- Reykjavik
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We just need to instigate more elitism and Mythic shenanigans.
Posted by: CravenC21h30o2
Posted by: Reykjavik
edit- I should also add that random doesn't mean more or less skilled, it simply changes the skills used. Instead of the player with better aim winning, the player that knows when to shoot so the randomness is inconsequential wins. And the winning team is not decided by a random number generator, because after several battles the laws of statistics will make so that both players get an equal number of shots that would have missed, but due to spread hit, and the same number that would hit and do, and the same number that would have hit, but due to spread don't. The majority of the time it doesn't make a difference, but each player will be effected equally, both negatively and positively, so the randomness does not impact overall wins and losses.
Actually, it does balance out, unless one player is better at dealing with the randomness than the other. It effects both sides equally, so it does not make it "easy for noobs". An unskilled player might get a lucky kill, but a skilled player will get a lucky kill, and a whole bunch of skilled kills, and a couple kills where he got unlucky, but managed to get the kill anyway. The only time it makes a difference as to who wins is if one player always tries to get kills at long range, and one always closes to short range; the player shooting at long range will get worse spread, and less consistency, while the player shooting at shorter range gets better consistency. It makes so it is no longer a question of who can point and shoot better, but a question of who can put themselves in the optimum position to point and shoot, then point and shoot.
Actually you're wrong. Even when you take statistics into consideration it doesn't balance out. One player will always have better luck. The single battle is decided by luck, not skill, and sometimes all it takes for one team to win is one lucky kill. If everything is equal throughout the game then one player on red team gets the 50th kill because of a lucky BR bullet his team wins because of luck. It took skill to split the rest of the game with the other team, but the other team showed just as much skill the whole game. Why is the winner of the game decided by luck? It shouldn't be. This is where we start getting into opinion, and I don't think luck should have anything to do with a "combat simulation" style game.