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Why don't you just USE the M79 or Barrett?It's NOT SO EASY dodging your bloody spraying bullets all f***ing day, you know.
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I couldnt be bothered reading all 18 pages so i read the first and hears my opinion.The barret has its downs, slow reload time and slow cocking time, this means if you miss your opponent can knock you off, So it requires a lot of skill compared to the "ill just spray my opponent" approach.Now youlle find the barret is rather useless in smaller levels when your opponents are useing spray weapons, its too difficult to aim and shoot with no cover when there is spray firing everywhere so it requires a lot of skill.Now the M79 also has its Disadvantages, a very slow bullet prone to gravity, its like a catapul and a player needs a lot of experience with it to kill effectivly, because of its slow reload time, it doesnt compare to the speed in which other players can kill each other. Most games ive seen, while the m79 players have low death rates and about 15 - 20 kills, they usualy arent the winners.However, it does stand that in your typical well covered CTF level, the barret often provides the most kills, Some say thats because it is unbalanced, BUT remember CTF is not about Kills, its about surivivng and stratedgy, the ability to pick your oppenant off and move on quickly, so it would be the weapon of choice, therefore more and better player would use it.
its like a catapul and a player needs a lot of experience with it to kill effectivly,
A few things to remember when dealing with M79s:1. Dodging strategies do not always work, especially on smaller maps like Death. They are much more effective on Maya, B2B, Run, and other large maps.2. M79s are not designed to be a "dueling" weapon. If an autoer attacks you, it's logical to return fire to try to get him off your back. But if an M79er attacks you, just move on. Anyway, it's not good teamwork if you duel people in games like CTF.3. All guns have strengths and weaknesses. Don't you think the M79 would have been modified sometime in the past few years if it was truly unbalanced?4. It really doesn't matter how you die in Soldat, since you're just respawning again. If it helps, think of an M79 death as an opportunity to see your head fly across the screen. Isn't that pretty cool?5. If it's really that bad dying to an M79 user, avoid it completely. Watch where he's going when you die (assuming CTF) and take a different route when you respawn.6. Play on more established servers like U13, !optix, !elite, etc. Generally, the crowd is more skilled, and there are fewer people exclusively using the M79.7. If all else fails, play on realism mode. It definitely takes some getting used to, but you'll NEVER have problems with M79s.
Quote from: {LAW} Gamer_2k4 on January 27, 2007, 03:05:56 amA few things to remember when dealing with M79s:1. Dodging strategies do not always work, especially on smaller maps like Death. They are much more effective on Maya, B2B, Run, and other large maps.2. M79s are not designed to be a "dueling" weapon. If an autoer attacks you, it's logical to return fire to try to get him off your back. But if an M79er attacks you, just move on. Anyway, it's not good teamwork if you duel people in games like CTF.3. All guns have strengths and weaknesses. Don't you think the M79 would have been modified sometime in the past few years if it was truly unbalanced?4. It really doesn't matter how you die in Soldat, since you're just respawning again. If it helps, think of an M79 death as an opportunity to see your head fly across the screen. Isn't that pretty cool?5. If it's really that bad dying to an M79 user, avoid it completely. Watch where he's going when you die (assuming CTF) and take a different route when you respawn.6. Play on more established servers like U13, !optix, !elite, etc. Generally, the crowd is more skilled, and there are fewer people exclusively using the M79.7. If all else fails, play on realism mode. It definitely takes some getting used to, but you'll NEVER have problems with M79s.1. Agreed, but what do I do on smaller maps? just TIITB over and over and over again until we get to CTF_Run? And Dying in larger maps by one hit kill weapons are more frustrating than smaller maps, because you often die right when youre at the other teams flag. You thought you were doing good because you had 100% health. One shot, your now down to -276%. Now I gotta travel all the way down that map to get there again, just from a measely mistake.2. But if an M79er attacks you, just move on. I dont quite get what you mean there. Just do the same thing I do with autoers but refuse to shoot? i think you misunderstood dueling too. It was kinda a stretched word to use for the type of situations. But when I fight people, instead of spraying bullets at every person around me, I focus my aim on one person at a time, and ignoring everyone around me until he is either dead, or out of sight. Thats what I meant by duels.3. Well theres too many people that want the m79 there so they can get their one hit kills. And the majority rules. If the m79 was changed to no longer give one hit kills, there would be an explosion of hate mail for MM.4. Yeah that keeps me calm 90% of the time, by just not caring how I die. But sometimes I really want to try to achieve something (Like scoring the flag.) M79s and barrets so easily get in the way of making those things possible. And you have to be fast to get that flag. If I wait for m79ers and barreters to pass by, I run the risk of running into more and more m79ers and barreters.5. Well a great deal of the time, there will be more than one m79er or barreter. And rarely will they all be taking the same route at the same time. At the pace people, and myself move in the game, Once you see them, theres nothing that you can do. I cant say that this cant work, because it could work, but isn't that saying something if I have to succumb to the power of an m79 by being scared and not standing up to it?6. I do.7. Mehh.. R/S is dumb to me IMO. The admins that run their servers are whiney and picky, and are real jerks. It's too closely related to Counterstrike as well. If I really wanted to play counterstrike, I'd play counterstrike. Not soldat's substitute. And to top it off.. its too overrated. I keep hearing over and over that "real pros play R/S." which I find almost exactly the opposite.
I still seriously think the M79 is overpowered. Ive been practicing with it and it can definitely be overpowered if you are skilled with it, much more so than with other weapons.
It has nothing to do with easy targets, it has to do with the fact that getting hit gets you killed, even at full health. I mean, you could use that excuse with any weapon. The guy was killed by an MP5 because he was an easy target, etc. Its the fact that 1 shot kills are not only frustrating, but can be overpowered if the user is very good with them, more so than the automatics.
M79 is all about ballistics. Some are good at it and some aren't. It doesn't make it overpowered. But Barret is still a click-to-kill-weapon, but now it at least depends on timing.
Quote from: Skiessi on February 02, 2007, 07:45:17 amM79 is all about ballistics. Some are good at it and some aren't. It doesn't make it overpowered. But Barret is still a click-to-kill-weapon, but now it at least depends on timing.yeah really, that's no ballistc you're talking about. Everybody can see how the shell will fly.....The Barret is pretty well balanced I'd say. The very low fire interval fits it very good. If the hit, you're screwed, if they don't, they're screwed.It's far away from a C2K weapon, beacause you need to aim a ****nig lot. But it's not the same with the m79. It has a 3 sec. reload time, wich is not enough! Due to the fact that the weapons lost a hellova lot of their power during the Versions of soldat, 3 seconds aren't that much anymore. With an auto weapon, it's not easy to kill an m79 if he's not caught in a building or a tunnel. If he also has grenades, you can aswell /kill. So I think the reload time of the M79 should be higher, and it would be all good.
I agree with ORION. the m79 and barret are not unfair. It's just it takes a whole different tactic to bring players using them down.I don't want to sound up myself or sound like the 1337357 soldat playerBut I use to use the m79 all the time, and in every game it was pretty easy (coming in top3)Since 2 days ago I decided to perm switch to ruger and still its very easy (coming top 3). And with the ruger I'm able to bring down m79's from far away (they never get a chance to shoot me) and barret's its equally easy as they easily miss if move around quickly.Most people in the server change there weapon choice to match others. Too often I have seen a whole server full of m79's and barret's but it takes only one person owning with an auto - or semi to make the whole server (lol) change to different weapons