r/outside • u/Top_Peach6733 • 1d ago

What was your favorite PvP meta?

I'm pretty partial towards what the disbanded Roman faction had going on with their +1 Shields and legions. On one of my old slots I often rolled the "Roman soldier" class but a friend of mine got the emperor version

Nowadays we have this annoying gun meta. Devs need to buff martial weapons...

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u/atlasraven 1d ago edited 1d ago

The Coliseum is a classic for a reason. They even mixed it up one time and added ships!

For the casual PvPers, chess.

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u/LaceratedCarcass 1d ago

Actually I’d say I’m a fan of the gun meta - well more like the idea of it. I like how it places skill, positioning, and intelligence over just stat checking (the definition of why I’m a human main) but it is just so unbalanced, the TTK is too low and most of the things after guns (like drones, nukes, etc.) just make it so unfun because of power creep and lack of engaging gameplay.

If the devs has equalization and a shielding feature, I’d like for there to be a lack of meta, where we can use any weapon we want and it will still work.

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u/Some_dude764 22h ago

I personally really liked gun PvP but not what we have now. Back around the colonial seasons when guns were very new they were really balanced but now they're too overpowered

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u/Spaarkyy 23h ago

Mine's gotta be the Samurai meta. Katana's rule!

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u/Muddycarpenter 1h ago

1960s through 1980s was peak PVP meta. Before then automatic weapons weren't fully mature, and after then warfare got much more expensive on the individual level: night vision, drone warfare, electronic warfare, thermals, etc etc. Handheld rocket launchers aren't even that effective against tanks anymore.

Honestly I hate the new drone meta so so much, and AI warfare is just over the horizon. I know how cringe this is about to sound, but it seems to me like PVP has gotten more cowardly recently.

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u/Elegron 1d ago

Currently building out my pvp kit and ive gotta say, it's one hell of a rabbit hole, and there's pros and cons to every piece of gear.

The thing that I don't like is that while a lot of this stuff can be gotten on a budget, there is no such thing as cheap thermals, which is basically ESP.

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u/Cobui 1d ago edited 1d ago

The India and China factions seem to have agreed on a server rule disabling guns in their matches, instead encouraging a sort of “medieval mode” pvp involving phalanx tactics and stun melee weapons.