Lorhak Gannarsein
Legio DXIV
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Posted - 2014.06.13 16:51:00 -
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Arkena Wyrnspire wrote:Pvt Numnutz wrote:
Jesus Christ dude your still going on about this?
There a three downsides to having a breach forge gun, your in a fat suit so your slow, you have to wait 6 seconds to charge it and you can't move while charging.
There are downsides to the plasma cannon. Your reload time is as long as a skilled breach forge takes to charge. Your projectile is so painfully slow vehicles can actually actively evade it if you try to shoot them at range. The projectile has arc, so it's very slow. The non-hold charge time makes it even more difficult to aim. Meanwhile, the breach forge gun hits almost instantly and can fire across the map with perfect accuracy. A weapon being on a heavy suit is not a disadvantage.
Okay, so I'm looking at this from the perspective of a HAV pilot and a forge gunner.
At the moment a BFG is one of the two most effective ways of soloing tanks, the other being IAFG. Given good positioning a breach's firepower is unmatched; a round into the weak spot can potentially OHK some fittings.
The reason this isn't a problem is because of the practical immobility the BFG demands. Firing the BFG holds you in position for 4.5s, and launches a massive glowing ball that completely gives away your position; essentially, you need to make that first shot count. Your huge hitbox makes it pretty easy for a rail or a blaster to hit you, and if the pilot decides not to force the issue, you can't chase him down because you move as fast as a snail, and you need to stay motionless to fire again.
Basically, the reason a BFG isn't stupid OP is positioning and the fact that it's incredibly difficult to pull off against a competent driver (or even most terrible ones, to be quite honest).
At the moment my most reliable AV fitting consists of an IAFG and EX-11 Packed AV Grenades. This is because the grenades' huge alpha damage allows me to spike tanks into oblivion. I still need to plan very heavily in advance, or use an expensive, durable suit or vehicle to get close enough to employ this tactic.
If a plasma cannon dealt the same sort of damage as a breach forge gun, it negates that great disadvantage of the BFG, namely mobility, and replaces it with the restriction of range. However, as I've just explained, range isn't really something a solo forge gunner can take advantage of anyway; DPS isn't sufficient to destroy most vehicles before they escape.
Firing a BPLC, especially in the weak point, as is practically necessary with BFG, would strip shields nearly totally and remove a large amount of armour from most fittings, making mopping up with AV grenades extraordinarily easy.
Should you be out of range of grenades, one can simply take the cover afforded by not having a long and immobile charge time.
Mobility is, in AV, a far greater advantage than EHP, considering that most large turrets deal catastrophic DPS to almost all suits anyway.
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