Cobalt Monkey
Crux Special Tasks Group
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2012.07.16 08:17:00 -
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Skytt Syysch wrote:ERICHONIUS wrote:Zero Harpuia wrote:If you are driving a Soma or Sica, a free tank, and complaining about getting two-shotted by something that costs one million SP, you need to think a tad on what you're doing. Even if it were a free tank... which it is not... I have a modded sica... it is rediculous that any hand held weapon can two shot it... especially as it cost something like 2 million sp to get just this far with the tank. I have about a million sp just for the turret upgrades... so yeah it is a bit annoying A sica is the militia body (the free one, your mods may not be free, but the body is), it's not very good (in terms of hp, CPU, and PG which the latter 2 allow you to equip more/better modules). Also, since you've only put about 2m SP into it, and 1m of that is into turrets, you don't have much to keep you alive. You're running what, a lot of tier 1 modules? If you get a prototype fitted tank, it can stand up to a prototype forge gun 1v1 without breaking a sweat. They'll ruin your low fit tank, but once you get a better body and start slapping better modules on it, you'll see that a single forge isn't really a giant threat. It'll still kill you if you stay there and let it, but in no way is it a 2-shot to a properly fitted tank. If there's a lot of forges on the other team, good, tanks should die. But getting 2-shot means you don't have a very good tank in terms of how good it could be, and you're likely just lacking in skills and not able to equip the better mods. I've put about 10m SP into mine, others I know have put even more. A prototype forge takes off about 15% of my armor or so (on the Surya, the armor-heavy one), and my armor repairer can essentially outheal all of its damage while it's running.
As a Forge Gun user, I have to say...this is absolutely terrible advice. What you need to do is go back down to a Soma, no mods. Those other tanks are crazy expensive, right? Stay far away from those. Squishy is good!
Really though, think of my position for a moment. I'm a guy in a fat suit. When you go running all over the map in one of those big tanks, how am I supposed to keep up? I'm really sick of chasing Sagari and Surya all across the dang map. I put a mag in them and they go jack rabbit on me before I can reload! The fat suit craves Soma and Sica snacks!
Question for any tank drivers out there. Do my shots have any effect on you apart from losing shields/armor/destruction? What I mean is, I often get a +25 out of it when I'm throwing the damage on, but for what? I'd kind of like to be shutting down your turrets with that (temporarily until repaired, of course). So, is the +25 just a "congrats, you pinged a tank" thing? |