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Imagine 5x target painters stacked on 1 enemy 
Imagine 5x target painters stacked on 1 enemy
imagine 5 Rhinos target painters stacked on a same enemy
Imagine 5x target painters stacked on 1 enemy
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One-shotting frigates. Deal in style with these pests XD
Play the objective indeed:
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Funnily enough there was quite a bit of butthurt on the russian forums about the previous screenshot, so they came after me with a vengeance. But even with slightly modded build, those ships are still turtles that arenāt able to either give chase or get away, and if you keep your speed up, most of the time energy drain wonāt be able to slow you quickly enough to prevent you from breaking the purple lasso by quickly diving into the geometry.
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Itās incredible just how weak these ships become against decent pilots when they are that slow, even with all the tankiness.
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Remember kids: friends donāt let friends fly interceptors that afterburn at less then 500m/s.
Unless you are carrying the bomb, then itās usual
However, I am still quicker than him while carrying the bomb o.O
And fun enough, I am also in your pic ^.^ Me FTW
I got a new ship last night.Ā When trying it out, moving modules over, it peaks at 672.Ā It carries the bomb at 505.Ā I was a little surprised at that.Ā I could outrun some interceptors with that.Ā The survivability is not great, but it hurts when too many people are targeting you.
Funnily enough there was quite a bit of butthurt on the russian forums about the previous screenshot, so they came after me with a vengeance. But even with slightly modded build, those ships are still turtles that arenāt able to either give chase or get away, and if you keep your speed up, most of the time energy drain wonāt be able to slow you quickly enough to prevent you from breaking the purple lasso by quickly diving into the geometry.
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Itās incredible just how weak these ships become against decent pilots when they are that slow, even with all the tankiness.
I expected nothing better from low-level ESB pilots, tbh.
I got a new ship last night.Ā When trying it out, moving modules over, it peaks at 672.Ā It carries the bomb at 505.Ā I was a little surprised at that.Ā I could outrun some interceptors with that.Ā The survivability is not great, but it hurts when too many people are targeting you.
I donāt mind 100 people targetting me, as long as they donāt shoot now that is the part where it starts hurting!
Altho I guess 100 engies trying to warp gate into youā¦That could hurt as well if 1 of em hit.
Iām not a fan in general of weapons or strategies where the counter boils down to "donāt be thereā. IE, Nukes (a couple of patches ago), Pulsar, ECM, Mass slow field. I mean, outside of some of the ECM modules the other guy doesnāt even have to aim to hit me. This also makes breaking up frigballs with inty hit squads impossible.Ā
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yeahā¦Totally fairā¦ >.>
yeahā¦Totally fairā¦ >.>
You can, however, rest assured that those are terrible pilots (mostly). Otherwise, the system really is broken.
T1 and T2 vs T3 is still broken, bad pilots or not.
T1 doesnt stand a chance agaisnt T3. Think otherwise? Iāll gladly take you up on that lol.
T1 and T2 vs T3 is still broken, bad pilots or not.
T1 doesnt stand a chance agaisnt T3. Think otherwise? Iāll gladly take you up on that lol.
Yeah, T1 pilots vs T3 ships isā¦ well, youād have to be an ace to be able to counter that effectively.
All the fun is gone from flying Engineer.
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- You canāt fight back vs Interceptors because you are too slow.
- Your Drones canāt fight back vs Interceptors because your drones take too long to spawn.
- You canāt escape because Warp Gate may as well be a one-use only item.
- You canāt tank because healing is too slow.
I am getting seriously pissed off at spawning as the only Engineer on our team and being raped by mass Recon / CovOps / ECM with no way to fight back.
All the fun is gone from flying Engineer.
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- You canāt fight back vs Interceptors because you are too slow.
I am getting seriously pissed off at spawning as the only Engineer on our team and being raped by mass Recon / CovOps / ECM with no way to fight back.
