Kallas Hallytyr
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Posted - 2014.02.17 13:12:00 -
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akira 1999 wrote:well the ADS should not survive 2 militia rail guns from militia tanks with zero damage mods..
shot 1 takes out all shields, shot 2 kills the ADS.
That is exactly how a Python works.
What you're complaining about is Hardeners. Which, while somewhat unbalanced internally, are actually not too bad for ADSs, due to their lower HP ceiling (which is fine.)
akira 1999 wrote:its not a tank... it should not survive like a tank.
It....it doesn't and nobody in this thread has asked for them to. Almost every DS pilot agrees that they should be somewhat fragile, and they are, but they also shouldn't be killed in 0.000000001 seconds by something that cannot be killed because of poor mechanics (ie, the redline.)
A Forge Gun or Railgun hitting a Python will remove it's shields in the first shot, unless it is prepare by running it's Hardeners. The Incubus is tougher, because it has a higher amount of HP and it's shields are a buffer, giving it more time in which to activate said Hardeners. Both kinds of ADS are good against ground forces but, unlike HAVs, the ADS actually adheres to the Waves of Opportunity ideal much more closely.
akira 1999 wrote:a modern day real life apache or HIND helicopter can be brought down with 1 stinger shoulder fired missile ( yes 1 missile not 20 missiles like from 5 swarm shots)
Dust/EVE is not the future. It is set in a future, but it is not a direct, linear "Earth +20,000 years" timeframe, there are a lot of twists and turns that make comparison irrelevant. Certainly, modern day anti-air can down helicopters quickly, but on the flipside modern day aerial vehicles have instrumentation: altimeters, speedometers, lock-on warnings, effective radar, substantially more weaponry.
If you want ADSs to operate more like modern day helicopters, that's fine: give them a hell of a lot more firepower in compensation and to bring them more in line. As Evolution-7 has said, ADSs are a cross between a gunship and a troop transport: they gain a lot of the former while sacrificing some of the latter, but they are not the flying tanks you seem to concerned about. |