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Posted by: TKDK4
That's a lie, any player(especially good ones) can live in a 3v1, you don't have to use armour lock to actually do this, but with it, you can survive and explosions.
Unless you have a power weapon, better cover, or Armor Lock, you'll die if it's three against one. Having Armor Lock practically negates the needs for a better weapon and better cover, at least for a few seconds.
as mentioned before, there are people who use it because they're new(or bad) so most players will use it, but when players use it to survive grenade spams and PW Whores(like in one of the many corridors on reflection) then that is defiantly not a problem, that's people using their heads, and not just mindlessly using sprint or jetpack, the true problem is when people just choose a useless AA because they hear so much bad -blam!- about armour lock.
No, they don't use it because they realise it's retarded. If they're new, they'll think it's a good thing to use to get a feel for the game. If they're bad, they'll keep using it.
And did you seriously just use the term "PW whore"? There's no such thing. If you get the power weapons before anybody else, congrats, you get to reap the benefits. If there's an Armor Ability that allows them to survive even after they lost those weapons, that's a problem.
You require brains to use Sprint because you need to know exactly here you're going to run. You need to know if a room has more than one entrance, if you can easily get back out, if you're just running into a group of enemies, all that. Armor Lock is just you waiting five seconds mindlessly.
Sprint is the easiest thing to use, it take NO skill what so ever, and is just a cheap way to get quick melee kills, and you never know, a smart player can trick people with holograms. Atleast with armour lock, you aren't guaranteed to live, you have to plan how to get out of there alive, instead of just running away.
Using Sprint is easy. Using Sprint effectively is another matter altogether.
And nobody uses Armor Lock for "planning". People use Armor Lock as a five seconds grace period to cover up their mistake.
So being able to run away because you're faster is harder to do then using armour lock? With armour lock there is a chance that it will have a negative effect for you aswell, instead of your team showing up, his could, he could reload that rocket he has or pick up a health kit, sprinting is a one button boost.
Armor Lock almost always ends badly for the one using it. Doesn't justify having a five second grace period.
Again, Sprint is easy to use, but isn't easy to use effectively.
What you just said was just pressing a button to run faster, that in no way can out run a tank's shot, a banshees fire or a spartan laser, to survive any of that you would need armour lock, not a hologram, not camo, armour lock.
And you say the better players don't need it, think of how much better they could be if they used it to their advantage instead of boycotting it
That's the point; they don't need the massive advantage to win.
If you "need" Armor Lock to survive anything, you're probably bad.
Edit: aw, crap. Let's see if I can fix this somehow.
[Edited on 12.10.2011 7:57 AM PST]