Serious unofficial HL2RP² launch feedback thread

[Raiden]

idk man 4 years ago people would get pked for doing even a slight thing

nowadays you die, you drop your gun, and you probably regain an equivalent the next day

the proportion of rage to loss is really overblown, this is half life 2 rp, not ww3rp, it's not supposed to be a 50/50 win/lose on every engagement. this is not a symmetrical server

some things about rebel rp are gonna change in the future (announcement will be made later) but there seriously is no explanation for getting this mad over losing an engagement but still being able to portray your character

i have never seen anybody else get this mad this consistently outside of the 1st platoon

2 points.

1. I thought the enviroment we were meant to be in with this new server was the the combine weren't some big opressive and undefeatable force? But it still kinda feels they are. It's not 50/50, its 90/10 with any luck

2. Yeah uh....
@Oswald and I are going to try and calm the 1st boys, I think it's mostly because they are the people engaging in a lot of things, I'm happy we have active members who get really into it but I do agree tempers must be calmed.

 

[Komchan]

idk man 4 years ago people would get pked for doing even a slight thing

nowadays you die, you drop your gun, and you probably regain an equivalent the next day

the proportion of rage to loss is really overblown, this is half life 2 rp, not ww3rp, it's not supposed to be a 50/50 win/lose on every engagement. this is not a symmetrical server

some things about rebel rp are gonna change in the future (announcement will be made later) but there seriously is no explanation for getting this mad over losing an engagement but still being able to portray your character

i have never seen anybody else get this mad this consistently outside of the 1st platoon

honestly i'd say it's all the minor things building up/the communication thing being an issue

everyone was going "oh they're targeting us specifically!" when it was just people bumping into each other

 

[Komchan]

i dont know what the hell to tell you

its not like the team is sitting here thinking about how we can screw over the resistance as much as possible

and the thing is, dude, the majority of the resistance doesnt share your sentiment. ive been keeping a personal track of how rebels have been feeling and aside from what im seeing of the 1st platoon guys, everybody is loving it. everybody has been enjoying the losses, theyve been enjoying feeling as though they dont have much control over the situation and how theyve been feeling like theyre being squashed by an ultra-more-powerful opponent

what exactly did you expect me to do there, go on the combine radio and say "hey fuck off rebels wanna do something!" in rooc?

you still got car parts. you still got 30% of the shit, which is a good fucking haul in my books; you could take that and do something with it. you might not get what you wanted, but you could still get something.

you are a resistance trying to fight against a clearly overwhelming enemy. enjoy it. take these losses and turn it into chardev, dont turn to the forums or discords or wherever the hell and start flying off ur beanpole

and i never said support was going to be cut for you, im trying to say that - from the eyes of a staff member - its hard to feel enthusiastic to do things for a certain group if that certain group is privy to doing what you guys are doing right now. if i knew this would be the outcome of what i did, i probably wouldve just moved the wall and not bothered with anything else.

u guys are finding annoyances in the things that the majority of rebelrp is finding enjoyment out of and theres only so much we can do about that

i mean for christ sake 10 minutes earlier you legit wiped almost every cop online and got away with ZERO LOSSES; that couldnt have been a bigger W if you fucking tried

also DID we get 30%? I literally had no idea lmao I thought you meant I'd detached 30% of the equipment from the vehicle, ready to be picked up later lol

 

[MaXenzie]

i dont get why you'd want it to be a 50/50

rebels are never the winning team
they have never been the winning team
they are the underdog
you take what you can get
you get handed the biggest losses known to man and then point to the minuscule win and go "that was worth it"

the Resistance in Terminator did not whine that they were fighting robots
the Resistance in Star Wars did not whine that they had one planet to the Empire's thousands
the Resistance in Half-Life 2 did not whine that the Combine had AR2s and they had SMGs

 

['77 East]

Good, then do Combine only events, work with them.

this is toxic as fuck

these people are working to bring you something beyond sitting around hoping that cops are on patrol so you can shoot them
sincerely, stop thinking like this.

