BL4CKST4R
WarRavens
League of Infamy
1719
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Posted - 2014.01.26 15:20:00 -
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Currently the Rail turret is OP as hell against everything, and the Blaster turret is OP as hell against infantry, and versus each other most of the time the Rail turret will win, regardless of the engagement distance.
For the Blaster turret I believe its ROF, along with its clip reduced, and damage increased to where its DPS is higher than the rail gun while maintaining the shorter range. As for the Railgun the damage and clip should be reduced.
The Blaster turret ROF should be reduced to around 2.5 shots per second, or a bit slower, it should be shooting similarly to this gun (76MM Autocannon). The Rail gun damage should reduced to pre 1.7 levels. So at basic a rail gun will do around 790 DPS, around a 20% DPS reduction. As for the Blaster turret its damage should be increase to 360 at basic level bringing the basic blaster turret to 900 DPS, a 20% buff above the current level and a 13% DPS difference versus a rail gun.
Everything together
80GJ Blaster
RoF: 150 RPM
Damage: 360
Clip: 20 (Over heats at 12)
DPS: 900
80GJ Rail Gun
ROF: 34 RPM
Damage: 1106.9
DPS: 790
Clip: 6 (Overheats at 3)
What this does is that it greatly reduces the infantry killing capabilities of a blaster turret because even though the shots do more damage it is way slower than now, currently a blaster tank can shot 14 shots per second so for infantry dodging a blaster shot will be extremely easy. As for the Railgun it is a extremely long range weapon capable of killing vehicles from across the map inside the freaking redline and it also gets the highest DPS? Balance wise, and gameplay wise this makes absolutely no sense.
This may seem like a buff to the Blaster and it is, it will be better at tank busting in close range but as for killing infantry it will be very hard since the shots are super low ALTHOUGH TWO SHOTTING INFANTRY DOES SEEM A BIT OP SO ANY SUGGESTIONS ARE WELCOMED. Although it's not hard to lower the ROF even more, but keep in mind that it is a short range gun so its DPS must remain above the railgun which means a reduction to the blaster must be a reduction to the railgun.
As for balancing the effectiveness vs AV against tanks, or 2 AV = 1 Tank kill and all that stuff, that remains for another post this is simply just the Blaster gun vs the Rail gun and infantry.
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