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KAGEHOSHI Horned Wolf
Dominion of the Supreme Emperor God-King KAGEHOSHI
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Posted - 2015.01.07 08:53:00 -
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The sentinels are designed for point defense, but they do it far too well. Right now, a group of sentinels can hold an objective for too efficiently (especially with logistics support). The only counters right now are scouts abusing the remote explosives (the regular ones still have no arm time), and more sentinel spam. It's never good when the only way to deal with something is to use more of that something, or to abuse a broken mechanic.
I don't want to nerf sentinel base HP (yet), modules, or the HMG. I would prefer if there simply was some more reasonable counters to sentinels holding a point.
My solution would be to make splash damage weapons (like the mass driver, and locus grenades) take over the role of dealing with encamped groups of sentinels. Right now though all sentinels have resistance to splash. Get rid of the sentinel splash-resistance bonus.
Give the sentinels a heavy weapon fitting bonus instead.
Would lead to more mass driver use (which is good for combating the current armor meta), and would be good for dealing with sentinels controlling an objective.
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KAGEHOSHI Horned Wolf
Dominion of the Supreme Emperor God-King KAGEHOSHI
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Posted - 2015.01.07 09:10:00 -
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Aeon Amadi wrote:IMO, a turn speed reduction or lower damage output from HMGs is still in order. If only to allow for dealing with Sentinels in a more tactical way (flanking) and giving the HMG parity with the other weapons from 1.8 on.
Killing their splash resistance is a buff to remote explosives and grenades as well, not just the MD. That and the fact that we'd basically be saying that you have a choice on how you deal with a Sentinel: MinMando MD Spam or Core Locus Spam.... Doesn't really give a lot of options to players on how to counter them, imo.
You have four racial sentinels that can be chosen from and in this case you'd have to have someone specced solely into Mass Drivers or Core Locus Grenades and Nanohives just to deal with them. 1 Weapon as a counter to 4 Sentinels? Eh, not a good solution, imo. Sentinels, like everything in this game, need multiple hard counters to be balanced. Yes, I am aware that it would't only effect MD the MD, but grenades and REs as well. I specifically mentioned grenades in the OP. While Minmatar commandos do get a bonus to expolosive damage, you would in no way have to use it to be effective with a mass driver. Anyone with a mass driver, or any tier locus grenade would be at the very least contribute to defeating or scaring off the sentinels. Would not be just one weapon; as you pointed out, the current splash resistance effects more than just the mass driver. Mass driver, flaylock pistol, locust grenade, flux grenades, and REs (though I do hope they fix the arm time on REs like Rattati said they were going to). Even if that is a very few selection of weapons, this is only meant to be a solution to a very specific problem, which is sentinel groups holding objectives indefinitely. Outside of enclosed objective areas, there are already counters to sentinels due to their low speed and large hitboxes. I just want an indoors solution as well.
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KAGEHOSHI Horned Wolf
Dominion of the Supreme Emperor God-King KAGEHOSHI
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Posted - 2015.01.08 20:49:00 -
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Cassa-Nova wrote:Would have the unintended effect of nerfing Amarr FW even further as everyone would flood the miniFW for the cheap MDs even more then normal Amarr gets access to laser rifles and scrambler rifles that do +20% against shields, and Minmatar are primariy shield-based. Furthrmore, you're under no obligation to use Amarr gear while in Amarr FW.
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KAGEHOSHI Horned Wolf
Dominion of the Supreme Emperor God-King KAGEHOSHI
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Posted - 2015.02.12 10:28:00 -
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Still want
Support 'Keshava' for the new Gallente HAV name in honor of Cat Merc's cat which recently passed away.
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