Griffter D'nan
Seraphim Auxiliaries
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Posted - 2014.02.11 21:43:00 -
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Judge Rhadamanthus have few good points, but. there is few important that he is missing.
First thing - archetypal role of dropships.
I think that CCP made a mistake listen to ppl. Assault dropships are bad thing, and they should remove them. They out of balance and this have huge advantage. I know few very good pilots and I see what they can do. They are no poor souls trying to survive, on contrary they big sharks in small aquarium. It take huge effort to take them down, not alone but by whole team.
So JR's analysis should account that. Should, but there is not. ASD with 2 gunners, and pilot have crazy firepower! And JR want to make their life easier they already have 20/0 with no effort.
Also dropship should do things fast, landing on a building top, exiting ship, droping uplink, entering dropship and then going somewhere isn't that taks its not a taxi. That's why I don't think that whole talking about safe place for dropships is wrong. Dropship shouldn't be some kind of parade baloon. It have task, it do it, then it retreat.
Second thing - driving tanks
Good tanker know how to use terrain to increase elevation, so whole analysis is pointless, so much effort for nothing. But ther is another thing. Maps in Dust are crazy uneven. Yes, you can restrict elevation, but it make railtank more static weapon, because there is lots of roads, and small hills that make them useless against something on a top. But there is no problem when you camping.
Third thing -shooting
JR, keep forgetting, that rail have huge, huge delay. When DS make lots of altitude changes, and move fast it is almost impossible to hit. And yes, I currently tank driver So dont fly straight, dont sit in one place and spam infantry guys with turret, oh, but this is source of the problem. Steady balloons shooting at infantry/veh ;)
btw it there is something that CCP should do is looking at adv/pro rail turrets, they bit to strong, and don't give WP for kills from redline, because with that we also solve problem with redline thales. ie root of the problem ;)
So JS at the end was right, but whole argumentation before that was flaved. |