Scat MAXes are ridiculous. Okay, I'm fine with them destroying infantry. There's nothing wrong with that. All the MAXes do that. My issue with them lies in MAX vs MAX fights. There's something wrong when we're both at full health, start firing at the same time, but the post kill screen shows him with more than 3/4ths of his health. "Oh but they're short ranged", Not really an issue, considering ALL the MAX weapons are useless past spitting distance. Not to mention you can just charge right up to their face and unload... Seriously, All I'm asking for is a reduction on damage against other MAX suits.
Simply problem, increase the firing rate of all TR MAXes and increase the accuracy of all VS MAXes. No reason that the TR MAXes have 400 RPM at lowest and 476 RPM at highest. Allow gatling guns to due what they excel at doing, spitting massive amounts of rounds down range. VS who's main point is supposed to be accuracy, why the hell does a TR MAX compete with them with their most accurate weapon?
The problem with the DPS of the ScatMAX is that a reduction of damage against other MAX suits quickly becomes the complete inability to compete at any range against other MAX suits. ~8m is the distance at which I can kill you without a reload - and it's the reload that stuffs us up. So what range would you accept being killed at?
This is the truth, past 8m any TR maxes will toast a hacksaw. NC AI max is in your face damage and outside that it's trash. I'm cool with nerfing hacksaw if they give NC a viable range option. I'd tack a TR Max any day over NC Max and truth be told I frequently log on my TR just to roll the mercies.
So would I. Though I suspect that quite a few people I killed tonight with my slugged Mattocks are posting about how OP the NC MAX is - not knowing I was using slugs. Most people who slug an NC MAX quickly complain how crap it makes it (and it does) but it's our only option if we want to kill something beyond 15m where there's a lot of infantry threats.
I'd rather they just make AI MAXes poor at killing other MAXes. It'd give AV MAXes a needed role and help balance out the Shotgun/non-shotgun MAXes without taking away eithers' ability to kill other infantry.
