Goric Rumis
Amarr Templars
Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2012.09.04 20:38:00 -
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I'm sort of getting the picture from the last few pages that the Minmatar vs. Amarr battles were always skewed toward the Minmatar side. Appropriately, the Minmatar players didn't have any problems fighting off the Amarr tanks (which makes sense if the Amarr are grossly outnumbered) while the Minmatar tanks were virtually impenetrable for the Amarr.
This is consistent with my own experience. The worst part about being dominated by Minmatar tanks? Several of them were militia tanks. Once I actually got a couple (militia, after losing a couple AV suits from a mile away) swarms to hit one, its health dropped quickly. I didn't manage to kill it--I was one guy against three tanks, a LAV, and at least one or two snipers, so once I got a swarm off I knew I didn't have much time--but I'm almost sure it was a militia tank. And yet it couldn't be destroyed because we could barely get close enough to it to hit it even once before it ducked behind the landscape.
The map could probably be modified, and AV is definitely out of balance as has been discussed elsewhere, but it seems like the biggest problem hands-down was the lopsided level of participation. I don't know where all the Amarr players were, or whether there were technical issues getting into the battle. Maybe people just don't like to play Amarr. |
Goric Rumis
Amarr Templars
Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2012.09.04 22:36:00 -
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SoTa PoP wrote:I'm Amarr, and those Corp vs Corp battles were pathetic. How I came out with a higher k/d ratio is makin' me feel like a genius. From the first 40 seconds of the game almost every flank was completely over-run, and that hill in-front of the main spawn became a tank sniping spot.
It really doesn't help that there tanks completely stomped us. It really made me worry about launch.
It also made me want to delete my Amarr with 5 mil SP to make almost ANYTHING else.
I wouldn't worry too much about factions for launch. Corp vs. corp won't be faction-based so often once corps are made by players. There will probably be some tie-in with faction warfare in EVE, but it would be a relatively small portion of the game that wouldn't have a huge impact and you could completely avoid.
But yeah, that was a total massacre. |