Harpyja
Molon Labe.
General Tso's Alliance
1870
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Posted - 2014.06.18 19:13:00 -
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Alpha 443-6732 wrote:Some more feedback:
The dispersion is more of a handicap than it is an aid. I could only see a dispersion of this magnitude helpful to someone who was horribly bad at aiming, as the dispersion was fine before and didnt need any changing.
Today, my gunner (bobthe843cakeman) had trouble hitting enemies literally 10m in front of us, due to the dispersion. When they turret did hit the target more than a few times, it did fair damage. We both agreed that we would prefer to use the previous version of the small blaster over the new one, simply because of the unbearable dispersion
All in all I think it was pretty counter intuitive to increase the power of the turret and the hit detection while dramatically reducing accuracy. If you were intending to buff the blaster and give it a role against infantry, you were horribly mistaken with the dispersion. I feel that dispersion should never be this horrible, unless its intended as a balance mechanic; not an ease of use mechanic.
I suggest you remove the dispersion changes ASAP (even before hotfix charlie), as the blaster is arguably even more useless as it was before.
On a different note, I hear that the large blaster got another dispersion increase, officially making it the worst turret in the game. It seems that horrible dispersion is never a good thing, unless the gun fires a wall of bullets (e.g. the HMG).
I used a blaster tank for the first time in a while today and OH MY. The size of the reticule got much larger than an infantry person at 10-20 meters, not even at full heat. I had to wait all the way down to 0 heat to effectively destroy equipment not further than 20 meters.
Like you said, dispersion this much would be fine if you fired a wall of bullets, but the large blaster just simply relies more on precision than spraying a wall of bullets to be effective.
Which is why I don't understand why people cried for dispersion. It was precise before, but just because something is precise doesn't mean you don't need skill to use it. It'd be the same as saying why doesn't my rifle hit people when I'm ADS? Aiming blaster turrets required just as much aim as rifles. Not everyone had incredible accuracy, but everyone can spray and pray.
"By His light, and His will"
- The Scriptures, Gheinok the First, 12:32
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Harpyja
Molon Labe.
General Tso's Alliance
1874
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Posted - 2014.06.18 20:59:00 -
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Alpha 443-6732 wrote:XxGhazbaranxX wrote:How about making the dispersion tighten the longer you shoot just like the HMG? That way you can sort of have more range with it. I'd rather it not have the obscene dispersion at all, rather than putting a bandaid on it
Even on large blasters I think they shouldn't have added so much dispersion. There was enough dispersion that your shots would bounce around people at far enough ranges, like beyond 100 meters, so a fair compromise would've been just a slight increase in dispersion so they'd start bouncing around people at about 70 or 80 meters.
"By His light, and His will"
- The Scriptures, Gheinok the First, 12:32
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Harpyja
Molon Labe.
General Tso's Alliance
1877
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Posted - 2014.06.18 23:04:00 -
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Alena Ventrallis wrote:My God, large blasters...
Tone it back down, and seriously, way less dispersion on small blasters. What the hell is with being unable to kill a scout suit at 15m?
Might as well just use a heavy suit with an HMG when driving a blaster tank or operating the small blasters 
"By His light, and His will"
- The Scriptures, Gheinok the First, 12:32
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