So, there's not a lot of anti-air options. You've got beam and artillery, and the rocket launcher. So why is the rocket launcher so damn useless? Is it me, or does it take forever to lock, and when you fire it takes one button press for the enemy to evade it? It's frustrating that the only other way to take down Hawks is to fly one yourself, and I'm terrible at it. And the Hawks dominate the matches so often, I feel pretty damn useless most the time. I played for about 2 hours tonights, locked and fired about 25 rockets, and none of them got a kill. And I'm waiting till they get close when possible! I feel completely powerless to good enemy Hawk pilots, and it's ruining my fun most of the time. Any tips?
Unfortunately the rocket launcher is basically a nuisance to a good pilot. Best way to get kills with them is to either have a buddy there alternating shots with you or to use it on a hawk that is engaged with a teammate in a dogfight. I know I love seeing a missile coming from the ground helping me with a squirmy opponent.
Hrm. Well, next session I guess I'll attempt to snipe the pilots out of their seats -- although I'm not that good with the rifle, that sounds like it might have a better chance of being effective.
The only way to effectively take down a Hawk at this point is either Dogfighting or Turrets. If you can snipe a pilot out of the air.. well sir.. you are amazing
Your not able to snipe them while in flight. But when they are on the ground the driver is an exposed target and I have rocket sniped a pilot patched up his bird and turned it against his team before.
On skills. I had a thought at work today. If you loaded up a razor back with three people who had: low profile, turret jammer, and stealth would all three skills stack on the jeep?
Why... WHY... did they think being able to knife buildings to the ground was a good idea. I mean, seriously. For every cool fucking idea in this game, there's an equally retarded one.
Your not able to snipe them while in flight. But when they are on the ground the driver is an exposed target and I have rocket sniped a pilot patched up his bird and turned it against his team before.
On skills. I had a thought at work today. If you loaded up a razor back with three people who had: low profile, turret jammer, and stealth would all three skills stack on the jeep?
Why... WHY... did they think being able to knife buildings to the ground was a good idea. I mean, seriously. For every cool fucking idea in this game, there's an equally retarded one.
It's true. The ability to knife buildings is retarded. One, its just hard to stop someone circling around a building and knifing. Two, it makes no bloody sense. That all being said, I use this ability because other elements of the game are so unbalanced at the moment. Gotta win you know. However, I've been shut down by skilled individuals with a rocket launcher who just patiently wait for me to land in their base. You can easily rack up kills if you know someones main goal is to stab your base to death.
Yeah I'm gonna go ahead and trade this in towards something else. I think someone else mentioned it earlier, for every cool thing about this game there's something retarded. The retarded shit makes me more mad than the cool shit makes me happy.
At least wait until they've completed their global release. At that point they will be patching/updating. If after that you're not satisfied I will probably join you!
Well I just had my first moment of pure frustration. An opponent was glitched in a way that made him more or less invincible. He was showing up as white on the radar and thus was not a valid target. I couldn't lock on and my guns would not track on him. I wouldn't be surprised at all if the friendly fire rules were making incidental hits non damaging.
In other news killing ten turrets will drive me insane since they fixed the maps so that bunker raping a base is more difficult.
You just have to get lucky Malechai. Once and a while you'll run across a server where someone has dedicated themselves to laying turrets the whole game. Make sure its a 30 min game. Fly in, stab a turret, repeat.
You'll have 10 in no time, and your buddy will just keep dropping them lol
What's the knife building/vechiles skill? Bruiser? Unlocked it and don't see myself switching anytime soon. Props to Sliver for pointing out how much it rules.
Only gripe that remains are the tanks. Not so much now that they can be knifed but they still irk me.
Imagine what "cheese' could exist if someone tried to copy Velveeta.
Well disappointed about the shield nerf it needed some tweaking but fifty percent is probably too much, beam turrets rip through it in seconds as is. Glad to see them making the homing missile better though, that thing was practically worthless outside of strafing attacks.
As for the tank getting nerfed thank fucking god. That thing was way to accurate to take down a hawk strafing it from beyond the guns actually locking onto it. Maybe now the ground pounder load out won't be as popular anymore.
Now if only they would let you dumb fire weapons while driving the bike.
Apparently they're going to tweak balancing issues over 3 patches. We'll see how it goes. I'm with you, I am most excited about the Tank nerf. Also they lowered the cost of the portable base thang. Thats pretty sweet I suppose, as long as you can get out of a base rape situation and set one up.
Well you would have to be proactive and get it on the field before your trapped. Unfortunately this is a double edged sword and the other edge is quite a bit sharper. Now someone that is camping a team can drop a pod beacon on them allowing for the whole other team to just fall from the sky inside their base. Really even getting a beacon up outside your base usually dose not last long unless people are actually defending it.
The game is better now. People are still dumb though. I have to run around the base to make sure we don't have three supply bunkers and three watchtowers and three vulture stations. Cmon guys, everyone doesn't need their own personal speeder bike maker thing.
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Hrm. Well, next session I guess I'll attempt to snipe the pilots out of their seats -- although I'm not that good with the rifle, that sounds like it might have a better chance of being effective.
On skills. I had a thought at work today. If you loaded up a razor back with three people who had: low profile, turret jammer, and stealth would all three skills stack on the jeep?
Dude, I wonder! We have to test this theory out.
It's true. The ability to knife buildings is retarded. One, its just hard to stop someone circling around a building and knifing. Two, it makes no bloody sense. That all being said, I use this ability because other elements of the game are so unbalanced at the moment. Gotta win you know. However, I've been shut down by skilled individuals with a rocket launcher who just patiently wait for me to land in their base. You can easily rack up kills if you know someones main goal is to stab your base to death.
In other news killing ten turrets in one round is hard.
not the case
At least wait until they've completed their global release. At that point they will be patching/updating. If after that you're not satisfied I will probably join you!
In other news killing ten turrets will drive me insane since they fixed the maps so that bunker raping a base is more difficult.
You'll have 10 in no time, and your buddy will just keep dropping them lol
Invite sent.
Only gripe that remains are the tanks. Not so much now that they can be knifed but they still irk me.
Invite accepted. Gonna blow through SP to knock the rust off (and hoo boy, I'm rusty), then do MP proper.
lightboxinteractive.com/blog/2012/5/25/starhawk-update-101001.html
The first of a few updates to fix this game up! Finally!
As for the tank getting nerfed thank fucking god. That thing was way to accurate to take down a hawk strafing it from beyond the guns actually locking onto it. Maybe now the ground pounder load out won't be as popular anymore.
Now if only they would let you dumb fire weapons while driving the bike.
Well I do always fly. But yeah that's the go to weapons.
Get right on an opponents tail fire the flak gun watch them go down. A clean hit against any pilot is almost a guaranteed kill.
Hoooly shit this game is amazing.