MarasdF Loron
Fatal Absolution
General Tso's Alliance
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Posted - 2014.02.13 15:31:00 -
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Justicar Karnellia wrote:Stinker Butt wrote:destroying a moving dropship is one of the more challenging tasks for a forge gunner. In part because after the first hit, you seem so out of control and we can't always predict where you're going to move. If you didn't get knocked around, it might actually be easier to hit you the second time.
A really good drop ship pilot may go the entire match without dieing, so I think things are in a good place right now. I find this also. Less experienced dropship pilots seem to fly in slow straight lines, making the shot easier to line up. Experienced dropship pilots always break and swing upward in a wild arc or move behind a nearby structure, breaking line of sight and the eventual follow up shot. Swarm launchers are even easier to avoid since they have limited lock on range so up up up you go!!
Well, Assault Dropship pilots actually have to stay still for short amount of times to line up shots on some occasions, in which case my first instinct is to activate hardener if I have to make a stop, but turns out I am better off not using the harderner. You might wonder why.
With 0 harderners active the knock from the FG or Swarms is quite minimal, just messes up your shot and deals high damage (FG being able to take all your shields down) but you might still survive if you get out of there fast enough.
With 1 harderner the knock can be as much as 10-20 meters and the direction is competely random, you might get shot from down below and get knocked downwards. Often times this leads to not taking much damage but almost instantly crashing into something.
With 2 hardeners the knock gets as high as 20-30 meters and the direction is still random, and that kind of distance is almost sure to throw you into something if you are trying to shoot infantry. The shot itself deals minimal damage.
Hence you have to decide wheter it's smart to use hardeners in a situation or not.
But an ADS pilot just flying around the map not pausing to do any killing simply trying to stay alive is a bad, bad ADS pilot.
R.I.P. Pre-1.7 tanks, you will be missed.
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