Brush Master wrote:I'm sure ccp got the picture by now that swarms are broken. As far as high kill streaks, a pilot has to survive with ship at least 4-5 games to even pay for our protoships. 95% of swarms I see are militia, so even if they introduce skills to speed them up, there is always going to be complaints that ds are op because people are not on the same level.
+1 for more maps with cover, especially at spawns.
I mean I guess that adding more cover COULD help. However even that wouldn't be perfect. Splash damage bleeds through cover atm (The only reason tanks can camp the MCC). What Noc is passing over is that there wasn't any chance to use cover in the first place. He called in his dropship and got it in the air within the first two minutes of the map. He hovered over the red line and his team blasted people just as they hit the ground from the MCC. When it came to the three objective map (The name is escaping me) I watched him float his Dropship behind our red line so he could watch the swarms explode harmlessly in front of of him (or her. I just don't know). Unless infantry should be covered from the second they hit the ground, changing the map to cater to them will still be ineffective. There have to be places without open ground to give the infantry ground game some dynamic.
Furthermore, the idea that a change in the map would change or remove the ability of a single dropship to dictate a match is bizarre to me. Maybe it could work, but if the fix is as simple as that I would think people would have started hiding behind cover and would have started killing dropships. This still hasn't happened. Even with the little cover people have, DS can out pilot whatever is thrown at them.
You are also right that people will complain. That's okay. People always complain. There is merit to arguing "You have to skill into X before you can complain about it". However. The odds that Dropships are killing people who HAVE skilled heavily into AV go up with every kill made. Out of the 122 that I watched yesterday I would have to assume at least one had a good av fit.
Adding more cover doesn't fix the issue. It cures a symptom, not the disease. Dropships have unlimited ammo, the highest mobility anything in dust CAN have and the most accurate weapons - even more accurate than tank missile launchers due to the vantage Dropships can get.