Now, I don’t PVP a whole lot but I know my stuff. After reading everyone’s complaints about the coffee bypass being fixed there are two main things I’ve noticed:
a) Everyone claims this is “bad for new players” when new players don’t even have the pocket space or the money to keep up with the very expensive meta, since milk is $1,250 per and coffee is $1,500. Seeing how the meta was 2 milks, 1 coffee, repeat, a full rebuff (not even including armor) was $5,500 give or take depending on how you rebuffed.
Considering in a fight a fully buffed player could get dropped pretty quickly by an XM, they’d have to rebuff quite consistently to stand a chance.
Unless these players are being mentored by more experienced players and taught the basics on how to rebuff, how to build good bases (so they can farm money to provide for the buffs or straight up make them) etc., there is no way these people are going to compete in the meta regardless and the “bypass” is not going to help that in the slightest. I get your argument was regarding numbers, so now lets move onto the next thing I’ve noticed
b) “I cannot win outnumbered fights now or stand a fair chance.” My brother in Christ, you are NOT meant to have a fair chance in a 1v3/2v5 etc., in ANY PvP focused game. Not in WoW, not in CS:GO, LoL, Rust, and definitely not on this server. You ARE going to have a lesser chance of winning but you can, granted your chances are much slimmer on here than the other stated games because tactics aren’t as plentiful in on GMod and especially not in an open environment. If they are co-ordinated and can tase and XM you, isn’t that just the case of a group of players having good comms and outplaying you in that situation? Is that telling us that perhaps if anything, tasers should see some form of rework to make them less of a crutch? Not that I necessarily think tasers should see some massive rework, but with it being everyone’s comment it sure as hell seems that the bigger issue isn’t rebuffing but the current meta of zerging and taking targets down 1 by 1 with the use of tasers. No change to how buffing works is going to give you a chance to buff out of a situation like that because otherwise it’d be overtuned for other situations and lets face it, unless milk gave you 500hp, there is no way you’re outbuffing ~500 DPS x3. You shouldn’t be able to buff your way out of being XM’ed by 3+ guys to death, that’s stupid as hell.
Of course this is hard on newer players but that doesn’t stop you from raiding their base because they’re more than likely the only ones basing since not many people actively bases like they used to and again, this could be mitigated if you took in newer players and helped build them up.
At the end of the day, this is a GMod server. A roleplay server on a Half-Life 2 mod, and if a fix to an unintended mechanic is driving you away from the game then you’re taking it far too seriously and should find another game to farm your ego points up because realistically, who cares? Play for fun, stop treating every game as some competitive sweatfest when you can always just take it easy and laugh about it.