Ogres need Electric Smoke because they can't move fast enough to avoid rodeoing pilots like the Stryder can. And with their massive health they are less dependent on a defensive option like Vortex Shield or Particle Wall to stay alive in a fight.
Stryders are the opposite. They are very difficult to rodeo with their movement speed, but they need a defensive option because a single missile barrage can wreck them. So they can't really give up a Vortex Shield for Electric Smoke like Ogres can.
Feedbackula was always depressing. It was kinda part of what I call, the "Gamespot cycle."
1) Create click-baiting articles that stoke fanboy-rage and comments.
2) Create a show that harvests the fanboy-rage, and throws it back at the them for being close-minded and inflammatory; thus decreasing this behavior
3) Then re-increase the fanboy-rage by creating more click-baiting articles that will obviously start more fruitless discussion, and produce dumb comments.
... and the process repeats and repeats... Gamespot has only increasingly become a magnet for fanboy-rage, and misguided anger that leads to unproductive discussion...
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