AC: Style balance

[PhAYSe]

Hmmm... Nothing about AC4 in here? Sad to say, AC4 is my VERY first AC game, so I can barely grasp what you guys are talking about. But based on my experience in AC4, there really are a lot of play-styles available in the game. What sucks a lot is the fact that there are VERY few parts to choose from. Less than 10 cores I believe. After a while, one design seems to look like the other, making each AC look... generic... boring in a sense. However, I can say the game-play is very solid, possibly the fastest-paced AC game I've seen (based on videos from SL and LR). Anyway, the sad part is that while online competitive play is open to players, not all of them are "real players". I'm talking about people who just copy some other person's design, changing the color, a few tunes and then saying it's their original design. Even play-styles are being imitated all over. Let's take the over-rated duel rifles for example. With the speed and freedom of movement available in the game, they provide constant stream of damage and are hard to avoid because of the auto-lock and auto-tracking system in the game. With that, you can basically hold down the fire buttons and, holding them down for the rest of the game, focus on movement and evasion.

Stat-wise, some stats can basically be ignored. I may not know much about these stats myself, but one stat I have never bothered with is the base movement speed of the legs without the boosters. You can basically boost forever in the game WITHOUT running out of energy, labeling the base movement speed of the legs as nonexistent.

Anyway, that's all I can say for now. R.Leonhardt know much, much more than I do, and with what little I know about past AC games, I don't think I'm in a position to say anything about them.