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on: November 02, 2017, 08:32:41 AM
I've been playing as Antagonist for the past couple of days and I really like the challenge. I love invading in the Dark Souls games and I get a similar feeling when I play this game which is great as not many games can give you that same rush.
Most of my games have been fine but I've noticed the same pattern almost every game. Whoever is playing Ginebra is almost untouchable. I typically play with Harec and he is just completely shut down by her. Her crossbow can one shot him (I think, or at least down him in one shot), and she can fire it much more quickly than he can fire his rifle. If Harec is stalking, he also has to be completely still while she can strafe and fire bolts. With her speed she can easily down Harec out of his stalking mode, then use her sabertooth skill to rush down the whisp that leads back to Harec, and finish him off with a quick melee attack.
Playing as Konstantin she is more manageable, but still ends up being the most annoying character to fight against on the Raider team. Her weapon is practically a semi automatic sniper rifle. It has decent range, accuracy, and does a good bit of damage. She beats his minigun at a distance and up close if she lands a headshot it will stagger you out of attacking which will leave you open to taking more bolts to the face. It's kind of silly that heavy Konstantin loses up close to someone meant to play further back.
In melee if she dodges an attack, she can fire a bolt off and knock you back out of melee range and then shoot like 2 more times before you can close the distance again and you're downed.
On top of this she's so quick in her sabertooth form and not only can she traverse the map with great haste she can also use it to avoid a lot of damage and escape from tough situations.
During one of the invasions I had the enemy team almost finished. There were about 40 seconds left until they could respawn and the only person alive on their team was Ginebra who just outran me in sabertooth form for the entire duration. I could not catch her and the npcs were barely helping. If I shot she would just move from cover to cover, if I tried to melee I could not catch her. The time reset and they would end up winning which was really annoying because I actually played pretty well that game. They were on the 3rd round of respawning I believe (they had like 114 seconds on their timer). I just couldn't get that last kill.
At the end, the scorecard said 66 raiders killed. Of course I received no rewards and lost stigma, but that's a whoooooole other issue lol.
Thoughts? It may just be that I'm still new to the game and the people playing Ginebra are founders which means they are probably more invested and have more experience in this game than I do, leading to them just being plain better than me. Still, I figured I'd put my thoughts down on this.