 

[Deleted member 38]

also DID we get 30%? I literally had no idea lmao I thought you meant I'd detached 30% of the equipment from the vehicle, ready to be picked up later lol

no u got 30% of the entire damn engine. shit like an intake manifold, part of the wiring harness, fans, belts, idk look up a diagram of a fat ass diesel engine and look at 30% of the top half; thats probably what u got. thats some rare fucking shit nowadays, u could probably trade that for some hefty shit.

and the only reason u didnt get more was because the cops organically went out to go and do something. if they didnt show up, i was prepared for you guys to get p much everything except the block itself before i moved the wall.

 

[Numbers]

1. I thought the enviroment we were meant to be in with this new server was the the combine weren't some big opressive and undefeatable force? But it still kinda feels they are. It's not 50/50, its 90/10 with any luck

have you loaded up episodes 1 & 2? the only reason the rebels you see in that game succeed is because gordon freeman fucking does everything for them

big autogun blocking their path shooting everything indiscriminately? gordon goes in there alone, without alyx's help to go turn it off

big hunter chopper shitting down bombs and gordon is there to destroy it

a whole onslaught of striders destroying like 6 rebel outposts and the only reason they stand a chance is because gordon is there to wipe out six hunters and 5 striders

this is the beginning of the server, you are far away from freeman, it's going to take a while before you can manage the same kind of control and power

 

[Numbers]

have you loaded up episodes 1 & 2? the only reason the rebels you see in that game succeed is because gordon freeman fucking does everything for them

big autogun blocking their path shooting everything indiscriminately? gordon goes in there alone, without alyx's help to go turn it off

big hunter chopper shitting down bombs and gordon is there to destroy it

a whole onslaught of striders destroying like 6 rebel outposts and the only reason they stand a chance is because gordon is there to wipe out six hunters and 5 striders

this is the beginning of the server, you are far away from freeman, it's going to take a while before you can manage the same kind of control and power

and even after that eli vance JUST GETS FUCKING SLUGGED LMAO

 

[Raiden]

have you loaded up episodes 1 & 2? the only reason the rebels you see in that game succeed is because gordon freeman fucking does everything for them

big autogun blocking their path shooting everything indiscriminately? gordon goes in there alone, without alyx's help to go turn it off

big hunter chopper shitting down bombs and gordon is there to destroy it

a whole onslaught of striders destroying like 6 rebel outposts and the only reason they stand a chance is because gordon is there to wipe out six hunters and 5 striders

this is the beginning of the server, you are far away from freeman, it's going to take a while before you can manage the same kind of control and power

I perhaps had a different view to the context of the server going into it, this may have been spurred on by how the actual opening event went with the prison and how relatively easy it was to break everyone out and stuff.

As such, I will work towards more long term goals instead, if that is the focus.

 

[MaXenzie]

have you loaded up episodes 1 & 2? the only reason the rebels you see in that game succeed is because gordon freeman fucking does everything for them

big autogun blocking their path shooting everything indiscriminately? gordon goes in there alone, without alyx's help to go turn it off

big hunter chopper shitting down bombs and gordon is there to destroy it

a whole onslaught of striders destroying like 6 rebel outposts and the only reason they stand a chance is because gordon is there to wipe out six hunters and 5 striders

this is the beginning of the server, you are far away from freeman, it's going to take a while before you can manage the same kind of control and power

on one hand watching freeman must be like watching an avatar of death massacring the combine forces with ease and it would be sick as fuck to behold him demolishing strider after strider

on the other you just know that people would whine if he ever appeared in an event as a non-interactable character that just arrived, killed the impossibly large combine force, and then vanished without trace

 

