ADS with After Burners aren't invincible anymore. Working as intended.

Have fun in Destiny.

SO i just got home for the week from work and thought i would quickly check out Hotfix Delta and see what the buzz was.

Loaded in and went straight into a game, heard some noise about dropship changes so thought i would stat here. Dropship comes in and i start flying away. my first thought was "did i call in a gorgon?" i had to check and fire a round to check it was an ADS.

Okay so it handles now like a chopper carrying a skip loaded with used washing machines. Okay well fair enough lets go see what it can do.

Hovering over the point i see two dudes jump out of an LAV and immediately look up at me with the same look a tiger gives that little gazelle before someone turns into a buffet luncheon. Nevermind i think, i can take two dudes on.......

4 swarms later im lying on the floor surrounded by smoking wreckage with my front teeth in my hands and my balls slightly aching..... "wow swarms hit hard now"

So even tho i was in a pretty tanked Incubus and even tho i kicked the afterburner expecting to yolo out of there like Maverick and Goose, it all went wrong.

So i have to ask, why CCP would you severely limit the functionality of one of the most unique and interesting aspects of a very mediocre game? Dropships gave this game a certain 'flair' and frankly are still incredibly overpriced for there now apparent capabilities.

I recall someone telling me 'this is due to the numbers saying they are OP' well if the numbers are correct, then your game is also a massive failure and you should just shut down the servers now.....going by the numbers....if they are that important to you.

Is anyone alive at the wheel of this game anymore? feels like its pretty much just the 'number boyz' now pushing their own agendas. This continues to show an every increasing slide into balancing being all that matters.

Oh well - back to Destiny.

**** off soraya, you have the worst attitude I've ever seen about vehicles.

Well 2 swarmers did kill him.

He made the wrong choice;

He stuck around and got rekted in a similar manner of how a two snipers kills a shotgunner they spotted at 300 meters across open field. Where the shotgunner could have ran back and got cover instead he chose to run across the field like an idiot.

The correct choice would have been to break los and lock to find a better engagement.

He didn't have any squaddies inside to bail to deal with the infantry either two heavy hmgers bailing out as he flew for cover would have ended that AVer's spree. If done any serious amounts of aving you will know that the most lethal thing to most AV is generally not vehicles. Its generally the infantry that support vehicles that proves the most deadliest.

^This.

People keep bringing up "Rock/Paper/Scissors" but, when discussing AV/V balance, so many seem to conveniently ignore the Scissors' influence (in this instance, Rock = AV, Paper = V, and Scissors = Infantry).

While focussing on a vehicle, AV is EXTREMELY vulnerable to enemy infantry.

The vehicle and the AV are not the only people out there. A vehicle should need to rely on it's allied infantry to suppress the AV and, conversely, the AV should ALSO need to rely on IT'S allied infantry to protect them while they deal with the vehicle.

Proper use of teamwork should provide an advantage on BOTH sides, as it creates a more dynamic battle, and a better gameplay evperience for everyone.

Long story short: STOP looking at AV/V balance in terms of 1v1 engagements, and START thinking about how TEAMWORK can be used to increase your advantage, regardless of which side of the AV/V debate you happen to be on.