Mina Longstrike
Kirjuun Heiian
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Posted - 2015.07.21 15:08:00 -
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Premise: Both large and small blaster turrets are in drastic need of a re-design.
Blaster turrets have been in a very 'odd' place in dust for quite some time with large ones being considered to be pretty wildly overpowered due to either being the best at everything or simply 'good enough' at most things, many people consider the large blaster to be kind of overpowered versus infantry and honestly I'd be inclined to agree. Currently it functions more like an 'assault rifle' fitted to tanks than anything else. It has an advantage in range, 'accuracy', sustained dps and rate of fire over other turrets. In short its too good at too many things at once and needs a re-defining of its strengths and weaknesses.
Small blaster turrets however have throughout almost the entirety of dust been considered to be underpowered - not performing well or reliably since ever. It currently doesn't work well on dropships, tanks or even on LAV's for a variety of reasons. We've played around with HMG esque mechanics for it for a long time and no matter what they just don't seem to work. The small blaster is inaccurate, fails to apply damage in most situations, lacks 'punch' when it does it and overall it's unreliable and unpredictable
Solution: Rework both blaster turrets to function more akin to shotgun type weapons with 'long' ranges. The main caveat being that these weapons may do full damage out to 125-150m, but aren't able to accurately hit with all of their pellets.
By giving the large blaster turret a pellet style burst you tone down its infantry-wrecking accuracy by a lot, but still keep its AV and anti-installation capabilities intact, you place more emphasis on reloading and force a tank into either closer ranges to apply all of its damage or to fit dispersion reduction mods to make it more accurate.
By giving the small blaster turret a pellet style burst (say covers a 4m spread at 75m) you up its reliability vs infantry on dropships, lavs and tanks, improve its performance versus vehicles and potentially allow it to hit out even further than that accurately when run with dispersion mods.
These changes also standardize the operation between small and large blasters.
Hnolai ki tuul, ti sei oni a tiu. Kirjuun Heiian.
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