Khobai, on 21 February 2018 - 05:45 PM, said:
ok then polar highlands. that works just as well as an example.
polar highlands is one of the most picked maps in quickplay.
ERLL is better at 600m because its still doing full damage. LL is already dropping off considerably at 600m.
ERLL also gets bigger increases from the skill tree because theyre percentile based. like 15% range means a lot more for ERLL than LL.
LL really needs a shorter beam duration like it used to have before PGI took it away for no reason. The ISML should also have a shorter beam duration compared to the ISERML.
non-ER lasers should not have the same burn time as ER lasers. that makes no sense.
Polar is seen, but most picked? Nope. I see Crimson Strait, Grim Plexus, HPG and Rubellite picked way more often than Polar. Polar happens usually cos someone dropped a 6x multiplier that they've been saving in order to abuse their ERLL/LRM build. On these other maps it's a lot more effort to abuse longer range builds.
I didn't say LL was
better at 600m I said it was
effective, and I said 450-600m, I wasn't picking out 600m specifically, it was mentioned as the limit on a range bracket, so it's misleading of you to focus in on 600m when the average range of the bracket I wrote is about 525m.
'Makes no sense' is a subjective comment. There's nothing about an ER laser that indicates that it would burn longer from a tech point of view.
I don't think LL needs a shorter duration at all.
We can agree to disagree. Not every discussion has to end with a victor.
Edited by Yosharian, 21 February 2018 - 06:11 PM.