Why is the best weapon I can get a few thousand but I keep getting just about INSTAGIBbed by weapons that are tenS of thousands. It seems like all sorts of people have them. If it sounds like I’m complaining, it’s more of a whine, but I’d still like to know. What gives here?
It depends on a couple of things.
If you’re running skirmish then seed chips are enabled across the board with the bots also spawning with them. Bringing an unchipped ship is a sure-fire way to get killed instantly.
If you’re running PvP then it’s purely power creep. A lot of the older weapons available in the “portals” mode have not been touched thanks to the constant complaints from over there; so things like your RF blaster, Plasma Gun, Gauss Cannon and Coil Mortars will forever be significantly weaker than weapons attached to new ships.
That gives me the idea that I have to play some of the other modes to get something better. Even upgrading one of the standard guns past purple doesn’t begin to touch what I’ve seen - dead and frustrated - through the eyes of other people in missions. We’re talking hundreds of thousands, somehow. I thought they were getting special weapons in those other modes. Or does - whaddaya call it - the 5th player level tier have access to better standard weapons?
And maybe I am just whining a bit here. I’ve been frustrated quite a bit in these PvP matches lately, and it seems that I’m SO VERY overmatched that I had to be missing something. Have you ever heard talk of separating players into light weight and heavy weight sort of partitions? 10x firepower compared to opponents seems (ironically?) kinda weak to me, like they’d rather not be forced to play non-competition just as much as I’d like to not be forced to play obvious shoe-ins just from the equipment mismatch.
Anyway, thanks for your answer. I appreciate it.