even as someone who has played FL for like 3/4 of their life at age 25, that stagnant water thing really is what kept me from sticking around most of the time. the skills you need/build for singleplayer/PVE (90% of my playtime) do not compare to the demands of PVP like at all, so ive basically always been a rookie in that regard
could i train to get better? yeah
do I want to do that when i have a full time job, other games i want to play, + Im often on during the wee-hours where server pop is like 20 or below? not really.
kinda why i gravitated to k'hara as my first faction since they were heavy RP focus.
doesn't help playing with high ping makes things tenfold more difficult with all the jittering and whatnot. if i dedicated time to it, i could get better, but i hate having to do dedicated training just to be baseline competent in a game that isn't even competitive. at that rate, i'd rather just play CS2 or something.
i dont blame the balance of the mod for that though. i dont care for balance, i care for fun, but most fights are just overly stressful to me since i have to put my brain on full throttle constantly and there's a bajillion things im trying to juggle in my head (only to get prankt on 9 times out of ten) just kinda an inevitable facet of this niche game being two decades old.
