While i cant support how OP the taikin obviously is i can see where pacoXXI is coming from. If you get a moment count the static players in your game, afterward u get the SC minigame of seeing 100% hit ratio of those players whining in chat about being killed. I flew a brokk in many games during the brokk event for monos and sure enough if u move then the killer taikin bubbles never reach you and the rare ones that do dont do enough damage to a properly fitted ship. Having touble in your guard then stop flying guard. Im not in game rn but i know there are enough in every game being played. Exceptions ofc like an actual decent player flying taikin, but its so rare now even good players start to get lazy with it.
Ofc flying dess is diff but seriously who cares bout them guys, even when i use mine i still feel like an a**
The game is constantly changing but the players en masse do it at such a slow rate. Before the guard buff and before taikin there was a decent mix of players using things like a tackler which used well will stop a taikin dead and deny 50-100% of their bs. But nope, its get in a guard like half your team cause its ‘safer’. Or the latest i saw, sit in your only ship (lrf) in spawn an whine bout how xyz is broken… well played 
3 hours ago, g4borg said:
Which is what I hate most about them, it’s their most devoted pilots, or the people it attracts - while the Tharga is a gunship, and requires at least a bit of a killer instinct and skill to use, the taikin is yet another ship for total cowards, who finally have an effective alternative to scatter gun kiting recons. Randomly spamming stuff and flying in circles is the main tactic of that ship. It is for “feeling good”. Imho Recons were fine as they were without teleporting stuff or creating clouds in a beacon hunt that denies the beacon forever
These concepts mainly are just hard to stomach, because the game actually becomes quite ridiculous through them
Agree, the beacon denial is insane without being a powerful attack in and of itself. An annoyance more than anything. Had a beacon hunt game in T5 where there was so many blue farts/gravy holes that the game went to time and a score of almost 200/200. Then there is the guys who finally got to r15 with it and they had a plan from the start on build and ‘tactics’ to spend the match takamina style strafing at their weapon range spamming more annoyance BEEPBEEPBEEPBEEPBEEPBEEPBEEPBEEPBEEPBEEPBEEPBEEPBEEPBEEPBEEPBEEPBEEPBEEP!
Both are cheap in playstyle and to actually make rather than more effective… whats the word… oh yeah, RECONS.
Im sure there should be a massive list of nerfs or needed counters for taikin but im not gonna list for every one of these green things, its obvious its OP its supposed to be, are we really expecting anyting different for the next or the one after? I mean there are some here rn complaining that the tharga has been nerfed to being useless. 
Or to sum up