Fox Gaden
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Posted - 2014.01.16 23:11:00 -
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noname warrior wrote:...I know it's coming.
Now that CCP has nerfed the swarm into nothing more than a decorative element and AV grenades into hand delivered farts pretty much handing this game over to HAVs and seem to pretty pleased with themselves having done this, I've been running pretty often with a forge. I'm still finding that killing tanks to be very difficult (I'm using a proto forge) I get maybe one or two tank kills out of every ten matches I play and it's usually a tank that's been pretty beaten down already - by other tanks no less. I get one tank kill per maybe every 15 times I get killed by a tank.
So, with the only truly effective weapon(s) effective against tanks being the forge and stationary turrets (which are sitting duck death holes anyway) I'm just waiting for the hammer do drop on the forge (pun intended). Seems to me that the developers have totally caved to the constant whining by tankers that "WAAAAAAAA infantry actually has a chance to kill me before I get my customary 15:1 k/d ratio! WAAAAA!"
So... CCP? When ya gonna defang the forge? I guess I shouldn't complain too much because it would give me another decorative element to hang on my wall right next to my now useless swarm. And those now practically worthless AV grenades? Well, they are about the size of a pint glass. Just need beer. No, they just missed the mark on the Swarm Launcher and AV Grenade due to changing too many variables at once. The Forge Gun ended up fairly well balanced and will now become the benchmark against which all other AV are calibrated.
When CCP changes a system, in this case vehicles and AV, from the ground up, they are going to miss the mark in a few places, so it will require further tweaks to get it back to balance.
Of course you can expect the same thing when TTK is fixed in 1.8. Something is going to come out of it way OP and something will come out way UP due to unforeseen interactions from multiple variables being adjusted at the same time. We should see much better Vehicle/AV balance in 1.8 and better Infantry balance in the patch after 1.8 when these things are ironed out.
Fox Gaden: DUST Wall of Fame, 2014
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