Kung_Fu_Viking

I've noticed that anyone who has their alignment set to PC has dark grey writing for the "Post by Name (1,026 posts)" bit whereas normally it's white text. It's a bit hard to read when it's grey on a grey background. And I can't get rid of this underline =/

I don't get this obsession with browsing the internet via consoles. It's faster and easier to do it on a PC. I just want my games console to play games. Music and film playback is nice I guess but I wouldn't miss it if it wasn't there.

My last post has points relevant to what you say so I'm not gonna repost them all. But now for some new stuff...
The Martyrdom perk does seem to have been a bit of laziness on the developers side. I can just imagine that they were in a meeting one day that went something like this:

Project lead: "Hey guys we still need to think up one more perk, any ideas?"
Some dude: "Uhh how about when you die you just, like, drop a 'nade man"
Project lead: "Sounds great, put it in there!"

I don't think a great amount of thought or balancing went into creating it but you can't do anything about it so I'm just saying go with it and learn from previous encounters.

"It's noob because its cheap. You don't actually do anything, you just die and drop a grenade. Chances are if the opponent is occupied he'll get killed. You can counter it, but it serves no purpose but annoying other players and making the game lame.

It's like playing an RTS game where when your units die they explode. If you invade an enemy base, you should defeat them based on your offensive strategy, not because your tanks can blow up when they die. It's totally cheap...

All perks give you an advantage, but some of them are unbalanced, and are overpowered."

"I don't like them, but I don't really care that people use them... if that makes any sense."

"I dun care, Matyrdom is noob anyway you look at it."

The thing that bugs me the most about martyrdom is that it basically makes you a suicide bomber. How many U.S. Marines do you think would pull the pin on a grenade while they're on the ground dieing?

"Brilliant shaky cam"

Why do you think that certain perks, say, Juggernaut  or Martyrdom or any of these other perks you consider to be "nooby" shouldn't be in the game. Just because you don't like them doesn't mean the person using them is any less skilled or anything like that.

Y'know I really don't like snipers in this game but that doesn't mean I think all sniping weapons should be removed from the game. I don't think that players that use this particular strategy are "noobs" because they hide away and kill from a distance. It's just another way of playing the game, another strategy to use and it's exactly the same for perks.

If I'm playing against snipers I change the way I play to try and avoid them and take advantage of their small field of vision whilst they are sniping. If you come across a player using a perk you don't like, don't piss and moan about it, adapt the way you play. Counter their tactics with your own.

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TBH I have never been "blown away" by Half Life 2, in fact very few FPS games have really amazed me with innovation. When I come to play a FPS I'm not looking for much more than some fast paced action balanced by some good ol' tactical strategy. Maybe a bit of stealth thrown in there too. I can't say I play FPS games with the intent of taxing my puzzle solving brain.