True Adamance
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Posted - 2015.07.29 22:21:00 -
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Raedon Vo-Graza wrote:So IGÇÖve been playing HELLDIVERS for quite some time and they use a simple system for operating heavy vehicles (The HAV and APC in particular) 1 person drives, 1 person mans the main gun, 2 people operate the left and right machine guns. In a four person group this works well as each person has a role and specific job they focus on. Since the squad size has been brought down to 4 people I figure this would be beneficial to the new squad size as it eliminates the odd man out doing something else, everyone in the squad can join in.
I've seen calls like this before and I think for Helldivers a model like this works especially because vehicles in that game allow a the four man team fire power vastly greater than arguably anything else deployable......saving perhaps four mechs with dual assault cannon.
However in a game like Dust I am simply not sure that it really has a place. In most situations I'm simply convince that it is not worth commiting two rifles to the functionality of one vehicle that rarely finds opportunity to influence the balance of objectives since now most if not all are completely enclosed inside sockets or have blocked lines of sight.
Moreover.....it's simply not enjoyable game play as I see it. You relegate vehicle pilots essentially to infantry roles unless they can gang press players into allowing them to run their vehicles which unless you have a regular few players (up to four in this case) willing to sacrifice their infantry time for you is unlikely to happen.
I'm not discounting the idea since it is interesting and I agree that vehicles should act as vehicles that benefit from team play however I've yet to hear a convincing argument as to why taking the fundamental operation of fire control away from the pilot is a necessary change. Especially when tanks do not even function like tanks, are not currently balanced, and so many other examples of modern FPS shooter can incorporate them within the balance of infantry combat.
Em shah tey et naGÇÖemsaer ek rahvi, amarr osedah gasi ubday pahk. Ekin tey vahka ijed div ema ziel. Et tey vamatal em.
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