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Posted - 2013.07.05 22:00:00 -
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So apparently the forge gun has a range greater than that of a particle cannon. Apparently there's a new bug where forge gunners now sit on top of the tall spires where they are so high up that their player model and red dot doesn't even show up when you're looking at them, yet they can still nail you with a forge blast.
I grabbed my madruger and tried to do some tank sniping when some forge guns forced me to take cover, I was literally pinned down the entire match because they had me camped. Every time I looked right at where the shots were clearly coming from no player model showed up, only the occasional name tag whenever a sniper looked at them, but the issue was that they were able to snipe players without being hit by a particle cannon.
We've all been abused by forge gunners in the past before but this is going too far, if a tank cannot take these pricks (let along see them) out when they can easily shoot me then there is something clearly wrong here. |
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Posted - 2013.07.09 07:38:00 -
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CuuCH Crusher wrote: Was it the enemy team that pinned you, or was it a lone forge gunner? If it was just one guy, you need to get good.
Lone gunner with an Ishukone Assault, the only infantry weapon in the game capable of taking down a 7k hp tank in under 10 seconds when you're in the open. |
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Posted - 2013.07.09 07:46:00 -
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This sort of leads into my next topic, the assault forge guns do not fit the game's usual definition of assault class. A proper name would be Tactical forge gun, seeing as the only people I've seen use the things use them as fast firing long distance sniper rifles. The assault (not capable of holding a charge after 2.5 seconds) leads me to believe that this is a close quarters infantry weapon, not a long distance one.
A proper balance for this gun would be to lower the range but give it significantly greater splash radius, a forge gun that doesn't hold a charge is clearly meant for anti infantry and should be balanced more towards it.
I don't often complain about weapons or vehicles in this game, but 90% of my tanks being blown to hell by the assault forge gun tells me that there's something off with the overall balance of AV in the game. This topic will probably **** off a bunch of die-hard forge gunners, but anyone who specs into vehicles will tell you that this weapon is a menace. |
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Posted - 2013.07.09 07:49:00 -
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Kekklian Noobatronic wrote:Altina McAlterson wrote:Large Rail Guns have a range of 600m while the Forge Gun has a range of 300m with absolute max of 320m.
EDIT: Removed incorrect info, my mistake. That. And some of them don't even actually hit to 320.
However, a player's render distance is shorter than this whereas a tanks is greater, thus allowing a forge gunner to shoot a tank and the driver to not even be able to see the forge. Some buddies of mine from Hellstorm have noticed the same thing and it seems to be just a bug that should hopefully be addressed soon. |
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Posted - 2013.07.09 07:55:00 -
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LT SHANKS wrote:I Forge snipe tanks in this manner all the time. They like eating my Breach blasts.
Now that's a proper AV weapon. The Assault however is not, it offers mobility, flexibility and range that is currently being taken advantage of and gives a very unfair advantage to vehicles. |
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Posted - 2013.08.20 04:33:00 -
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shaman oga wrote:I can't remember in what post, but i did read that the "Z" distance does not count as distance.
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heavy turrets rendering distance suck, little turrets have a better rendering distance.
Though it was fun when I went full-auto with my rail and nailed CUBS from 500 M away. It was a complete blind shot, but it made me feel like a big man for only having 1.5M SP |
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