Balance: Light Assault

[Buggsy]

Originally Posted by Palerion

TTK is actually quite high compared to most games... Don't know what you're talking about...

Yeah it's so high you don't have enough time to even bring your gun sights up before you're dead.

[Marinealver]

Originally Posted by Palerion

Don't think you're getting the point. That's great for lone wolfing but for a squad, generally you fly up to a high point that combat medics can't get to, and when you die, nobody can revive you, which makes you more of a liability than an asset. The flanking capability is nice, but they are an ASSAULT class. They should be as important to a squad as heavy assault is.

for a squad is you fly up to a point no one else can get to and place a squad beacon down on it so even if your buddies die and a medic can't rez them then they can just drop down.

To me the fact that the light assault can go places other class can not and hide and move faster is the strongest class in the game. They are the best lone wolfs and the game has catered to lone wolf playstyle from Battlefield and CoD. Leaderboard? just lone wolf for that K/D and forget anything else.

[Palerion]

Originally Posted by Tenhi

In the first post here (http://www.reddit.com/r/Planetside/c...l_and_overall/) are spreadsheets for dmg/ttk etc.. Like I already said all classes have the same "armor"/hp/shields. So if you want a face to face shootout w/o abilities just look up which weapon will win because the classes have no diffrences. If you want to factor the abilities in it gets a little bit more complicated. If you miss more shots because the LA uses his Jetpack he will probably win. If you still hit, the Medic wins because his Healing Aura lets him survive.

I hope this will help... and end this (kinda) offtopic discussion.

THANK YOU so much. That's extremely helpful to me. My only question now: is it possible to have C4 and med kits at the same time?

[Ludy]

I think giving the LA a tool to put down a 1-time spawn beacon separate from the squad leader beacon would be good.

Basically the LA goes in and drops his beacon. Everyone in Squad at that time has 1 drop at that location and it disappears after that one time for them.

Set it up like the Inf radar tool thing with an ammo of 1 or a time based ability. Additional cert levels either give extra ammo or lower the cooldown on the ability. I think having it more ability based with a longer cooldown would be better than having it ammo based. This way you could balance how often squads used it. Make the base ability take 2 times as long to recharge as the squad leader. With certs you could get the cooldown to the level that the current base squad leader one was at.

This would make the LA wanted in a squad and even with them being a lone wolf at times they could bring their squad to good flanking positions.