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1.3 General Speculation
Serenum:
Honestly I've never saw Heavy Clip as a must for the gatling. With the playstyle of most gat-flak users, greased or incendiary always seemed better to me, but then again I tend to experiment.
Andrej Peribosky:
--- Quote ---I fear that the Gatling will have trouble staying that viable. The Gatling currently does 106 armour DPS (not counting the subsequent reload) assuming no buffs and 100% hit rate. With heavy clip, it'll do a paltry 69 DPS. And without heavy? Good luck getting a lot of hits in. You need to be at pretty much point blank to get a good hit rate.
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That's bad. I'd very much prefer to have a less damaging base gatling than an inaccurate one. It is so boring and frustrating to fire the normal gatling, shots go everywhere and its not funny.
Imagine:
--- Quote from: Serenum on July 03, 2013, 05:51:08 pm ---Honestly I've never saw Heavy Clip as a must for the gatling. With the playstyle of most gat-flak users, greased or incendiary always seemed better to me, but then again I tend to experiment.
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It's more important to hit with the gat than it is to do anything that the other types of ammo accomplish. Heavy isn't the ONLY ammo usable for the gat, but it is probably the most reliable.
Sir Mathias :
Obviously I haven't had the opportunity to test it myself yet, but it seems to me, if the only change to heavy clip in gatling is that the DPS is lower (even as significantly as 106 to 69) and all other aspects of performance (range, accuracy, etc) remain the same, this isn't so bad as some people are making it sound. In fact, I think it could really improve some things. I personally don't like ten second engagements, more time in the fray is more fun for me. And, I think something that shakes up the gat/flak meta is a good thing. Double gats are now needed? Bring on the fancier pilot maneuvers trying to get trifectas! Two ammo types are needed for optimum efficiency? The three class system is valid again! (Seriously, does no one else find it annoying to have only captain=pilot, crew=engi?)
All in all, I'm optimistic
Echoez:
--- Quote from: RearAdmiralZill on July 03, 2013, 03:19:32 pm ---Thing is (obviously will need testing) it's not stopping that balloon from being popped in 2 shots of heavy if you hit.
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Indeed you are right and I got informed that the Heavy clip isn't only receiving a nerf, but a slight buff on its spread reduction? Will it be 90% now? Sunderland can you confirm?
If that is true, it will greatly benefit the Hellhound's component disabling ability seeing how the weapon still has a pretty wide cone even with Heavy clip, so that makes me happy, hope it's true.
--- Quote from: Sir Mathias Alasdair on July 03, 2013, 06:21:35 pm ---I personally don't like ten second engagements, more time in the fray is more fun for me. And, I think something that shakes up the gat/flak meta is a good thing. Double gats are now needed? Bring on the fancier pilot maneuvers trying to get trifectas! Two ammo types are needed for optimum efficiency? The three class system is valid again!
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Completely agree, many valid points.
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