ND Mallet
Legendary AK!!!
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The beta I remember was scary. Varium vs non varium was pure torture. Founder vs non founder varium was just as bad. Frostbane was way powerful but Founder armor was worse. That armor was lvl 25 but was better than any lvl 25 armor, lvl 28 armor and only lost to the lvl 30 BigTuna armors because they had more defenses but less stats. In-game, the players were more chatty but only so they could hurl insults at you for paying for varium or being a "noob class" or using a "noob build." If you lost, you just got called noob outright. The forums were more chatty, but just as rude as people in-game. The community was way less patient than it is nowadays. One day late on the release and everyone was mad, even though ED never once promised weekly releases for the players. As for creativity and build diversity...Well, that was only because, like Xendran stated, there was a 98% win rate build out there if you were skilled enough to make and use it, and everyone and their dogs were determined to find the rock to the scissors. It never happened. Support BHs worked until it turned out the rock was actually paper and TMs learned how to counter their counter. It took Agility devastating high health builds and removing the scaling and increasing the CD on Field Medic to finally put the nail into the coffin(until Delta came along with TLMs being able to tank and restore energy until they could heal again but that's a different story and not dealing with Beta). Beta was fun only because everyone was trying to learn the game and try out builds until they got a good one. And eventually we found the best one and the game became a crack the code to find the counter or keep making suggestions on how to nerf heal loop without breaking Field Medic for every class. We've made a lot of progress since then and I'm eager to see how much we have to look forward to still.
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