Ok.. Let me start by saying that when I first tried Soldat 1.3.1 I was really PISSED by the point that a time delay have been set on the barret and "charging" was needed to throw the knife.

Don't get me wrong, I did whine about the change then but when I tried to adept myself to the changes it found that it isn't so bad after all.

It would undoubtably take more skill for a person to use the knife and barret now as other than aiming, you will have the estimate where the opponent is when the bullet fires.

However the time delay in the barret has also taken away the "speed" factor in the barret. The reaction time when using barret has been rendered useless by this change and that is the only thing I am unhappy about in the change with the barret.

Another thing I was unhappy about is that in this version of Soldat, the M79 and Rugar has become GODLY now that the barret has been "handicapped" since it is 2 hit kill for the rugar and 3seconds reload for the M79.

Even so, I still believe that the beta testers did a great job and this version of soldat ROCKS BY ASS.

oh how I wish the ruger was indeed a guaranteed 2-hit-kill :(
- But it's not the case.

I'm still annoyed by the net code, because it generally feels slow and stuffs up a lot of things still... eh.

And I actually think the ruger has become much worse in this version. It's going to take some time to adapt I think... as most of the auto's are back up in power, and now there is really no REAL buffer in damage for this, and with a slower firing rate... it's going to take some real skill to be a "god" with a ruger in this version I reckon.

atm everything's feeling a bit weird, but I'm hoping that'll were off soon-ish.

But damn, I'm really happy with the new knife and barret.

The Barret was changed for a reason. In the last version 1.3, it was neglected as a close-quarter weapon, and it isn't meant to be like a sub-machine gun or an assault rifle. The Barrett is a long ranged sniper weapon - get used to it. A portion of the Soldat Community was angry about the Barret in version 1.3 - and I was counted in the portion. As for the Ruger 77, its firepower was modified because it isn't something like a sniper firearm.

Get used to it.

quote:Originally posted by DeLargeGet used to it.

Or you could just modify it, like most of us do when we don't like a weapon.