Can the ZOE get a nerf?

After having rooms of 15 people cleared by 1 ZOE, on a regular basis, I feel a nerf or debuff is needed.

how does a ZOE kill 15 people without dying? It takes like 30% more damage

Wow. No one thought to shoot at it with guns? Did everyone just run away? Because it doesn't kill as fast as a pre-nerf scatmax, and not even that could kill 15 people before reloading. It would generally be dead after 5-6.

Was everyone just shooting at each other instead of the MAX trying to deny points?

It's hilarious when low BRs see my ZOE and run for it, and I can just chase them down. This thing makes me feel like a monster. I love it.

I love these threads. It's basically people admitting that they (plus a lot of their allies who happen to be nearby) are bad FPS players.

I never leave ZOE active when I'm in any reasonable danger of being shot at. In a 1v1 against a skilled opponent (esp. HA's), I end up severely damaged after they go down, and I am a lone wolf so I don't have a pocket engineer friend around to save me. It's a great ability for general mobility, and I do toggle it on during battle to scoot between safe areas, but keeping it active in any major firefight is certain death.

Nerf ZOE? Ridiculous. It already had one deserved nerf and then another unnecessary one. There aren't enough nerfs in the world to compensate for the particularly virulent strain of the bads that the OP has been infected with.

The people in the room had a lot of fear.
You know when you watch movies and the person in the road screams while a moving vehicle is approaching em and the screamer doesn't even move?
Well, this is what was happening with those players in the room. This happens all the time, according to the OP.

Or, you know when a deer sees a bright light? They just stare at it and not move?Well, this could be why the players don't move until they are hit and killed. The ZOE may appear very bright to some players, causing them to just... stare the whole time.

Other than that, i got nothing...

I just know, on my TR, most of the time, I can get the ZOE MAX down to close to half life before I die.Just myself. The only problem I have is, I can run and they will get me anyways, and I'll just die. So I don't run, I try to be evasive and shoot at the same time... instead of running.

lol

15 people....

lmfao

wow, your team failed HARD OP. Epic levels of fail. Did noone notice the bright pink glowing MAX while he gunned everyone down or what? LOL

I think the most I can kill in a single *run* ((run = step out and charge in, kill as many, run out of ammo, get to cover while reloading)) is about 6, 4 if all of them are heavies with good shields... I use the nebulas (I think, 50 bullet clip, fastest firing rate of all the VS Max weapons, top dmg 143 at closest range)

.. I've seen a scat max clear 12+ people.. generally by firing 1 arm at a time//cycling the reloads so that 1 arm is reloading while the other is still firing... as each kill only takes 2 shotgun blasts.

its easy to kill as a zoe you pop in the door. gun down 2 guys then pop back out . You can easily clear a bunch that way before they can even hurt you. But best i did ever with that is only 10 guys in a room. it does help if they are tr over nc when using the zoe. Nc does to much damage with there guns tr doesn't.

ZOE Isn't overpowered anymore. Focus fire some.

ZOE feels like ive been bestowed with the Mark of Khorne.

Anyway my best ZOE streak post-nerf was 14, it was one of those *********** situations where i had 20 seconds of dakka in each arm, and literally no way to miss the NC zerglings rushing the SCU.

There was also that one time i camped a Sundy, though that net me much XP.

And i still didnt get rage /tells from it. What do i have to do to get a rage /tell in this game?

ZOE is no longer OP, it should be left as-is. Still, 15 people, really? Were they all in the same room or did the ZOE Max run into them once at a time.

like any other max

anyway, ZOE is fine. Lock down is trash, aegis is situationally good.

The Devs do not know how to fairly nerf ZOE and keep it balanced.

My suggestion is to refund all certs to those who have invested in ZOE and change it to allow the VS MAX to have a 10-20% movement speed increase, able to jump higher than non-LA infantry and 5-10% damage reduction while active. No armor penalty or cool down. It can be turned on and off at-will as current. However, the VS MAX cannot reload while ZOE is active making it a tactical choice for players.

Refund the players the certs and allow them to choose if they want the new version or not.

While I hate ZOE as much as the next fella' as they haunt my dreams, if one killed me and 14 others in a room, that either is an example of:

A.) A room full of 15 people that ran out of ammo at exactly the same time.
B.) A room full of 15 people that had their weapons locked from TK'n.
C.) A room full of 15 people that thought they were playing on VS.
D.) A room full of 15 people that wanted their K/D to decrease.
E.) A really good Max hacker.
E.) An exaggeration of a real event to add weight to an argument.

Working as intended.

Scatmax nerf incoming next patch to bring it on par with the ML85 Modified.

Your prayers were already answered. ZOE got a nerf a couple patches back

Buff it with bling....!
It already looks like a pink flickering unicorn walking on its back legs. I think it needs to be Buffed with an insane amount of sparkly effects...and maybe a unicorn horn.