KingBabar
NorwegianWood
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Posted - 2013.06.25 17:15:00 -
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If we look at the difference between the Cal Logi and assault suits its quite clear that the assault suit is better for the slayer role than the logi suit.
A cal Logi suit needs:
1 Proto shield recharger
1 Enhanced kinetic catalyser
1 Enchanced green stamina thingy
A cal Assault suit needs:
1 Proto armor repper
And this is just to more or less make the suits equal in terms of speed, stamina and Shiled/armor regen.
The strafing speed is still a major advantage the assault suit has.
The assult suit has more basic HP.
So what are we left with?
- 4 high slots for both suits
- 2 low slots for the logi, 3 for the assault
- The assult suit has a sidearm, which is a major advantage, not only in a QCQ fights to finish someone off, but it makes going AV a much more viable option, also using Tac ARs, Scramblers (not assault), MD's and lasers, basically the more "situational" weapons wich is a viable choice since you carry a sidearm too. As a logi you're baically stuck with AR's, Scramblers and occationally MD's, but only if you play very tight in a group.
- 2 extra equipment slots for the logi is definately a pluss, but apart from the RE's everything else is purely for team oriented use.
Yes you can tank a cal logi suit to 679 shields if I'm correct, but in order to do so you have to sacrifice yet another low slot for a PG upgrade, at least if you plan to fit decent weapons and equipment on it.
The 5 logi armor recharge is a very nice ability, but not really worth much considering you either end up with the basic 112 armor, or your suit will be even slower than it already is. The upcoming new plates will help on the speed, if these plates can be fitted without sacrificing more. The self repping plates will definately be a big pluss for all the assault suits.
And then there is the major gap in skillpoints needed to fit a decent cal logi suit compared to an assault fit.
If max tanking, and especially shield tanking is the only meassure of how good a suit is, then the cal logi win the contest, in my opinion there is more to it than that.
If the Cal logi suit haters could skill into and try and fit the suit I think most would change their minds. A decent proto fitted cal logi suit is also extremely expensive to fit, 200K +.
In my humble opinion the solluton to this "problem" is to give the proto assault suits their second equipment slot back, with roughly a +5 PG and +20 CPU boost.
Removing that second equipment slot has made the game more bland, there is less use of equipment all over and the game suffers even more from lack of variety. 0 |