[Blackquill]

have you loaded up episodes 1 & 2? the only reason the rebels you see in that game succeed is because gordon freeman fucking does everything for them

big autogun blocking their path shooting everything indiscriminately? gordon goes in there alone, without alyx's help to go turn it off

big hunter chopper shitting down bombs and gordon is there to destroy it

a whole onslaught of striders destroying like 6 rebel outposts and the only reason they stand a chance is because gordon is there to wipe out six hunters and 5 striders

this is the beginning of the server, you are far away from freeman, it's going to take a while before you can manage the same kind of control and power

Yeah I mean there's a reason most of the rebels in regular hl2 are hiding in canals full of shit and forests before freeman came along lol

 

[jerry]

my mentality is if i die and lose everything im never playing again cheers

 

[Deleted member 38]

the Resistance in Terminator did not whine that they were fighting robots

 

[Numbers]

and even after that eli vance JUST GETS FUCKING SLUGGED LMAO

just going back to this


the one fucking guy you spend 60-70% of the game going to rescue out of the citadel, you blow a whole ass citadel up in the process of rescuing him, millions dying, get him secured in a bunker

and he still fucking dies by the end of episode 2 to a force outside of gordon's control

valve is literally the event team, handing out even harsher L's by pking rebel leads on the fly

 

[jerry]

just going back to this


the one fucking guy you spend 60-70% of the game going to rescue out of the citadel, you blow a whole ass citadel up in the process of rescuing him, millions dying, get him secured in a bunker

and he still fucking dies by the end of episode 2 to a force outside of gordon's control

valve is literally the event team, handing out even harsher L's by pking rebel leads on the fly

did hl:a happen in dis timeline Doe ? 🤓

 

[Numbers]

did hl:a happen in dis timeline Doe ? 🤓

naw i voided it i have beef with the admin who ran it

 

[Pyromaniac]

I feel it should be noted that when we deployed the first time (W/o the hunter) we were doing a ration run. Just stocking up on food for the day before we got absolutely anihilated and the after-convo was basically how, whether intentionally or not, the rebels had the perfect ambush and performed it well forcing the survivors to ripcord.

Full praise to the rebels that time, we got our asses handed to us.

 

[Blackquill]

naw i voided it i have beef with the admin who ran it

(he's mad they made it a VR only event)

 

[Tinbe]

honestly i'd say it's all the minor things building up/the communication thing being an issue

everyone was going "oh they're targeting us specifically!" when it was just people bumping into each other

This.
From my own, vorty perspective, it feels like the resistance has been taken a beating every step of the way. The last time I tried to express these thoughts, the reception effectively wounded me. It felt like I couldn't say anything anymore. Rebels want either to be spoonfed, or they are doing the wrong thing.

When you can't do something right? That stings. When you can't do anything right after several attempts? That burns. When you can't do anything right after several attempts, exclaim your frustration, and be labeled as your feelings being nonvalid because you weren't doing things right? That's scalding.

I stopped playing for a brief while after the depot debacle, to be brutally honest. We failed the depot assault. We failed to destroy the spire. We failed to destroy a single node. That shit gets to you. You can't just shrug it off like "We'll get 'em next time." Not all the while the Combine keeps rattling your next place of refuge and bombastically absorbs more and more of the map. and you are helpless to do anything about it.

"You're just not doing it right." Yeah, that much is obvious. Figuring out what the right thing would actually be is surprisingly difficult. I'm not asking to be spoonfed. I'm just saying I'm frustrated. I don't know jackshit, and being reminded of that does not help me.

this is the beginning of the server, you are far away from freeman, it's going to take a while before you can manage the same kind of control and power

But this is reassuring to hear. Knowing there's light at the end of the tunnel takes a load off my chest - especially when the tunnel has curves on it like a motherfucker. Good to have a positive takeaway from all that's happened.

 

[Ron]

i mean for christ sake 10 minutes earlier you legit wiped almost every cop online and got away with ZERO LOSSES; that couldnt have been a bigger W if you fucking tried

The people who mostly wiped the PT was a separate group and they spent the next 45 minutes hiding and not going back out because typically after you kill a PT the big guns come out, which is what happened here

Just gotta be smart with what you do