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Alan-Ibn-Xuan Al-Alasabe
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Posted - 2013.02.09 15:58:00 -
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The issue isn't that a forge gun can kill a dropship, it's that it can conceivably kill a dropship with the dropship having no recourse
There was a thread where people worked out that a decent forge gun loadout does about 3500 damage per shot. With a Myron fit for nothing but tank you can have about 4000 shield hitpoints. No afterburners, no CRUs, nothin' but extenders. That's the only way to not get insta-blapped in a dropship.
And you can do this from anywhere, before the dropship pilot has any way to even know there's a forge gun on the field. The range is essentially unlimited, and it's incredibly accurate. I've seen videos of people using forge guns, and the stuff they can do is pretty crazy, and pretty unpleasant to watch as a pilot. |
Alan-Ibn-Xuan Al-Alasabe
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Posted - 2013.02.09 16:55:00 -
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Here's a video of a guy with a forge gun killing people, including LAVs, infantry, and dropships, from both at short and long range, while strafing, moving at full speed away, or while standing still. I'd love to hear what you would have done differently that would have rendered him unable to kill you. |
Alan-Ibn-Xuan Al-Alasabe
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Posted - 2013.02.09 17:19:00 -
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Snagman 313 wrote:
I have been hunting HAVs since last June as a Heavy and both of us have seen some horrendous nerfs, I can see where everyone is coming from but without the FG there is litttle to counter a HAV from an infantry POV.
I drive a HAV, since dropships aren't really worth flying right now. Virtually all of my deaths have come from clever use of swarm launchers and AV grenades (despite the fact that I drive a Sica), or railgun turrets.
Don't get me wrong, I don't advocate a massive damage reduction to forges. I'm more in favor of a massive range reduction. But to say that infantry would have no way to deal with HAVs without them is flat out wrong. |
Alan-Ibn-Xuan Al-Alasabe
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Posted - 2013.02.09 17:53:00 -
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Looking four posts back at the video showing how very possible, maybe even easy, it is to hit a HAV, dropship, LAV, or infantry while stationary or in motion, from a variety of ranges, was probably too much for me to expect. Here, I'll link it again. |
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