(Feb. 01, 2014 9:33 AM)Temporal Wrote: This is probably due to my long hiatus, but the Limited format is seriously interesting. I think it kinda embodies the attitude that many of the anti-Basalt people had when banning Basalt was tossed about. Plus, you kinda can't just weight-sack someone with some MF-H (Huge weight Synchrom combo) TH170RF just because you have the parts. Which I like. (Though I must say that I really liked MF-H Basalt Kerbecs S130RF, once upon a time.)
You think it sounds interesting? Man, wait til you play it, so good.
And yes, a lot of the people who pushed for it this time around/contributed to discussions leading to it/the initial banlist etc were people who fondly remembered the times before Basalt and BD145 (heck, in very early unofficial discussions that led to it there was skepticism about having 230 and co around, but it's not actually a problem without basalt being able to slam down on everything with it and still be a pain to KO, MF-H Libra TH220/230CS is along those lines, able to mess lower stamina combos up etc, but it's extremely easy to KO.) For a lot of us, it was almost a direct reaction to the power creep that began with Hell Kerbecs and Basalt Horogium, which made all of these older parts useless. Zero G IMO contributed a lot in that regard by having wheels of similar weights to that when Unsynchromed, I think (though really I have no clue about the discussions that led to it being official - I know Ingulit pinned a whole lot on it being a successful format, but yeah).
If you want to discuss it in more depth etc, The Limited Subforum's Random Thoughts thread would be the place to go - I'm more than eager to chat about this kinda thing there, I really love the format and am ecstatic to see it be an official WBO thing so yeah.
Anyway, I hung out with r0ckbull today, and hanging out with him always reminds me what my favourite part of blading is. It isn't competition, it isn't even competitive combos - it's hanging out with friends and messing around with random parts in whatever stadiums you have and seeing what works. Heck once in a while you even stumble onto something interesting/potentially competitive useful too, but mostly it's so much fun to see what you can do throwing together things that aren't quite so formulaic as many competitive combos, and seeing what wins etc. The other stuff is still fun, but for me, that is where the love is at. Shoutout to Duo Cygnus LW105JSB for being a total beast (and then MF-L Ifraid Wyvang D125BSF, I think it was, for finally managing to make it scrape out).