#126Posted: 2013.10.26 14:09 | Report
"The game mechanics in this game are amazing. I have no idea what you're talking about.

For instance, I just played a lovely match where the enemy called out 2 Falchions. These lovely Falchions completely decimated all of the infantry before they could get AV weaponry and destroyed the Depots before we could respawn. One of the Falchions disappears behind a wall and never is seen again. This is great, because tanks are supposed to be hard to destroy. We respawn with Swarm Launchers and proceed to drain it's health to a sliver, at which point it strategically flees around the corner of a building using Nitro and Hardeners (strategic outfitting!).

I round the corner with my Swarm Launcher in hand and what do you know, the pilot is a genius! He gets the RDV to magically discombobulate his tank back to whence it came, free of charge, instantly! This was great, because the infantry were now stranded with Swarm Launchers and Scrambler Pistols against Heavy Machine Guns. Now, we die and swap back the infantry weapons since no tanks remain. The pilot, ever so clever, knows this will happen, and redeploys his tank within twenty seconds, fully repaired for free from the brink of fiery destruction!

This happens 10 times and we have the joy of being ping-ponged between AV and infantry weaponry until our whole squad is decimated. Luckily, we win because the pilot wouldn't step out of his precious diamond encrusted missile launching brick to capture the terminal. Of course, we all lose hundreds of thousands of ISK in this endeavor, despite winning, while the tanker lives to tank another day with his supply of instantly discombobulating tanks. This is obviously completely fair that tankers can retreat their tanks 20m behind a wall using their heightened speed over infantry and instantly mitigate any possible loses.

I love CCP. They are masters of game design. They are currently removing BPOs so that players can really feel that sense of loss, kind of like how our whole team really felt that sense of loss. The tanker didn't have any risk whatsoever since no one wanted to spec millions of SP into AV when they can barely kill infantry, but this is perfectly balanced. If we had specced into Proto AV we would've decimated the HAV in seconds, which is also perfectly balanced. "............

quoted from previous chant n rant this morning.

this is a perfect argument FOR proto swarms. as many of you know, either from squading with me, or being on the recieving end of my swarms, i am a card carrying tank hunting breakfast snack many tankers despise on the field. i use my swarm for installations, vehicles, and most importantly DERP SHIPS. if you reduce my damage, and the range, and basically cut the effectiveness of my PROTO weapon i spent MILLIONS of sp to SKILL INTO, well...i just dont get it. obviously there are beast tanks, nitro , reps , and SKILLED tankers that i commend. as well as dropship pilots...afterburners, reps, ONCE AGAIN SKILLED PILOTS, i just cant kill so easily
with even proto av. THATS THE GAME. ive put time and sp into this skill. of course its OP.....so is the tank described above. so what ur telling me is i have to be in almost assault rifle range of a tank to kill it, with a limp di$# nerfed launcher, assaulting a vehicle thats got an effictive range of the whole fuc**ng map, and be successful. i guess for the dropships, since my clone can probably throw peas at it and be more effective than 175 meters, ill carry a slingshot. WTF r u guys thinking? theres not many people at all fully speccd into this weapon, so y do this? and im flattered if ur doin it just for me....lmao...at any rate, if u guys actually played and got ur asses handed to u on a map where theres 4 tanks rollin around, decimating everything, u would feel different about my av support. even the vehicle stats ur giving out dont matter, its still op while its rolling, and without av to take it out we r gonna be in the same position. they hit the red, recall, instant op again. nerfing swarms is none to bright guys.