Wakko03
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Posted - 2012.11.05 19:56:00 -
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You are incorrect about some things regarding forge guns.
The awesome ones, are ones that render the FAT Suited HeAVY stationary.....while still making the aiming go to nothing when taking splash damage from a missle weapon. Then you got the ones that don't hold the charge but pack a punch, followed by the ones that hold a charge but do a weak amount of damage. On top of this you got the fact that the fat suited heavy using a forge gun is an easy target for every other player to kill, mixed in with that you have the varying time delays for firing each of those forge guns. Tanks can still out run the range rather quickly, not to mention that only certain areas on the tank are even vulnerable.
As for sniping across the map, that is a flat out exaggeration. You would need to have HEAVY Weapon Sharpshooter up to level 5 and possibly need to have Heavy Weapon Sharpshooter Profiecency up to Level 2-3 (which is about 1 mil skill points probably closer to 1.2 mil sp). And if you want ammo for the Forge you have to hope that somebody has a nano-hive as HEAVY Weapon Capacity is only for the HMG or do you really think 5% of 16 is some overly large number, because you will run out fast due to the nature of the forge gun, it takes 3 shots to range your target and see if you are even close enough to hit it. By the time you get a good hit everyone knows where you are more than they do the silent running LAV's. Seem unusual that the sound of a forge gun charging up is one of the loudest noises next to the sound of the dropship in the air.
But back to sniping long range with a forge gun, I will admit that I got a few long range shots in against a stationary target down-range a good bit (about a 1/3rd of the map away from me) but that has happened about 5 times in about a month versus the hundreds if not thousands of deaths due to not even living long enough to fire at the tank, getting cut down by anything and everything on the way to that battle, heck I know for a fact that certain players go around hunting the poor schmucks standing up to a tank or dropship, they never fight a vehicle themselves.
And finally in all my time in the beta, since june 6th, I have seen 2 matches that actually had equal vehicles square off against one another. That goes to matchmaking.... which is non existent.... probably would have been a good match if 4 corps heavy in vehicles weren't put on the same team vs a team of randoms. There is no way to fight a 3 tanks and 2 dropship on the enemies team when all your team has is maybe an LAV. Now with the over nerf of the AV grenades tanks can back away from your thrown grenade and not worry about a tank trap, and that was due to LAV drivers trying to use them as bowling balls. |