Well that hypothesis was disproved by the data. I thought for sure that LSM were suffering the palladin problem (too many young players dragging down the team average) and that a symptom would be hire TKs. Well per the twitch today LSM are right there with Chaos and orks at 7% while the eldar take the cake at 8%.
I was indeed slightly surprised to hear it at the time... But when you take into account the behavior of certain Eldar players, it actually makes some sense. Then again the difference between the factions is small, so we may well see a shift in the future.
You would be amazed to see the sheer amount of Eldars killed by friendly "drunk" vehicle drivers and trigger-happy Dark Reapers.
Playing LSM you can tell each other race has their specialties and their cool toys, but LSM have no real specialty and nothing that gives them an advantage in any particular area. Chaos for example, our opposites with the same base stats have been doing well for quite some time because of the greater variety of options they have for loadouts and in no small part due to their powerful melee classes that can capture points in the melee dominant meta game. The dreaded shieldbro is unremarkable compared to the chaos ground assaults because they cant get any real buffs gear-wise. The shield alone takes a huge chunk of the class's loadout points, and even though they can go for a pistol instead, there is no reason to do so because there isn't anything that makes up for the increased survivability you get with a shield. I could go on with more comparisons but I think you get the idea.
we LSM have a better specialty... to cry in forums because we didn't have a specialty... i got plasmas, i got a power sword, and i'm a dark angel so i'm fluff based ftw
To be perfectly honest, I don't think LSM players have worse aim. At this point FPS has been around as a genre for twenty years, and nearly everybody is competent at hitting the things they shoot at. No, the problem is that LSM players aren't organized. TL;DR: Good aim, no cooperation.
Actually, not. Most of the "toxic" players you are trying to point your finger on are multi race players, some of them are provocating fools just to make certain faction look stupid. With those TKs, its really the Reaper Launcher, Tempest Launcher, bugged grenades... and Wave serpent. I am certainly sure every game I play and when I go panic in my vehicle it takes one to three teammates with it. Have you ever tried getting into that vehicle on the move? No, cause you got TKd. I was not surprised if you take these things into the matter. Reaper Launcher was strong, but I believe its still (even if nerfed) really bugged weapon, which sometime does what it wants, so here I am coming into argument with other Eldar (goes for Tempest too) that these weapons are far from polished. At least for me. Personally had more TKs with Tempest than enemy kills. EDIT: I really want them to make statistics on how many times people use words "Noob, OP, nerf, bg, fu** you, EZ, gay Eldar, toxic", and I will do anything to show people how it really is. (Already making list of players who switch between factions to provoke during the game faction they play and after game ends the enemy faction to make their current character´s faction look toxic)
Not really surprised, well a little bit that Eldar are the worst TKers. But the Sin system is a pretty good teacher, people hate that 0 xp cancelation and getting kicked, so naturally the careless learn. Or at least aren't able to run rampant for long.