If you could have one thing from another Empire

[Hamma]

Let's get a thread started on it! What would it be?

[ringring]

I'd keep the prowler but I'd want the special ability to be shield rather than lock down.

[Tom Peters]

If this was Planetside 1, I would've said a Lasher.

[AThreatToYou]

Scythe. Just the scythe. We can smack our own NC weapons on it, just want the Scythe due to its agility and thin profile.

[Dragonskin]

Hacksaws... All maxes need hacksaws. Give comsos or mercies to NC as well. We need more range options for maxes and find better ways to make them more faction specific.

[Pella]

Empire Tech like planetside 1.

Give

These cam be rotated monthly.

TR - Amerish
NC - Esamir
VS - Indar

Which ever faction controls that continent gains the defending factions Tech for 24 Hours.

ESF / Tanks / Weapons

[BossRigs]

Originally Posted by Pella

Empire Tech like planetside 1.

Give

These cam be rotated monthly.

TR - Amerish
NC - Esamir
VS - Indar

Which ever faction controls that continent gains the defending factions Tech for 24 Hours.

ESF / Tanks / Weapons

Super OP, no skill needed, annoying, broken MOZZIE. God I hate those. And I hate the skilless pilots in them.

[Pella]

Originally Posted by BossRigs

Super OP, no skill needed, annoying, broken MOZZIE. God I hate those. And I hate the skilless pilots in them.

WTF does that have to do what i just posted?

If you want to insult me try harder. Or jog on.

[Mustakrakish]

The Prowler's Vulcan, the SlapChop of PS2. It slices and dices infantry, vehicles, and aircraft with equal ease.

[psijaka]

Originally Posted by Dragonskin

Hacksaws... All maxes need hacksaws. Give comsos or mercies to NC as well. We need more range options for maxes and find better ways to make them more faction specific.

^ this.

Originally Posted by p0intman

i want the tr and vs maxes - they have range and damage that the nc max cannot compare with, and yet they whine about our alpha in cqb. i think i would rather have the dc max with its range.

^ and this.

AI MAXes are the biggest imbalance in the game at the moment. I know this is being looked at, but I just don't see how it is going to be possible to balance a shotgun against a machine gun; they are just too different.

Solution:

TR get a MAX shotgun; higher rate of fire, lower damage, larger clip than NC.

VS get a MAX shotgun; slightly lower DPS but smaller cone of fire than the TR version above.

NC get a MAX HMG; higher damage than TR; lower ROF, smaller clip.

[Dragonskin]

Originally Posted by psijaka

AI MAXes are the biggest imbalance in the game at the moment. I know this is being looked at, but I just don't see how it is going to be possible to balance a shotgun against a machine gun; they are just too different.

Solution:

TR get a MAX shotgun; higher rate of fire, lower damage, larger clip than NC.

VS get a MAX shotgun; slightly lower DPS but smaller cone of fire than the TR version above.

NC get a MAX HMG; higher damage than TR; lower ROF, smaller clip.

I like where you are going with this. The faction specific part of the MAXes should be like other parts of the game. Weapons have different characteristics, but are functionally the same. Graphics and sounds can be empire specific. Then give them abilities that are empire specific to help differentiate the MAXs... as long as they have access to the same types of weapons it would be a great start.

Also AI MAXes should do crap damage to other MAXes. If you want to be an anti-max max.. then you go with the AV weapons since the MAX is technically a vehicle. That way MAXes have more distinguishable roles and of course they will have to beef up AV MAX weapons because they are kind of terrible at the moment.

I know some of this is probably coming with the MAX pass later.. but it needs to come before other classes in my opinion. I remember MAXes being scarier in beta.. even in open terrian. Seemed like small arms fire did crap against them. I want that to return. We have tons of rockets and other explosives in game now. MAXes should be able to go out into the field more often instead of regulated to sundy babysitting and biolab defense.

[Assist]

I can't choose just one!

Vehicle: Give me the Mosquito. Much easier to manuever and stay on target in a dogfight, IMO.

Vehicle Weapon: G30 Vulcan. People under estimate how good this gun is. On a Magrider it would be hilariously unstoppable.


The only other thing I would want is the damage of the other empires at range.

[psijaka]

Originally Posted by Dragonskin

I like where you are going with this. The faction specific part of the MAXes should be like other parts of the game. Weapons have different characteristics, but are functionally the same. Graphics and sounds can be empire specific. Then give them abilities that are empire specific to help differentiate the MAXs... as long as they have access to the same types of weapons it would be a great start.

Also AI MAXes should do crap damage to other MAXes. If you want to be an anti-max max.. then you go with the AV weapons since the MAX is technically a vehicle. That way MAXes have more distinguishable roles and of course they will have to beef up AV MAX weapons because they are kind of terrible at the moment.

I know some of this is probably coming with the MAX pass later.. but it needs to come before other classes in my opinion. I remember MAXes being scarier in beta.. even in open terrian. Seemed like small arms fire did crap against them. I want that to return. We have tons of rockets and other explosives in game now. MAXes should be able to go out into the field more often instead of regulated to sundy babysitting and biolab defense.

As a big fan of the NC AV MAX I would certainly like AI MAXes to do less damage from a purely selfish point of view; and small arms fire, for that matter. As to whether that would be fair, I'm really not so sure.

When I'm up against an AI MAX, I'm certainly at a big disadvantage up close; and it usually ends badly for me, as Dual Falcons are very unreliable at close range. But at medium range, the advantage definately swings my way as I can pop in and out of cover firing an accurate high damage salvo, whereas the AI MAXes HMGs are pretty inaccurate and can only land a small amount of damage on to me during the time that I break cover to fire. Seems like a fair balance. I can't speak for people who run Dual Pounders or Comets though; rarely seen in my experience.

[Rumblepit]

well seeing as the NC max is getting the old "balance pass" i would have to say the phoenix and or the lancer. ive tried them both out and they are very fun to use. i feel like we got the short end of the stick with the striker, just another lockon with bad tracking and a half dozen counters.

also i would be happy to have a NC or VS prox mine. i feel like we got the short end of the stick with the ai mines aswell,sicks up above the ground, has bright green lasers for the enemy to see,takes time to place, just dosnt work 60% of the time.

it would be nice to have a tricked out saw too

[ChipMHazard]

Higby's beard!
Or
The Vanguard, or rather its turret.