Ghost Kaisar
Fatal Absolution
General Tso's Alliance
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Posted - 2014.12.07 01:47:00 -
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Always run 2x damps.
Yeah, the range is short, but on logis they can use 1x Precision and 2x range to scan you at 10m.
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Ghost Kaisar
Fatal Absolution
General Tso's Alliance
8575
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Posted - 2014.12.07 02:45:00 -
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Dreis Shadowweaver wrote:Ghost Kaisar wrote:Always run 2x damps.
Yeah, the range is short, but on logis they can use 1x Precision and 2x range to scan you at 10m.
But 10m takes, like, just over a second for me to sprint. It's easy to shotgun or even knife someone that close. What I'm asking is will being scanned within 10m of my target actually pose a problem, or if they won't even be able to react fast enough. Or do you think it'll be such a big issue that I'll need to change my fit in response?
Lemme put it this way.
Yes, you can easily gank one or two dudes.
But whats gonna happen when theres a lot of people on an objective?
You get within 10m you pop up on scans. Then they can follow you. They know you're close.
You can't blap people around corners, etc. etc.
These changes will make it MUCH more difficult to engage groups, since they share scans. You can dodge those scans while cloaked though, allowing you to take advantage of their dependency on eWAR. A properly cloaked and damped scout can notice that people are getting close, and will cloak and hide rather than try to slay the group. Then they can move on a find an easier target, or perhaps remove equipment around the objective.
I really feel like we will be seeing less scouts flat out slaying groups of targets. If they want to do so without a cloak, they will NEED to run 3 damps. And that removes a lot of tanking power from them, making them easier to kill.
I'm actually pretty excited to see how the meta will change. Equipment change will be big. Since you can't spam, equipment will become more valuable, along with defending it. Scouts could have a very good role of being able to detect equipment with their powerful scans and eliminate them.
IMO, these changes will result in Med Frames running more eWAR to dodge long range scans and make it harder for a scout to be an all knowing god. They will have to use more wits and dampening to survive, taking down foes one at a time while using speed and dampening to remove uplinks, capture installations, and cause havoc where they can.
I hope so at least.
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