Andra Syra
Science For Death
The Shadow Eclipse
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Posted - 2013.09.28 19:17:00 -
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Of the many problems I encounter as a tanker and a dropship pilot, none frustrate me more than the turret. A significant amount of HP (or in a dropship, the entirety of it) can quickly be stripped by a weapon that requires no investment, and often no active involvement of other players. In some maps you don't even need to redline to cover the majority of the map with a rail-gun turret that will allow you to deny the enemy dropships, harass tankers and soak up warpoints by destroying other turrets.
Destroying them is relatively easy, of course, assuming you can actually see them without encountering the rendering glitch after traversing an entire map. So you learn the turret positions, but AV is already pretty heavy so you don't want to take your tank out into the open to destroy a the turret. So you have somebody with AV to stop fighting the enemy to destroy a single turret. Have fun describing where the turret that isn't rendering is! Oh, and there wasn't even anybody in the turret. For some reason it had decided to aggress you despite not engaging or even being able to see it. Surprise!
Sigh.
The truth is at best turrets are free war-points for tankers and at worst a needless, automated, invisible threat to the already poorly balanced vehicles that hide behind the redline. Please change it so turrets only fire when manned, and remove the ones in the redline. This will solve their greatest problems without, quiet simply, removing them entirely (I'd be perfectly happy with you doing that as well).
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Andra Syra
Science For Death
The Shadow Eclipse
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Posted - 2013.09.28 19:38:00 -
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zibathy numbertwo wrote:I'm tired of getting killed instantly as a scout because an unmanned blaster turret killed me while I was fighting someone :(
Also railgun turrets constantly shoot me out of my LAVs magically. I'm sorry, but getting instantly killed inside of a moving vehicle by AI, even if it's ridiculously easy to hit me (it's not in a railgun), is really just not acceptable. Imagine if I actually ran proto in pubs. I would lose 150k isk for no reason. It's just a pain and really an embarrassment :(
I'd rather be killed a hundred times by a player any day than once by a damn AI.
Oh damn! I completely forgot about what it's like to run scout against these turrets (I abandoned scouts with the recent aim assist changes, unfortunately). The frustration is boiling back up already. Yet another reason to buff scouts and nerf turrets into the ground to be quiet honest. My "favourite" used to be getting shot out of LAVs from turrets behind me. =( |