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George Moros
WarRavens
League of Infamy
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Posted - 2013.07.15 13:25:00 -
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Just to add my $.02:
Today I was in a pub battle playing HMG heavy. I ran into a proto assault Caldari using Core Flaylock twice. Of course, I got massacred both times. It was a 1:1 engagement both times. I'm not complaining for getting killed by a proto guy. He was, of course, strafing and hopping while shooting me, and I didn't manage to damage him much. BUT, if for some reason the guy decided to just stay still and shoot at me, it would STILL be a no-contest duel. Against a heavy, he could just stand there, soak my damage and still kill me before I kill him. So, that's me using a "heavy weapon", and him using a "sidearm weapon". LOL.
Anyway, I decided that, from now on, until flaylock is nerfed, when I see that the opposing team uses mostly flaylocks, I'll just switch to sniper or forge, say FYVM, climb the nearest high ground and start kill whoring. |
George Moros
WarRavens
League of Infamy
30
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Posted - 2013.07.15 17:40:00 -
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FLAYLOCK Steve wrote:
Now what's next? After they nerf the flay lock and mess it up like they did to the masses driver are you going to complain about shot guns and scrambler pistol are op? seriously i csn even own a heavy with just that. I can even use a milita shotgun to take down a heavy. Stop moving in obvious patterns. The gun has only a 1.5 blast radius, you can outrun that easily. A heavy just has to throw nades ans spam the heck out of the attacker. The flay can't kill a heavy in 3 shots and rarely 4. So just shoot him down. I sometimes use my dren heavy which is the same as a std heavy, and I take out flaylockers like nothing.
No, I'm not going to complain about a shotgun being able to take down a heavy. If a shotgunner manages to get in close to a heavy, he should be able to rip him apart. Nor am I going to complain about MD. They seem just fine to me (I'm not using them, so I might be wrong here).
Could you please clarify how am I able to outrun flaylock's blast radius? What the hell does that even mean? You're talking about militia shotguns/scrambler pistols taking down heavies as if that somehow makes some kind of an argument. Sure, if you're a FPS god, and I'm completely incompetent at FPS games, you'll kill me with a toothpick. No militia shotgun needed. However, if all other things are equal, a medium suit using a freakin' sidearm shouldn't be able to regularly kill a heavy suit armed with a human-sized gatling gun supposedly designed for ripping apart infantry at close-mid range!
My point is two-fold. First, flaylock is OP. I'm not saying it should be nerfed to oblivion, but it should be nerfed. Second, HMG is failing to fulfill a niche it's supposed to fulfill. Either give HMG more range and make it a medium-long range weapon, or buff it's short range DPS (which would probably initiate a new "HMG is OP" forum campaign). IMHO, a heavy suit isn't supposed to be a CQC brawler, and attempting to make it one is futile. It's just like trying to make logistics suits be good at killing infantry. Oh, wait... |
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