Good points… if you can only have fun if you’re winning and dominating, then to the META Dungeon with you!!!
But, if having fun comes in other forms, then yeah… 
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'then your whole team dies !.. 
‘i done that’ 
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Bye! LOL I may have gone out, but I went out in a BLAZE OF GLORY!
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i dunno, even if I make my PS higher I still get Tusks. Enemy has them more often. Anyhorse I’m sort of fine with the outcome (considering I have a crappy build with Tacklers)
I do think the collision mechanic needs to be tweaked, but overall it’s fine. You shoot some wheels off of Tusk and it’s done.
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I’m OK with it. Not offended. I am that weirdo. Also, I don’t play much of this stuff in the conventional manner people are discussing, so a lot of the general insults towards Lancers or Drone-Boats I know doesn’t apply to me. I’m actually weirder than they think, maybe.
I’m also very aware that kids play for resources and I play for fun, and that makes me odd too. I don’t get very high scores with Lances, and I don’t care, but I do manage to make some important plays in the game, and help my team with passive melee and that drone in the trunk, far beyond the expenditure of my Lances.
I just don’t get many points for it after the Lances are spent, but I know my team has been able to win on occasion due to my efforts at ganking wheels off bad guys, and using myself as a meat shield, or by running interference, well into the end game of matches. I straight up popped a guy, who was mauling my mate hard, using my hatchets yesterday, for example. Being as that bad guy was the last of three, it was an important play, and I’m certain it tipped the scales back into our favor.
Ya, Lances make fair farming tools, and people hate’m for that reason too, but I’m not in it for resources. I just want my team to win, have fun, and feel like I’m a part of the game. Gold and glory be damned.
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those are some nice looking vehicles,
i’ll try to take this stuff to heart, if only just to deprive Docsavage the satisfaction should we ever meet on the field 
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Oh, sir… like I said… y’all talked me into building one. LOL Maybe Doc & I should team up & go hunting. 
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Why is there a drone and shield on the ground?
Your making a Lance build right?
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There’s also a turret behind it… ram 'em with the lances & Tusk, drop the turret & shield… scoot away into the sunset. There’s also a minelayer pooping out the side.
If all goes well, I hit 'em with the lance & Tusk. They get snagged on the kapkan, start getting shot by the turret, and can’t do any damage b/c of the shield.
I just built it, so I’ll have to toy around with where everything pops out to get the best results.
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It does sound interesting, but to me it seems like your trying to do to much.
Sounds more like a jack of all trades and a master of none.
The Lance build should be the master of “now you see’em and now you don’t” not “put a little hole in them and slowly kill them with a turret.”
The mine, turret, and shield all seem out of place.
You don’t have to run more lances if you don’t want, but the other parts do not seem to have any synergies with lances.
Bah… it works pretty well. At least, it used to. Remember, the Tusk is still there.
It’s a way to make a Tusk build more useful.
I just used it a couple of times, and it worked pretty well. 2 kills in the 1st match. One was a bot, but it was a tank-tread cannon bot, so killing one of those with the Tusk & Lances is something.
The first impact was to the left side tread… dropped the mine, turret & barrier.
Cloaked up, circled around, & boosted back into his side again. He was gone… as in dead.
Hit another - glancing blow, circled past a 3rd guy & re-dropped everything.
Then repeated the 1st kill on that 3rd dude.
They actually do compliment each other. You just have to time the drops carefully & know not to stick around after doing so. Let them be distracted by the barrier, mine & turret.
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If your having fun that’s all that maters 
I’m glad you like your build.
To me the “shield” is the most out of place part.
It’s 2 points of energy and only protects one turret.
When I’m playing a Lance build, if the person I attack doesn’t instantly vaporize then I didn’t build it right.
Things that are good to pair with lances
- more lances
- spark/flash
- melee (your doing the cabin thing, so maybe not on this build)
Maybe if I was being creative:
- Shotguns
- Daze module
Have fun bro! I might build one too and post it tonight.
Oh, it has lots of room to improve, that’s for sure.
If I were going for a full lance build, then yeah… like 10 lances on the front or sticking off to the side.
That gets boring fast because once you erase that first guy, you’re pretty freaking useless other than what Doc said before.
When I ran builds like this before, I didn’t have the barrier, so that is new. I’ll have to play it a few more times to see how it works out. I play a match, watch a replay… play a match… watch a replay.
It’s hard to tell what’s going on with the turret/mine/barrier since my only real inclination is what’s showing in the mini-map and the damage counter. I can’t really watch that stuff while playing… not well enough to account for how well it’s working. Replays are a great coach.
In the last match, I ran down a triple cannon hover & only got a glancing blow on him, but after I scooted away, he just circled there wildly for a few seconds, so he was essentially taken out of the match. My team got him before I did.
4 matches, and it’s gotten last place once, a 2nd, a 3rd and a 4th… so, not bad.
Either way, it’s a hoot to play. It’s a little frustrating with all the heavy tankers not doing the MASH W & SHOOT mindless thing, but other than that. Yeah.
If you do, try a build like this… very unconventional, but arguably much better than the full on frontal attack.
The reason being, if whoever you hit does survive, you can still escape instead of sitting there face-hugging the dude & getting pounded. Or, even if you do destroy him, you’re not trapped under his wreckage & getting shot from behind. Instead, you tear him up with your lances & hardly slow down.
One warning, though… be very aware of how WIDE your build is with the lances poking out like that. Move 'em around to a location that works on your build.
Obviously, that’s not a real build… just slapped it together to show what I was talking about.
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A unique idea, although I’m not sure it works
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It used to. I don’t have enough boom-sticks to make it work, anymore, though. I started progressing from the Boom to the Lancelot & have only gotten 3 of them.
The build works great, but it’s a bit trickier to use. You have to be more careful in lining up that first shot.
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I played lances a lot.
If I get time I will have to post some of my findings on how to get the highest damage out of lances.
Spacing maters a lot.
The normal V shape of a multiple Lance builds is not the most efficient at damage output.
And speed. But you can max speed without boosters.
At 6.5k ish its one of the most powerful weapons in the game.
It’s why I complain Cerebus should do at least mauler type damage.
@OP
Tusk is not OP. It just doesn’t “feel” fair when you get smacked. That’s all. Move up in PS and you will rarely see them.
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You guys are making me want to finally try tusk.
First I have to finish making another harvester, and then I think a tusk build is next for me.
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Once I realized I sometimes blew up my own lances with my lances, I learned that lesson quite well. LOL
I do wonder if putting generators & fuel tanks out with your lances still works, though.
As for that build I posted earlier, I swapped the Barrier for a King, added a generator.
First go round got MVP.
Having folks NOT be able to chase you after you hit them is great.
Tusks cause so much chaos… stupid fun.
They’re not MVP machines, but they are hilarious to play.
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