» Thu Dec 31, 2009 10:27 am I don't mean to brag but I was getting fed up of always winning on this game, so I attempted to go pistol only today. I was using the Hammer with silencer and rapid fire. I tried the Majestic with rapid fire but felt like it took to long to kill and has to constantly reload which takes ages. I know the stats in the game suggest that it is the better weapon, in almost every way but testing it makes it not seem it.
Although the Hammer is very good and can kill in 3-4 shots, it is nothing compared to the full-auto weapons, due to the aim assist and the spray mentality. I'm fed up with the current easy-mode aim assist, always winning all the time, it's boring. 90% of players on this game are terrible but they can still gun you down, I don't know why games have to adopt the lets-make-everyone-a-winner mentality.
So I did manage to go positive as I lucked out on getting the drop on players, which also so happened to be bad (most players). What I found is that I would put two shots into an enemy and they would turn 90-180 and instantly lock-on and spray you down in a second, as though everyone had an aimbot. When I looked on the score in the game they were going negative (in TIA), showing that in fact they were not skilled and I could tell they weren't by how the choose to move around the map, totally clueless.
It's the first time I felt in this game that gun skill was not necessary and I was aggravated that I HAD to use full-auto weapons to compete, namely either the SCAR, Scarab or Feline. I tried the Jackal single-shot which is very good but if someone auto-locks you your finished 60-70% of the time. You should not be able to just look in the general direction of an enemy press LT (auto lock-on) and then press RT and just win 9/10 because you have the better weapon.
I think aim assist is needed to some extent, as we are using controller, but it needs seriously toning down. This is evidenced by the fact that if I shot at someone and they are moving I don't even need to move the anolog stick towards the direction they are moving, all I need to do is press RT and the game will do it for me. I will continue to use the pistol for fun and a challenge, although it does drop my KD. Strange how I can consistly get 3-4 KD with a full-auto weapon and only slightly over 1 KD with a secondary, just goes to show that full-auto is a huge crutch.
Before anyone suggests that perhaps I svck then I would like to let you know that I have 2.86 KD and this is almost purely from TIA & IA, I don't play objective games my inflate my KD.
I would like to challenge people here to a few games with pistol only and I guarantee you that you will agree with everything I have wrote.
TB
