Flail: The Pretty Hate Machine?

[Veteran]

It seems to me that if anything is going to piss off people that don't have the expansion, it's going to be getting killed by a Flail that they can't even see. I hear the thing can hit Itan from Gunuku so you know squads will be setting up fire bases.

The devs said they didn't want spam, but this weapon seems like a deliberate spam-cannon. Time will tell though I guess.

[321]

Umm your going to be able to see the new vehicles even if you don't have Core Combat.

[Veteran]

I mean as in parked so far away that you can't see it.

edit: woot my PSU rank went up! I shall drop and give myself 50.

[dscytherulez]

Yeah, but artillery is a good edition, they might add something like a targeting laser such as in Tribes, so you know ur painted. That way you can at least try and run.

[Veteran]

I agree, artillery is cool. Just wondering if it will be the spearhead of a whine attack by people that don't want to get Core Combat (although I imagine there are few regular PS players who won't find a way to get it).

[Trebor95]

There is a laze pointer accessible from 2 locations, from the Flail and from AT enabled equipment terminals, atm I think they are working on a few bugs with the pointer, but once it is worked out its gonna rock

The flails are also stupidly strong armour wise

[Mognoc]

Or maybe they'll just make it the same thing as when you get a missle lock, something like "artillery fire incoming" will flash....or something.

[Phaden]

I would imagine that they would have system of pointing with a lazer type thing, and then aim accordingly. Maybe if they did it with WP's? But who knows until the NDA is lifted.

[SERPUS]

Nin Is The Awseom

[Phaden]

Nine inch nails? where did that come from?

[ZjinPS]

I am personally looking forward to it. As a military buff I know what a well placed and effective artillery unit can do for support missions and offensive actions. I just hope plenty of thought went into it before they let it loose on the gaming people at large.

Unfortunately I can somewhat see it ending up like other potentially devasting crew served weapons. The Liberator for example, it can be a very useful weapon. If you can get a good crew for it. Many times someone will grab a Lib cert, pull out of the vehicle pad and sit around and wait for a crew to board. Many times they leave without a tail gunner, which is bad. But so, so, so many times before the bomber and the pilot have no idea what they are doing and after dropping bombs in their own courtyard they get shot down on the way to, or over the target from trying to static bomb a hot base. Now, many Lib pilots offload all the bombs replace it with machine gun ammo and fly around like a big fixed wing machine gun platform.

In short, I just hope that the Flail doesn't end up to be a potentially great but misused weapon.

[Phaden]

I wonder if it will be one hit kill. BEing as it is an artillery peice, it should be stronger than the vanguard right? so one hit kills with huge splash radius?

[Veteran]

Probably has a splash about 1.5 to 2 times bigger than a boomer sphere. Hopefully it does major damage out to the edges of its area of effect.

[ZjinPS]

Woot! Minature Orbital Strikes.

[Skullhead]

I'm not sure if the flail fires orbs of somekind but when I see a flail shot coming towards my position I'm going to stare at it and try to play catch with the flail orb a few times while typing "I got it, I got it" .

Well skyguards are going to be used to guard the flails when they are deployed. AMS will be nearby for ammo refills and such.. Firebases are going to be awesome.