Don't know about you, but I'm seeing a lot of lochnagar abuse on gatts that shreds armour up like nobody's business, from max range with heavy ammo precision and a DPS that would make greased ammo green with envy.
Or how about loading it in a miniflak and you have enough firepower to destroy most ships with its 3 shots, save the Goldfish and Galleon. Highly accurate and a reduced arming time to make it practical for short range.
This is exactly why I stopped playing GoIO. It's just not fun anymore; the emphasis has changed to the metagame "Lobbies of Icarus" which was never supposed to be the game's main feature. With that kind of kill power you have to have very high level engineers, 3 of them. No more gunners, ever, on any ship. Just bring three engineers with a couple of ammo types between them.
No thanks.
I know rite... the miniflak was originally nerfed with reduced damage and arming time way back when everyone and their dog was running their metamidions with it. Are we going back to those dark old days? Spires are probably going to go extinct since they tend to get sniped easily, tho you may find the odd minotaur countersniper spire or two. Galleons are going to have a hard time, no one will see the point of dual heavy flaks and recent hwatcha nerf does nothing to help.
I've made little mention of loading loch for banshee and mortar. Sure it improves their damage output, but banshees are designed for setting fires rather than putting out large damage numbers. And mortars use would become less popular when the miniflak is a more practical solution against most ships. You might want to use it against a goldfish, but they are pretty fast and their armor gets fixed quickly enough. Reduced ROF from the ammo may not see enough hits getting in to finish it in one go. Having said that, its more useful to have the loch mortar against a galleon if you are able to safely get close enough, but it would be reducing the loch mortar into a specialist damage role against just one ship. A buffed loch mortar on a galleon would do the trick but you wouldn't use it against other ships if they were loch mini-flaking against you.
And so we will probably see a rise in meta ships with very little variety with their loadouts. You might get hwatcha goldfishes thrown to counter them. 3 engineer meta ships will start stacking their rebuilds on guns. Hydro abuse. balloon buff. captain stamina. Loch lumberjack. Minotaur. blah blah blah. Mine launcher, etc. Harpoon blah blah blah. Damn this game has turned into an absolute mess....
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