Quil Evrything
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Posted - 2014.01.21 19:59:00 -
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A fresh perspective on tanks, when reframed in pre-tank DUST perspective.
When looking at just dropsuits, each one has different styles. Each one can be more or less effective against other types of suits.
If you encouter, for example, a realy good heavy defending an objectve... often times, your current suit is not effective against it. You (or a teammate) may need to switch into another suit. Or even team up with someone, to take it out.
That's all good, right?
Now look at tanks.
if you encouter a tank defending (or attacking) an objective... your current suit may not be effective against it.
You (or a teammate) may need to switch into another suit. Or even team up with someone, to take it out.
It so happens, though, that "another suit", may actually be a suit with 120mm armor around it that drops from the sky.
And it costs about the same as many people's dropsuits, too.
So.. why should that in itself be a problem?
It seems to me that what makes it more annoying, are the two factors of
1. One side can deny the other side the ability to deploy tanks, if they get enough railtanks on the field
2. Just plain too many tanks at once are allowed.
So lets have CCP fix *that*?
Outside of those two things, if you look at my comparison above, then tanks in and of themselves, arent really a problem. In Many ways, they're just another type of specialized dropsuit. The "super-heavy dropsuit", if you will.
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Quil Evrything
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Posted - 2014.01.21 22:51:00 -
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Gavr1lo Pr1nc1p wrote:
And the plasma cannon requires more CPU, therefore it should do twice the damage of the railgun, and have a 9 shot clip. Also it is larger than the swarm launcher, and put on the shoulder to fire, which means that it has more kick than the forge gun, and thus should have like 5 times the damage. Also, they require a drop suit to put them on, so it makes sense that they should do more damage than any other AV weapon in the game.
EDIT: Just in case it was incomprehensible, this was a semi-satyrical post attempting to apply your logical explanation of why certain weapons must be more powerful by utilizing your exact points, but with a different weapon, the plasma cannon. Please redefine your argument, as it has been invalidated, or acknowledge that you concur with me
Ironically, half of what you wrote, actually makes sense as-is.
PLC has high cpu, slow fire, and a 1-round clip.
It SHOULD do way more damage than it does now, particularly against vehicles.
Especialy since, unlike forge guns, it has limited range and bullet drop, making it impossible to use as a long range AV weapon, on top of everything else. You can almost forget about trying to hit a dropship with it.
(yes, I know, I've seen the youtube videos of people doing that. however, for most mortal PLC users, going up against non-moronic dropship pilots, it aint happening) |