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Cody Sietz
Random Gunz
RISE of LEGION
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Posted - 2015.01.06 05:22:00 -
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am I right?
Mostly because they don't hit where you drop them. It took 5 flux strikes just to take out a uplink once.
I suggest bumping them up 25-50 meters.
"I do agree with you there though. shudders"
-Arkena Wyrnspire
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Cyzad4
Blackfish Corp.
548
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Posted - 2015.01.06 10:58:00 -
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I spent 3 in one match trying the same thing, the kicker is someone scanned the links on my second shot so they were on the effing map and STILL missed.
*edit*
I don't think they're useless I just think they need to be more accurate... and maybe we need a small laser strike too
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.
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Alena Ventrallis
Vengeance Unbound
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Posted - 2015.01.06 12:35:00 -
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Somewhere I read that they are 50m. I would check and make sure this is the case. Could be some glitch making them 1% of their intended size.
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Cody Sietz
Random Gunz
RISE of LEGION
4298
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Posted - 2015.01.06 14:27:00 -
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Alena Ventrallis wrote:Somewhere I read that they are 50m. I would check and make sure this is the case. Could be some glitch making them 1% of their intended size.
They have said its 50 meters. But you could be right about it being glitched.
@Cyzad, I really like flux strikes. I just wish they were more reliable.
"I do agree with you there though. shudders"
-Arkena Wyrnspire
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Kallas Hallytyr
Skullbreakers
1223
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Posted - 2015.01.06 14:29:00 -
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Agreed, they're far too unreliable even against equipment in the open.
Alt of Halla Murr. Sentinel.
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Sequal's Back
Les Desanusseurs
93
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Posted - 2015.01.06 17:20:00 -
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Sometimes they hit, sometimes not!
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LAVALLOIS Nash
QcGOLD
400
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Posted - 2015.01.06 18:19:00 -
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Yeah I agree, this needs to be looked at. You can drop it right down the silo in the underground facility, it will take out a few shields and wash the area in blue. But the equipment lives on. Sometimes it works perfectly, most of the time not. |
Cyzad4
Blackfish Corp.
549
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Posted - 2015.01.06 18:26:00 -
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I ***** slapped 2 tanks with one shot in a game yesterday and was shocked I hit them, of course I missed the single tank 2 mins later.
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.
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ACT1ON BASTARD
Amarr Templars
Amarr Empire
408
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Posted - 2015.01.06 18:55:00 -
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Cody Sietz wrote:Alena Ventrallis wrote:Somewhere I read that they are 50m. I would check and make sure this is the case. Could be some glitch making them 1% of their intended size. They have said its 50 meters. But you could be right about it being glitched. @Cyzad, I really like flux strikes. I just wish they were more reliable.
50 meters in dust is 10 feet irl. |
Omega Black Zero
Sinq Laison Gendarmes
Gallente Federation
144
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Posted - 2015.01.06 19:45:00 -
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I've noticed it, I squad solo just so I have access to them and noticed how inaccurate they are, it's like it's not in the center of the circle or something. |
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KEROSIINI-TERO
The Rainbow Effect
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Posted - 2015.01.06 20:13:00 -
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Alena Ventrallis wrote:Somewhere I read that they are 50m. I would check and make sure this is the case. Could be some glitch making them 1% of their intended size.
Dust meters are actually feet.
Trying to look at map or your surroundings and trying to evaluate the merc sizes and think about real life meters gets you wrong.
They are feet, or some internal unreal engine value close to one third of a meter.
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KEROSIINI-TERO
The Rainbow Effect
1680
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Posted - 2015.01.06 20:15:00 -
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Also, about strikes being inaccurate:
Please do remember that the map is 3D:
it very much matters how the map is centered.
HOW TO USE STRIKE ACCURATELY:
The only way to be sure to hit bang on target is:
1) Move the map so that the target is in the exact middle of screen.
2) Then put the crosshair into the middle of screen/target.
That's perspective in action on 3D map, you know.
when the strike fails to kills uplinks etc then the reason lies elsewhere, in terrain protecting the target from actual orbital hit location or glitched ( ) uplinks in object meshes.
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1913 DfLo
ScReWeD uP InC
Learning Alliance
165
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Posted - 2015.01.06 20:36:00 -
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Yeah they should be buffed a little
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Kallas Hallytyr
Skullbreakers
1227
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Posted - 2015.01.06 20:39:00 -
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KEROSIINI-TERO wrote:HOW TO USE STRIKE ACCURATELY:
Yeah, this. But also flux strikes are pretty damn unreliable.
