GroxGlitch, on 14 May 2015 - 06:29 PM, said:
I finally have to drop a complaint about those pesky Firestarters and their black-hole-of-damage-negation hitboxes.
Was rolling in my 9-cSPL Stormcrow (long story) and engaged one of the little buggers. He saw me and immediately made a B-line for me, across open ground, without zig-zagging. I proceeded to let off full alpha, with admittedly poor aim, spread between his arm and right torso (I had been trying for his CT, but still fully connected nonetheless)
...minimal damage.
OK, so we get into a turn fight. He's literally chasing me in a circle, as I'm twisted and nailing him repeatedly in his CT with my lasers, to absolutely no effect. It's not hard to aim; he's making no effort to deviate, throw my aim off, or otherwise make the process difficult.
I was laying blast after blast into him, yet doing no damage. Attempting to break the circle-dance-of-death, I broke off and delivered one more good shot to him; this took off his left arm and opened his left torso before I fired again, foolishly, into his left torso, hoping to kill his XL and bring him down; I overheated and, having yet again done no damage, he ripped apart my already-mauled back (only 5 armor across the board to begin with, and I had taken some light stray long-range AC fire earlier), killing me. He proceeds to scamper off and survive the rest of the match without going down, still missing just that arm.
And I'm not pissed that I died. I'm pissed that I sunk so many hits into this guy to no effect, and he wasn't even trying. No tactics, no strategy. He wasn't zig-zagging around or throwing my aim off, he was making himself an easy target, and still came out on top. I don't know if it was latency (usually around 100 for me) or what but, man... I normally don't get pissed at a game easily, but that nonsense was enough to get me to straight-up ragequit, probably for the first time ever in MWO.
*phew* That felt good!
It has to be something more than just the Firestarter itself ... because when I play my Firestarters, I would have gotten creamed if I had played like that guy. I take hits and damage just fine so I have to play as defensively as possible and pick and choose when to engage. My ping is usually in the 70's-100's.