Quicksilver Kalasa, on 19 August 2016 - 09:55 AM, said:
I know Gas touches on this, but prior to the Kodiak, the assault class was dominated by IS assaults.
The Wubshee took a back seat to the Battlemaster due to survivability issues (for both ERLL and LPL boating) while the Mauler was the main assault with 5 AC5 and whale speeds. With the Kodiak somewhat nerfed, the AC5 Mauler and the Dakka Whale may be making a return since the Kodiak doesn't have the superior firepower anymore (or at least wont once things are adjusted).
I would love to see this actually come to fruition but i dont have high hopes...
The KDK is the only assault worth taking these days and for us Cbill players that pretty much means you cant run an assault and haven't really been able to for a while now.
Gas Guzzler, on 19 August 2016 - 10:01 AM, said:
Honestly, that's why I say that it is easier to take what we have now and continue to do iterative balance changes.
The problem I have seen, is that laser vomit was actually brought in line a while ago, but because it wasn't GIGANERFED, the masses haven't really caught on, as it still works well.
I agree, i think balance was better before the rescale then it had ever been, the rescale ruined a lot of what they had done because of the big change that some mechs went through (mainly lights and mediums) but at the same time i was doing better in mixed laodouts and SRM builds then i had ever outside of the comp setting.
I think this is going to be a huge step backwards in my opinion, a step away from something that was actually working pretty well but PGI just gave up on it too quickly. Russ also said that he doesnt want his potato mechs to be one shot though and that had yet to be addressed but....
psssssttt, hey Russ, this didnt fix it either.