Favorite Part of Lobpot

Shitting all over the enemy team

getting a cloaked snitch bomb to kill a lance ball or a shield ball is really nice. Chilling and making striders is fun too. Spamming lihkos and killing whatever is fun too. Also pushing early with mace or something is fun.

why the dislikes? doesn't everyone like winning? also nice @Mudosaka didn't have the dislike before.. going with the crowd

Killing a full-health dante in under a second with sniper and air coordination.

gonna need a link to that replay

quote: Shitting all over the enemy team

Despite how crude this statement is, it rings true to me. There's nothing quite like dominating a whole team of players. Winning is great, completely outplaying the enemy is much more satisfying.

quote: Shitting all over the enemy team

I can live with that, but I'm impatient with the people shitting all over their own team. Luckily, the ignore button exists...

Its good to do a coordinated multi-player dissection of the opposition.

Its good to pull off a comeback.

Its good to have the freedom to do fun things, not only winning strategies.

Its good to pop commanders.

IMO though the best part is morphing commanders, there should be more room to continue that. I'm usually using mine as a nail to hold down some forward point, but its really awesome to see a trollcom go out there and put skin the the game. I want to see more interesting things after the 2nd weapon upgrade, for example on some chassis, two weapons plus D attack. Or allow a jumppack to be added to the three sitting-duck classes after a suitable level (8, 10?).

Lobpot is GREATTTTTT, a vast improvement over the standard 1v1 format.

In 1v1 games, precise execution of brittle strategies (opening strats) is decisive at mid skill levels. In games like starcraft, it take professionals to have enough game knowledge to semi-reliably progress beyond preplanned openings, and mid skill levels is often about using developed and prepared gameplans.

Lobpot is more like Fischer random chess, where a randomization factor demands player learn fairly general principles that are robust as opposed to executing for a 5% advantage at 3:45 at front of expo to snowball into win.

Now there are other randomization method to force a more principles based gameplay, like random map generation and a diverse set of fairly similar factions with bans/randomization to reduce practicality of game-tree search based strategy.

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The 3 unit ZvZ starcraft matchup shows that real time games have effectively infinite skill ceiling with collapsed strategy tree, but a game about optimal stacked air units micro and likes is just lame.

now I don't play lobpot nearly as much as anyone else here does but when I do, I like getting into enemy lines with stuff and causing absolute mayhem.

another part I really like is when the "senior" members help out newer players and are patient with their team, without patience for new players, we won't have any.