Further weapon testings, I think I like the Phoenix a lot more now. The 100% penetration must somehow translate to the explosions because I don’t feel the reduction of explosion radius anywhere. But it has also been ages since I played my phonixes, but I remember them sucking ballsachs.
The damage upon hit is really nice in keeping a better track of you hit an enemy or not, especially when peeking out from cover to tag enemies with the bolts.
The perk was sounded really weird because all it does is give damage resistance, instead of any “Crossbow stability”. It’s not bad though, because Phoenixes have some hp so they can make some use of the extra damage resist, but still why word it like “crossbow stability” instead of calling it what it is, damage resistance.
At least for me coming back to Phoenixes after a long while did not feel bad at all. Not instantly op but feels better than I remember
Is that over? Because, that alone would be an improvement.
It seems like an overly complicated solution to a problem they created for no apparent reason, but whatever. Now we have ammo pack dependency…sort of? I’m sure they won’t capitalize on that newly fabricated demand to sell products.
I haven’t played it much since the update (just a few rounds), but I didn’t really notice any difference in PVP. I’m not sure what it actually accomplished. If I hadn’t read the update, and had logged in unaware, I’m not sure I would have noticed anything had changed.
they are. i think its stupid that small energy weapons require ammo to. the aurora doesnt even use bullets, it uses energy. the helios doesnt use ammo either, it uses plasma.
its just dumb.
also the spark uses ammo to which is mind boggling. just… why?
It could be much worse: they could have invented battery packs for energy weapons to use as ammo. At least this way people don’t need to buy something new to use the weapons effectively.
i had the thought of this. driving around charges a battery on your car and the charge is used for energy weapons. but ummm… yeah i dont want the devs getting ideas for this… lol
my bad,it was just an idea and now it’s reality.
it’s not that bad,it makes it more of strategic game than spray n pray.
and on Kaijin, i don’t see them anymore in CC.so that’s a plus.
I think Gaijin should focus on creating new maps, weapons and building components. They should keep the established weapon mechanics before patch. Now, as for the PVP confrontation, it’s just a melee weapon or an energy weapon. Important things like creating new bots, helicopters or mechs are neglected and especially for the 4th year I’ve been reminding them that the game needs a PS filter, i.e. Power Score levels in which the player could play with his build in some reasonable range. I have a PS of 13k and it gives me a match of PS 15-20k
For me, this update is horrible and wrong direction for balancing.
What was the main problem people had? Flying 4xMinigun Meta Bricks.
I mean the flying blocks with tons and tons of armor parts that were basically a flying tank.
It would be way better if they finally start to fix that Brick meta instead of killing whole weapon categories.
Rotors should not be able to lift so much weight! Lighter builds to fly would also mean easier to kill and then people wouldnt be so mad about helis and miniguns.
I mean the only thing miniguns had for them was hitscan, without it its just a shitier autocannon.
And for all those “buhu now you finaly need to aim” wtf you are on about? We needed a pretty good aim because miniguns are not good overall dmg dealer. They are for stripping weapons and for that you need to aim at them. And hell it was hard to strip these Meta Brick Drones. (yea i dont use meta)
With the new system its impossible to use them for air 2 air combat because you cant hit shit with them and the small amount you hit is barly any dmg.
After 5 matches i now gave up on mgs on heli. Everything else stomps me now Quasar, Cyclones even Therms …
I dont have any problem with the ammo feature but it becomes a problem when i use all my ammo on 1 single enemy because i cant hit shit.
And before you say “adapt” why should i? Why should i use a suboptimal weapon thats weaker then any autocannon?. My dual Whirlwind 5700 ps heli build SHREDS my 9500 ps 4x Equi heli now.
Only thing you can use mgs now is for slow moving ground to ground combat.
And plz don’t say they got buffed … what does less spray and more range help when you still cant hit anything and nearly need to kiss the target to get some hits in?
Btw. did the devs still not acknowledge that hitscan had 100% hidden penetration before they nerfed it to 70%? or should i say “added 70%”
One blue ammo box. Does anything below epic rarity hurt your ego?
Agreed.
Aim assist is the issue. If you plug a controller into your PC you can use aimbot with your keyboard and mouse. The removal of hitscan was an attempt to combat this.
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Or use a Starfall or two.
Your inability to doge scares me.
You complaining so hard about MGs getting a change makes everyone else think you don’t want to use anything else and won’t suggest autocannons. So they say “adapt”. You can use ACs if you want, just stop complaining about MGs.
No. No it did not. If you shot at a part with a cab behind it you wouldn’t hit the cab until the part was destroyed.
I agree 100%. Machinegun damage is half a bar. Also, having limited ammo makes the aquilo radiator obsolete since it’s perk is recharged by constant firing. I now only win 10% of matches. How is that OP?
No it doesn’t, if your on target then by all means keep firing. The only thing they are cutting back on is people holding the fire button down and spraying all over the map constantly through the entire match.
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