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Heavy Clip: What is it good for anyway?
Kamoba:
--- Quote from: BinaryDragon on March 20, 2016, 10:29:34 am ---I think the point of heavy ammo is to reduce the spread of the guns. This means it will function well in guns with a big spread like banshee, minotaur, carronade and hawacha. At short range however, the ammo have no practical use
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That's what it should be, but certain changes over the past year or so have made this less and less true... :-/
Richard LeMoon:
With the reduction in hwacha speed, Heavy could be given its full to near full reduction back. Personally, I would add the Greased/Heasink effect of reducing the velocity a bit rather than reducing clip size. If you really want to reduce recoil, you slow down your muzzle velocity.
Maybe these stats:
Clip size: - 10% (from -25%)
Projectile speed: -10%
Recoil: -100%
This would make it a bit harder but more rewarding to hit at long range on a moving target. It would also make Heavy viable on a mine launcher, placing shots between Heatsink and Normal. Light Flak, Banshee, and Gatling would benefit more than they used to as well.
Letus:
Have we been able to see how useful it is in Hwatcha yet now that Hwatcha is now slower at travel? I haven't really seen it in action ...from gunner end... due to the chaos of Lochnagar, and with the speed, I'm assuming the idea of hwatcha anything hasn't changed: just get in their faces and burst. So, no clue if heavy clip hwatcha sniping is viable again.
Omniraptor:
Why would the muzzle speed change make heavy clip hwacha any more viable? The hwacha now has the same muzzle speed as the heavy flak, and heavy flak is difficult enough to hit even without jitter.
Letus:
--- Quote from: Omniraptor on March 22, 2016, 01:54:56 am ---Why would the muzzle speed change make heavy clip hwacha any more viable? The hwacha now has the same muzzle speed as the heavy flak, and heavy flak is difficult enough to hit even without jitter.
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Just did a couple shots against target ships (I know...wooooooo really not viable)
The medium placed ship with burst had about a 50% chance to disable all the components in one clip, where the heavy clip did.
...but when are we going to see hwatcha used at 500m+ engagements again? :V At 1km, heavy clip is viable, but will require a little bit more lead than usual...
...but who uses hwatcha at 1km...
(like...the last time I did that was during that community VIP Saturday thing...and it was to knock out a lumberjack so we could bust closer..)
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