Personally, I found the prevalence of lockout effects obnoxious to the point of killing fun for me. Outside of crits (and obv DO), a protorp won't 1-shot you, but since EMP field does damage straight to the hull, as well as stopping you from hitting you systems, and either your engine or shield, getting popped by an EMP (which I do not believe follows LoS rules) and having someone lock a protorp right after is pretty close to an unbreakable 1-shot. And if I'm not mistaken, getting hit with an EMP field followed by a protorp that crits IS a death sentence to both scouts and gunships (unless they're using reinforced armor...). I'm not on board the "we needed more CC" train. I can agree that we needed more AoE to deter bomber stacking, but I don't really find it that much fun going through matches where I get locked out of swapping weapons, using shields, and using engines for a solid 50% of the match, especially if trying to defend a node. There's a part of me that's very much with Isalina in this. The most annoying part of Ion Rail was never the AoE, but the feeling of helplessness from the drain and snare. Adding more snares in EMP and Remote Slicing that straight disable two of your 1-3 abilities isn't fun for me. And the ~20 matches or so that I played had me throwing my arms up in frustration and thinking, "Of course! Why should I be allowed to use my Engine right now?!" more often than I enjoyed. Systems? Annoying, but OK. Shields? Again, annoying (and effectively nullifying the usefulness of directionals altogether), but whatever. But the engines? That's like adding an ability that stops you from using your stun break in ground PVP. Personally, I feel that the new environment in general is far more oppressive to the person who, for whatever reason, chooses to solo-q. I've already decided that I'm going to take a rather lengthy break, and play other games for a while. I'll likely log in for a few games once the new map hits, just because I want to see it. And if the meta seems more interesting to me at that time, I might stick around for a while. Time will tell, but for now, I'm not really planning on flying. So with all that said, I must wonder... Are you going to dismiss my thoughts and concerns, and tell me "Bye" with a "good riddance" tone as well @Despon? Or perhaps tell me to L2P?

Done for the night. Cheers!

Stream's up for a game or 2 on Harb.

Done for now. Cheers all! Had a couple of pretty righteous games!

Sufficiently Sloshed St. Patty's Day Stream is up!

Because someone .

Done for now, anyway. Cheers all!

Stream's back up for now. On JC, but may swap. And listening to Fantasy NBA podcasts.

Dude, if you listen to my reaction at the end, I actually thought we lost it until like 5s after the match ended. Then I totally geeked out!

That's pretty sick!

If you want to see that match from my perspective. It's was an insane match.

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/126274690 Die by the power, live by the power.

Done for the evening! Thanks for coming by, and sorry I had my mike turned off for like the first hour! :X

Stream's up! Rocking Harb this time, so I assume I will get wrecked by Drak's group, but hey, you only live once, amirite?!

Unfortunately, I don't think I'm going to make it. It's been a really crappy season for snowboarding around these parts, but this weekend is actually looking good, so I'm going to be doing that on Saturday. Have fun all! Signed, Self-destructed of Self-Inflicted.