Razer Mikio
Hateful Munitions
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Posted - 2013.02.13 17:54:00 -
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Quote:To illustrate his point, Laurino teased a tantalizing feature that the team really wants to do with Dust 514. GÇ£Just to give you an example: A feature that isnGÇÖt coming this year but is something we want to do is ship boarding,GÇ¥ he said. GÇ£ItGÇÖd be conceivable to fit an Eve ship with a giant drill-type projectile that has a bunch of Dust mercenary clones embedded in it. And it shoots into the other ship and then you can raid their ship. That feature is closer than you might think GǪ IGÇÖll say itGÇÖs not this year, but itGÇÖs not five plus years [away], either.GÇ¥ Read more at http://venturebeat.com/2013/01/22/dust-514-orbital-strike/#jkvwWyPB6UIoMEqT.99
As someone who has been playing EvE literally sense it was in a state similar to dust now. I can say this would be a fun feature... however it needs to depend on eve in order to do it.. like they have stated an eve ship has to hit you with the "boarding mod" to let them start spawning their... thats fine..
Further more, the eve player needs a way to fight these mercs inside of his ship with out relying on dust players... like maybe it spawns npcs, or the crew starts to fight.
Right now there does not really need to be a counter to OS, in all the fights that my corp has done, the other corp has not even showed up to OS us... why? Because if you can shut the other team down they cant even earn an OS, so why bother putting more isk at risk, when you can just be effective with whats already at risk.
Personally I think they should move "OSing" to an archtype... like a medic or assault. There needs to be a type of laser pointer, that can be used for OSing.... The player needs to be dedicated to it, and most likely it would take up a good amount of CPU and PG making it hard to fit anything but your OS laser...
I feel like the OS feature is a little stale right now.... So many times I have FC'ed a fleet around our FW space, put more isk at risk in a fleet of 10 ships, then a dust bunny would put at risk in 100 matches, only to sit at planets... and nothing happen because we are getting our asses kicked to hard to have an OS...
Personally I Think if you're gonna put it at risk, it should be use able.... and not have to wait for a rather insane amount of WP to deploy an OS, unless you are winning of course... then why would you need an OS to win harder? |