practice02
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I never saw to many snipers not camping, but I can visualize what you are saying.DY_nasty said:
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Monday Night Combat |OT| Some action on a monday night
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Stoney Mason
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Really fun game. Glad I bought it.
Snipers can't camp. At least not to the extent a Support can. They set up shop right outside of the bot lanes with a turret and a good bit of wall to duck in and out of and they can destroy everything. Snipers sit back away from the action, pick off bots and people bad enough to jump in straight lines (or take advantage of passive 3 and hit a bot and kill 2 people), and the occasional turret, but they're really not that big of a deal normally.practice02 said:
If the other team is dumb enough to let him stay there, its on them. Assassin, assault, gunner, anyone with the patience to take time out of their day to make a snipers job hard can do it. Its not hard to make a sniper largely ineffective. Whereas a support/gunner combo can break a game.
RadicalRad
Member
Just bought it last night. The game is great! I'm still learning the ropes, and I mostly just stay with assault for now. Once I feel more confident I'll branch out to the other classes.
Quick question though. Is it possible to counter/break grapples? They're fun and all but they're kinda cheesy as it not only does a crap ton of damage but you're basically stunned for the duration and a sitting duck to enemy fire.
Quick question though. Is it possible to counter/break grapples? They're fun and all but they're kinda cheesy as it not only does a crap ton of damage but you're basically stunned for the duration and a sitting duck to enemy fire.
Digital Limit
Member
DY_nasty said:
A sniper sitting on a freeze trap can just laugh off Assassins. It's so frustrating.
snoopeasystreet
Member
Dizzy-4U said:
I'm fairly sure I saw 2 people playing with the same gamertag the other day. So I guess it is.
I'm think I'm going to stop checking MNC GAF every day now. So if you want to be added, send me a PM or something. If anyone else wants to check it instead of me, just ask and I'll PM you the login.
Had some really shitty games right now. First of all, is there some form of lagswitching in this game? just had a game where grapples were completely impossible to perform, and most other things were not working very well either. For me that is, the other team seemed unaffected. Also hade a game completely bug out, stuck in death/tactical map for minutes and killcam was all kinds of messed up.
Also played a game against a full team of tanks, and maybe it was just my team sucking but there didn't seem to be any way to deal with it. I guess it also can depend on the arena. Pretty sure the worst game was on GrenadeIII or whatever it's called. Will a backstab take out a vanilla Tank?
I'm also curious if anyone has seen a host migration actually work. Usually for me it goes from "trying to connect to new host" to "host migrated" but then boots me out anyway, saying it couldn't connect.
Except for the shit above, I've had a lot of fun with game today and it gets a lot better when you start learning the different classes. Really wish you could change class and not lose a ton of invested money though. I guess the support may be a bit overpowered on some of the maps. A well placed 3.3 firebase and some 3.3 turrets are pretty hard to breach on some of the maps.
I hope this game get some patches and maybe some dlc with more varied maps.
Also played a game against a full team of tanks, and maybe it was just my team sucking but there didn't seem to be any way to deal with it. I guess it also can depend on the arena. Pretty sure the worst game was on GrenadeIII or whatever it's called. Will a backstab take out a vanilla Tank?
I'm also curious if anyone has seen a host migration actually work. Usually for me it goes from "trying to connect to new host" to "host migrated" but then boots me out anyway, saying it couldn't connect.
Except for the shit above, I've had a lot of fun with game today and it gets a lot better when you start learning the different classes. Really wish you could change class and not lose a ton of invested money though. I guess the support may be a bit overpowered on some of the maps. A well placed 3.3 firebase and some 3.3 turrets are pretty hard to breach on some of the maps.
I hope this game get some patches and maybe some dlc with more varied maps.
ShikaTheReaper
Member
krakov said:
yeah last night i got destroyed by a team of ninjas - _ - the whole match was lagging but the other team was killing mine and destroying the money ball without a problem. There whole team had no deaths >.<
So I just got this game and am having a blast with it. Are we doing any sort of GAF meetups? We definitely should, I haven't even played the team battles. I have just played the one where you team up with a couple people and fight waves of robots. Pretty fun! The last game I played with one of my friends we made it to wave 67 on the survival mode.
practice02
Banned
Supports turret camping is my bane right now.DY_nasty said:
RadicalRad
Member
My only issue with the game is the canned insta kill grapples. Pretty lame when you die to being locked into a repetitive animation that basically spells instant death.
