- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Maulers were a balancer, their soul purpose was to balance out the power weapons in the game, its been said in this post a number of times that removing this gives more power to the power weapons, and personally I get tired of being called a Power Weapon whore because of the lack of balance already... Increasing the respawn time was an excelent idea, many of the Maulers respawned way too fast, and definately had 6 or so on the maps at any given time, exspecially Guardian, however, it also prevented the whoring of other weapons.
Bunjie, I love you guys to death, however, have you ever heard of the term "Testing the Water", or "Subtile Changes" or Adjustments... Every time you make an update you always tend to go overboard, try testing it by making small changes IE slightly increasing the power or firing speed of the handgun, or try lowering the spawn rates of weapons on the maps before completely removing them, or try removing them from one map instead of all of them...
I don't really play THC so I don't have an opinion about those changes...
I read allot of complaints about the map shuffling, and I have to agree, some changes could be made, the different types of maps coming up so often isn't due to the shuffler, its due to the lack of other maps, and varrients in that gametype, consider this, other maps could be added to those types which would lower the complaints, IE: Social Slayer allows 10 people, thats plenty for the Desert map, who's name slips my mind right now... anyways, that would help... and an alternative big team battle of some type would help as well, personally, I liked having 12 people in BTB, it wasn't overly crowded for Introverts, and the like, but hey, I can see how others would prefer the alternative...
Anyways, the biggest thing is this, I know you don't want to Revive the Maulers, however they are a balancing agent that is desperately needed, Compromising is awesome... please don't give into the whiners that can't handle playing against difficult scenarios, and if your'e one of them.... GROW UP!