Plasma noobs

[GLICERYNKA NOM]

This game used to be great, today a lot of people playing as the Predator uses a plasma cannon, you understand that you really like this weapon, but some people spoil this game because you can not hide from it and takes a full lifetime.
Please all players Aliens versus Predator in 2010 to stop using plasma for multiplayer

PS: sorry for my very poor English

[a razor named qualia]

It exists, people will use it. Deal with it.

[Thorp]

Pro tips versus plasma spammers:
(1) If the player is firing the plasma cannon rapidly the cannon probably does not have a guaranteed lock on your position. Jumping as soon as the flash appears from the cannon can make it miss entirely or deal minimal damage.

(2) I recommend avoiding the rooms that spawn the plasma cannon and have a lot of combat space. Line of sighting the predator and forcing them to get close can ruin their comfortable strategy. Stick to doorways and wall edges to block plasma cannon shots. Shotgun, grenade, xeno tail spam, xeno focused (lunge) attack can easily destroy a predator's kill streak. If they are cheesing you, cheese back.

P.S. Your English is great; there are no serious grammar issues. My only gripe is the word <lifetime> should have been <life> because life"time" depicts the history whereas life as a single word is the object. (Jumping out of the airplane without a parachute cost him his life). (The love they share will last a lifetime).

[The Law]

Ok so a player on the receiving end of a plasma has to have either in-depth knowledge of its mechanics and/or extremely quick reflexes and also use the environment to survive a plasma. However the person USING it can be some in-bred, mentally challenged mouth breathing pathetic excuse of human intelligence, and STILL get lots of kills with it? Havent you idiots realised why the game is so godamn dead by now? This game has degraded into a sick cesspool of bad Russian people, griefers, hackers, and glitchers. The truth hurts, deal with it losers.

[Thorp]

Indeed. There really isn't anything that can be done except to either start or join a server with admin support. In the mean time yes, players are required to dance the dance of the cesspool metagame

[{<>i<>} Hoplite]

Originally posted by -_-_-Berserker_@-(NPL)-_-_-_-:

This game used to be great, today a lot of people playing as the Predator uses a plasma cannon, you understand that you really like this weapon, but some people spoil this game because you can not hide from it and takes a full lifetime.
Please all players Aliens versus Predator in 2010 to stop using plasma for multiplayer

PS: sorry for my very poor English

Lol not this old moan again think hard dude what you are saying ,,,,stop firing that nasty canon at me mr bad pred i cant handle it ,,,you can get your own back dude like all the other plasma shy players do just wait for the pred to recharge with his back against you e grab him or cowardly shoot him in the back of the head whilst the preds on his knees recharging ,,,,no wait dont do that could be the cause of the over plasma in the first place and will just make it worse

Makes you sick reading people moaning about plasma when cheating and hacking is by far a problem and a worse game mp killer than anything a player will throw at you legal and put into the game in the first place,,your english is fine dude :)

But i will say this if a battle is overbalanced ((far too many preds )) and almost all the blood are using it constant them yep i agree but in a large battle with good players and team the canon is crap a sure death for the caster whilst using it

[{<>i<>} Hoplite]

I only recharge to heal not to top up plasma plasma is crap and we are talking about true players not hackers those that do are only showing the rest they are,,, even the new players can see it

To do so in pred skin is shameful as the blood is already over powered i am the biggest noob when it comes to plasma maybe i aint got used to yet its lame as a main weapon the few times ive used it in a big battle its never locked on to target for as long as i have used it ages ago

i always kill myself too at close up blasting it lagged and i got killed every time i used it to revenge that noob yellow skull dancing around the map only

Its okay for new players now and then,,,and for splitting up camping species

I even completed predator sp on nightmare without using it ,,,i had to i was crap at it ,,,the best i could do was in training first level in pred skin about a thousand years ago lol

If the plasma had been and still is gltched hacked or spammed as bad as you have mentioned then that means that the predators have won every battle since day one of this games launch and thats not true is it ??? ive been in battle as a predator with only 3 other pred team members and lost to 4 marines and 1 alien ,,,lol the alien the winner with only 22 hours of play total and none of the preds could plasma him at all

Work that one out dude ???????

As for the knee down and recharging i have been killed a thousand times over this way and proud of it but felt the shame for the one who fired the coward shot ,,i would rate it worse than an e grab from behind

You should read confuted first few lines of advice thats real playing 4 posts up from yours

[Just Chill]

@OP

To be honest, I've to agree with Hoplite in that point:

Originally posted by {<>i<>} Hoplite:

Lol not this old moan again

There are many people who share your opinion but it is still a normal game mechanic.
Literally, if people only play ONE race then I have some reason to complain about.

This game has 3 species and so should it be played. I am not mad about the gear of some races. I just think there are some players which really are only into one playstyle: The UEBER-pred.
Which means playing only pred since that game did come out.

For myself, I take
http://store.steampowered.com/app/274940/
as example.

