lithkul devant
Legions of Infinite Dominion
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Posted - 2013.10.04 17:21:00 -
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The simple truth is that the heavy has a huge hit box, with two guns one is the forge gun which as you have seen, can hit long distances and close distances, the other is the HMG, which if a target is more then 30m away and then all your bullets are in general wasted. So you somehow have to sneak up on enemies with a huge lumbering box that has a huge hit box and little self protection that can be out gunned by an SMG close range. Yeah, the SMG in the current build is better at killing people up close then the HMG is most times. So a lot of heavies are now using other weapons then the HMG, a constant favorite is the AR, laser rifle, and other similar weapons.
For the scout...well right now they are just completely hurting, for a couple of reasons, the 1st reason is the aim assist is very good and the swerving back and forth to throw people's aim off does not work as well as it used to against any weapon that uses the aim assist effectively. The next reason is because of the mass driver and forge gun, gernades have always been an issue for scouts, one gernade pops their in the wrong place you got a dead scout. However, since the mass driver and forge gun came along, it is now two more AoE weapons that the scout has to worry about, especially the mass driver, that gun is the slayer of scouts. The advanced version of the mass driver does 200 direst damage and around 120 indirect damage, with around a 4.2m spread which is increased by 5% per rank. Meaning, not only can this gun one shot an advanced scout if it gets a direct hit (depends what mods you have on) but in 3-4 indirect hits it can kill nearly any scout.
The reasons why the scout are not doing well is not because it is a poor suit or has low health, the fact of the matter is it just has to low of a pg/cpu, which limits its options far to greatly. This is the same reason why the Logi can be the best assault suit in the game, the logi at proto type has easily the most number of high and low slots and actually very good combat abilities, with having a passive that regains up to 5 hp/sec for armor. I have seen several logis with higher shield and armor hit points then heavies have, combine this with the fact they are a medium suit and move at a good pace and can carry equipment means they are hugely deadly and effective on the battlefield.
This is why the heavy and scout suits are becoming much more rare or at least certain varations of them are. |