D04S02B04, on 23 September 2014 - 08:07 AM, said:
There's an easy solution. Revert JJ nerfs and increase map size, increase weapons ranged.
As a poptart, you can hit reliably up to 400m with your PPC and AC. Scoring hits beyond that at 600m+ takes skill. If ranges in this game are scaled up by 50% - 100%, you'll start finding this a lot more like a mech simulator and a lot more tactical.
You have your scouts to run around, you don't feel the need to constantly deathball and there's a point to staggering your formation for overlapping fire. I've always felt that the range which the clans can fight at, should be the starting default range.
Maggiman, on 23 September 2014 - 08:22 AM, said:
Greater Maps with a higher firing range would be awesome and solve more than one problem I guess..(Regions with good Hillcover could be circumvented with the warning there be poptarts =D)
But we won't get it. Balancing like that involves a lot of decisions and with greater Maps we loose heightmap resolution due to the way the engine works.
Love that Sig btw. . Its pretty much what I thought about UI 2.0
My only concern with a return to larger weapon ranges is the return of SniperWarriortm
Weapon ranges at the moment allow for the long range game to be played but don't discourage brawler builds. It wasn't that long ago when if you poked your head around cover you were getting blasted by five guys with PPC/Gauss Rifle/ERLL from clear across the map. Doing measurable damage at nearly 1.5 kilometers can be ridiculous when taken to an extreme and most other weapons fall in the neighborhood of <500m. On Forest Colony, you could almost shoot each other from each team's respective spawns. Games could quite easily be finished with no brawls happening at all. I feel that this is against the spirit of the game, which should encourage mixed builds as well as multiple paths to victory.
At the moment, I'm mostly happy with the weapon balancing (clan lasers being the exception). JJs on the other hand could use a boost as long as it doesn't encourage a return to the poptart meta. With the recent-ish weapon changes, I can see this being feasible.
Edited by DustySkunk, 23 September 2014 - 10:13 AM.