Yesterday, during a nice NC zerg on solsar (with my NC character) I noticed I was the only one using a phoenix. A few weeks ago there would have been four or five others next to me, taking out wall turrets and maxes. But yesterday, it looked like out of several hundered NC, I was the only one still using Anti-vehicle.
I post this because when I returned to sanc later, a newb was asking advice on whether he should get special asault or heavy. I said special, since I have special and AV, but obviously , most people said heavy. I love special assault now that I've figured it out, so I am biased towards it (the thumper is my favorite weapon in the game). I gave up heavy a while ago to get combat engineering. But it made me think of trading in AV for heavy again. Right now, AV is only marginally useful, no matter what empire you're in. In most cass, if you only have the three cert points to spend, you're better of going with special assault, or saving it for Heavy. The fact is, anti-vehicle is simply not worth 3 cert points.
I think what they neeed to do is add a few common pool items to anti-vehicle. After all, with special assault you get three weapons. I think one could be a missile launcher that deals the same damage as a phoenix, but locks-on like a striker, holds only one missile, and no dumbfire mode. Another coudl be a shoulder -mounted Flak cannon for anti-air. It would fire at the same speed as an AA TR max that isn't anchored.
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2003-08-01, 12:43 PM
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