How to Stop the VS MAX Horde - Page 2

Warborn · 2005-01-22, 04:56 PM

Originally Posted by ZLaZ

I use the Lancer everyday and I can tell you for certain, the Lancer is by far the best Anti-*VEHICULAR* weapon, it's not as good against maxes, but it is brutal against vehicles.
I gladly take the lancer over the others anyday of the week.

Agreed. Big, slower targets are what the Lancer excels at taking on. The striker's rounds are too slow, and you often lose lock on because the vehicle is always moving around, and if a tree gets in your way, chances are your round will impact against the terrain when it's lock is broken for that fraction of a second. The lancer is way better at taking out the big stuff.

KIAsan · 2005-01-23, 09:58 PM

Lancer used to be a great Max sniper gun. Think they tweaked the COF bloom, so it's not so good anymore. My VS alt just needed a bolt drive and lancer to wreck long-range havoc.

iluvthequasar · 2005-01-26, 11:48 PM

quasar for teh win

reason i decerted lancer is because it couldn't hold up the standard of a good AV weapon. Sure, one clip = nuked MAX, but theres no guidance what-so-ever, whenever you re-aim the gun the cone of fire expands. Sure it is the infantry AV gun, but spec assault's much better. leave the AV to the mags...

as far as the MAX stuff goes, i'm not certed in uni-max, just quasar. I didn't really use the comet when i was raising my char from the start with uni-max. starfire was teh pwnage. got from br6-br15 in one life, ran out of ammo twice, and finally died to a striker...

if you ask me, the best ways to stop MAX crashes are several blockades of troops with decis/phoenixes, or some AV MAXes of your own. If the option is presented, use a few reavers to take them out... TR with their anchored pounder will own MAXes easy... make sure you're hitting them at a bottleneck though, if they come in 2-3 directions, youre screwed.

(EDIT)
Also the way I got so many BRs in one life (without a pre-nerf BFR, even tho this happened way before bfrs came out) is because i was solo, and on top of ngaru on searhus. reavers tried to rocket me but they all died to my uber starfire. since they were coming from a hack on another base, they were alive for quite a while and merited 1000-1200 EXP each. by the time the foot troops got to the base i was owned by strikers.

DeadTeddy · 2005-01-27, 06:46 AM

um, I don't see a problem here. of course different empires will have different weapons, and you CAN'T expect them to be equal. as long as in the big picture each empire can hold it's own, there's no problem.