The Striker

[FliggenMan]

I have seen multiple posts on the need for the Jackhammer to be nerfed drastically, but personally, I am worried much more about the all powerful Striker.

The Terran Republic is about massive amounts of ballistic firepower, so the probability of a hit is increased and the sheer amount of ammo and lightning fast rate of fire whipes out the enemy. Tell me if I'm wrong.

The Striker's primary function not only doesn't follow this trend, but it completely opposes it. The Striker is a guided rocket launcher that homes in to targets. That's a missle with a feedback system that increases it's precision. That's not what the Terran is about.

Now as for the practical application, I use a VS MAX as my secondary characters. I can't walk out of a door in a TR battlefield with ATLEAST 3 missle locks, and that's not an exageration.

The Vanu Sovereignty is supposed to use precision weaponry that is versatile, but not relatively strong. The TR is not. If you give one empire strengths that the others are supposed to have, you imbalance the type of technology they have by implementing one type of technology into the other. What if you gave the Lancer the strength of the Pheonix and the guidance systems of the Striker? People tend to not notice and overpowering weapon when it's not related to the strength of it, but I do. And this is one of them.

When i see a TR anti-vehicular weapon, i see a fast firing fragmentation cannon, where the massive amount of small explosions and shrapnel eats away at yer enemy untill his is nothing but soot and boots...or something in that vicinity.

My ultimate point is this: the Striker cannot stay the way it is, and the Lancer cannot stay the way it is. Both are in each other's parking spaces, and neither of them fit well there.