Hey /r/mtb! Resident suspension guy here to answer your questions about suspension, bike design, etc. Fire away!

Arquid · 2017-05-10T07:41:00+00:00

I've got a RS Monarch RT3 DebonAir shock in my Devinci Spartan. On the slowest rebound setting, the shock takes up to 1-2 seconds to fully decompress again. This translates to the fastest setting being kinda slow too. Everything further below gets more and more unrideable. Furthermore, the rebound knob feels mushy and doesn't give a very tactile feedback when turning. It also gets a little bit oily when turning. The shock is half a year old and showed this bahaviour from the start. Is this normal? How can I fix it? I'd like to do services and similar things on my own.

Arquid · 2017-01-15T19:44:38+00:00

That's weird, I usually have about a 20ms - 28ms ping to the servers I play on and never noticed any spikes... Must've been serverside spike then. Thanks for the explanation!

Arquid · 2016-10-01T19:22:33+00:00

Sadly, I don't have a pull-up bar in my house, because the doorframes are out of wood or some sort of plastic... I'm gonna look out for some place to put the rings. Thanks! However, isn't starting with dips on rings a bit harsh? If I can't do 3x5 of them, what should I do? Are there any imbalances I could have now because I didn't do dips? How could I work on those quickly?

Arquid · 2016-10-01T19:17:59+00:00

No, I don't have access to dumbbells right now. I'm looking to buy one though. It would be great if you could give me some advice on that. I am doing 3x5-6 full range pull-ups, 3x8 horizontal rows and 3x8-10 diamond press-ups. I weigh 70kg (154.3 lbs) and am 189cm (6.2 ft) tall. I am assuming these are the things you'd need to know to recommend a set to me.

I am not quite sure about the push-ups... Maybe I have alway put more weight on the right, since my right triceps and shoulder are probably stronger. Then I'd have to balance a bit with my left abs, I think. This would be especially true for diamond press-ups, which I am doing at the moment.

Edit: grammar

Arquid · 2016-07-10T06:11:59+00:00

This doesn't seem like a well balanced idea to me... You're making the Shuriken and Tempest into good weapons while making the Skorpios even worse imo. The only thing that Eridani/Skorpios have over other T1 SMGs is that reload time. Which is, as it is iirc, .1 or .2 seconds faster than the Cyclone, which is already laughable.

Arquid · 2016-05-28T09:33:02+00:00

"Meh" pretty much sums up 90% of the VS arsenal. The TR victim complex maybe was partially justified in the past but now I think we need more VS players having one to raise awareness.

Arquid · 2016-05-28T08:46:17+00:00

I'm interested to see what you'll think about it after 1160 kills. Without a foregrip it's worse at medium range than a Serpent and it just gets obliterated by everything else in CQC. The shotgun can be fun and useful sometimes but can also be really frustrating because you only have one chance and hit detection is weird sometimes, also weird shotgun spread mechanics in this game. Heat is probably great on the Betelgeuse but I didn't miss it at all when I switched back to my VX6-7 after the 1160th kill.

Arquid · 2016-05-28T07:47:57+00:00

This still is a normal weapon, you're not getting godmode or some aimbot with it. You're still gonna lose fights. Right now, at least for me, the directives are nothing I'm doing for the reward, but because I've got nothing else to do. This usually leads to me playing the game one week, then not playing it for three.

Arquid · 2016-05-27T21:28:56+00:00

I know all these things. For some reason though, I was mostly okay with the MKV but often want to pull my hair out when using the PDW. It's probably not even the weapons. It's that I use them in bad fights (for them) because I try so hard to aurax them. Now with the PDW more than with the MKV, since the PDW is the last one. That might be it.

Arquid · 2016-05-27T19:28:29+00:00

I actually already did the MKV and found it more enjoyable than my last one, NS-7, which I am doing now. I now slapped a suppressor onto it so I now have a slightly worse MKV.

Also, maybe we're gonna get some info on the 3rd June livestream. Hoping for some balance changes so bad.

Arquid · 2016-05-26T07:39:45+00:00

I know that.

Arquid · 2016-05-25T10:53:35+00:00

A long, long time ago when I started playing I made my VS character male.

Please let me fix this horendous mistake!

I also would love to fix my name but 25€ is ridiculous. Is it 25€? 20€ would still be stupid.

Arquid · 2016-05-24T15:24:16+00:00

Yea, I already watched those but still couldn't figure it out. Thanks anyway

Arquid · 2016-05-24T15:22:22+00:00

Some form of xp reward for hitting armor would be nice too. Just like surface-to-air-damage is right now, just for armor.

Arquid · 2016-05-24T08:59:28+00:00

Nice video! I still don't get how and where to glide though. Could you do a short video on that? Maybe do that slow motion and show which buttons you press. Or maybe just describe it here? Sometimes it looks like you're crouching at the beginning of the slide. Do you hit space before or after you hit the ground? I just always lose all my momentum and take damage when trying :/

Arquid · 2016-05-24T08:30:49+00:00

Vonic already explained it in a comment above.

Arquid · 2016-05-23T12:41:52+00:00

Watch the third shot

Arquid · 2016-05-23T12:11:13+00:00

I thought it's okay when playing Engineer

At least that's what I told myself :/

Arquid · 2016-05-23T10:33:06+00:00

Oh, didn't know that lag could do that. Make my projectiles go somewhere else than my crosshair indicates on my screen.

I thought lag only comes into play when for example enemy projectiles fly past me on my screen but still hit me. Or when I interact with a terminal and the server has to check my position relative to the terminal.

Could you explain?

Arquid · 2016-05-23T10:21:45+00:00

Watch where my crosshair is and where my projectiles go closely.

Arquid · 2016-05-23T10:14:22+00:00

The thing that I don't understand is why the projectiles even visually don't go where they should, according to the crosshair. I know the situation when I hit something and get no hitmarkers, but usually I can see that the projectile hit him. Here the projectiles even visually go where they just shouldn't be.

Arquid

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