MAX Melee

[Traak]

Yes, I agree. Getting close to a MAX should yield swift death. Not a reward of you being able to rely completely on lag to prance around and jackhammer him to death.

MAX's were seriously weak in PS1 for close-quarters.

[Justaman]

Originally Posted by Rumblepit

********MAX suites will have a melee attack.************

Awesome post.

Guess that giant crowbar on the NC Max isn't just for show and is going to be doing some serious nasal excavations.

Guessing TR Max just gives Ye'Old boot/fist/gun-barrel to the face.

And VS will go supersaiyan? Or will people just get their eye's poked out, if they get to close, from all the spikes in the armor?

[Xyntech]

Originally Posted by Justaman

And VS will go supersaiyan? Or will people just get their eye's poked out, if they get to close, from all the spikes in the armor?

Lightsabers.

[Traak]

Originally Posted by Sifer2

It sounds like the way PS2 is designed is to give you a lot of customization into your loadout. Such as Tanks now being able to equip an AA gun in place of an AI turret if they want.

I would imagine MAX's might get this same option. So you unlock the ability to equip your MAX with a melee weapon but might sacrifice something else for it.I think the coolest potential use for a MAX melee weapon though would be to kill other MAX's in close quarters combat. Cause the transformers movies proved people love to watch big robots beat each other up. I don't think it would be overpowered against Infantry so long as you can move faster than the MAX can.

Someone in non-power-augmented armor should be faster? Why? Do people run faster than cars drive? Is them not having all that extra weight encumbering them make them faster than an F1 car, which is burdened by 600 or so kg of mass?

Here's how to balance it: don't get near MAX's. Done.

[SgtMAD]

Originally Posted by Traak

Yes, I agree. Getting close to a MAX should yield swift death. Not a reward of you being able to rely completely on lag to prance around and jackhammer him to death.

MAX's were seriously weak in PS1 for close-quarters.

LOl, yea,sure they were

[Rumblepit]

i heard rumors, cant confirm or deny any of it. but i was told they will be able to carry more then one weapon. this means they mite have the same movement as a normal player. being able to pull out a AA gun outside then switching to a massive hammer when in cqc.

[Xyntech]

Originally Posted by Rumblepit

i heard rumors, cant confirm or deny any of it. but i was told they will be able to carry more then one weapon. this means they mite have the same movement as a normal player. being able to pull out a AA gun outside then switching to a massive hammer when in cqc.

I believe that has been confirmed. One weapon per arm, like the old TR MAXes, only for every empire and the weapons can be two of the same thing, or two different weapons.

[Traak]

I remember being in a full-health pounder, being attacked by an NC in Rexo, who just got right up to my crotch, and was jackhammering me. I was hitting him with pounder rounds, which were exploding and damaging ME.

He didn't seem to experience much harm, if any, from them, but I was killed.

As I said, MAX's were seriously lame in CQB. When the defense against a soldier is to ram your face in his crotch and stick a jackhammer up his butt, then that soldier needs two things:
A) You to cease being gay, and
B) Melee combat capability.

[Kouza]

I vote we downplay melee and make it almost useless like in PS1... lol