Is NC doomed as a faction?

Lol, you can't be more wrong, players crouching trying to land shots at me dancing are the easiest kills i could ask for at long range.

We've been doomed for 11 years back in 2003 when PS1 was released. We have by far the worst players on our faction and we have zero good players. We've NEVER been a good faction. But at least PS2 NC are smarter than PS1 NC. Still, I've video game AIs more competent than NC players. I'm also convinced NC is not a real faction. All the good players are on TR/VS. I don't know good our weapons and the like are, but out players are atrocious. As I like the say the NC, I'm loyal to the faction but not the players. And I realize this is a mess. I'm not good at organization in my writing.

zerg is this game winer

Perhaps on your server. When I'm tired of losing as my Emerald TR, I go to my NC on Connery, sit in spawn with a phoenix launcher and get thousands of points standing around in spawn. Then when I'm bored, I go outside and god saw things to death.

Ok, the god sawing thing is a little harder than I make it out to be. But I'm serious about the phoenix. NC Connery used to be on top of the game, ALL the time, but now it sorta mellowed out. We have our ups and downs.

Same for TR Emerald, btw. It's just that when I play prime time alerts, we lose more often than not. Actual fighting, it's alright...sometimes. Pretty wild card-ish. I don't know what happened to ODAM, but AOD kinda took over and now I don't know what to think...

lol trust me...I have seen flying maxs and I have seen indestructible people...OBVIOUS aim bots

What do you expect? NC has shortest end of the stick on most empire specific weapons and when those are worst of their class, they are also hardest to use.
1st hit damage bonus wont help you in the game where you need several hits to kill and most infantry combat happens inside 20m range anyway. And dont even get started about its benefit on footzerg.

Average BR surely is low, as ppls who try NC notices how bad the starter weapons are and reroll to another empire.

After watching Criken and AngryJoe's twitch I'm gonna go ahead and say Nc will be just fine.

It's Tr who just had this name sake **** all over for an entire day and publicized over the internet for all to see.

I realize they're not MLG guys and mostly do stuff to goof off but god damn yesterday was a propaganda nightmare for us.

Its an obligatory necro-post ... post.

You really cant win on any forum. You comment on an old post, and its NECRO POST! replies. You make a new thread, and someone else is whining about the topic already existing

I consider NC to be viable if your strengths wouldn't get nerfed. Unfortunately SoE decided to make 66% of the playerbase happy, so shotguns got shafted.

This penomenom also shows with MAX power. Initially the Hacksaw would win every 1:1 against other MAXs. This was considered to be overpowered, so the "fix" was to make the Hacksaw lose all the time. Changing the outcome from 100% to 0% is aparently considered to be balanced by 66% of the playerbase.

Beginners players are blinded by all the "fight for freedom" NC false propaganda.
The clever players soon realise NC falseness and that they are fighting for corporate pigs, so they either join the jedi-sounding "Republic" or seek true enlightment by following the word of Vanu.

Join the light, infidels!

I don't know why but I see way more low BRs on NC Emerald then the other 2 factions, most are not in an outfit. They cannibalize their own and make the gaming experience poor for the faction. I would love to play NC but can't stand the behavior of the NC on my server.

Meh, nor TR, nor VS pay.

Hmmm... NC is broken as a Faction? Why could on both server merger smashes the NC could win the fight, if they are so broken?

No they are not broken, just other stuff is now on the plan and no new NC stuff ;-).
But dont worry, SOE will give you some love... 4 shure.

That's funny outfit was commenting the other day on how many lowbie TR and VS we were running into. It's kind of hard to tell where new players are flocking to, wonder if they have the numbers for that somewhere?

You are still bound to the concept of "money", "paycheck" and "private property" you are not ready yet to be enlightened. Some more plasma in that brain might help ghghgh

It's better now that you can't get TKed and teabagged in the warpgate.

I love the NC. I mean, I think about the Gauss SAW while plugging my wife. However it does seem to be mostly a disorganized mess, at least on Emerald. I was on my TR guy the other day trying out infiltrator sniping for the first time, and just destroyed NC with it. I could probably have made a macro to kill these other infiltrators, as I would headshot them and they would respawn and go back to the exact same spot. I barely had to move my mouse. VS on the otherhand was constantly countersniping me and sending LAs to my nest areas to jump me.

Of course that's just an anecdote, and on Emerald VS seems to be top dog by far so TR aren't much better off. But that's the impression I get when playing as or against Emerald NC. Mostly zergfits and lone wolves like myself.

The fundamental problem with NC is they lack a reliable AI zerg farming tool. The Vanguard may be a great 1v1 tank but are a huge liability any time there's infantry. NC MAX is great 1v1 but the terrible kills per magazine means that you'll at best get 2-3 kills then will be overwhelmed by infantry. The Jackhammer is a good 1v1 shotgun, but again, useless against groups. The Lasher obviously isn't the most fearsome weapon, but can be hugely effective against groups. The PPA is spammable and has splash. The Canister basically requires a direct hit, has too low a ROF, and too small magazine.