Symbioticforks
Pure Evil.
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Posted - 2014.09.06 23:07:00 -
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Judge Rhadamanthus wrote:i do NOT support it. Why? well, emergent game play is good. it brings new tactics to a battle and changes the status quo. Any game play has to be balanced. Emergent tactics like bomb trucks, or ramming dropships; or non emergant such as militia RR against Proto heavy have to be balanced in the same way.
The ramming dropship is a valid tactic but it by-passes balance. A cheap and disposable zero sp item causes as much damage as a high SP and expensive item. Two people clash, yet the damage done by militia is as much as the damage done by proto. This model does not exist elsewhere in DUST so should not exist here.
If I see a player in a proto suit and a gun killing everyone on the objective, I don't think "i better go get my militia suit and deal with this guy" the response had to scale with the threat. Yes i should be able to take him on, but not on equal terms. A militia DS hits a top level ADS for more damage. That is backwards.
These are the things I want to say..
Sounds like you're trying to be a "solo player" in a very expensive piece of hardware. (ADS) If you were in a squad with other players because this is a teamwork based game after all, you would know if there was an enemy drop ship flying around. Possibly trying to dive bomb you.
I've found that an Incubus with (4000hp+) is a very effective counter to suicide ramming tactics. Play any other build and you're essentially allowing the enemy to have a cheap hard counter to your inferior play style.
When it comes to damage dealing capabilities I have never killed more than 10 people with a viper, let alone the same viper in a match. Attack Drop Ships are capable of dealing way more damage than a viper. Except in the area where the physics engine in involved. I wouldn't compare your lack of immunity to physics to the damage scaling of a prototype weapon vs. a militia weapon. Unless you consider your hull a weapon.
Maybe you shouldn't be netting positive gains every single match running an ADS. It is a prototype vehicle after all, the advantage is yours.. until people get sick of you and decide to counter it. (if they can)
Not sure if I meant any of this..
Sniping Dust 514 (video series)
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