why is splash damage being reduced for everything

Soylent · Mar 13, 2013

Izriul said: ↑

“I'm actually wondering if it's to make it look like the prowlers being balanced, while actually keeping it as strong for infantry while just nerfing everything.

I.E - It mentions splash damage needs 2 hits for infantry, is this JUST for the prowler, or across the board? If it's just for the prowler, then splash isn't really getting a hard hit for everything else, if it is across the board, then the prowler will be killing infantry in 0.5 sec while the other tanks 3.75/4s if they hit both rounds.

That said, splash is really too strong. I don't really agree it needs to be nerfed on things like the fury or bulldog though.”

Only the Prowler HE and Heat shells had their splash damage nerfed. The other MBTs and Lightning remains as it was. The radius was nerfed for all tanks.

ArcKnight · Mar 13, 2013

phreec said: ↑

“Because splash damage is skillless bull****.”

Tactical Violence said: ↑

“This was implemented for fairly obvious reasons if think about it.

This is a game, with a competitive element. If you take things to the other extreme and a tank shell (or other explosive, I'm not biased) has a q kilometer blast radius of splash damage, one would quickly abandon all weapons aside from explosives. There would be no aiming skill required for tanks or thoughts about placement for mines/c4/nades etc.

So the more splash radius is reduced, the more skill or thought is required. I welcome this.

I wasn't stupid enough to spawn somewhere like ti alloys and get tank spammed, but as LA I would often get killed by friendly splash on towers. If this encourages actual aiming rather than mindless spamming with high reward...bring it on.

Violence”

this mainly applies to the prowler HEAT and HE, since they can fire 2 rounds before reloading which is impossible for any other tank ( the lightning's default gun can fire 6 rounds, but the low damage make it irrelevant )

Zaik said: ↑

“If I had to guess, I'd imagine they looked at the score/min people were pulling in vehicles vs. the score/min infantry were getting and adjusted things to compensate.”

in other words they want to stop us when we have a legit way of getting a tone of certs

Intruder313 said: ↑

“Prowler HE and HEAT was OP vs Infantry due to the double gun.
The Vanguard Titan HE was actually worse at killing infantry than the HEAT due to the reload time.

This nerf was needed on the Prowler but not universally.”

couldn't agree more ( well maybe I could ) reducing the splash radius for everything including grenades make no sense

ArcKnight · Mar 13, 2013

GruntOne said: ↑

“Because it's excessive and in some cases even penetrates past solid walls where it shouldn't.

Don't worry, it's still going to be possible to lock down spawn buildings completely. Perhaps just no longer with 4 prowlers.”

yeah but I'm wondering on why the Devs don't find a way to make it impossible for explosions to penetrate walls and shields

my problem is not whats outside the spawn room, its the guys inside hip firing without seeing if there are any friendlies in the line of fire

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