Can the galaxies.... - Page 3

Aleran · 2003-03-30, 02:23 PM

I doubt that the situation is going to present itself enough to make it a useful strategy. I'd have to agree with Warborn on this one.

DarkDragon00 · 2003-03-30, 04:24 PM

Terran Elite Airborne Regiment

Nice brain storming but i dont belive this is gonna happen too often. The time it takes to get the supplies and fly to the right spot, it seems to me it will most likely happen by luck.

Warborn · 2003-03-30, 06:00 PM

Originally posted by 2coasts
"It is not enjoyable to be killed by something you cannot effectively fight back against."

Warborn, sounds like you just described sniping.

sure you can run for cover, if the first shot doesnt kill you that is, and if your in a few types of armor it will, but you can run for cover durring a suicide attack aswell.

Infact, I would say that you have more of an oportunity to save yourself durring a kamakazi attack than you do when being hunted by a sniper...

It should come as no surprise when I say that I disdain snipers as well. However, I don't think they'll be as bad as any of us thinks. The PS team would of course realize the impact of overpowered snipers in their game, and would take measures to make sure that isn't a problem. So I believe my disdain of snipers won't carry over into PS, as they'll likely be well-balanced and not strong enough that you can't really fight back against them. And, just maybe, they'll actually require the sniper to have skill to get kills, rather than most other games where any monkey with digits can point and shoot the insta-kill gun.

�io · 2003-03-30, 06:06 PM

Not to bring up the whole sniper crap again but i'm glad to see someone finally realized that the problem with sniping in games isn't damage level but skill level.

/me

Warborn

Incompetent · 2003-03-30, 06:21 PM

I'm with warborn on this one, you can be a creative little idiot and drop an ANT on someones head, and maybe get lucky and kill one person, or you can actually do something effective, like strafe him with a reaver, or *gasp* be an infantryman. Seriously, this is the same sort of misinterpretation that used to go around with the darklights where people thought "while reducing your visibility" meant you were invisble too.

I agree with him on the snipers to

BigDickMccoy · 2003-03-31, 06:09 AM

Blowing up a loaded ANT.....What are you guys a bunch of islamic militants. This isn't a Jihad.....Just get soem friends and go Kick Ass, what is up with all this suicide bomber crap

RCB_Ghost · 2003-03-31, 06:18 AM

Here's what you do.
Have a scout watch for a caravan on enemy troops, coming down a road or something.

Just ahead of them, park an ANT in the middle of the road, then go and hide over a hill, or behind some trees or something.

Fire off a Pheonix rocket, and keep it circling off to the side, or way way above.

Then when the enemy come to investigate the ANT.......... BOOM!
With the rocket.

NeoTassadar · 2003-03-31, 09:19 AM

For the most part, I agree with Warborn. But, it would be a viable tactic for someone as yet unskilled in FPSs in general. Elaborate a little so I don't get flamed for that: if a really major battle is going down and the guy just isn't YET skilled enough (hasn't gotten used to it yet) to do anything more than provide free BEP to the enemy, put him in an ANT, charge it, put it in dropship, fly over some nicely clustered infantry who seem to be looking the other way (not shooting at me in the Galaxy), tell him to drop and hope I judged it right. It should be enough to AT LEAST take out infantry. I think they were overestimating the power, but I also think Warborn is underestimating.

Tobias · 2003-03-31, 09:51 AM

Hamma knows all about an ANT leaving a Galaxys holding bay in mid flight...

mr_luc · 2003-03-31, 11:00 AM

If it happens it happens, I don't think it will happen often.

That being said . . . it all depends. Lol, I can just see a Galaxy-ANT-Reaver drop-shoot-BOOM combo being the ultimate llama kill. And it all depends on how serious the splash damage is -- Mine-disc, anyone?

It will probably happen every now and then, but for a different reason -- dropping ANT's is probably going to happen a lot to refill a facility, and occasionally there are going to be enemies attacking that facility. And the ANT might hit a wall, or the enemies might lay down smack on it -- so, it will probably happen occasionally. Whether it happenes 'often' or not, or whether it becomes a viable tactic or not, depends on a lot of gameplay specifics -- no one thought a mine-disc would be very practical for midairs, either, but on some maps it seems like that's a primary LD tactic. :P

Warborn · 2003-03-31, 05:55 PM

But, it would be a viable tactic for someone as yet unskilled in FPSs in general.

I'd rather they fight normally to become more skilled in a FPS. Not only that, but newbies are people too. I know that if I were new at something and someone told me to get in a vehicle and suicide into the enemy, I'd tell him to do it himself, while I grab a gun and learn how to play properly and in a way I'd actually enjoy.

I think they were overestimating the power, but I also think Warborn is underestimating.

Anybody who knows for a fact would have to break their NDA agreement to settle the matter, so I guess we've reached yet another dead end.

Mine-disc, anyone?

What's a mine-disc?

2coasts · 2003-03-31, 06:40 PM

um i dont think anyone was bringing up this topic for it to be an every day 24/7 tactic, but rather as something that may be interesting cool and fun to see and try once or twice...