I read the whole post, and watched the full vid.
first the video: the guy was in a fight vs Several pilots. he allowed himself to be surrounded, and after a few minutes of duking it out, the opposing GROUP brought jam drones. shocker: 1 guys vs several, he’s guna die. the key here is the opposing GROUP thought, hey, why lose a single one of our guys to this silly yolo hic? they brought an ecm to prevent team losses.
would this have been a more fun experience if the pov guy got to kill the cynabal or the orthrus? for who? I mean, obviously the from the hic pov it surely would have been more pleasurable to kill something, and he probly would have, IF the opposing Group didn’t take proactive steps to prevent it. but he would have also died in the process. likely. instead, he spent a lot of his unjammed time, locking and killing jam drones; valiant effort, but had he fit a disco instead of that perma-point, or instead of the 5th launcher, he’d have killed the whole swarm of drones in a few bursts of it. he also at no point in the fight, actually USED the eccm script for his sebo. well, duh. even jam drones will get lucky in the right #'s. I kno hindsight is 20/20, and I hate to pick apart a person’s ship loss, but the lessons walked away with shouldn’t have been ecm boohoo, instead, what could I have done to perform better, survive longer, kill better, or should I have even been there in the first place? lots of room to learn…you kno, counters to things that you don’t like.
now the post itself, on reddit no less, was fairly well written, but skipped a few of the ecm nerfs (at least 1 was mentioned) and leaned Heavily on the RNG nature of the effect. Brisc has done this also.
again, since we are trying on other ppl’s shoes here: what aim does a person have, to get soo outraged at the effects of a successful jam on them? hmm? what was that? oh, they are mad because they cant … huh? KILL SOMETHING? of course they still Can, but not the way they set out to. they have to rely on a largely handicapped ship, because 90% of ppl focus fit.
also, he didn’t Elaborate on why the previous ecm nerfs took away the common scorpion use as a ‘fleet doctrine’. the Reason was because it was suddenly Counter-able, and if the enemy Saw a bunch of scorpions on the opposing side, they would fit eccm accordingly, and then suddenly the scorpion fleets effectiveness was dramatically diminished. doesn’t mean the fleet couldn’t work, it just meant that there was something else that probly would work Better. that’s called balance + meta shift. it happens, when kings on a hill are nerfed properly.
the OP DID spend a full (large) paragraph pointing out that he didn’t want to fit the counter, for various reasons, all understandable, but in the end, if you don’t want to fit the counter, then you cant really complain about the consequences, imo. fit the counter, and use the right script, and the pain will be less. unless your 1 v 5 +. then the pain is guna be the same; dead ship. the complaint isn’t dying, I kno, but it IS about not killing something. well, fit the counter(s) man!