[Higby] Okay okay call Magriders absurdly OP but...

There is that sweet second of time after the second shot to run up to the guy (this is right after ramming, our tanks are parked against each other) and crouch before he can reload.

It also has that WTF factor to it- pretty much like that pilot ejecting to fire a bazooka at the plane on his tail.
I did this only once so far, the guy didn't even notice I got out of the Vanguard.

LOL i've played vs since the mag fix and the mag is still a fantastic tank super easy to get kills in and super easy to avoid fire. so many vs have played so long with a severly OP mag rider they don't even know how the thing works anymore its a great tank.

you still barely slow down on inclines..... vanguard slows to a crawl on the smallest of inclines. you can get front armor and keep your armored side to the enemy at all times... you can mag burn away if in danger and be near full repaired before anyone can even catch up to you... you can strafe to avoid fire.... compared to the vanguard.... it can avoid "A" shot or one barrage, very useful i do agree but continuous fire negates that. it can crawl along at 10kph up a hill making sure you never get to actually help with crimson bluff or palisades LOL. in a tank column if one guy hits the brakes theres a 100% chance of at least 1-2 vanguards exploding when the airbag pops ( i seriously think they got that thing wired through the fuel tank)

come on people stop whining about the tanks.. they are fairly even not 100% vanguard has bonuses the others don't and negatives the others counter same with mag and same with prowler... do they need tweaks.... of course. but for the most part they are all semi on par now.

It's clear that the VS remaining population will have to deal with the current state of the magrider, however you don't need to ******** us about it. You know, the people who've been using it from day 1, instead of somebody who pulled one in a warpgate and made a few strolls around.

@KusoVSIf you need a your empire to be severely imbalanced vs other empires (the magrider was) to enjoy the game, I can't help you. -mhigby



That's some real talk higby. I agree that they should get a bit of their agility back, but if that's all that's keeping a lot of these VS here, good riddance.

Well known ancient vid from Beta. Long since changed. Stop trying to sabotage the thread with troll posts.

That's the location in the "Magrider Doesn't Give A ****" video people keep posting as if it's indicative of the Magriders normal performance pre GU02. No one really goes there unless it's the last stand before losing Indar.

That's what I noticed as well. Basically, they seem to have added an arbitrary limitation (of 45 degrees if I'm reading Higby's tweet correctly) that completely ignores the direction the Magrider is pointing in relation to the hills incline. Once you hit that limitation your momentum dies so even if you're not trying to climb a hill but just navigating uneven terrain you feel very limited and sluggish. Also great fun during battles when trying to avoid enemy fire and rockets and suddenly slowing down to crawl as a result of these new mechanics.

As per Higby's Twitter he's testing Magrider vs other MBTs performance today to see if there is anything that he can find. So far it sounds like he hasn't, doesn't mean he won't, but he's looking into it.

It was a big mistake designing a hover tank in the first place. What a balancing mess they got themselves into. I have nothing to contribute to this thread, but I hope they find a good balance. And I personally don't like seeing magriders in places the devs obviously blocked off to prevent vehicle access, but 1 faction is able to get their tank up and over while others can't.

Hovering tank, one big mistake SOE.

I know why they went with the Mag and kept it's original design. It was ICONIC to the Vanu in PS1.

https://twitter.com/mhigby

He's asking people for locations they believe they are being impeded on that they think they shouldn't be.

So they screwed with balance for the sake of adding something nostalgic in the game for planetside 1 vets? I guess I was right, SOE has no idea what audience they're going after. With the way this game is designed, it's not making PS1 vets happy, because they obviously went after Battlefield players. But at the same time, the things they added to give PS1 vets nostalgia are just screwing the balance with everybody else. What a mess.

Says something when its still super easy to dodge shots doesnt it? Vanguard can take one more hit from AP/HEAT to the front armor than magskater or prowler when not certed into armors. With side armor vanguard can also take one more hit from AP/HEAT when comparing to magskater and prowler if they also have it.

Glad to see he's driving one for the first time... /facepalm.

Honestly ... if your TR/NC or VS and you've seen the absolutle bruhahaha over the Mag since launch...
then you realize the creative director of the game just bothered to try it the first time?

That's pretty eye opening.

Where does he say he is driving on for the first time? If you really think this is the first time he's ever used the Mag, than I have a Tin-Foil Hat for you.

thats not beta footage! lol its from December! its not a troll post! The afterburner on all vehicles make you fly like this (before the patch) its how the physics of the cert works! just try it on the flash its the same.

This is true. However, it is also true that this is no longer possible. It wasn't intended to work that way, and has since been fixed (I think around the time everyone's tanks got hill-climbing nerfed, not just the VS).

Just one random day? Check this out then

Just would like to say that this data wasn't available when i said that. Also, you just plain ignored the rest of my post. If you would notice, even these charts lack important filters. They're for tank versus tank, but I can guarantee they didn't filter out high explosive 1/2 main battle tanks (which there will be more of in the case of prowlers). The charts also only go off of death blows and not damage done. The magrider was OP, but now it is the worst tank. They said they wouldn't nerf the maneuverability, and yet they did. This was the only reason the magrider was as fun to drive.

I said that a dev posted stats of tank vs tank and it wasn't just one day, I don't remember exactly the duration of the data they posted, I posted this because it's close to what I said before it was actually posted.

Lol lining up one lie after another as falsified rethoric questions and answering them by yourself to round it up to complete bullsheit makes every idiot giving it a thumbs up look like a complete reytard.

And if that what you wrote comes from YOUR personal experience and is actually true, then you must be the most incompetent driver of TR/NC tanks.

AND btw. the satement about the VS MBT Zerg is as primitive as it is stupid, as EVERy faction Zerg consists of MBT -. Havent read such a piece of trash for a long time.

All you wanna do is retain your unjustufued advantages which skillfree TR/NC forum cryers achieved by spamming the forums with blatant lies which lead to multiple buffs of TR/NC and complete crippling of VS in the last consecutive patchES.