No-one-ganks like-Gaston
Seykal Expeditionary Group
Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2015.05.02 15:54:00 -
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Kinyuhk Goluhh wrote:A whole mess of things.
Well alright. You say all you want is the throw ability to be removed, but think that everyone saying this would be a bad move is a f*ggot and just an RE spammer tard. So here's how it is. Removing the throw function of the RE would, in fact, make it much less functional. But rather than just say that and leave it as is, and encouraging you to call me a f*ggot who just spams for kills, I'm going to explain how it would be less functional.
If you can only place an RE directly on the floor beneath you or on a perfectly adjacent wall, REs will always only ever be in perfectly visible spaces. They won't be workable traps anymore except to idiots who don't look, and you're going to get them easily, anyway. As someone who primarily uses REs defensively (that is, the way you have constantly said they should be used), being unable to fling my RE in hard to see locations would make them near pointless. No one expects the boom to come from above you. But if they can expect the boom to always be at their feet and in plain view, they'll never be at risk because they can spot it and take it out near immediately. At that point the only thing the RE would be good for is taking out idiots and delaying the enemy team for two seconds while they remove your RE and proceed to do whatever it is they were doing in the first place. Which is probably annihilating your team, because that RE was meant to take them out, but because it couldn't be placed properly it couldn't do its job and it was nothing more than a slight inconvenience to the other team.
And yeah, REs are supposed to be stealthy. That's exactly why they don't show up immediately on the map when the enemy places them. That's exactly why they can sometimes be hard to spot by sight. Hell, sometimes my own REs disappear from my map and I have to run back to check that they're still there. Not sure what's up with that. But if you put your crosshairs directly on an RE it will show up on the map and it will alert your teammates to its presence, assuming they look up at their map occasionally. If not, either take it out yourself or get a mic and say 'Hey, there's an RE. Watch out for that. Might hurt. Goes boom.' But seriously, they do have map icons. The thing is, in the situations you've apparently been in, they're being thrown and activated too quickly for anyone to look down for the icon to appear on the map and go 'oh damn, that's an RE'.
Unless emblems are different from map icons, in which case I apologize. I've played the game for a while but I've never really been to the forums or communicated in the chats, so I'm not familiar with terminology. But in either case, stealth weapon means it's not going to display itself to you.
Also, just because something is primarily used for stealth doesn't mean it can't be used in other ways. Someone could go frontline with a sniper rifle if they really felt like it. And it's entirely possible they could be good with it, too. And in fact, using a sniper rifle and an RE on the front line have a lot of similarities. When used defensively you have to be paying close attention to get your mark. You only have a few shots before you have to reload (or restock). Both are easiest to use if you predict where the enemy is going and line up your shot beforehand. You're putting yourself at high risk using it up close and personal because it's a difficult weapon to manage if someone already has their sights on you and isn't stupid. And if you don't get that kill in right away it's very likely they'll get you, instead, because of how slow it is to deploy/fire and redeploy/reload. The biggest difference is that the sniper rifle can be fired down range, but has a slim area to hit and has a smaller one-shot area. While the RE has a decent radius and much larger one-shot area, but the enemy has to literally step into it for it to be effective at all and can be removed before it can be activated. Both can easily one-shot many suits if you know what you're doing.
EDIT: Whoops, I was just scrolling through threads and completely forgot I was on a slightly older topic. Sorry if this incites the argument again. |