra2 thrived when the community played to its strengths and worked to optimize the sh** out of unrealistic murder machines, and that ship sailed once hax mode came out and everyone that played the "standard" metas realized there were no further horizons to pursue.
gtm would also do better as a whole if the main discord wasn't run by total sh**posters who seem to not care theyre controlling the figurehead of the entire ra2 community, and i think it gives the rest of the groups sort of a bad reputation when it comes to spreading out and roping in new blood
also orc's "if you have an argument youre a bad person and need to go away" moderating style is the worst thing about him and is probably the reason that discord has the problems hop mentioned