StopMakingSense
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Jube3 said:good stuff on the crossfire time reduction
Seriously.
someguyinahat
Member
daw840 said:
Was the exact number by any chance 2,147,483,648? Damn scoreboard hackers and their 2^31.
I usually run support with my team and I can have some great matches for sure. From my biased viewpoint, I don't think support is OP. Assassins and snipers are good against them. Ring outs via tank or assault can be problematic. Basically you have to look at them as first targets. Letting them hide behind a corner and heal a gunner or tank is asking for it. You have to flank them, take out their firebase from a far, sneak up for a grapple/ring out. They can be stopped.
BigKaboom2
Member
Puts everything else to shame, except maybe Shadow Complex. I'm still just as giddy about this game as I was during the TF2 beta days. No two matches play out the same way.daw840 said:
sooperkool
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JesseZao said:
Yea pretty much.
I run mainly as support and I think what people feel about support being OP is the way they approach them in a fight. Too many times I'm allowed to set up camp, and when Im approached its usually in a gung ho manner (me or you will die!). Assassins disabling me and my turret (stealth through animation then smoke/destroy turret) is really powerful as is a support who rushes me with the intent to just destroy my turret and run away (one airstrike).
There are a ton of games where assassin charge me head on thinking they're safe and feed my shotgun kills, or ones where I'm allowed to lock down an entire side of the map with 3, 3.3 turrets and pick off stragglers/solo people while I defend my base.
Does anyone know what the faster rate of fire does for machine guns? Anything? I know it allows you to fire semi-automatic weapons in quicker succession but I'm not sure if it's really giving any advantage to me as a machine gunner. Do bullets fly out of the gun faster or anything? How about for the tank's short beam weapon? Any advantage there?
woo finally got the 25 kill streak protag as a sniper
was way too easy on steel peel arena since i completely slaughtered a team built of assaults/support/tanks and gunners
though there was this one sniper who kept trying to kill me but failed miserably so he switched to assault and gets killed again then he tries to sneak up on me as an assassin i have a trap in place and he gets grappled
his final attempt resulted in a rage quit as he ran into our base with his teammate and jackbots so i threw out a flak nade which killed both of them :lol
also i died soon after since i got overwhelmed by jackbots :lol
was way too easy on steel peel arena since i completely slaughtered a team built of assaults/support/tanks and gunners
though there was this one sniper who kept trying to kill me but failed miserably so he switched to assault and gets killed again then he tries to sneak up on me as an assassin i have a trap in place and he gets grappled
his final attempt resulted in a rage quit as he ran into our base with his teammate and jackbots so i threw out a flak nade which killed both of them :lol
also i died soon after since i got overwhelmed by jackbots :lol
practice02
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Did your team win that round?Nelo Ice said:
Diablohead
Member
The changes they made are good to hear, I will add them to the op under updates somewhere at the bottom.
It's been a few days since I last played, maybe I blew all my energy on it playing it solid for the first week, that along with being busy lately, I also get a bit annoyed with the enemy gunners, support and assault classes shooting the moneyball instead of escorting bots, I do my best to stop them but my team usually end up running away to do something else then protect our ball.
It's been a few days since I last played, maybe I blew all my energy on it playing it solid for the first week, that along with being busy lately, I also get a bit annoyed with the enemy gunners, support and assault classes shooting the moneyball instead of escorting bots, I do my best to stop them but my team usually end up running away to do something else then protect our ball.
The fire rates change depending on the class, a gunner will have a much quicket speed up on his minigun, the assault has a good 25% improved speed when using gold along with his grenade launcher being nearly 50% faster, it's not the same for every class but it is an improvement, snipers get a good boost but I think it's a waste, I don't use any shooting speed endorsements on my sniper yet I still dominate left, right and centre.Dan Yo said:
Diablohead
Member
It does both but the most obvious change is the spin up time, it will vary from class to class. Sorry I wasn't clear enough it was 2am or something when I wrote that postDan Yo said:
speed on silver or bronze is a good choice, keeps you mobile, can keep up with assaults and snipers to heal them on the move plus you become a harder to hit target due to moving faster.Mikey Jr. said:
I use speed on a sniper as gold endorsement and can flank people before they know I moved, it's great because no one ever expects sniper to move like a sprinting assassin :lol I can also run backwards spraying my smg while assassins try to grab me from the front, I always win.
Stoney Mason
Banned
Dan Yo said:
It's really fun. I also hope they fix the host migration isses and do something about overtime juicing. But otherwise its been one of the top surprises of the year for me.