User blog:Liveandie/The Greater Evil? Specs VS Mutagens

So now that Mutagens have been released for a good month now, many people seem to have forgotten about them or gotten use to seeing them around. However it is VERY hard to Find a No Spec/No mutagen Game. Also Even if you DO find one its really hard to tell if they use mutagen as they can just press 0 to look like a regular infected. Now I realize that Specs too can use mutagens ( which is a horror ) but I will be asking this question from a GP Freerunner Perspective.

A. Assassins.
Assassins were a JOKE and we ALL know it. They have INCREDIBLY nerfed statistics themselves with LOW speed. So really they themselves are going to DIE against any high ranked ( 1st LT +) gp freerunner that has gear. The only good thing that they had was the synapse scrambler which was decent but Usually elite moderators ban this so they were powerless. They also had WAYYYYYY more restrictions on them than operatives. The Explosive crossbow was REAlly weak and took a while to time letting the infected heal so that too was weak. Assassin are a joke in quarantine and very few people (unless they are dirt broke ) use them.

B. Operatives (classic)
Operatives or the original specs were very commonly used. Many nx freerunners QQed All the time about them. This isnt hard to see why. There weapons were very OP mainly the Turret, Claymore/Remote Grenade, Minigun, Flamethrower, and the All hated M32. Yet if you look deeper into it. Its also not hard to see why many gp only players switched to spec. The maximum speed for a gp freerunner was 18 (cowboy, antiflash, light vest) if they had a 1 slot backpack. VERY few people would EVER have a 1 slot backpack as #1 they have no real way to kill the infected now with only a maximum 3 explosives (and no assault rifle) and # 2 even with max speed of 18 they would EASILY get crushed under all those nx freerunners with 25 speed max (22 with terrain) So its not hard to see why SOOOO many people used spec because if they chose NOT too they could only get at max 13 speed with a 3 slot (or worse 2 slot). Remember too 13 speed is optimistic as you unlock the anti flash goggles at CAPTAIN II so it could be lower and lower and lower. So either 13 speed maximum ( like anyones going to outrun anyone with that speed) OR A spec with 15/16/18 speed with more protection/sprint stamina. Really gp freerunners had no choice but to hang up the towel and turn spec. (Nexon lowering rank requirments for SPECS (and specs ONLY not anti flash or cowboy) didnt help what so ever. Also If you Really looked at it the weapons were not even that overpowered. m32 was easily matched by x725 and mzp-1 (basically if you had both of those items you had more firepower than specs) and even rpg (cuz it shot faster) and you often died yourself from using m32 turrets were really weak and you could only camp for so long with them. Miniguns were easy to avoid as long as you werent already stuck by prior machine fire (and ran out of ammo quickly) claymores were pretty op but again that was really the only weapon specs had.

C. Operatives (Modern)
And then the QQ came and went on and on and ON and ON and ON. In my opinion specs were a GP alternative to freerunners. I would NOT use specs if nexon had released recon + cyclops + Terrain for GP. But the Nx Freerunners kept QQing QQing QQing QQing. So nexon moved to "change that" with "rebalancing" specs. They did this by lowering their speed DRASTICALLY and making them useless in speed while doing NOTHING to address the real complaint which was the OP weps. Todays operatives are really a joke as they can only fight seriously as humans not as hosts. Also those with NX who also played as spec could buy them for perm so what indeed was the point ( pay to win)

A. Striker Mutagen (and 4 slot backpack)
So nexon nerfs specs and thus gp freerunners make a comeback. However the same old issues remained with 13 speed compared with nx freerunners of 22 speed. Then it gets WORSE WORSE AND WORSE. Nexon releases a 4 slot backpack for S vs S and I know whats coming next. They give it out for 90 days max ( most got it for 30 days) and then have a perm sale for it............................. So NOW its 13 speed compared with 20 speed (and now they have even MORE firepower than you) So with that extra backpack slot they could pack another explosive. Then Nexon releases MUTAGENS ......... The worst thing EVER. So basically we had freerunners with the HP of a Max with 23 % speed if they had a 4 slot 25 % speed if they had terrain. The +3 % speed bonus was horrible. The + 25 % more ammo was........................... I will talk about that more in Crusher but it was op (but not as op as it would be later on) The Striker mutagen was quite supeiror to a normal infected. Mainly because of one Word SHIFT SHIFT SHIFT SHIFT SHIFT SHIFT SHIFT. The striker shifts. If you use it know that you shift and you cant control the shift because its built into the mutagen. Trust me you DO. shift. I think shift is nexons fault and this time I couldnt be more right. I've seen games where one person has 25 + human infections. They were not good but they had mutagen so. Unlimited SP was also QUITE annyoing as you REALLY can outrun a 25 % zom (especially since ur 13 % )The hp was especially painful to see. The only thing gp freerunners could really do was camp and shoot rpg. 150 hp was a good trade off for 22 % speed. 185 was a HORRIble trade off but then it all got worse. with the

B. Crusher Mutagen
So now HAUSER runs faster than you. AND has more hp than a hauser. The crusher mutagen was RIDICOULOUS. This was when nexon revealed the +25 % more ammo and why it was neccesarry. To kill a crusher you need a lot of explosives. But then again thats ONE crusher what about if theres 5 of them? You have at max 9 rockets ( unlikely) and that would BARELY kill 2 host crushers. However look at a Nx freerunner. They would have 10 ammo for there X725 and if 4 instead of 3 for their rpgs. 4 mines instead of 3. Basically you need a MUTAGEN to KILL a MUTAGEN. Otherwise you are pretty much screwed.

My point is Quarantine is '''PAY TO WIN. If you have GP you have 0 % chance against NX freerunners (unless they suck beyond comparison) In no spec games you will get OWNED in the face. Quarantine is unsavable unless nexon releases mutagen for gp. (which is extremly unlikely) ''' =='''So thats MY opinion. Mutagens are WAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY more cheaper than Operatives. Finding a NO spec/ NO mutagen room is next to impossible as more than 75 % of players ( this is an estimate) have either specs or mutagens (or both *shudder*) quarantine is now PAY to WIN. '''==