CQC The Weapons Powerup ruins the new player experience

[Alexander the Grape]

So, after a particularly frustrating series of matches against a certain high ranking CQC pilot (props on the flying), in which the outcome was always determined almost entirely by who had the weapons powerup, I've been thinking more about this particular aspect of CQC.

From a high level players' perspective, it's easy to focus on the competitive aspect of CQC, and critique the weapons powerup from that angle, but the problem may be more severe than that.

Nearly every day there are angry threads about "imbalance in matchmaking" as "high ranked players with superior gear" farm noobs and make them quit in frustration.

How much of this is down to high ranking players who use the Weps powerup's imbalance to kill entire matches worth of new players, who don't know or understand why they're dying so fast?

I honestly think it's one of the things that most contributes to new player attrition and the current empty state of CQC

 

[avow555]

Standard deathmatch play styles and power ups.

Kinda boring really.

 

[Lenny.V]

Yes that's something very similar like i said in good Game Thread. We ( me and Artysu) are were against each other. That match was only about that who has better spawn point, who is bigger and better camper near the wep power up and who got it then he is "Lord of everything"..

 

[suburbanguerilla]

I agree , kinda frustrating , i love to get into boosting , flight assist off , drawn out fights . Weapon power up destroys that .

As i love the type of fights i mentioned above , i run with an efficiency enhanced boost . This does not get you to the power up first sadly .

So Frontier . how about working in some raw modes . or alternate powerups on/off .

Or try the more complicated random powerup distribution ideas that have done the rounds .

Pretty please .

 

[SushiCW]

It's been discussed before, obviously, but my favorite small tweak is to make it very obvious when someone is using the powerup. Bright red lasers, an extra line on the target panel, special color icon on the radar, anything. That way, new players don't assume they're getting killed so fast by weapons they haven't unlocked yet (or worse, assume they're getting killed by hackers).

Weapon enhance is the only powerup without an obvious "tell" to it, but it's the one that needs it most.

 

[huehnerfaust]

yes just like sushicw said, just show us visualy who is carrying or firing the weapon power up. There is a reason why other pvp games do that early on and not after the shrinking player base shouts loud and long enough for it.

 

[Lenny.V]

Same as Weapon power ups. The matchmaker should be balanced also. Because although i have quite high ratio, i'm not a god or cheater and i'm not able to survive everything and especially newbies which are all of them in my team and they're murdered almost at the moment of spawning because of superior enemies at other side? Why? It's unbalanced too and whole system should be randomized who will be with whom... Don't take care about me, I'm quite experienced player but take care about that newbies which are farmed everytime and they're not able to survive at least one minute.... They're angry or bored then and leave the game..