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[Satan n stuff]

Tombstoner, on 17 July 2014 - 12:18 PM, said:

Whats worse are the weapons that excel in delivering large bursts of damage in short order. quad ac-2 pre nerf comes to mind and the 6 ppc stalker. both take advantage of the heat cap system. pop out dump damage and retreat before your target returns fire as you cool down. Makes pop tarting viable. The only reason we dont see 6 ppc boars heads are the hand actuators.

Heat based moment penalties have been badly needed for 3+ years.

Even a six AC/2 build was inferior to dual AC/20s back when that build actually worked. You needed at least 2 seconds on target to match the damage output of a single AC/40 snapshot, that is almost impossible to achieve against even halfway decent players.

[Tombstoner]

Satan n stuff, on 23 July 2014 - 03:37 AM, said:

Even a six AC/2 build was inferior to dual AC/20s back when that build actually worked. You needed at least 2 seconds on target to match the damage output of a single AC/40 snapshot, that is almost impossible to achieve against even halfway decent players.

Yes the dual ac-20 has a very high damage impulse. The notion of a halfway decent player is one that tries to min max the meta vs. others who dont. It creates a clear advantage and thus reenforces the meta. Game mechanics shouldn't be promoting this - perfect convergent shots. fix that and multiple ac-2 builds are closer in performance to dual ac-20's.

Peek... shoot.. hide reload and cool off... repeat. The game play is way too much like World of tanks.