WARNING: FRIG BALLS POSSIBLE IN T2

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Half of you think I must be nuts.

 

I’m not.

 

I’ve just been in a domination match where half the enemy team was engies. Now, this normally wouldn’t be a problem, as engies are fairly easy to kill, even by another engineer. However, this group was cycling their drones so that they outhealed any damage we could dish out. Hence, we lost.

 

Can I just say that isn’t this meant to be a Tier 3 problem? Nerf the drones shield repair please: I feel bad when I use them cause that Cov Ops can sometimes just be on the wrong side of me when I use the drone to give me those 2 seconds I need to pop off the shot that kills them. This isn’t exactly fair.

2

missiles tend to help…or you know, more DPS…

3

missiles tend to help…or you know, more DPS…

There was absolutely NO WAY we were getting through that group. We shot at a single frigate for 30 seconds straight and the drones healed all the damage.

4

Hmm, was it 1 squad? or randoms? was your team actually capable? I mean, I can imagine 1 or 2 cov ops can easily kill 1 o 2 of em in quick succesiion…

5

Hmm, was it 1 squad? or randoms? was your team actually capable? I mean, I can imagine 1 or 2 cov ops can easily kill 1 o 2 of em in quick succesiion…

No, half the enemy team. As in, 6 engies. Yes, random.

 

My team seemed completely capable up until the point they started cycling drones.

 

The Cov Ops didn’t get within 2000m before being blown to shreds by the support tacklers.

 

EDIT: Were these guys actually using tactics?

6

kinda strong actually but 1 gunship + friend can take my Hydra2’s shields out in 3 seconds.

 

mass shield +1560 / 8s
shield boost +2907 / 8s
drone repair +9533 / 8s
 
shield heal = 1750 per second
em resistance +68

kinetic resistance +50
 
DPS needed 2,940 / 2,625
 
shield size = 10,425
 
DPS to zero shields in 3 seconds = 6,415
 

DPS from Gunship RFP on Overdrive = 1,700

DPS from Gunship RFR on Overdrive = 2,212
EM missile mk.II = 2,243
 
deficit = 2,472 or 1,960

 

edit: forgot ot include natural shield regen but it is low between 88 - 112 /s

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I’ve not been in a situation where there are more than 4 engineers in any team, and I definitely have not seen anyone pop a drone to restore my shields, so I wouldn’t be expecting frigballs to become common anytime soon.

 

Besides, inty spam should be able to take care of that pretty easily, I assume? 

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I’ve not been in a situation where there are more than 4 engineers in any team, and I definitely have not seen anyone pop a drone to restore my shields, so I wouldn’t be expecting frigballs to become common anytime soon.

 

Besides, inty spam should be able to take care of that pretty easily, I assume? 

Engy spam requires inty spam which has no counter… Darn.

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I’ve not been in a situation where there are more than 4 engineers in any team,

I got into 2 different matches with T2 frigballs soon after sabre posted this. Both were attempted by corp premades. 1st game had 2 squads. 2nd game had 3 squads. The 2 squad game they lost. 3 squad game they won 0 < 2 beacon hunt (or something like that cant remember exact score but it was almost a memorable comeback)

 

Engy spam requires inty spam which has no counter… Darn.

No counter needed. It was ineffective. Random team were able to play normally. I was testing the LRF during those games even and didn’t even try to contribute more other than typing stuff up from looking at map and pinging frigs out of heal range for peeps to zerg. Had good T2 pilots on my team tho and by good i mean maniac badges. Still just proves the point further.

 

and I definitely have not seen anyone pop a drone to restore my shields

It’s starting to catch on. A couple of T2 engineers were drone healing me when I was captain in recon.

 

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Engy zerg…