Given that PC/Mac CMDRs will not be flying in the same instances as the Xbox(/PS4?) CMDRs, then this is all a bit of a moot point as there will never be a suitable/common area for comparisons to be broadly made.
Will Xbox players be better than PC players because of CQC?
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Much agreement with this point. I've never really had stellar twitch skills, though I can hold my own in most virtual fights. I've relied much more on my ability to get inside my opponent's head to psych them out so they make errors and/or exploit their mindset by predicting their actions, combined with knowing my own limitations and Batmanning accordingly to futureproof my lack of lightning reflexes.
To mention Planetside2, when I played, I played an Engi. Nothing was more fun than to play counter-saboteur during a squad-sized baseflip attack, and wipe out the guys from the other side of the map with betties because I knew exactly what they were doing and where. Not only knew, but directed, by repairing things and the classic "What was that noise, let's go see" maneuver to bait them into moving in a pattern or location that could be exploited. Pointblank shotgun executions of deadly snipers, because you need to watch where you ARE as well as where you're shooting.
To the general thread topic, CQC players are going to develop CQC skills. Some of those skills may well transfer to the live galaxy. But those pilots will then need to develop the live-game skills as well, some of which will supplant their CQC skills as needed. Gladiators aren't soldiers of fortune; there are portable skills across the two professions but they're not identical, and arena training can leave you unprepared for the vast array of situations that will exist outside of an enclosed fighting space with fairly equalized combatants.
And none of this has anything to do with what platform the games are played upon. I've burned my PC Master Race card because frankly it's insulting to real gamers in general who will usually have a PC and at least one console.
our time will come that we will get a 64bit version.Xboxers do have an advantage, their game is 64bit and ours is 32bit.
but if they have that advantage, how about Vram?
so far as i know the xbox one doesnt even got dedicated Vram.
and dont get me wrong, i owned a xbone... but man, those things arent that powerfull.
I already gave the link to some info on it a few pages ago but the debate still rages...
As the mod said 'Nothing good can come from this!'
EDIT: Well ok they were not the exact words but mine sounded better
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Prior to Elite and getting my x55 I played fps games on pc almost exclusively short of a few rts games. I wouldn't say that console players have any sort of "fps" skill advantage.
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our time will come that we will get a 64bit version.
but if they have that advantage, how about Vram?
so far as i know the xbox one doesnt even got dedicated Vram.
and dont get me wrong, i owned a xbone... but man, those things arent that powerfull.
I don't want to debate the merits of consoles but as far as I know they share vram with system memory and even if I can only use 2 of my 4 gb of ram on my 980 the consoles don't come close. Though graphical fidelity only provides an advantage to a point and that advantage goes to the pc regardless of 32 or 64 bit architecture.
Don't forget there are some of us out there that focuses hard on combat, specifically speaking PvP combat
Although when said PvP consists in a wing of anacondas, FdLs and/or Clippers VS one single target, the amount of skill required might not be stellar