THUNDERGROOVE
Fatal Absolution
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Posted - 2014.09.30 23:22:00 -
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Let me tell you guys a story but bare with me, as it may not seem on topic initially but it will make sense if you stick with it.
So around uprising 1.2 I began playing with someone in my corp regularly who was very into tanking. He would occasionally lend me logistic LAVs to provide remote armor/shields and that was the most fun I've had in DUST.
I decided to create an alt and spec into them, so I didn't need him to call them out for me all the time. Eventually, I acquired enough SP to skill into tanks and dropships. I played around with everything but was most interested in the Incubus. Never did anything fancy with it and moved on.
Eventually 1.7 dropped and tanks were put into this awkward limbo of being good, but not fun like they were when we had logistics vehicles. Soon, there was nerf after nerf to the point I couldn't tank anymore with all of the bullshit two hit rail tanks and jihad jeeps and not because I couldn't stand it, I couldn't afford to.
At this point, I skilled my Incubus from 2 to 4 and later on getting 5 and I almost only flew it as to avoid the Jihad jeeps and kill redline tanks. Eventually I got so proficient flying it with small rails, I could kill forge gunners off of towers and even knock groups of people off of high ground. But now, with the changes to dropships and swarms it's almost impossible to fly round without loosing a ship. I can't kill redline rail tanks anymore. I can't kill infantry anymore. I can hardly kill militia dropships before they drop off a squad of AV onto a roof. If one person has prototype swarms, I'm almost guaranteed dead before I can get out of their lock range and the hull price change is negligible when you're still loosing at least one hull per match.
We, as a community have warned CCP time and time again that when you balance things, you need to take it one step at a time. Adjust the RoF and after change swarms if it wasn't helpful. It's why, until the hotfixes came out, you guys were completely unable to make a balanced product.
And please, for the love of god, bumb the skill to 5%, the skill is almost useless now since the RoF on the Incubus got double nerfed
Amarrica!
It's Not Safe to Swim.
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THUNDERGROOVE
Fatal Absolution
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Posted - 2014.10.17 19:29:00 -
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So after Delta came out, I've hardly touched my vehicle character. Why would I? There's nothing left that's even worth using it for. My Incubus V, Small Railgun V, Reload V, Prof V, Fitting OP V and Ammo V is completely useless now. Even though the bullshit bugs that I had to endure, auto-repeating lagging railgun of overheat?
Yet you give the Incubus a bonus to the WORST turret that could possibly go onto the front turret of an ADS. I've spent entire matches trying to only use an Ion Cannon on the front of my Incubus and It's so difficult to do it's not even worth my time. You can't kill vehicles, you can't kill infantry so what's it for?
Hell I've dropped more ISK on vehicles than 99% of the people who've played DUST will ever even see, yet you listen to the 10 day old character who's ****** militia tank I just killed? Thanks CCP.
Tanks are ****.
Dropships are ****.
LAVs are ****
Thanks
Amarrica!
It's Not Safe to Swim.
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