There you can play as diver or as shark. I've played as much diver games as shark games, because that's what the game is about.
Even if I am a much better shark player than diver, I still give every side a fair chance.

Same here in AvP.
If people prefer to play ONLY ONE race, the game get's unbalanced.

I don't mind if preds are using plasma, but I do mind if there are 10 preds against 5 marines and 3 aliens...
For myself, I think it aren't the weapons which makes the game unbalanced. It's the way many people prefer only one race.

Here are some threads with a similar topic:

http://steamcommunity.com/app/10680/discussions/0/34095684654710936/

http://steamcommunity.com/app/10680/discussions/0/810920513804723794/

http://steamcommunity.com/app/10680/discussions/0/540734792114985983/

http://steamcommunity.com/app/10680/discussions/0/522729359314952930/

[A SEXY TURKEY]

I have aliens vs predator on xbox and I see just as many caster users I try not to use it unless i really have to like 2v1 but only if they are really good btu i really hate to see a level 43 use it because there already at max level so they just troll you my only idea to combat caster users is to team up with a alien put a mine on a alien try to distract the pred without dying if the alien goes near the pred with the mine it blows up of course the alien dies but most likey the pred dies

[{<>i<>} Hoplite]

Originally posted by A SEXY TURKEY:

I have aliens vs predator on xbox and I see just as many caster users I try not to use it unless i really have to like 2v1 but only if they are really good btu i really hate to see a level 43 use it because there already at max level so they just troll you my only idea to combat caster users is to team up with a alien put a mine on a alien try to distract the pred without dying if the alien goes near the pred with the mine it blows up of course the alien dies but most likey the pred dies

Lol would love to see that an alien sneaky ninja mine pred canon fodder
RATE UP :) Think the alien would explode if you did that dude pebble dashing your face with melting acid ,,lol nice thought though lol,,,,lol i like ...:)

[Elensar]

It used to be great but people spam plasma now? This exact whine has been happening since day one release, the weapon is in the game, deal with it and shoot back.

[BROOD-SkorpioN]

Originally posted by Just Chill:

To be honest, I've to agree with Hoplite in that point:

Can't believe you've crossed over to the dark side...

Originally posted by Just Chill:

If people prefer to play ONLY ONE race, the game get's unbalanced.

There are people who like to stick to only one race in every single asymmetrical shooter out there. Nothing wrong with that.

Problem is this game is so unbalanced there really is no incentive to specialize in anything but the pred so for every player who stick to only alien or marine you get 10 pred-only players. That's how you get 10 preds fighting 5 marines and 3 aliens - pred is the strongest and most accessible species in the game.

@OP: You'll never get rid of plasma noobs in this game because you have no way of disabling weapons, and every new player that picks up the game will use it due to not knowing any better.

The more reasonable ones will probably get some sense, stop using it and improve in the game, while others will become "single player elites" like {<>i<>} Hoplite here and swear by their precious noob cannon.

Bottom line is you'll always have plasma noobs in this game, so either learn to live with it or move on to other games.

[GLICERYNKA NOM]

I do not mean this to stop using plasma , it would only started to use other weapons. Because almost all of the new players still use plasma , even if you are half a meter in front of them

[Lone Warrior]

Originally posted by BROOD-SkorpioN:

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I agree with all you say, it's a brilliant observation!

[{<>i<>} Hoplite]

Originally posted by BROOD-SkorpioN:

Originally posted by Just Chill:

To be honest, I've to agree with Hoplite in that point:

Can't believe you've crossed over to the dark side...

Originally posted by Just Chill:

If people prefer to play ONLY ONE race, the game get's unbalanced.

There are people who like to stick to only one race in every single asymmetrical shooter out there. Nothing wrong with that.

Problem is this game is so unbalanced there really is no incentive to specialize in anything but the pred so for every player who stick to only alien or marine you get 10 pred-only players. That's how you get 10 preds fighting 5 marines and 3 aliens - pred is the strongest and most accessible species in the game.

@OP: You'll never get rid of plasma noobs in this game because you have no way of disabling weapons, and every new player that picks up the game will use it due to not knowing any better.

The more reasonable ones will probably get some sense, stop using it and improve in the game, while others will become "single player elites" like {<>i<>} Hoplite here and swear by their precious noob cannon.

Bottom line is you'll always have plasma noobs in this game, so either learn to live with it or move on to other games.

You did not read my full post the last one below chalkiewhite ,,,or you have just decided to hate rant ????? As for your remark in regards to sp elite iam also general many times over :) marine nightmare screenshots on my profile ,,i love sp and spend many hours beating my own score on nightmare settings

[BROOD-SkorpioN]

Originally posted by {<>i<>} Hoplite:

You did not read my full post the last one below chalkiewhite ,,,or you have just decided to hate rant ?????

I read your post.

Originally posted by {<>i<>} Hoplite:

As for your remark in regards to sp elite iam also general many times over :) marine nightmare screenshots on my profile ,,i love sp and spend many hours beating my own score on nightmare settings

That's what I said in my post, so we're all good. :)