Cinder Integ
Ancient Exiles.
Renegade Alliance
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Posted - 2014.02.24 18:01:00 -
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FOTM occurs in nearly all games. It doesn't mean somthing is the best or that it doesn't have counters to it.
This is when "meta-game" comes into play. For instance,
When everyone specs into cloak and starts using it on scouts next patch, I will switch to the mass driver (wide radius varient) to decloak any and all shimmers. It will provide huge benefit to my team, and the opposing team will counter me with a number of weapon / suit / vehicle combination.
RR are not the end all be all weapon, and have a number of counter's which people are too stuborn to use.
-I personally prefer getting in an LAV and simply driving up to them, jumping out and killing.
-Another counter which took the longest time to learn because it's soo revolutionary... focus on points with more cqc... ie stop trying to run 100 meters in open area to get within 40-60 meters of RR-using target.
I don't think these concepts are hard to grasp, or maybe they just don't work and I'm lying to myself...
Please do tell me if I'm silly...
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Cinder Integ
Ancient Exiles.
Renegade Alliance
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Posted - 2014.02.24 23:44:00 -
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Fiddlestaxp wrote:You are being silly... Besides MD countering scouts hard.
No real competitive match has vehicle cap room for LAVs.
Rail rifle is the dominant point denial weapon in the game currently... Where once a mass driver shined, people now use rail rifles in its place. Consider rings map. The catwalk next to supply depot above A now sports That Guy with a rail rifle, denying the point until he is destroyed. As do any exposed outdoor points. Simply focusing on CQC points will result in losses 100% of the time on some maps.
Avoiding a whole point because someone is using an OP weapon to defend it is not a counter. It is a balance issue. Oh and for CQC, the default choice becomes combat rifle with the same issues.
Except you haven't been playing judging by your monthly leaderboards, so maybe you just are out of practice and/or your reasons are just assumptions.
-With the exception of the begining of a match, (including pubs, and PCs), the vehicle cap of 6 is not typically filled.
-The mass driver vs scouts was a counter to cloak, not just scouts (and more then just scouts can use cloak. (when you damage or flux a cloaked unit, it will decloak).
-Rail Rifles may have an advantage in a few points, but most points still have major cqc ability. and rail rifles suffer against speed hacking due to typically being in an advantagess spot 40-60 meters away on most points.
-CQC points dont require vehicle support, and in most PC vehicles have currently been fighting for the outside of the map due to the frequent use of (1 proximity / 3or4 re) traps people set in cities / on bridges.
Or maybe I am silly.
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