Truth Time: ZOE is Annoying

At Night:
It's incredibly hard to use ZOE at night due to the two large glowing
crab-claws that impair your ability to see beyond them. It's basically
the worst most annoying (always on) muzzle-flash in the game, x2,
which makes turning on ZOE a serious liability at night.

Infiltrator Paranoia:
Until you're playing beside ZOEs you don't realize how godawful
annoying it is to constantly and endlessly see Infiltrator shimmer
behind and around each and every one. You know how when you
see that Infiltrator cloak effect everybody stops what they're doing
and looks for it to kill it? It's basically that x100. Either we ignore
it, and then let real Infiltrators through, or we look for it, and then
take our eyes off the real enemy. When ZOE Maxes run by you,
they leave a wake of the Infiltrator shimmer up to 6 feet behind,
so it's not just focused on them, it's all around them.

Engineer Drought:
Vanu basically went from fielding no Maxes to fielding a comparable
number of them to TR and NC. Going from NC to Vanu previous to
ZOE was like night and day with Max usage. One fielded 50, while
the other fielded 2. Now that Vanu is actually using them, we have
the problem of not having Engineers who are used to supporting our
new-found Max army. Vanu Engineers are usually either Noobtubing,
in a Vehicle or behind an AVTurret. Eventually they'll catch on, but
at this point it's typically 1 Engineer supporting 4 Maxes.

I'll let the Devs sort out the stats and determine if ZOE needs to be
nerfed or not. I'm just listing the annoying things associated with it,
in case people think it's all wine and roses over here.

Bumping in case somebody wants to refute it.

Bumping threads is a violation of the SOE Forum Guidelines. I am going to close this thread now as it is not constructive.