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Re: Shield bonus on a heavy combat mech is dumb.

+10% cycle time +15% damage
So essentially you'll have grophos with like 20s cycle times oneshotting ***.

It'll be great.

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Re: Shield bonus on a heavy combat mech is dumb.

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wtf, not again.

whats next?

  • the kains turret fallof bonus does not fit with its role as hit and run mech?

  • the kain MK2 has an accumulator bonus, which it doesnt need?

  • the intakt has not the same bonus as the zenith, while the cammy and vaga do share same bonus?

  • the waspish has a missile range bonus that no other green bot has?

  • the logistic bots got a resist bonus, while they all just use shields, how useless...

  • all industrial heavy mechs do have a prismatic resist bonus, while smalls bots and mechs got a geoscanner (miner) or demob-resist (harvester)

There are logistic bots?

Turret falloff is cool when used with autocannons big_smile. (while the small blues realy need any range they can get).

Most player indus use shields ... but once you are "ganked" by a golden-travel-spawn ... you know how damn hard a indu armor tank can be with highslots used for EW wink.
I had real problems to kill this silver mech beacon spawns as it was close to imposible to get a lock hmm. And when I get a lock my energy was dry like the Sahara lol.

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Re: Shield bonus on a heavy combat mech is dumb.

jack, that post was to demonstrate how dumb this topic is.

each of those listed points would need to be changed if robot bonuses would be distributed like the TS wants them.

for example, the blue mechs would profit much more from a demob resist bonus instead of a falloff bonus, to fit in their PLAYER made role of running shotguns...

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Re: Shield bonus on a heavy combat mech is dumb.

Well, the topic isn't as dump as you belive.

Green has allready the lowest DPS. If you now have to trigger the shots, you get longer shot cycles which further lowers the DPS. Including the problem of hits which land in the milli second your shield isn't up.

But as Green pilots want/need to PvE too and both points can be a problem as long as you don't have a remote armor rep in your second acc wink. (And the DEVs shouldn't do the mistake, to designe stuff around bot-second-accs).

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Re: Shield bonus on a heavy combat mech is dumb.

There is no need to invent a new bicycle if someone can not ride on existing.

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Re: Shield bonus on a heavy combat mech is dumb.

Prime wrote:

There is no need to invent a new bicycle if someone can not ride on existing.

Chaos comments always crack me up.

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Purgatory wrote:

Chaos comments always crack me up.

Ye, I always crack up when I hear T4P big_smile

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Re: Shield bonus on a heavy combat mech is dumb.

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(And the DEVs shouldn't do the mistake, to designe stuff around bot-second-accs).


The Dev also shouldn't design stuff around not not having second accounts.

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Re: Shield bonus on a heavy combat mech is dumb.

as nice as it woud be to have this resolved and everyone be happy its not going to happen. I have come to accept that i dont like the shield bonus with my playstyle and i will build around it instead. [having a 5.xs cycle time on launchers and 5 on shield is stupid mircomanagement imo] But this isnt going to get changed.

If ALF really thought it needed changing or our input he would of said something by now as its been forever people have complained about this. and the only time things changed weas when the waspish shield bonus became a accumulator recharge bonus instead.

Doesnt that really say something about how useless this who discussion is. we know we dont like it but we are going to have to live with it basically.

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Re: Shield bonus on a heavy combat mech is dumb.

Still dumb...

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Re: Shield bonus on a heavy combat mech is dumb.

Still is dumb..

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I like it

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