I don't have an uber rig, its over 3 years old, but I do have a decent connection and I get in before most people. Most of the time I take the rifle. Occasionally I take the semi if it is available. Rarely do I take anything else. I am generally very good at it at long and medium range, and average at close range. For the most part, I don't much like the smgs. It's not the weapons, its just the closer ranges needed to use them remind me of COD2
. Seriously, I just haven't practiced with them enough.
I like the system as it is. Trying to accomodate everyone's slower connections, or older computers would be bad enough. But I am sure that there are plenty of people out there who have 'messy rigs' with tons of junk, spyware, needless startup programs (AOL) bogging down their memory and cpu, almost never defragment their hard drives, etc etc (I know a few) that cause long loading times. Just how far are you going to go to accomadate every person and make most of the other people wait for them? Are you going to wait for people entering the server a couple seconds after the map loads compared to those staying from the previous map? Where is the cutoff?
So saying everyone else takes the good weapons before you get a chance to load is not necessarily true. I have at times seen the assault classes still open when the rounds start on a full server also, just because people don't pick those classes.
I am not trying to be mean or careless to those who want better weapons, I just suggest picking up other weapons or constantly checking back in the team class screen for open spot. You can also click another class and it will attempt to respawn you as that class if the spot opens up when you die, so you can continue to play on in the meantime.
At the same time, dissing everyone who has a better computer saying it was bought by their 'rich mommy' makes me care a bit less about your post. How many of us here have bought our computers with our own money and are adults! And at the same time when you make your suggestions, whether good or bad, ending it in "Hopfuly tw will implement some fix though I doubt they care." is not the best way to grab their attention and endear you to them.
On top of that, ranting that the rifle is the worst weapon is strictly a matter of opinion, you sound as if someone handed you a butter knife and said 'CHARGE". I could easily argue the rifle, semi and assualt rifles are the best weapons over the smgs.
Anyway, I don't think the current system is horrible and like it exactly the way it is.
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Just a suggestion (to anyone), when you type out long posts, use capitalization, periods, and seperate paragraphs, especially paragraphs. Its almost a turn off the read them otherwise.