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Cat Merc
Ahrendee Mercenaries
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Posted - 2013.11.20 20:47:00 -
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So uhh...
Swarms are now at 175m, which is where the old rendering distance was.
Now that rendering distance is fixed, dropships will be able to see troops from past that.
That's good.
However, that means dropships can just sit over 175m and destroy infantry. <-- That's of course if the swarmer is driectly under the dropship, if he's not that's even shorter.
In addition, small missiles will have 300 splash damage.
And with active tanking dropships can have 18k eHP for 30 seconds from what I saw, meaning that they can just kill the forge gunner.
Now before you start yelling at me, I am not saying this is a problem, I'm ASKING if it will be.
I am not sure how good visibility is at 176m+, I am not sure how accurate small missiles are, and I am not sure how fast they are.
Shield regeneration bonus for Gallente Assault is about as useful as Sharpshooter for Nova Knives.
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Cat Merc
Ahrendee Mercenaries
EoN.
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Posted - 2013.11.20 20:51:00 -
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Borne Velvalor wrote:Cat Merc wrote:So uhh...
Swarms are now at 175m (as opposed to 400m), which is where the old rendering distance was.
Now that's rendering distance is fixed, dropships will be able to see troops from past that.
That's good.
However, that means dropships can just sit over 175m and destroy infantry. <-- That's of course if the swarmer is driectly under the dropship, if he's not that's even shorter.
In addition, small missiles will have 300 splash damage.
And with active tanking dropships can have 18k eHP for 30 seconds from what I saw, meaning that they can just kill any forge gunner they see because of heavies slow speed and being large targets.
Now before you start yelling at me, I am not saying this is a problem, I'm ASKING if it will be.
I am not sure how good visibility is at 176m+, I am not sure how accurate small missiles are, and I am not sure how fast they are. Assault Dropships no longer exist as of 1.7, when the Swarm Launchers are being nerfed.
Read the most recent dev blog, they are keeping them in.
Shield regeneration bonus for Gallente Assault is about as useful as Sharpshooter for Nova Knives.
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Cat Merc
Ahrendee Mercenaries
EoN.
4642
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Posted - 2013.11.20 21:06:00 -
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Borne Velvalor wrote:Cat Merc wrote:Borne Velvalor wrote:Cat Merc wrote:So uhh...
Swarms are now at 175m (as opposed to 400m), which is where the old rendering distance was.
Now that's rendering distance is fixed, dropships will be able to see troops from past that.
That's good.
However, that means dropships can just sit over 175m and destroy infantry. <-- That's of course if the swarmer is driectly under the dropship, if he's not that's even shorter.
In addition, small missiles will have 300 splash damage.
And with active tanking dropships can have 18k eHP for 30 seconds from what I saw, meaning that they can just kill any forge gunner they see because of heavies slow speed and being large targets.
Now before you start yelling at me, I am not saying this is a problem, I'm ASKING if it will be.
I am not sure how good visibility is at 176m+, I am not sure how accurate small missiles are, and I am not sure how fast they are. Assault Dropships no longer exist as of 1.7, when the Swarm Launchers are being nerfed. Read the most recent dev blog, they are keeping them in. Thank you. I am an idiot. Well, we'll see in 1.7. I don't use Swarms to take out Dropships, as they usually outrun them. I've had more success with Forge Guns, and, AFAIK, the changes to those have not been announced. I'm not sure how much HP they have, but an Assault Forge Gun would force them to activate their hardeners going in, giving them only 30 seconds to deal damage and get out. Even with a massive amount of HP, it shouldn't be too hard to suppress them. Also, Assault Dropships usually have 2 gunners in addition to the pilot to maximize the damage potential. That's half a squad to man a decent Assault Dropship.
You're forgetting that the dropship can do 300 splash damage, killing the forge gunner before the 30 seconds have passed.
And while yes swarms didn't usually kill dropships, they would at least act as area denial.
Now they can't even do that.
Shield regeneration bonus for Gallente Assault is about as useful as Sharpshooter for Nova Knives.
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