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Posted - 2012.08.17 18:03:00 -
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HowDidThatTaste wrote:Avenger 245 wrote:If a heavy could go head tobhead with a tank what would be the point of a tank? Answer that if your forge does as much damage as a tank main gun + can take the damage dished out by a tank amd go where a tank cant then whats the point of a tank?
Heavy arnt meant to go toe to toe with a tank there meant to wield heavy weapons the HMG and the forge built to dish out damage like a tank but not go toe to toe. 1. Just to be clear the description says to be able to survive an encounter with vehicles, that the point I'm making we cant survive 1 shot from tank or 1 direct hit from a drop ship 2. or even an encounter with an lav. Just trying to figure out if the original purpose of the heavy has changed to just an anti infantry role.
1. I'm sure you can survive encounter with vehicles. Is it promised in every case? Of course not. There's a bit more to shooters than rock, paper, scissors, you can pick a good counter but you need to play it well. I trained into tanks near the end of the last build and had a blast, but good forge gun users were always effective at driving me away and taking down my tank. The ones that would stand out in the open and were not incognito, I'd always shoot at them and retreating would be easy because I knew where they were.
I did not have high tier missile launcher turrets, but I had shot plenty of missile volleys dead at heavies many times and can honestly say I very rarely got a 1 shot kill, only when others were shooting at the same person. Maybe if I direct hit them with a rail gun?
Keep from being seen by the tank and don't stand in front of it, and you should be golden. I personally don't think one heavy suit with a forge gun should be able to easily solo a marauder tank face to face, it's a friggin tank.. and a top tier tank to boot.. it shouldn't be that easy to take down solo.
2. Pretty sure that a forge gun, especially a prototype one can take down a LAV in one shot. Sorry if you get caught off guard and get ran over, try not to let that happen. If not then I agree, that needs to be fixed, but as it stood in the last build I was taking out LAVs in one missile volley from my proto SL.
Some maps are going to be more heavy suit friendly than others, obviously. Maps that are really open and don't provide much cover, I wouldn't be out in the open with a slow suit when it's easy for LAVs to get around. Smaller maps where objectives are in small rooms? Hell yah, very heavy suit friendly. A map nice for vehicles but with a lot of cover scattered around it? Prime time for a forge gun.
It depends on the scenario and with the map in the last build I didn't see the point in bothering with a heavy suit. Instead just made a marauder tank with railgun fitting, worked out well.
Their description of the heavy is just flavor text really, they're trying to get the point across that it's the best suit when it comes to taking small arms fire and focusing on taking out vehicles. Of course they aren't going to promise you invincibility against small arms and vehicles. |