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i sympathise and agree with most of your points there, Jason - except the speed one. Federation Engineers especially are too damned fast. They can outrun fighters with great ease 
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I donāt mind their speed being vastly reduced (they should be slow), but their healing is hugely underwhelming right now. Iād rather have seen more tactical options or a buff to recon to counter healing than such a big nerf. Let player skill solve it - not a nerf which makes Engineers less appealing to play or have in a team.
Feds need a speed nerf across the board. No question.
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I feel like the simplest way to āfixā the Engineer now would be to change the drones. Something likeā¦ make the Drones an activated ability again - press F and two pop out, 30 second cooldown.
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Drones no longer heal. Instead, they just keep shooting until they, or their parent, are destroyed.
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Alternatively, the āFā command could swap Drones from firing mode to healing modeā¦ but the only way for that to work would be to deploy the Engineer with two drones active. That is a real issue with the class at the moment; if your team begins to lose momentum, Engineers are forced into combat situations with their drones still deactivated. That makes them easy pickings for unchecked Interceptors.
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yeahā¦Totally fairā¦ >.>
T1 should never fight T3, but it may be the case that the T1 guys are in a squad with one of the T3 ships what pulls them into a higher Tier.
All the fun is gone from flying Engineer.
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- You canāt fight back vs Interceptors because you are too slow.
- Your Drones canāt fight back vs Interceptors because your drones take too long to spawn.
- You canāt escape because Warp Gate may as well be a one-use only item.
- You canāt tank because healing is too slow.
I am getting seriously pissed off at spawning as the only Engineer on our team and being raped by mass Recon / CovOps / ECM with no way to fight back.
Those crocodile tearsā¦
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(See my screens in this post taken about 15 minutes ago: http://forum.star-conflict.ru/index.php?/topic/35905-Š¾Š±ŃŃŠ¶Š“ŠµŠ½ŠøŠµ-star-conflict-obt-v085/?p=753478)
T1 should never fight T3, but it may be the case that the T1 guys are in a squad with one of the T3 ships what pulls them into a higher Tier.
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Rightā¦Because half my team was in squad with T3 people? I find that hard to believeā¦
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Feds need a speed nerf across the board. No question.
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I feel like the simplest way to āfixā the Engineer now would be to change the drones. Something likeā¦ make the Drones an activated ability again - press F and two pop out, 30 second cooldown.
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Drones no longer heal. Instead, they just keep shooting until they, or their parent, are destroyed.
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Alternatively, the āFā command could swap Drones from firing mode to healing modeā¦ but the only way for that to work would be to deploy the Engineer with two drones active. That is a real issue with the class at the moment; if your team begins to lose momentum, Engineers are forced into combat situations with their drones still deactivated. That makes them easy pickings for unchecked Interceptors.
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The thought just passed my head that we might as well start from scratch and remake all the ships etc so they can actually be balancedā¦ Honestly, itās kind of sad the thought even passes through my headā¦
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A lot of modules got 1 or more problems, not to mention the ships themselvesā¦
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Can someone tell me if Iām wrong in thinking this:
8.0, and the introduction of roles, and to a lesser degree the other changes, has caused a lot of problems that could have been prevented if there had been more openness about the coming change,(so we could give feedback ahead of time) and perhabs some ability for us to test the large patch before it released to make sure big mistakes donāt make it in and can be fixed before it comes onto the ārealā server.
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Also, why wasnāt there a patch today? o.O
T1 should never fight T3, but it may be the case that the T1 guys are in a squad with one of the T3 ships what pulls them into a higher Tier.
No. Let me tell you what I see on that imageā¦
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Funky side: T1, T2 ships (4-5 pilots with T3 ships at their hands). This tells me itās a T2 match because Iāve never seen that many T2 ships in T3. Very rarely I see those ships in T3, to be fair, let alone T1 ships, unless the T1 pilot had T3 ships in its active hangar, which does NOT happen here.
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Enemy side: Full T3 compliment with 2 T2 pilots (a 3rd having 2 of each T2 and T3, from what I can tell, possibly).
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The Queuing System is BROKEN. It needs fixing. We cannot stress this any further to the devs. Excuses like that donāt help.