Kallas Hallytyr
Skullbreakers
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Posted - 2014.12.12 17:46:00 -
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Alaika Arbosa wrote:Wilhelm Klingspor wrote:Well, bring fido to me then.
Come on, 1 Grenade for a drophip, they need to fly low to pick up people. If everybody and his mom can tak it out with a AVnade they'll stay away, which excludes a certain gameplay element from the game. Devil's Advocate here.... If they need to fly low to pick people up, shouldn't those same people be making sure the LZ is clear and not riddled with reddots holding AV grenades?
Part of the dropship description is how one can come in while under fire to extract mercs from a contested area while providing cover fire. Unfortunately, neither of these are possible.
One AV grenade is way too small an investment to destroy something that requires skill (and a ton of ISK if the ADS) to use effectively.
BL4CKST4R wrote:You need multiple sources of av to kill vehicles, meaning you need to be 100% dedicated to av to kill one. The problem with that is that you lose all anti infantry capabilities, and yet remain extremely easy to kill by vehicles. Granted I feel dropships are too easy to kill.
Well, that's not exactly true. A single AV player is very sufficient to destroy vehicles if they linger for long, and they are plenty likely to drive them away (getting plenty of WP in the process.) And heavy AV is more than capable of killing vehicles solo, but due to the nature of the heavy frame actually requires sacrificing anti infantry capabilities (looking at you Commando.)
Personally, I'm fine with dropships (more specifically, ADSs) becoming easier to kill, but having an equal trade off in offensive power: make them glass cannons that can violate an area with heavy firepower but they are countered comfortably by a solo AV player - currently a single Swarmer will almost certainly run off a dropship (likely getting at least 75 WP) and has a reasonable chance of destroying it unless it is a solo, proto fit (ie, heavy extender and booster or multiple hardeners) and has a decent pilot.
Quick thought: what about the ADS getting a massive fitting bonus to fit large turrets and having a bit tweak to EHP and fitting space? I guess I'm looking more specifically at the large missile turret, anyway just a thought.
Alt of Halla Murr. Sentinel.
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