Anti-PvP Rant

klytustrue

Am I the only one who plays this game that hates, loathes, and despises PvP?

I've been playing CO since Beta testing, but I'm still a casual gamer at heart. Ergo, I absolutely can NOT compete with the other players who have doing PvP for so long they can win gold medals in their sleep. When I go onto a PvP map, everybody else is bouncing around like a pinball on a meth bender, while I'm still trying to get my bearings. By the time I'm able to even find a target, they've bounced out of range because I've been brought to the ground or snared or simply been brought down by gangs of other players before I can even get a shot off.

And, yes, I normally ignore the &^%# PvP. Except the Bloodmoon event has Perks you can ONLY get from PvP, and I'm enough of a gamer that I want to get the damned Perks. Gathering event tokens is also rather slow unless you do PvP. Ergo, it is a necessary evil I endure, but I end up in a foul mood every time I get blasted into dust before I can even fight back.

PvP can go die in a fire.

Twice.

/rant

gammabreaker

BITE! and Zombie Apocalypse hardly qualify as PVP, especially the former. The latter was added to the queue as a novelty and never a notable part of the PVP system. Most PVP players did not particularly care for ZA back in the day, because it was easily stalled out by entrenched players, or thrown by players leaving when they were the zombie, or speed throwing to become zombies and end the match.

That last bit hasn't changed. In fact, dying in the (car) fire is the way most people do it.

The perks get you all of a novelty chainsaw device, and some titles if you insist. None of them are necessary, important, or useful. If you want to torture yourself doing something you don't like, that's on you.

Furthermore, the token generation accelerates every week with the addition of new daily missions and farmable objectives. There is no need to hammer away at ZA for the paltry 25+5 tokens. Ergo, you do not need to endure it.

Skip ZA, relax, and enjoy the rest of the event. The best part starts in a couple days.

doggepope

I been saying this.

nbkxs

I concur, it really does need to be removed. It has no place in CO.

jaazaniah1

I don't do PvP (I don't count OV stuff as PvP since it is just collusion) and only hunt perks in the direst of situations (e.g. gear locked behind a perk shield).​​

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hemslord

I've tried PvP, even made a PvP specific build, but found it incredibly boring. Fight tend to be either one sided or go on forever until somebody gets a lucky crit.

I don't have a problem with it existing, why deny people something if they enjoy it, even if it is a small group of people, but I do disagree with forcing the player base to engage with it for unlocks.

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rhymere

mysterygrayleaf#8549 wrote: »

The game has to lean heavy into PvP. If it doesn't fulfill that, then I don't ever play its PvP content.

As well as if I am going for PvP. It needs to be close to the games I played as a wee-lad for a long time. My first PvP-focused games with big play times were Battlefield 1942, Delta Force: Black Hawk Down, Call of Duty. Which means I would be looking at Overwatch, Paladins, Ace Force, and such for Superheroic/Heroic gameplay.

Champions Online PvE is sleepy, I 100% would have slow reaction rates in CO PvP. It just isn't serviceable for that style of gameplay for me.

My first FPS game was Delta Force 2 and I played through to Land Warrior. Novalogic made some nice games back in the day.