As a RAP myself. It's NOT hard to kill us. People dont understand that it's not hard to kill us,they just dont want to try,or not try hard enough. In order to be the best you have to play the best and play the hardest. Why? Cause if you play with the hardest you'll eventually get better and use to the gameplay.
It's easy, but you mostly need gem weapons and AT LEAST some decent armor yourself with certain gem weapons. Exception includes the prototype. Primary weapons like hellraisor, peacemaker and high voltage simply doesn't make the cut. AGB at UP1 is pretty much useless on RAPs...so you need the gem upgrade UP2 of AGB.
Playing hard = Losing to RAPs completely, unable to kill them at all for awhile despite your best efforts?
Also, your argument can be said to Mech/Torrent/Invis spammers, and does RAPs love Mech/Torrent/Invis? Probably not.
Reasons?
Is it because they're wasting money? Maybe...
Is it because they're literally unfair & unkillable? YES!
They hate it, because for most players, no matter what they do, if the Mech/Torrent/Invis user even have half the skills they have to spam the gem item buttons, they can't win, or at least, they can't do a thing against that player. But do you think they look back fondly at the event, since they tried and played their "hardest"? No, of course not. It seems that "playing their hardest" is different from playing and enjoying a game which is supposed to happen.
Best way to improve skills = Overcoming/battling with other skilled players
Worst way to improve skills = Getting one-sidedly slaughtered with super end-game equipped players or item spammers with less skills (Learned from my experience, and despised it)
And most of the people who are complaining are the ones who just make it harder on themselves. Like this,
You dont move.
You're predictable.
You're SO SLOW to shoot.
You cant aim.
Again,you dont move or you stand out in the open.
You put yourself in a corner and trap yourself.
You kill yourself
You blow yourself up
If your suggesting the ones complaining are all "noobs" that got no aim or brains, that's a wrong accusation.
General Trend:
Forum Users = Bothered with the Game to Read Strategies/Guides and Posts = Much Better Average Skill Level vs Non-Forum Users
So i can safely say most of them don't do the things you listed.
Since I already have played quite a few MMO shooting games, I don't do any of those things you listed when I just hit level 26 in this game, but I still pretty much get owned by RAPs, especially ones spamming AGBs. My only option was killing them from behind before they know whats going on, but even that, wasn't a perfect strategy due to their heavy armor and my measly hellraisor.
I think you get it. The point of armor is to PROTECT YOU! People on the army rely on the BEST protection so they wont die! They're not like,"You know what! The enemy has a bozooka and will kill me instantly,but i rather not wear any protective gear because it may be unfair for him to kill me and will make me too op."
. So armor is doing it's purpose of protecting.
I hate this illogical reasoning. Comparing extremities and don't consider the term "balance".
Yes, armor is to protect you, but there's moderation in everything, and I don't believe there's much moderation in 44 points of armor. But at the same time, I don't think just getting rid of armor from this game is the complete solution, since there's weapons like AGB that makes it impossible.
There's a lot of ways to go about it, as described by other threads.