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If we see 1v1 in adventure mode, I think it'll come close to being a win button. Even if you destroy the gun, they only need to get it repaired for a few seconds to take your balloon down and then you're not getting another shot at them unless they can't stay on you.
Cogs needs more ducks.I concur, Quack Quack
On a serious note I think it would be nice to get some "accessories" to decorate our airships with.
Having flown more than a few carronade fish myself, I can tell you the carronade is not high risk high reward. It is incredibly easy to stay on a target, the only thing you have to worry about is their teammate coming in for a 2v1 which shouldn't be happening if your teammate is doing his job. They're also surprisingly long range, once that balloon is teetering on death it doesn't take much to keep it dying. Your reward, on the other hand, is the slowest kill ever. Much like how hwachas take forever to actually kill a target, it takes AGES to take down a competent crew that doesn't want to go down. They won't ever rise above you, but they sure as hell will drag it out for ten minutes.
We don't always play the same matches so we will have different perspectives. For me it becomes high risk to charge long range barrages from good gunners, and high reward to lock that long range vessel in a dive toward the ground and effectively being forced to survive. Staying out of gun arcs that can disable your gun is the part that gets tricky.
And yes, it does take ages to kill someone on your own. Thats why its not OP. If it did, then you could disable them and pop them rather easily. Currently, your ally has ample time to assist, but if that time runs out, thats on them.
You should give it another light weapon on it's right side to make it really tactically intriguing.
I considered adding more weapons, but I balked at it- would that make it too much like the Goldfish?
I am 100% sure that "Defend" = "reseting red/blue (controled by the enemy) point to white".
You don't need to capture it.
But hold on, saying "most ships still use a gunner" isn't relevant. The fact is gunners are strictly worse than engineers in almost every scenario. The only time I'd ever consider a gunner more valuable than an engineer is MAYBE on the front of a Manticore Goldfish. MAYBE.
The truth. A lot of people want to BE gunner, but not a lot of people WANT gunners. There's plenty of reason to shoot, not a lot of reason to switch out ammo compared to the need to maintain their own gun and help out with repairs.
Well here's how I look at it. You can have another engineer if you would like to help you rebuild when things get critical, but what is there to stop another captain from following you down and just keep hammering you so that all your engies are busy? Your ship is essentially useless at that point in time, b/c you are not putting out any DPS. The moment your gungineer hops off the guns to help, is the moment your ship is doomed to die (IMO of course). The gunner role gives you extra ammo so that you can hit your enemy fast, and provide more DPS. As a side note, gunners are becoming more important for guns with arming time, if you get into a close quarters engagement (lesmok for long range, Heavy or Incendiary for short)
The spanner DOES become useful if the component is missing less than 40 HP
So that's the reason why...
In my entire career as an Engineer, you would not believe how many times that has happened to me, when the hull is teetering on the edge of being junked and unjunked and I have kept it alive, using just the spanner. I remember when I first had this happen to me, it was like my second game.
So, alright. Let's just settle this right here:
I will admit now (after a little testing of my own), that the mallet does have its perks mid battle.Where are you getting this idea that your teammate is not helping you by whacking a near-death component with a mallet, or that your spanner is managing to provide more uptime or less direct hull damage when it's constantly near death? Are you talking about a Squid or Spire, with notoriously fragile hulls?
The first time this happened was on a Pyramidion I was flying with my friends, second game we ever played. We were under direct enemy fire and I was, I admit, panicking as our Hull Armor started to drop and our Hull Health was about 10%. I was beating on it with my spanner repeatedly, somehow keeping its health up as we were hit with Flak. I told my friend, a fellow Engineer, to get the engines while I get the hull. We were still getting shot when, after finishing the repair work on the engines, hit the hull with his mallet. My first reaction was "Oh good, now I can stop nursing this thing" and within a few seconds after that initial mallet strike, our armor was gone and we didn't have time to repair it before we blew up.
Since then, I've had this happen to me on six separate occasions on (mostly on Junkers, Pyramidions, and yes, the Squid), most of which resulted us in losing the game.
It's weird, mate.
