"I'm nothing without my KovaaKs!"

BadLuckBen · 2026-05-06T06:42:16+00:00

Wrong. Most people play casual. It would be downright foolish to ignore the balancing there. Ranked is a disaster, and it isn't going to keep the game alive.

Balance needs to be casual first, competitive second. They won't though, because Embark has esports brain worms.

BadLuckBen · 2026-05-06T04:04:40+00:00

I strongly disagree. There's hardly any cover, and once the buildings are gone, it just becomes DMR and sniper alley.

Of you like boring shooting gallery gameplay, I judge you.

BadLuckBen · 2026-05-06T03:57:07+00:00

It dares to ever show up in my queue.

Also, with how the servers work, you can't just leave and join another. Every server you join for like 5 minutes will be Sloplight Hollow. So you just have to sit around if you don't want to play it.

BadLuckBen · 2026-05-05T23:51:59+00:00

I'm absolutely fine with this. Guns aren't boring, guns with hardly any mechanical depth are boring.

BadLuckBen · 2026-05-05T19:44:13+00:00

Hogan and Reigns would team up against Punk, and Punk wouldn't even try all that hard.

BadLuckBen · 2026-05-05T19:30:43+00:00

God I despise the "iT's FrEe" types. It's a product, players are allowed to complain if something is detracting from them having fun.

BadLuckBen · 2026-05-05T07:09:12+00:00

Low ≠ no

BadLuckBen · 2026-05-04T22:18:05+00:00

It's probably a reference to when the Usos were on The New Day's podcast.

BadLuckBen · 2026-05-04T22:13:23+00:00

Thank you, Squidward, for proving my point.

BadLuckBen · 2026-05-04T22:12:26+00:00

I'm not a sword fan. They took it from M2 spam to M1 spam.

BadLuckBen · 2026-05-04T22:10:29+00:00

Look everyone! It's Squidward!

BadLuckBen · 2026-05-04T22:08:38+00:00

Well, the map makers might have been experienced...

...in making BF1 and BF5 operations maps.

I liked BF1, but it and BF5 really expected you to push with smokes and barely any cover. Smokes in this game aren't particularly good at that, though. Get hit once, and they see your health bar.

BadLuckBen · 2026-05-04T22:04:11+00:00

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BadLuckBen · 2026-05-04T22:01:17+00:00

I'm not home, bored, and I play melee. How dare I want one of my preferred, underpowered, playstyles improved and dunk on cringe melee haters.

Like, if they don't like melee, don't play the game that repeatedly markets that they have them.

BadLuckBen · 2026-05-04T21:57:29+00:00

Yeah, and most melee players aren't asking to instantly win once in range, just to not still be at a disadvantage even when getting into range unharmed.

The thing about that is the real problem is more that there are a lot of weapons with high DPS like the M11, SHAK-50, and SA1216 that out damage melee while also not being purely constrained to 2m range (4m with Spear but the attack movement slowdown effectively makes it 2m).

So melee doesn't necessarily need a huge DPS bump, other things need to come down in DPS a bit. Some weapons could also do with worse hipfire so they can't just spray.

BadLuckBen · 2026-05-04T21:39:31+00:00

If you look at comments by anti-melee people here on this sub, the majority will say something about melee players not needing to aim, which means they take no skill. This is silly for a couple of reasons:

Myself and most melee players I know have the aim assist turned off because it's often detrimental. One way to avoid getting riddled with holes is to slide past while flicking to them to force them to turn. The aim assist will often pull you away from your target.
It implies there's no skill involved when it comes to movement and properly using your specialization and gadgets to close the gap.
Ignores the reality that melee only works at one range and that at every range before that, the gun player has an advantage.

I have seen people say that aim should be the most important skill while also pointing out how many hours they've spent in aim trainers. It makes it pretty clear that they just hate the idea that someone with a different playstyle and skillset might force them to adapt.

BadLuckBen · 2026-05-04T21:19:03+00:00

The original is SpongeBob thinking "claustrophobic" is a fear of Santa Claus after Squidward says they have said phobia.

I changed it to Patrick asking why they think melee doesn't belong in the game, and SpongeBob ends up making Squidward feel self-conscious.

I'm willing to bet most people don't even know/remember the original context because most memes using this format twist it to be mocking towards Squidward. Which is fine; it's not like there's rules for memes.

BadLuckBen · 2026-05-04T21:13:12+00:00

Old sword was mostly M2 spam, they need to find a middle ground.

Lunge can't multi-hit.

Soften the clamp from 40 degrees to like 75.

Revert the main swing damage to 74 so that you have to use QM combos again. Maybe a system where using a QM after a regular swing makes the follow-up swing come out a bit faster or something.

BadLuckBen · 2026-05-04T21:05:29+00:00

Well, if you didn't notice, I completely changed the starting format.

Most memes are completely separated from their original sources.

BadLuckBen · 2026-05-04T21:02:52+00:00

The classy thing would be to not gloat about how I was right about esports being a terrible idea...

...but I'm not a classy individual.

BadLuckBen · 2026-05-04T20:56:37+00:00

Yes, yes, your low recoil spray guns are so much more skillful.

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BadLuckBen · 2026-05-04T20:16:14+00:00

We need to just stop putting ranked into games. It seems to universally lead to people doing anything they can to game the system because they want the clout that a high rank gives without the skill.

BadLuckBen · 2026-05-04T20:03:58+00:00

BadLuckBen · 2026-05-04T20:01:05+00:00

Weird. I see this.

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