Yeah, that would suck. Worse of all, any kind of balancing mechanic they implement to dissuade the "lock-on-side" crusaders from calling for a nerf will likely just give ammo for the disgruntled TR to demand a buff. I really hope SOE has prepared for the incoming sh!tstorm over the Striker from all sides...
TR is the natural infantry zerg faction... Our medics can dominate ground forces with absurdly strong rifles, our HA's can... Do that thing in the annihilator... But twice as much damage through using 5X as many rockets at half the strength of the videos rockets..... Our light assaults have jaguars. Our infantries Achilles heel is our HA's being lacking in their MG's. Making NC an equally infantry zerg faction, given their HA's are artillery platforms of low damage potential, but have VERY Good MG's....
that was kinda of what i m expecting that it will be only ground base laser-guided 5xrocket swarm. But nope, more lock-on launchers
I laughed. Anyway all this means to me is flares/IR smoke when fighting TR, anything else when fighting VS.
You pop your flares, you are safe for 7 seconds.... Then you need to wait 20 seconds for them to recharge. In cover. No proximity radar to protect yourself from C4 light assaults, enterprising engineers on flashes (Or medics... Or HA's.... Or infiltrators with particularly destructive passengers.)
You forgot the dreaded short rock in the center of my tank while I shoot over it. Makes you completely immune to lock ons, but yeah no radar :/.
I suppose you.... Don't drive around with a passanger who has C4 in your rumble seat that often? It takes one striker lethal-suppression team to get your attention, one team with flashes.... Entire squad of tanks dead at an infantry-lives cost.
Intelligent, co-ordinated teamwork is OP. No, wait. It isn't. It's exactly what it should be, the deciding factor in the most crucial of victories.
No, not you. You are two men coordinating against you is enough. Take out your tank squad: Without significant casualties. Your tanks are on 15 minute counters, and your 12 guys who are certed into tanks now need to take out a TR force of greater size then them. Your platoon leader would ostracize you if you called that a "Success," You guys popped ir on lock, took cover, and got nuked. Hell, some I know would kick you out of sheer hatred of your optimism.
Squads sitting up on a landing pad on the crown aren't exactly going out of there way for a "strategic victory", they are just sitting up there farming with little to no effort.
If you did, I just killed you all with a few guys locking onto you with strikers to force you into cover (With a few of you probably dieing in the process of not having smoke to get you into cover, and being stuck without a tank,) and a few guys sneaking up with flashes and nuking you.
