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Posted - 2013.05.18 23:46:00 -
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Nightbird Aeon wrote:I know this was raised above in a blog thread, but it bears repeating...
LAVs are breaking the game! Too many people just bring them in and play merc-bowling with them... there is no cost associated with them, and they can kill a proto-suit just as easily as a militia suit.
While this is probably the wrong fix, I'll bet you 100 shiny ISK that if you removed impact damage from LAVs, you'd see a 99.99% reduction in LAVs being called into the game.
Also.... they reduced the number of Proximity Mines that can be deployed at one time (below Proto level mines, that is)... so the old tactic of laying down proxy mines to prevent drive-bys is just that much more difficult.
Either way, this has to stop!
/rant off
I beg your pardon, but I pay good money to spec my Methana to make it ready to run over protsuits. I get chased by swarms and forge guns and AV grenade toting scouts in every match, and every car I loose costs more than almost any protosuit out there. All it takes is 2 people with swarms keeping tabs on me and I'm either toast or I'm too cornered to drive safely. Also, in order to play "merc-bowling", I have to expose myself to large crowds of mercs, any of whom could have AV nades, swarms, assault forge guns or plasma launchers, and could drop me in a heartbeat if they actually tried.
Quit complaining and use your militia anti-armor fit, the militia swarms are WAY more powerful than they used to be. They can 3-piece installations now. I know, I've done it. |
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Posted - 2013.05.18 23:54:00 -
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Davy Headhunter wrote:point here is that a FREE LAV should neve be that effective, you can deploy in a free dropsuit, and get a free lav, and kill a proto suit worth about 300k isk, that is just stupid. If u get skills, buy, fit, and deploy a LAV, that is more than fair that u dont die instantly by a AV nade...
I can also hop in a free starter fit with a BPO militia hive (or better yet, stand next to a supply depot), and grenade spam a protosuit to death. Or I can put on my sniper starter fit and shoot proto suits with free sniper rifles. Or I can spend like 700ISK and fit up a heavy suit and forge snipe protosuits all day long. The cost of the item in question isn't relative to what it can kill, and it's not supposed to be. The skill of the player is what makes a role good or bad, not the gear itself. Dedicated AV players take out free LAV's all the time and they are no less vulnerable to being run over than you are. 200k forge gunners drop 2.1m ISK tanks all the time. If you're gonna run it, it's up to you to keep it safe, not the game designers.
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