Blame circumstance, nationalistic/region-based inbred teams, lack of players, lack of support/participation from the community, whatever you will, but it was a little presumptuous of aimanfire to suggest that in the first place.

Very carefully.

The game is GPU heavy, and your GPU is a mobile version GPU, so I imagine you'll need to turn off most of the graphics options, and possibly have to run a lower resolution even.

Yeah, I forgot to mention I'm playing at 1024x576.

I'm running a marginally more powerful setup than that(i5-3450 and HD 6670) and I get a nearly consistent 125 with around 4 players, but I've turned off as many graphics features as I can.

r_bloom 0
r_fxaa 0
r_dynamic_lights 0
r_dynamic_shadows 0
cl_gibs_maxcount 1

It's a mixed bag, really. But if you advocate avoiding the official forums, you're basically telling people not to provide feedback, which is unlikely to be a good thing.

As someone who played Dota from 2006-2009 with a reasonable amount of in-house experience, I've always got two very distinct, opposite impressions from arena shooters and MOBAs.

I do agree that MOBA skills/spells aren't as simple as pushing a button and everything happening perfectly, especially when talking of skills such as Pudge's hook, Mirana's arrow, Puck's combos, etc. Yes, there is also skill involved in timing/planning spell combos, juking, animation cancelling, etc; but to say, for example, that TF2 pipes are all the same is like saying every pipe requires the same skill to hit, at any range, against any class as Pudge's meat-hook.

This, of course is nonsensical, and ties into the point Alleal was making quite well. Many MOBA active abilities put little or no emphasis on mastery of aim, prediction, spatial awareness, aural awareness, hand-eye co-ordination(let's face it, how many skills like arrow/hook exist? 20% at best?) and focus on having more spells/combos for the illusion of gameplay depth.

That's always been my take on it, though.

Now I'm imagining a Nihilanth skin for him, if the game is moddable.

Yeah, I really hate this trend in competitive games these days. Like how developers or marketing teams try to make people think that knowing how to use a bunch of gimmicky spells/skills and their synergy/timing requires more time, dedication and effort than practicing(and perfectly executing at the right time) a learned mechanic such as strafe/circle jumping in a Quake-like game.

Typical intern-level character skinning/rigging, haha.

By harder do you mean "Has a higher skill ceiling" or "Is more convoluted"?

It's completely upto you; just saying from personal experience that using the wheel for anything other than simple strafe jumping will be damn near impossible.

I find LG to be passable on 80 ping, but I agree with the rails being really weird.

For the longest time, I used to use mwheelup for jump in Quake as a crutch, but if you're interested in learning more advanced mechanics, in addition to fast consecutive jumps where timing is essential, I would highly recommend learning how to use the spacebar.

While I personally probably won't end up playing it, it's nice to see something that isn't a MOBA or a gritty grey-brown super-realistic molasses FPS.

Now all Reflex needs is hats, eh?

There are literally no graphics optmisations in at the moment, so that will likely change a lot. Even at this current point in time, disabling some of the fancy stuff like bloom, gibs, dynamic lighting and shadows(which aren't necessary at all for high level play) will give you a pretty decent FPS boost.

I went from 50 FPS to 90 disabling all that stuff.