DUST Search - Do weapon installations need more health? Also,supply depot talk

Cinnamon267 wrote:

Most matches, for skirmish at least, begin with someone running to the first rail turret they see and destroying every weapons installation they see. 3 shots and they are gone. Rail turrets fire fast and hit hard. Tanks do the same. I regularly see tanks roam around destroying them for those easy points.

What purpose are they supposed to serve? Because, right now, they are just useless cannon fodder. Why should I ever capture one? I could get an easy 100 points instead. Or, if I'm on the rail,turret, I could get 300-400 points right off the bat. And deny the ability for the enemy to use them or destroy them for themselves.

Same with supply depots. I routinely see every supply depot destroyed. Some maps are an exception. But, I always find myself checking the map to bring out a forge gun if necessary to fight off dem tanks.... But there are never any supply depots.'so I'm kinda stuck. Do they need more health? Better placement? Or, no health? Permanence on the map? Or give them huge resistances to all weapons making it an enormous effort to destroy. You would have to go out of your way for an extended period of time to destroy it.

Am I alone here?


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m twiggz Pradox One Proficiency V. 403	Posted - 2014.03.31 12:38:00 - [1] - Quote Cinnamon267 wrote: Most matches, for skirmish at least, begin with someone running to the first rail turret they see and destroying every weapons installation they see. 3 shots and they are gone. Rail turrets fire fast and hit hard. Tanks do the same. I regularly see tanks roam around destroying them for those easy points. What purpose are they supposed to serve? Because, right now, they are just useless cannon fodder. Why should I ever capture one? I could get an easy 100 points instead. Or, if I'm on the rail,turret, I could get 300-400 points right off the bat. And deny the ability for the enemy to use them or destroy them for themselves. Same with supply depots. I routinely see every supply depot destroyed. Some maps are an exception. But, I always find myself checking the map to bring out a forge gun if necessary to fight off dem tanks.... But there are never any supply depots.'so I'm kinda stuck. Do they need more health? Better placement? Or, no health? Permanence on the map? Or give them huge resistances to all weapons making it an enormous effort to destroy. You would have to go out of your way for an extended period of time to destroy it. Am I alone here? I find it utterly annoying when a tank destroys a supply depot. With that said, it's also out of strategy. Destroy an enemy supply depot could prove detrimental to the enemy teams survival and point defense, and vice versa. If you think supply depots are such valued assets then perhaps you should spend time protecting them. I've been in PCs where we've had logis rep supply depots because we knew we needed it, or had tanks take out supply depots or CRUs right off the get go so the enemy team couldn't have them. The same thing goes for turrets. You dot realize how valuable they are util they're gone. I say they're fine. They 'work as intended' IMO. PS; other than the supply depot on the Research Lag Facility. That supply depot is the single post annoying supply depot in this entire game. It's like a second point to capture, which is fun and adds a bit of secondary play to the map, but that equipment spam down there is always ridiculous. Causes far too much lag.