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procyonlotor
Italy473 Posts
On November 17 2011 21:42 Sm3agol wrote: Stingers are hard? As soon as I see a MAV, I make my next class an engi with Stingers, and just shoot the thing down ASAP. They are kind of OP, even just as spotters. How would you suggest a recon maneuver his MAV in order to make locking on more difficult? | ||
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RaLakedaimon
United States1564 Posts
 Oh and procyonlotor I don't think there is any way to get away from stingers with the MAV besides simply getting behind something or going low to the ground and fly the opposite direction as the guy that's trying to missile it down. | ||
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Rob28
Canada705 Posts
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Sm3agol
United States2055 Posts
On November 17 2011 21:55 procyonlotor wrote: How would you suggest a recon maneuver his MAV in order to make locking on more difficult? You can't. Just try and dodge behind a rock/building at the last second. They aren't fast enough to run away, and can't dodge, or have any means to break the lock, thank goodness. | ||
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RaLakedaimon
United States1564 Posts
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Rob28
Canada705 Posts
On November 18 2011 00:51 RaLakedaimon wrote: Anyone else been noticing more disconnects and game crashes lately? They really need to roll out a patch to fix this massive list growing of fuckups, all for wanting to beat MW3's release date. lol I've noticed. I get roughly 2 crashes per gaming session of 4 or 5 hours, always in the first 2-3 games I try to get into. And I know it's not hardware or driver related, so it's gotta be on their end. Big patch out soon though, apparantly. I'm sure Karkand will also fix a bunch of stuff when it's out too. | ||
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Little Rage Box
United States84 Posts
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RoteX
Sweden8 Posts
On November 18 2011 00:17 Rob28 wrote: My God, that MAV thing needs to be fixed. How can a fully grown man in full combat armor be killed by the equivalancy of a breadbox hitting them in the legs at 2mph? Damn i love it! Its actually harder then it looks to get kills with it  Or im just bad with it, think i flew right thro a guy 5-10 times and didnt get a kill. :/ What is the thing u shoot away with the MAV? cant kill ppl with, and somehow i got lock on a tank with it once, dont know how tho. oO | ||
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Belisarius
Australia6233 Posts
I've never found stingers to be that effective against them. If the guy still thinks he's playing BC2 and has it up in the air somewhere, sure, but the MAV is most useful in cluttered environments like metro or the damavand tunnels, and down there it's trivially easy to get behind an obstacle to break lock or juke the missile. The MAV is definitely one of those things I'm very glad most people don't know how to use. I don't think they're OP, but they are disproportionately difficult to deal with when the guy is good. I do think it's a bit unnecessary for them to be a motion-sensor as well, just because their main utility is elsewhere and it makes the T-UGS kind of obsolete. On November 18 2011 08:19 RoteX wrote: Damn i love it! Its actually harder then it looks to get kills with it Or im just bad with it, think i flew right thro a guy 5-10 times and didnt get a kill. :/ What is the thing u shoot away with the MAV? cant kill ppl with, and somehow i got lock on a tank with it once, dont know how tho. oO Its weapon is anti-equipment. It can kill C4 and radio beacons and stuff. I'm not sure why it would have locked onto a tank though. | ||
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iinsom
Australia339 Posts
On November 18 2011 09:21 Belisarius wrote: The best guys don't go rambo with them like the video, because that risks being shot down if the other team knows what's up. The most effective way I've seen is to keep them just out of accurate fire range and spam q while threatening the tackle. If the other team ignores you, free kills. If the other team tries to hunt you, you can distract like ~3 guys from the real fight for a very long time by playing chicken. In addition, they're likely to be among the better players on their team, because noobs generally aren't aware enough to look for the MAV or don't realise what a threat it is. Plus, maphacks for your friendlies the whole time. I've never found stingers to be that effective against them. If the guy still thinks he's playing BC2 and has it up in the air somewhere, sure, but if he's driving properly it's most useful in cluttered environments like metro or the damavand tunnels, and down there it's trivially easy to get behind an obstacle to break lock or juke the missile. The MAV is definitely one of those things I'm very glad most people don't know how to use. I don't think they're OP, but they are disproportionately difficult to deal with when the guy is good. I do think it's a bit unnecessary for them to be a motion-sensor as well, just because their main utility is elsewhere and it makes the T-UGS kind of obsolete. Its weapon is anti-equipment. It can kill C4 and radio beacons and stuff. I'm not sure why it would have locked onto a tank though. Maybe there was c4 on the tank or something? | ||
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askTeivospy
1525 Posts
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Hibzy
United Kingdom445 Posts
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Skullflower
United States3779 Posts
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Mithhaike
Singapore2759 Posts
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zoltanium
Australia171 Posts
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Belisarius
Australia6233 Posts
But driven properly they are quite hard to knock out, and the maphack they provide is pretty ridiculously powerful even when you don't kill people. The fact that it can KO lends it a quite disproportionate threat. For the price of one sniper not shooting people, you get a maphack and a couple kills, or a maphack and several enemy players not shooting people because they're playing cat and mouse with a flying toaster. I don't think they're broken, but I do think they're undeniably one of the most powerful and/or underused kit specs in the game, and about the only reason I would ever use recon in the current build. | ||
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askTeivospy
1525 Posts
On November 18 2011 12:46 zoltanium wrote: Looks like people are now bitching about how the MAV needs to be nerfed. You guys need to remember that the people who play metro 24/7 servers are quite brain dead. These are the guys that are willing to splash rockets and nade launchers off the ground/roof all day to chase the eternal points. They are too stupid to shoot the MAV lol. Every now and again a decent person will join the server and instantly slay the MAV as soon as it appears. obviously the video doesnt show that. I haven't been a victim to it but I hear things like it can ram into jets and kill them Sounds hilarious but for the sake of the game being not comical and things doing what they're designed to do and not do polar opposite: should be nerfed | ||
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Grettin
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Rybka
United States836 Posts
Woooowwwwwwwww, that was hot. | ||
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Grettin
42381 Posts
BF3 update next week. http://blogs.battlefield.ea.com/battlefield_bad_company/archive/2011/11/18/incoming-battlefield-3-update.aspx## | ||
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