It seems that everytime somone starts a "thanlks alot funcom" it's usually full of so much hate directed towards funcom.
But im serious, Funcom is making this game MORE diverse.
In this I mean, players can now actually be unique.
You see, back in release... ALL ranged fighters used the 3927's.
after the nerf people had to find better weapons. At this point there were non, most weapons had stupid skills that dint go and had crappy damage.
Then, all of a sudden, eevry soldier used the Nova Flow. Every crat/engi/NT/MP/trader/doc used a Vektor (before crit nerf these guns were great) every enforcer used a hammer/beam.
Not only were weapons all the same.. armor. My god armor. EVERYONE in omni used either Tech armor, or Omni-pol reg/elite. With those stupid pajama dress Primus coats, evryone looked the same. AO was boring. Not to mention the nanoarmor and the occasional Biomech and organic user.
Thus the term "cut and paste character" was coined. Every profession looked the same, they all wore trhe same armor, they all had the same weapons, they probly all had the same mother in that case.
Then around ... 13.8, everything changed.
The introduction of DeCranums MK armor line gave everyone above 93 a chance to be different (at this point tank armor still ahd that tupid +100 nano rule.. so people wore primus). At this point DeCranum's dropped fast and was easy to get.
BUT STILL everyone looked the same.
Now here we are.. 14.7. Finally we have diversity from the monotouny of patches before.
The soldier and enforcer suffered the worst from the "cut and paste" phrase. All soldiers used Novas, all enforecrs used hammers/beams.
Now howver we have a broad array of new armor. Every class looks different. The +100 nano rule was dropped from tnak armor, making it viable for ALL classes.
MKII, although rarer now, is another armor choice. We have the new CAS, the not so new Carbonum, Sentinals, Cyborg Death Squad, Sentinals, Dragon, MA suits, and claoks that dont show up as graphic. So8 (primus is ugly.. but hey its mods are nice)
Needless to say, look around the game now, very few people actually still all wear the same exact outfit.
FC's best move is the assortment of new, colorful weapons. Soldiers now have the CAS, Nova, Div9, Manex(a little rarer), and boosted Hellspinner. Also, enforcers now have the choice of very viable 1he, 1hb, and 2he weapons (too bad they arnt available after 135). Lets not forget the awesome Queen Blade that alot of enforcers are dropping thier beams for.
Im happy to see nano classes not all using ashotgun anymore. I see lots of HD's, V3's, Manex's, and X-3's in the mix now.
I thank FC for making the game ALOT more different then it used to be. No longer does everyone wear Omni-Elite under that ugly Primus dress.
Surely we will see new additions along the way, I can honestly say FC is making changes for the better. And this is comming from a post 14.6 MArtial Artist who is deeply disgruntled.
Stil, the non melee advent needs a little more pistol luvin'. (3927 like advent only line, with sensible multi melee reqs)
No more "copy and paste".
well, except for those silly smurf fixers and thier Manex's ;p
