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Fivetimes Infinity
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Posted - 2013.01.22 03:59:00 -
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There's no reason that ramming people in a free vehicle should be a viable tactic. In general, getting a free vehicle and using a free dropsuit to drive it, with the only skill necessary out of the playing is the ability to move forward and turn when necessary should have a proportionate payoff. That is to say, it should be useless for killing anyone. It should maybe do a bit of damage to infantry, maybe 100 damage when you hit them at full speed.
You didn't pay any ISK to get where you're at. You're not expressing any skill. Why should you be one-shotting infantry when you have nothing invested yourself? |
Fivetimes Infinity
Immobile Infantry
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Posted - 2013.01.22 06:51:00 -
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Well I don't care for "realism" justification for stuff like this, but if you insist on going that route it'd be relatively easy to imagine any of the suits surviving impact with a LAV. Aside from the shields, aside from the advanced armor, the clones themelves are genetically engineered and cybernetically augmented. They're super-soldiers. They don't quite behave that way in gameplay terms, but in the fiction, I mean, it isn't like they're cloning average jackoffs and using them to house the consciousness of the mercenary characters Dust players represent. It's perfectly reasonable for supersoldiers encased in advanced defensive technology to be a bit hurt but generally fine after being hit by a vehicle.
That said, the important part is that it's crappy gameplay, and the result is people driving around in LAVs with no gunners attempting to get free kills by holding down the forward key. Probably not what one might imagine when envisioning what a Light Assault Vehicle would be used for in Dust. |
Fivetimes Infinity
Immobile Infantry
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Posted - 2013.02.01 02:41:00 -
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Yes, and because infantry are constantly looking at their minimap rather than looking at bad guys so they can shoot them, it is totally weird and unexpected that sometimes they don't see LAVs coming and get instantly killed by a person whose only demonstrable skill is holding down the movement stick. |
Fivetimes Infinity
Immobile Infantry
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Posted - 2013.02.01 03:28:00 -
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No, pretty sure a free vehicle being able to one-shot anyone it hits is a clear indication that LAVs should be nerfed. But I also did write that their ability to get kills with the gun nobody ever uses (because the bumper is so much more effective) should be buffed. In the end, LAVs shouldn't be free, they shouldn't be able to just insta-gib anyone, but they should also be good enough that people would actually want to spend ISK/SP on them. All-in-all a buff, unless you're not competent enough at multitasking to do anything more than hold down the movement stick and stare in front of you for someone to ram. |
Fivetimes Infinity
Immobile Infantry
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Posted - 2013.02.01 10:14:00 -
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Whoever said that sniper rifles are fine as they are? But for as brainless as sniping is in Dust, ramming with a LAV is certainly easier. |
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