Twixt is what lazy professors do when they've run out of idea's. He actually transferred his toon over to virtue for awhile and the fact that his build was thought out and had multiple expensive IO sets says to me he wasn't playing this just to write a paper about us. He claimed people threatened his life saying he actually believed some of these people were dead serious. It's sad if you really believe someone can somehow gain enough information about you through a game, like these people are all intensely trained hackers who are evil versions of Liam Neeson outside of this game. The ridiculous part about that is if he actually did believe his life was in danger from his antics in a pvp zone within our community, why go ahead and release the article? Sounds kind of bass ackwards to me.
When he came to Virtue I trolled him as hard as I have ever trolled in my life. I made ridiculous threats like I was going to get him pregnant for realzies. I also began to tp foe him into a group of us, hold, stun, slow, immob, etc. The funny thing was he wasn't the easiest target to burst down, he had a decent grasp of game mechanics but I'm pretty sure got annoyed because there's a spot in RV where you could maintain target even after the hero had respawned, causing much grief. I enjoyed that evening very much.
As far as pvp goes, I miss it dearly. It was by far my favorite part of the game since there's no game out there that has designed an enemy that has equal potential for death/damage, AI seems very easy to figure out and I've never been a fan of something that doesn't offer something different every time. Don't get me wrong I'll play it and get enjoyment out of PvE, it's just I'm not eyes wide open and focused intensely on it. I can sit there doing the old click click and get by easily, even the threat of dying doesn't feel that bad because honestly the penalties were not exactly that major. Not saying they should have been either though because that would get extremely annoying. I'm falling off track here...I think I just prefer pvp over pve put simply.
When it comes to trash talk, meaning all the foul language etc. I think in any sport ever there has been immense amount of trash talk, if I'm facing someone off one v one I want to get into their head making sure the last thing they are focused on is performance and the first thing they focus on is winning. At that point it's much easier for them to make mistakes. I mean ufc/boxing/football/basketball/hockey/literally every sport out there has had an incident that involved some EXTREME trash talking, hell Jon Jones even threatened a fighters life a few months ago in an interview.
