Common Pool Max

[Queensidecastle]

And you base this on what, numb nuts

Your apparent lack of knowledge on what the capabilities of the Sparrow and Dual Cycler are. You obviously dont have a clue how fast and easy Dual Cyclers bring down mossys and reavers by your own statments. Shall I go on?

[Celia]

Shadowseeds assessment was pretty accurate. A DC Max can only drop a reaver or a mosquito if he is both locked down (which we know how safe that is outdoors) and the flyer is hovering in place. Even then you have to fire in bursts due to the range. Any flyer that gets dropped by a DC Max was either already heavily injured or was not movin.

[Happy lil Elf]

No, DCs rip through vehicles, land or air. So do Falcons as a matter of fact. The difference is the DC is a much higher projectile speed which means if you're any good you can shoot down aircraft. Not nearly as easy with the other two Empire's AV MAXs. Can you take out libs at the flight ceiling? No, of course not. But you can shred that mosq flying slow over the base or near the tower to scan for hostiles or that Reaver coming in slow to unload a ton of rockets into your AMS.

[BDMJ]

Everyone knows that big power armors with gigantic claws are one of the few things missing from planetside. In fact 9/10 experts agree that claw maxes would utterly own the competition in terms of coolness.

Honestly how cool would it be to see two of these things charging down a corridor, ripping every soldier apart that gets in their way, while at the end of the hall two grunts are frantically trying to bring their decimators to bear on the max before it reaches them! Pure chaos!

[SandTrout]

Alien tech MAX maybe? That may be too much like Vanu though

I like the idea of a beefed up punnisher, but with rockets and bullets only instead of swtiching between grenades too. The extra armor would copensate for no special ability. Make the bullets somewhat higher damage than the standard 9mm rounds with about the same fire rate as a punnisher. The rockets should be faster moveing(but similar damage) than the rocklet/punnisher rockets. maybe 1 rocket ever 1.5 seconds.

[WildEagle]

A c p MAX would be great but what would it have as weapons and how many would tere be? Also do u think that the empires need more MAXs or somethin I'm gonna make a thread that asks what u think wopuld make ps better.

[dymetrie]

OK,

Have you paid attention....

If the sparrow is not locked on...

It is a dumb fire rocket launcher....

Or are you just jealous Vanu Scum?

Dym

[Eldanesh]

Yeah, Sparrow really is like using rocklet as a max with the added bonus of a 12 shot clip, lock on to aircraft, and 650 armor. (badass for 2 certs) Pre-lasher nerf I could regularaly take down 1-2 lashers before loosing all my armor. Each sparrow missle does (I think) ~50 damage a shot to enemy maxes I think it is also about a 4-5 shot kill on infantry IIRC, so not all that different from a rocklet other than the clip+ the massive sky-clearing.

What I would like to see in a common pool max? How about a current max with no empire abilities and no hard-wired gun. No pistol slots, just 1-2 rifle slots (I am thinking 1) All this for 2 certs.

What do you get?

• Tough armor
• More versetile than current Maxes
• Not one-man killing machine,but still can hold its own and make appreciable impact
• Cheap cert cost similar to the fashion of infiltrator

What can balence?

• Cannot drive, cannot heal/repair/hack as per all maxes
• Maybe slightly less armor than E-S maxes due to versitility
• Balence-pass should make AV maxes better than CP Max with ES AV ( I hope)

Reinforced exo is currently the toughest infantry armor and with 2 pistol/2 rifle slots and it would still be more versetile than the CP max. 2 certs+ having to buy your own weapon certs should balence somewhat. (CP max + jackhammer may be nasty and better than scattercannon, but at least would cost about 8 certs vs the scat's 3.)

I just like the idea of Unreal 1-2 heavy armor more than I like the idea of in-game gundams.

[MuNsTeR]

that would be cool if you could have each type of common pool max with a really cool specialty