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Scheneighnay McBob
Bojo's School of the Trades
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Posted - 2013.06.20 14:13:00 -
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They're bad at their intended job!
A friend let me try out his Charybdis yesterday (a battle before I had the SP to be able to use LLAVs, good thing too, now I won't waste my SP); the results were lots of frustration when trying to support infantry, rather than being a deathtaxi.
Let's see the pros and cons of actually attempting their inteded role
Pros
- Reps very quickly
- Keeps repping even if the driver gets shot out
- The new targeting system for the rep is much easier to use than in previous builds
Cons
- The lockon for the rep takes FOREVER
- Once you're locked on and repping, infantry can easily break the lock by simply breaking the line of sight with the LLAV
- Once the lock is broken, the only way to target again is to turn off the module, wait for the cooldown, then restart it.
- While you can repair multiple infantry at once, you can only lock onto one at a time, even if there are multiple in the targeting square
- When you're driving to support, and not crush people, the driver is very exposed to gunfire.
- No WP
All in all, there was a lot of frustration and not much actual repairing going on.
My suggestions-
- Go with the common suggestion of changing the lock-on rep to something like the triage nanohive
- Change the skill bonus from increasing armor/shield resistance to decreasing the cooldown on active modules
- Give WP for the use of vehicle-mounted reps
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gbh08
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Posted - 2013.06.20 14:40:00 -
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I've got the caldari shield one, everytime i have tried to help, like you say, nothing but grief, i got shot out my llav trying to lock onto a tank 
Can you even lock on to tanks? and if so, do they already have to have shields down or should i be able to lock on even if they have full shields?
an yeah, some kind of nano hive around the llav would be much better |
Scheneighnay McBob
Bojo's School of the Trades
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Posted - 2013.06.20 14:41:00 -
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gbh08 wrote:I've got the caldari shield one, everytime i have tried to help, like you say, nothing but grief, i got shot out my llav trying to lock onto a tank Can you even lock on to tanks? and if so, do they already have to have shields down or should i be able to lock on even if they have full shields? an yeah, some kind of nano hive around the llav would be much better
You can't lock onto vehicles with the built in rep; there are other modules specifically for vehicles. |
gbh08
74656d70
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Posted - 2013.06.20 14:45:00 -
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Scheneighnay McBob wrote:gbh08 wrote:I've got the caldari shield one, everytime i have tried to help, like you say, nothing but grief, i got shot out my llav trying to lock onto a tank Can you even lock on to tanks? and if so, do they already have to have shields down or should i be able to lock on even if they have full shields? an yeah, some kind of nano hive around the llav would be much better You can't lock onto vehicles with the built in rep; there are other modules specifically for vehicles.
That explains it then, tank dude was probably wondering wth i was doing lol
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iceyburnz
Crux Special Tasks Group
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2013.06.20 14:49:00 -
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I don't under stand why its not:
Press button.
Everyone in area of effect is locked.
Apparently in the far far future, with FTL travel and advanced cloning technology. Actual computers are somehow hard.
If there is a way to make things akward for the players, CCP will do that first.
QED: The first iteration of exploration mechanics, when you had to wait an HOUR (Im not joking) to scan down a site. |
Scheneighnay McBob
Bojo's School of the Trades
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Posted - 2013.06.20 15:48:00 -
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Later today, I'm going to try finding out of sLAVs are good at what it says they're meant for- hit and run drivebyes. |
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