@mazornoob said in Resistance to change VS What's best for the game/community:
I can't believe you got me to go dig it up. I'm still waiting for people to realize beetles are busted. I'm not copying my diatribes on why beetles aren't good, go find them where I got that comment from.
Yea? I don't see anything wrong with what i said. I'm clearly talking about your comments in this topic. You started by complaining about what i said in the past because in your eyes it didn't became true. But that's false from the get go since i've seen a significant increase in beetle usage in games i'm in. I point it out, not in the most "professional" way, but on the same wave length as you wrote your post, and then you go full fucking clown on me. Spewing personal attacks and putting words in my mouth i never said.
The perfect example of why your thought process is wrong is the recent trend of billy's. Stryker made a post about it being too bad and asked around what other people thought and most people, including a certain 2300 and other 1700+ players agreed with him. Billy hasn't been changed for a long time, way longer than you've been complaining about the new beetle, so you can reliably say that people always thought it was bad.
Now to prove them wrong i started spamming billy in quite a few games and because it worked so well enough people copied it so that you atleast see a billy every 5 games, which is substantially higher than seeing sera double nano/gun or cybran lazer/cloak.
The important part here is that it was easily showable in teamgames for billy's considering a billy's primary use is using it on large t3 armies, which is currently the meta for teamgames. The primary use for beetles however are t2 armies, which is extremely offmeta for teamgames atm. Still i've seen a fair quantity of acu snipes or other uses for beetles since teamgame equals acu fights on the edge of radar range equals no intel on beetles coming for your acu. And that's without it being the primary strength.
I still don't even understand how you think the new beetles are worse at all from a gameplay perspective compared to the old ones. When the old ones were literally uncounterable if you saw them too late and they relied on luck and cheese, while the new beetles rely on intel sniping, unit positioning, baiting armies in, etc. From a pure gameplay point of view the new beetles are, in my opinion, infinitely better than the old ones.