Drommy Hood
Tritan-Industries
Legacy Rising
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Posted - 2013.02.10 11:19:00 -
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Moejoe Omnipotent wrote:Not even close. It's because CCP is too lazy/doesn't know how to create real weapon balance without using cheap tactics that are detrimental to the gameplay experience, like making bullets disappear in mid-air, making it impossible to, for example, hit snipers in the name of "balance".
Blasters use the same ammo as rail guns in new Eden, but both work differently. First i guess we should talk about the rounds. the rounds have a composition, steal, lead, thorium, plutonium to name a few. Each has a different range through its composition, the more volitile the substance the easier it breaks up/transfers heat to its surroundings (im not saying its fact, its new eden fact) and I hope to see different ammo types in the future, assault rifles with shotgun range and double the damage, and hmg's with tungsten rounds peppering snipers for low damage suppression fire from 200m's.
now the weapons, The rail gun fires the whole slug, this the only limiting factor is the range of the shot, by either friction slowing it down, or friction destroying the slug (this actually makes more sense in dust than in eve in the frictionless vacume of space, just like ship top speed. BUT DON'T GET ME STARTED ON THAT!!) Blasters work differently though, they super heat the slug material into a plasma, then spit this out, the damage is not necissarially the impact, it's the meltyness. It's limiting faster though is not how far it can toss it, but how long it's hot enough to damage armour and shields for.
If anyone would like to elaborate or even to correct me feel free, it's been donkeys years since I've read the lore and since my eve account is inactive I can't check to make sure I'm correct
On the topic of AR range, I think it's fine, I was testing dropships yesterday and so using the standard front line milita setup so deaths didn't cost me anything but the ship. Upon being shot down near the end of the match, I continued on foot, for the first time using an AR since the build before e3. My god. It's easy. I was kicking ass. In the space of seconds I had 7 kills. I also forgot how agile the assault suit is. It makes me wonder why I spec'd into scout suit before the last wipe. All those extra slots and CPU/pg.
EDITED: more info on ammo as well as some thoughts on AR's |