LLU Discussion

[Navaron]

I just logged off the test server. I gotta say, it's about what I expected, and implemented the same as I thought.

Here's what happened.

I log on into Voltan. I check the map. Some guy's got the next base's LLU In the middle of the ocean. Great. Now I'm thinking it might have been a bug (suprise) because about 2 minutes later, that facility was captured. So I jog up to Acan, and after 3 doors that wouldn't open, I came around the back way and got into the basement. So I hack the console. LLU has been spawned take it where ever in ten minutes. So I look on the map, ok. After about three minutes I find it in the Medical room, but the map shows it actually about 5 feet inside the wall. So I get it. It gives me a message telling me where to take it. So off I jog, pulsing like a lighthouse. I've got 6 minutes to get there.

I come across a VS and he wacks me cause I didn't see him. No prob, I got a tower right there, I respawn, and he's just standing there on the LLU, so I kill him and keep going, cause he doesn't have any health when I get to him. (Which means it's going to be pud to just wax the defenders of the LLU cause they have to stay out in the open). Off I go. So I get to the base with 2 minutes to spare, but I can't get in the front door, so I have to go around, but then I pop it in the CC, and there we go. 187 exp if you were curious.

However, it never tells you to take it to the CC, just take it to Acan.
There's new icons, like little flags on the bases (not the hacked ones, those are still there) and little icons that look like watch faces. Anyway I have no clue what they do (I'm guessing that they are for the bases you have to camp at and the bases you have to ferry).

All in all, there's no point to the LLU. It's not more fun, and it doesn't address any of the issues people are complaining about. It's not neccessarily bad, it's just CTF instead of King of the HIll. I'm a fan of CTF. My main beef with this is that it has absolutely nothing to do with fixing the problems with this game, and it's going to create a plethora of new ones. It makes me worry about the dev teams focus, or what they think is wrong with the game.

EDIT: In case it matters I had a 109 ping, 140 fps and almost no packet loss.