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[OMNOMNOM on] Dawn of War 2: Realistic Nids!
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Banshee AV needs to be buffed as well as the so-called "anti-vehicle wargear". If you don't want to go WL or WS raid their power early on to keep you safe until you get a falcon out. They're amazing except vs nidz.
Great, so to make up for mediocre to terrible brightlance AT performance, we can supplement it with more mediocre to terrible units.
Wraithlords are slow and easily kited by other vehicles and their brightlance does less damage than the regular brightlance, since that is somehow actually possible. Falcons are extremely expensive, extremely fragile in t2, and might dent an enemy vehicle if you give it a few minutes. Warp spider haywire grenades are attached to an extremely expensive, extremely fragile worthless fucking unit. Then the grenades don't even go off half the fucking time.
Don't even get me started on the joke that is banshees and their "AT" capabilities that disappear as soon as the exarch dies and she probably will along with the rest of her squad.
Warp Spiders are incredibly fragile but the haywire is great. 15sec vehicle stun + nasty damage (which can be coupled with FS Doom), also works vs carnies. I also noticed they don't go off a couple of times though I've been lucky I guess to have that happen less than half the time.
Falcon is expensive but hardly fragile, very sturdy even without shield (except vs AG warriors and the like). Problem is keeping it ranged and the pathfinding often fucks up and your falcon sloth tank likes to turn around for no reason when you click right behind it. Falcon/prism require a lot more attention to them than the other vehicles but they're worth their cost.
And I'm going to now mention how the only non-disadvantages the FP has to a predator are: bigger AoE and range. It's slower, has less life, does less damage, costs more, takes longer to shoot, and every other imaginable thing. But at least it's AoE can be about four times as big and do less than half of the damage per shot (versus about 1/4 less) and it can shoot a quarter of a screen farther.
Edit: The farseer's spear actually does almost decent tank damage but she's too slow to actually keep up with any tank and then she loses some abilities for it, so it's better to just get doom instead. Now if it was ranged like in some other, table top form... but then if we're going to start being TT rules into it, half of the Eldar army is going to be decent to good.
Each "strong against vehicles" hero melee weapon took a 50% damage hit in the last balance patch, rendering them all useless for AT work.
Not to mention the obligatory 'warboss is stuck in ranged and ignores force melee' which happens probably a quarter of the time you try to use him.
The weapon itself is fine....but it serves much better as anti-infantry because of how the Warboss functions.
I tested this 3 days ago. You are either lying or misinformed.
so the escapist march madness thing.
So i checked at midnight, and blizzard beat relic by 2 votes.
but then the escapist dumped a bunch of cheaters in their system.
And then we TIED.
So the re-opened the voting.
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/375.102488?page=134
because i'm too lazy for that
You do have to register and log in.
I think that's what's kept relic in the fight...
edit: it is seriously hilarious how this silly contest has gripped the whole studio...
or is it just about good publicity
But the powerblades did terribad AT damage anyway, if they'd reduced it anymore it would have been healing its victims.
don't know if it was as much as 50% but still
The FC used to be able to solo any walker alone (and without any overpowered iron halo) with his little powerfist. His terminator armor powerfist was also quite powerful.
The FC used to be the most OP AV in the game. He teleports next to your fucking vehicle...stuns it...then punches it twice and it explodes. I never ever ever made vehicles against a force commander during that phase of the game.
KOTOR II.
Goomba, you hate blizzard. Vote.
Maybe if you'd told me to vote instead of always leaving me out and putting me down I'd have voted for relic!
Like 15 times for Blizzard. I do hope they don't catch me and dock my 25 votes for Blizzard. I wouldn't want them to lose 50 votes because of me cheating for them. For Blizzard. 100 times.
As much as I think Relic makes better games, you certainly can install Blizzard's games and reasonably expect that they'll work.
By the way, DoW2 sure could use some patches.
Of course, balance and multiplayer in Warcraft 3 sucks balls outside of customs.
And I sure can't wait for early next week.
In other news, hai goomba, still as foamy at the mouth as ever I see <3
Someone still needs to make a new one.