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George Moros
Sanmatar Kelkoons
Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2013.07.01 17:50:00 -
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I dunno about the solution to murder taxi problem, but IMHO something has to be done. I was just in a fight playing HMG heavy. Got killed 6 times, 4 of those run over by a LAV, and of those 4, 3 times just after respawn, trying to join up with the rest of the team. This is really frustrating and totally ridiculous. As a heavy, you really cannot dodge incoming LAVs, and even if there's a hill just a few meters away you just don't have enough time to climb to safety. I didn't want to switch to forge gun just to go hunt that guy in a LAV because I thought I would be much more useful to my team with HMG.
To be able to provide that kind of denial to enemy movements just by calling in a militia LAV and playing some GTA in DUST is stupendously wrong and hurts this game.
Just my 2 cents... |
George Moros
Sanmatar Kelkoons
Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2013.07.01 20:49:00 -
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pegasis prime wrote:
Dosent want to use his forge gun when lavs are running rampent because he thinks his hmg would be more usefull .....massive f@@#king face palm. Ps your a heavy use the FREE lav to cross the vat the battlefield.
LOL. No, actually it was just one LAV guy as far as I could see. I really had to make a choice whether to get a forge gun and try to hunt that single LAV, or go HMG and help my team fight a whole bunch of red infantry. Also, the fight wasn't really that far from spawn point, maybe 100-150 meters.
So, basically, there are 3 main things that bug me:
1. The game allows you to call in a (as you emphasized) free LAV, and get very easy kills by running over people wearing sci-fi power-armors that can supposedly stop AV grade weapons. I doesn't really matter whether you're a militia or proto heavy - if a LAV bumps you, you're dead. Kinda makes you wander "why the hell did I train all those skills that give me more hitpoints and used all that expensive proto stuff for protection?".
2. If a heavy player has to call in a LAV just to cross safely over a relatively short distance of open terrain, or risks being insta-murdered by some roadkill addict, then why not just rename this game to Grand Theft Dust and settle this murder taxi debate once and for all?
3. LAVs are in current metagame used primarily as murder taxis, which is (I wholeheartedly believe) not their intended purpose on the battlefield. If nothing else, this fact alone clearly indicates that something is broken with LAVs. |
George Moros
Sanmatar Kelkoons
Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2013.07.02 05:19:00 -
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pegasis prime wrote:Lavs arnt broken their the only vehicle that acctually stands up to av. I havent ran heavy in this build but up untill the start of uprising I went every where in my saga. Most heavys I know go every where in their lav alongside their logibros. Lavs are a heavys second best friend to logis as they move you round quickly as well as provide cover for when you do get out. Put some sp into either a methana or a saga and give it a go . It dosent matter if your going 20m or 200m your still quicker and safer in your lav .
Everything you say is perfectly fine. This is LAV being used for it's intended purpose. Getting from A to B quickly, scouting, using your vehicle's weapons to shoot someone along the way. This is what LAV should be able to do, and do effectively. Problem is, of course, when the primary reason for LAV usage is to bump foot soldiers to gain cheap kills. So, it's not "let's call in a LAV to scout for enemy and maybe roadkill someone" , it's "let's call in a LAV to roadkill someone and maybe do some scouting". |
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