Weapon Rant

[NeoSatus]

I was just playing and dropped into enemy territory via HART. I saw a TR standing there so I pull out my Decimator and shoot him in the face with it, then pull out my rocklet rifle and shoot him three times. He pulls out his MCG and waxes me in about .3298 milliseconds. A Decimator does half health to a Max and same to a mosquito, completely rocks Reavers (if they are sitting still) but I shoot a guy in a rexo suit and he gets barely a scratch. Makes plenty of sense to me!

[Rbstr]

its the rock papre scissors ballance we have, if you want AV weapons the kill people you go to play somethign like Soldner or RTCW:EE

[AztecWarrior]

By rock-paper-scissors he means that there are two types of damage- health and armor damage. The Decimator and Rocklet beat up armor, but do very little to health damage. I don't know why this was done. It's just there. I recommend taking an anti-armor and anti-health weapon.

[Seer]

Aztec is half right. There are two types of armor as well--the type that av weapons are effective against and the type that they are not. Decimators, empire av, and even reaver rockets only do the full force of their armor damage against hard targets (max and above). Armor damage on soft targets is calculated differently.

[Rbstr]

and Air damage is different as well

[HawkEye]

lol he pwnt you cuz u tried to use a deci and MCG>Decimator.

[I Hate Pants]

3 decimator shots and a full clip form a rocket rifles and he didn't drop? I find that hard to believe.

[scarpas]

Originally Posted by HawkEye

lol he pwnt you cuz u tried to use a deci and MCG>Decimator.

[scarpas]

Originally Posted by NeoSatus

then pull out my rocklet rifle and shoot him three times.

sry for the double post.

i hate pants... read...

[Seer]

Originally Posted by I Hate Pants

3 decimator shots and a full clip form a rocket rifles and he didn't drop? I find that hard to believe.

I hate pants, he implied that he shot the decimator once, and explicitly stated that he fired the rocklet rifle three times.

[WolfA4]

Originally Posted by NeoSatus

I was just playing and dropped into enemy territory via HART. I saw a TR standing there so I pull out my Decimator and shoot him in the face with it, then pull out my rocklet rifle and shoot him three times. He pulls out his MCG and waxes me in about .3298 milliseconds. A Decimator does half health to a Max and same to a mosquito, completely rocks Reavers (if they are sitting still) but I shoot a guy in a rexo suit and he gets barely a scratch. Makes plenty of sense to me!

if it makes you feel any better you would have killed a MAX with that

[Firefly]

Weapons that do damage to armor are designed to do damage to armor. Weapons that do damage to infantry are designed to do damage to infantry, and not much else. Unless you have AP ammo, which is designed to chip away at armor and not health. It's a wacked balance, but it works.

In real life if I drop an AT4 (real-life version of Decimator) at effective range, assuming I hit your ass, you'd be a puddle of piss and shit inside a pair of smoking boots. In real life I could also blow the tires on your ANT and then shoot you through the windshield. If you're gonna whine about game mechanics, whine about that first.

[SilverLord]

Deci does nothing to infantry, i laugh at people using decis on me. The rocklet takes a full clip to kill one rexo so only three shots isn't going to kill the guy, assuming hes in rexo.

[Sputty]

Next time, pull out the rocklet first.

[Doppler]

SO basicly you wanted your 5 cert combo to beat his 10 cert combo and then ya bitch because you wernt up on the game mechanic?