About "the feeling"

[mjolnir]

I have seen this over and over during testing and now during the beta.

Judging agility of ships, especially fighters is 95% in what you "expect" it to be.

If you think that something is one way, it will "feel" that way. This specially applies to things that you were told by other people that you go to check.

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During most of the closed testing only some of the testers were told exactly what changes were done, some were not told anything at all. Then we checked their reactions.

Out of the about 15 people who tested some ships only 1 person was able to tell exactly what changed with ship handling characteristics. (that was Skoko, all glory to him *bows*) . At least 1/3 of the changes people guessed, were either not there at all (no change) or in some cases even went the other way. I won't name names, but one seasoned BHG player was very convinced that both Hammerhead and Manta were much slower, when in fact the opposite was true.


Note that this was in an environment where no "rumors" were circling around. So you can imagine what happens when there are some.

To try this out members of the development team even gave out "rumors" on purpose to see how many catch up on them and the results were very surprising.

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So simply:

[color=#FF0000]If you really think something has changed make sure you re-check a few times (maybe even re-activating 4.84) , get other people that didn't try the ship before to test.And most of all don't try to convince other people about your "feeling" before they try themselves.

(If you are extremely convinced talk to someone who knows a bit about what files to look in, or use datastorm to compare yourself if you think that it's all a "conspiracy")

Here, I'm the listing some of the things that made me laugh really hard over the past few days:

1.
myth: at least 6 Corsairs (possibly more) were deeply convinced how Titan turns faster now
truth: All stats on Titan are exactly same as in 4.84


2.
myth: Supernova takes longer to fire
truth: No change was done to supernova except new effect. (made by Silent and Lohingren)

3.
myth: Rheinland Bomber turns slower (also heard this about bombers in general)
truth: Rheinland Bomber handling wasn't changed at all

4.
myth: Chimaera turns like a LF now
truth: No change between 4.84 and 4.85 except loosing some armor

5. (not directly related but still)
myth: Low level NPCs now hit much harder
truth: No change to NPCs under lvl16, apart from changing (lowering) bat/bots use and their armor.

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