I know how to use OBs and I can see a piece of equipment clearly on a roof on the overhead map and still miss it. Repeatedly.
Alt of Halla Murr. Sentinel.
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TheD1CK
Dead Man's Game
RUST415
1600
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Posted - 2015.01.06 21:03:00 -
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any buff would need to be linked to a WP cost increase, as they are too common
If it was wiping out larger areas and being spameed often they would be a real pain
Currently they are good, as it's pointed out, the map is 3D, and you need to center your OB drops
If you don't they may miss, because you had not centered your cursor before requesting OB
- I have used them to assist killing tanks/ads/lav
- They can be used on infantry campers
- They hit most equipment, even some glitched equipment
Down sides are .. if there is 2 links on a roof beside each other
You will hit one but not the other at times, while this is annoying, the strike is cheap so it's not an issue
I think it works great, and it's effectiveness is appropriate to the cost of earning one |
DeadlyAztec11
Ostrakon Agency
6899
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Posted - 2015.01.07 00:19:00 -
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I've never used it against equipment but it seems to work well against suits.
I remember there was.a Proto Minmatar Scout dashing every where so I decided to drop a small flux shot. It landed almost on top of his head and I jumped out and killed him.
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Her Chosen
Grade No.2
202
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Posted - 2015.01.07 01:38:00 -
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I could have swore they said they would be 50m wide when they talked about them...
But a one cannon shot for 200WP that kills 1-2 5WP pieces of equipment doesn't seem helpful/
Destroying uplinks is important, but the minor fluxes can't really do anything to wipe highground. Just something for solo players I suppose. I play solo often, and I use them. I rarely get a warbarg or laser by myself, unless I'm trying for it.
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Banjo Robertson
Random Gunz
RISE of LEGION
400
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Posted - 2015.01.07 03:23:00 -
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Maybe they set it to 50 meters squared as the area instead of 50 meters diameter/radius? This would actually give it about a 3.9 meter radius |
Zindorak
Nyain Chan
General Tso's Alliance
1587
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Posted - 2015.01.07 12:35:00 -
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Agreed i just use them as fireworks
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Bright Cloud
Namtar Elite
Gallente Federation
747
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Posted - 2015.01.07 16:04:00 -
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I dont have problems using them to get rid of uplinks. Ofcourse the uplinks should have beeing scanned to make the strike actually hit.
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Vesta Opalus
T.H.I.R.D R.O.C.K
General Tso's Alliance
298
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Posted - 2015.01.07 19:45:00 -
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Cody Sietz wrote:am I right?
Mostly because they don't hit where you drop them. It took 5 flux strikes just to take out a uplink once.
I suggest bumping them up 25-50 meters.
I think the main problems are:
The flux strikes only hit RIGHT in the middle of the huge reticle (problem #1, its kind of jinky to get what you hit dead center in the large reticle).
Second problem is that the only thing its worth using it on are elevated uplinks, however the way the targeting map works, the higher something is the more it is tilted away from the center of the screen (since the overhead map is 3D centered around the center of the screen), so you have to center the map almost perfectly, and then center the reticle almost perfectly, then you might be able to hit what you are hitting at.
And this is all assuming that you can tell exactly where the uplink you are trying to hit is in the first place, which is not always the case. Frequently you will not have it scanned and it will not render on the overhead.
A smaller targeting reticle that is fixed to the center of the overhead map would help alot to make targeting the small precision orbital strikes without a ton of lining the map and the reticle etc up. |
ADAM-OF-EVE
Dead Man's Game
RUST415
1864
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Posted - 2015.01.07 20:14:00 -
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the only issue to these small orbs is the 3d map. get it off center slightly and you will miss. get it right though and you screw up someones day
All Hail Legion
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Megaman Trigger
OSG Planetary Operations
Covert Intervention
188
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Posted - 2015.01.07 20:54:00 -
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Small flux strikes don't seem to pass through objects but the large ones do just like flux grenades do, meaning small strikes can't clear a room up equipment spam but large ones can. Small ones should be able to.
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TritusX
PH4NT0M5
88
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Posted - 2015.01.08 01:53:00 -
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Zindorak wrote:Agreed i just use them as fireworks
at the end of the match, if we win and its like those ambushes where everyone fires at each other, i spam orbitals
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