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[Joseph Mallan]

You want to hit a Firestarter with one of these?

Thats just being silly. Its harmless! Use your weapons instead.

[Ryoko Kombat]

Ultimatum X, on 19 January 2015 - 08:23 PM, said:

What if we just had you choose a location, and then had firestarters run around in circles.

We set a time limit, and then people donate money to a good cause for every firestarter you pop.

Oh how I like those Forum Bragwarriors... especially when they met Proton, Hago, Mahoromatic, Rossario or R1az IGN and then get headshoted by C-MPL's, LPL's, AC20, Goose during fly on their firestarters or a mist lynxs. Lol.

#bragmoredood

[Lily from animove]

Joseph Mallan, on 20 January 2015 - 02:59 AM, said:

You want to hit a Firestarter with one of these?

Thats just being silly. Its harmless! Use your weapons instead.

currently even all the weapons ingame have the same effect.

[Mudhutwarrior]

My only issues with firestarters is with good pilots in them. The rest are easy.

Of course I worry about good pilots in locusts too. And K2's and Dragons.........

Are we going to nerf good pilots? They are good in anything.

[Joseph Mallan]

Lily from animove, on 20 January 2015 - 03:43 AM, said:

currently even all the weapons ingame have the same effect.

Hasn't been my experience. I hit em just fine. They Go Boom when I hit the lil suckas with twin AC20 and eat me alive when I can't. Working as intended.

[Lily from animove]

sneeking, on 20 January 2015 - 04:36 AM, said:

Yea I think all this fs9 op talk has baited many a poor soul into piloting them and trying to tank like a hero....

They come across my huginn and oxide they fall on they face.

how about havign a speak with soem of the FS9 palyers who confirm this I got hit and ran off liek a baws happenings? and why is it the FS9 havign this ability so much more than the lolcust? the lolcust is even smaller, yet seems not to have this nice little feature of unregistering volleys given to it?

FS9 is not the flavour of the month, the FS9 does have a serious issue because a gamefeature is broken in relation with them.

Edited by Lily from animove, 20 January 2015 - 04:43 AM.

[Joseph Mallan]

Lily from animove, on 20 January 2015 - 04:42 AM, said:

how about havign a speak with soem of the FS9 palyers who confirm this I got hit and ran off liek a baws happenings? and why is it the FS9 havign this ability so much more than the lolcust? the lolcust is even smaller, yet seems not to have this nice little feature of unregistering volleys given to it?

FS9 is not the flavour of the month, the FS9 does have a serious issue because a gamefeature is broken in relation with them.

How about the Firestarter is a match stick and teh Locust has a wider surface to fire at???

[Lily from animove]

Joseph Mallan, on 20 January 2015 - 04:45 AM, said:

How about the Firestarter is a match stick and teh Locust has a wider surface to fire at???

and when I fully hit a stick runnign straight away from me and nothign happens thats beause its a stick? no its not. a visual hit is a visual hit, no matter if its a stick, a pulp or a walcung lolcust. but when the hits not register for whatever broken reason, how does this differ? Commando is similary stciky, yet has not this magic attribute? why?

[Joseph Mallan]

Lily from animove, on 20 January 2015 - 04:53 AM, said:

and when I fully hit a stick runnign straight away from me and nothign happens thats beause its a stick? no its not. a visual hit is a visual hit, no matter if its a stick, a pulp or a walcung lolcust. but when the hits not register for whatever broken reason, how does this differ? Commando is similary stciky, yet has not this magic attribute? why?

Yes its because its a stick and you may have JUST missed the hit box, due to server lag or any other number of reasons. Like its supposedly traveling at 140KpH, I piloted a Commando for a few hours yesterday, I can guarantee I would die JUST as horribly in a Firestarter as I do in a Commando.

[ShinVector]

Joseph Mallan, on 20 January 2015 - 04:56 AM, said:

Yes its because its a stick and you may have JUST missed the hit box, due to server lag or any other number of reasons. Like its supposedly traveling at 140KpH, I piloted a Commando for a few hours yesterday, I can guarantee I would die JUST as horribly in a Firestarter as I do in a Commando.

