airwolff wrote: wow - i see a fair amount of shadenfreude here against PC players, left over from DF1. ok, i haven't been playing the game as long as some of you, and if you suffered a long time with PC players dominating the game, i can certainly sympathize. but the request here is for an even playing field, not an advantage.
i'm not one of the PC players who had the advantage of imbalance for multiple years, and new players from all platforms join all the time. does it really make you feel happy that some players who's only heinous crime is to play on a PC are set at a disadvantage? does that really make the game better for you?
i suspect if you consider carefully you will find that is not really the case.
i am a PC player, but i wasn't there for "years" yukking it up at an imbalance in my favor. in fact coming up the ranks while playing DF1 i hardly have a stellar record to show for my PC "advantage." please don't toss me the "suck it up buttercup" card i don't believe i deserve. a game balanced so everyone has to succeed based on their skill and experience rather than their playing platform would make a better game for everyone, i am thinking.
What you missed was the few pc players who truly thought they were that much better, and gloating and beating their chests like they were all that. Those same folks would call me out when I got the best of them, usually attributing it to having a better computer than actual skill, which was kind of a slap in the face. Not that I had more experience or anything like that, it was always an excuse why I would get them. Those folks were the ones that really left me with a sour feeling about pc players, and I play on a pc! I got a dislike for those folks so much that I would watch carefully how they played and make an effort not to play that way too. You know, looping in just to get behind you. To this day I still wont loop, and dislike those that do. Does that make sense?
Yes, I have had to adapt in elite and have gotten much better at head on shooting, and always fly with a wingman when possible. Admittedly, in df1 head on shooting was next to impossible for pc players as the aircraft would never hold steady, and the input was very twitchy causing fine adjustments in fire direction impossible. The only way to survive was to get past the head on snipers and play the turn fight game. That's all well and good. Still, getting easily out-turned by a lesser plane in elite is frustrating. It would be much less discouraging if it was other top planes beating me, but that isn't the problem. If it were only being beaten by equivalent aircraft I wouldn't even be worried about it.
What I also find interesting is the people who are gloating about the new disparity. I would think that, as folks who have been there, they would be more empathetic and also be asking zup for equality among the platforms instead of acting the same as the folks who gloated over their advantage when the shoe was on the other foot. I simply cannot wrap my head around that logic, it makes no sense.
Put us all on the same playing field. If you beat me, that's just fine. Ill take my lumps and figure out a way to beat you, maybe. Don't put me on a lopsided field, that's all I am asking. I don't see that as an unreasonable request, do you?