Aqil Aegivan
The Southern Legion
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Posted - 2012.09.01 04:09:00 -
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My thoughts on the topic go something like this.
Why do we have AV weapons and grenades at all? What defines weapons which are put in the AV category?
Either these weapons can be used to kill vehicles or they can't. If they can't then don't we just have a bunch of guns called AV weapons. If they kill some but not others then we have two types of AV, "anti light armor" which describes all the AV guns we have now and "anti heavy armor", which don't exist.
People have been saying that while HAVs roll over everything now, wait until we get dedicated AV players. There are several problems with this position;
First, we now have people who through bloody minded persistence have skilled for AV. Does anyone see them making a dent in the tide of tank drivers? No? Me neither.
Second, skilling for AV makes you able to do one thing: Kill (weak) Vehicles. Skilling for armor lets you kill;
Scouts.
Assaults.
Heavies.
Other vehicles.
Installations.
And anyone who doesn't skill for heavy armor (believe it or not some people want this to play like an FPS) has to consign themself to getting steamrolled every time the armor shows up.
Even if the number of people opting to take the arduous path of skilling for AV increased they would still be drowned in the sea of people taking the one skill fits all HAV path.
Presumably everyone remembers the basics of "perfect imbalance"? Well a system where one thing beats all is the opposite of such a system. BTW, such a system is doomed to failure as a game, so, at this point the dev team is split on whether or not DUST514 should fail. Not a heartening fact.
As an exercise, imagine that the battle finder worked and that we could stipulate certain conditions for the matches we play in. Now imagine we can search for battles where the vehicle cap is zero, or only LAVs and dropships are allowed. Can anyone reading this possibly believe that the vast majority of players won't be in the no HAV battles? Can anyone claim that these battles will be un-fun? I agree that they would be more fun with the option of HAVs if the HAVs were balanced but at present that is not possible. The devs could make it possible.
If we don't get a serious set of buffs to AV (remove current nerfs and re-instate long range forge gun at minimum). Then it is easy to see what we have:
EVE.
A game where you cruise around in a vehicle, killing other vehicles.
don't get me wrong, I like EVE. The problem is I already play EVE. I didn't come here from EVE to play EVE and I doubt the guys who are here to play an FPS came here to play EVE. If you are here to play EVE there is this game, it's out of beta and everything, it's called "EVE online". |