You are a bit wrong here from someone who pilots both fairly regularly.
FS feels much less agile and Sluggish to pilot compare to the Commando or say Jenner. Almost feels like a medium.
Commando far more fun to pilot.

The big difference that separates the two.. JJs...
A FireStarter without JJs would be pretty fragile.

Edit: Sluggish.

Edited by ShinVector, 20 January 2015 - 06:43 AM.

[MerryIguana]

ShinVector, on 19 January 2015 - 06:48 PM, said:

Hey... If it was a duel... The assault mech brings Streak... Bye bye 'OP' Firestarter.

Streaks are scissors.

[Juju Shinobi]

I switched from my Jenner F to the Firestarter... I had to try ******* hard to break 1000 in the Jenner. I wasn't even trying in the Firestarter. Honestly though, it gives clanners something to look out for. They may be obscenely powerful but honestly though, I don't mind it as much as I used to since hit reg is a lot better

[Kjudoon]

Jimmy Page, on 18 January 2015 - 04:37 AM, said:

When 90% of the lights are Firestarters, it should tell you something. They have the speed of a light with jumpjets and the firepower of mediums. They also have borked hit boxes the way the Spider used to. I'm sure the Firestarter pilots will say "stop whining, we have skill". I say pilot something else and see how well you do. Everyone knows your precious light is broken. PGI, fix please. The sooner the better.

70% of skill in this game is purchasable online in the form of a better computer and big monitor. In fact most of that is monitor. the rest of it is a mix of actual skill, twitch speed, broken hitboxes/HSR/Convergeance/Cheese and Ping issues.

Anyone who says otherwise is lying to themselves.

Also, do not mistake success for skill. You are competing against other people's bad decisions and most of all their bad equipment and ping.

Edited by Kjudoon, 20 January 2015 - 07:14 AM.

[Joseph Mallan]

ShinVector, on 20 January 2015 - 05:43 AM, said:

You are a bit wrong here from someone who pilots both fairly regularly.
FS feels much less agile and Sluggish to pilot compare to the Commando or say Jenner. Almost feels like a medium.
Commando far more fun to pilot.

The big difference that separates the two.. JJs...
A FireStarter without JJs would be pretty fragile.

Edit: Sluggish.

Not for me its not. Gimme my heavies or better my Atlas or Battlemaster if I want speed. Not everyone is meant to be Light Jocks.

[AlmightyAeng]

Ya know...before we cry "NERF FIRESTARTERS!" can we see their hotbox registration fixed? If they actually lost legs when people shot them dead on with a 40+ alpha, I think we'd see a lot less complaining.

Please don't encourage PGI to put a band-aid on it like they did with the Raven 3L's when they had the "invincible leg" hitboxes.

[Karwa]

FS9 - A
9 Kills

[patataman]

Don't nerf the FS, fix the hitboxes.



This weekend, a FS overheated in front of me. I shooted at him with 6 mpl in the chest for full duration. The paperdoll flashed, but didn't change its colour. At the same time he was being hit by balistics from behind me, in the chest too. Then the FS powers up and keeps running.



Sorry, that is not "skill". We were hitting him, but damage was not registering.

[dario03]

Kjudoon, on 20 January 2015 - 07:13 AM, said:

70% of skill in this game is purchasable online in the form of a better computer and big monitor. In fact most of that is monitor. the rest of it is a mix of actual skill, twitch speed, broken hitboxes/HSR/Convergeance/Cheese and Ping issues.

Anyone who says otherwise is lying to themselves.

Also, do not mistake success for skill. You are competing against other people's bad decisions and most of all their bad equipment and ping.

70% is a bit unless you're talking about something that is playing at like 5fps currently. I played this game for over a year at ~25fps with drops going much lower on a dieing CRT monitor from 2000 (seriously couldn't even read the grid squares on the minimap at times) and did just fine. The game is more about positioning and teamwork than being able to shoot a fly off of your enemies nose. I also did a lot of my light drops in Jenners and we all those are CT on legs.

[Kain Demos]

I swing my own bat on Firestarters--they're called C-SSRM6.

[Brody319]

Sorry Firestarters, theres a new SPL boat on the field now!