Derrith Erador
Fatal Absolution
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Posted - 2014.11.11 14:19:00 -
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So I just decided to test out the blasters a few days ago, and I think I nailed the main issues you have with them Rat.
1) Lack of Range: It's a simple fact that rockets and rails have greater range than the blaster, not quite greater DPS, but the fact that I have to be at most 20 meters to do any damage is a little annoying. I'd say give them increased range in this respect.
2) ADS blaster bonus: In many cases in which I ran door gun blaster, I noticed that my dispersion was hurting my aim. I'd say that swapping the incubus blaster bonus to dispersion reduction would do wonders with making blasters a viable side turret. You could also reduce overall dispersion to blasters period, that is another option.
3) Rails still sniping infantry: This is still a big issue. I still prefer to run rails as a side turret because I can have my gunner both snipe infantry and lay the smackdown on other big bad vehicles with me. What I would propose to keep them from sniping infantry is to add a "shaking" or dispersion effect whenever charging the rail on the side guns (LAV turrets, HAV, and door ADS guns, the like), not enough to make them miss vehicles, but enough to where you'll have to really be boss to snipe infantry with it. In theory, this should put the blasters on top, and keep rails to an AV weapon.
And while we're here, I've been looking at threads saying giving Python a splash radius bonus is a good idea. I'm thoroughly against this. There are two reasons I say this:
1) It takes less skill with the shot: I've always thought that it should take some skill to aim the python turret, adding splash will make shots way more forgiving, and shots I should've missed in an AV vs V duel will end up hitting.
2) Increased ADS team kills: With higher splash on ADS, the amount of friendly fire from ADS will increase. This will cause more ADS pilots to get kicked from FW, and probably cause more PC and FW TKs. I have no wish to get kicked from FW because some shotgun scout saw my target before me and tried blast him in the back while I was shooting him.
R&B gets more kinky with every album Still rocking ADS
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