Sure, there's a lot of salt being tossed around right now, what with FDev leveraging its players to be early-stage alpha testers for their "bug fix" and "quality of life" updates, many of which were apparently hastily coded by Humperdink the New Intern.
But c'mon, PvP is awesome right now (cue Lego Movie theme song for background music). You just need the right mindset!
To enjoy PvP in this incredible new environment, just remember a couple of simple guidelines:
1) Make sure you're flying a shield tank (to avoid that inexplicable fragile-canopy inanity).
2) Run a big, heavy power plant with LOTS of power (so you don't get bitten by that ridiculous power-prioritization reset "feature" and end up dead in the water if you lose some power).
3) Be prepared to wake out if that honorless ganker who interdicted you is running the new-and-improved, beautifully conceived and considered drag frags.
4) Have your graphics settings set to somewhere in the 1990s, for playable frame rates.
5) And, of course, be ready to also wake out if your talentless opponent further kills your degraded frame rate with packhounds.
Follow these simple rules and you'll be JUST FINE!
But wait, you say? What if those are just too many concessions to make? And you're not interested in the silliness of PowerPlay or BGS where people in solo or PG can impact those trying to play the high-road version of the game in Open? Or even if you do play BGS but you're fed-up with the constantly shifting rules that make your best choice of efforts uncertain from one update to the next?
Well, there's always engineering. Because remember: This update made finding HGEs easier!
Oh, sorry... unlike the other changes to the game with this update, that particular QoL change is imperceptible ...if it changed at all. And, of course, the HGEs still don't actually spawn the G5 mats they should in most cases, leaving you to embrace not only the Fickle Finger of Fate in your grinding for random mats, but thrill to the idea of grinding them 6-times harder by using the material trader.
So, "Yay, FDev! Brilliant!"
Remember, all you Stoics, "The Obstacle is The Way."
But c'mon, PvP is awesome right now (cue Lego Movie theme song for background music). You just need the right mindset!
To enjoy PvP in this incredible new environment, just remember a couple of simple guidelines:
1) Make sure you're flying a shield tank (to avoid that inexplicable fragile-canopy inanity).
2) Run a big, heavy power plant with LOTS of power (so you don't get bitten by that ridiculous power-prioritization reset "feature" and end up dead in the water if you lose some power).
3) Be prepared to wake out if that honorless ganker who interdicted you is running the new-and-improved, beautifully conceived and considered drag frags.
4) Have your graphics settings set to somewhere in the 1990s, for playable frame rates.
5) And, of course, be ready to also wake out if your talentless opponent further kills your degraded frame rate with packhounds.
Follow these simple rules and you'll be JUST FINE!
But wait, you say? What if those are just too many concessions to make? And you're not interested in the silliness of PowerPlay or BGS where people in solo or PG can impact those trying to play the high-road version of the game in Open? Or even if you do play BGS but you're fed-up with the constantly shifting rules that make your best choice of efforts uncertain from one update to the next?
Well, there's always engineering. Because remember: This update made finding HGEs easier!
Oh, sorry... unlike the other changes to the game with this update, that particular QoL change is imperceptible ...if it changed at all. And, of course, the HGEs still don't actually spawn the G5 mats they should in most cases, leaving you to embrace not only the Fickle Finger of Fate in your grinding for random mats, but thrill to the idea of grinding them 6-times harder by using the material trader.
So, "Yay, FDev! Brilliant!"
Remember, all you Stoics, "The Obstacle is The Way."
