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procyonlotor
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Italy473 Posts
November 17 2011 12:55 GMT
#6881
On November 17 2011 21:42 Sm3agol wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 17 2011 21:25 RaLakedaimon wrote:
Say what?! If it was up to me it would be able to launch missiles (UAV on BC2) again and fly high on all maps, so bye bye recon posted on rocks....BLAM! lol That was the one thing I was a baller with on that game, I could fly it anywhere and make it last all round, it might have been op because you could knock out heli's but idk, I really enjoyed it. But the MAV is actually hard to shoot down unlike UAV's.

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?
RaLakedaimon
Profile Joined August 2010
United States1564 Posts
November 17 2011 14:18 GMT
#6882
I meant hard as in like rifle fire to take them down, actually forgot that you could even use a stinger for that. I never use stingers so that's why I didn't know but yeah try shooting them down with a rifle etc and compare that to BC2, that's basically what I meant. 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.
Rob28
Profile Joined November 2010
Canada705 Posts
November 17 2011 15:17 GMT
#6883
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?
"power overwhelming"... work, dammit, work!
Sm3agol
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States2055 Posts
November 17 2011 15:46 GMT
#6884
On November 17 2011 21:55 procyonlotor wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 17 2011 21:42 Sm3agol wrote:
On November 17 2011 21:25 RaLakedaimon wrote:
Say what?! If it was up to me it would be able to launch missiles (UAV on BC2) again and fly high on all maps, so bye bye recon posted on rocks....BLAM! lol That was the one thing I was a baller with on that game, I could fly it anywhere and make it last all round, it might have been op because you could knock out heli's but idk, I really enjoyed it. But the MAV is actually hard to shoot down unlike UAV's.

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?

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.
RaLakedaimon
Profile Joined August 2010
United States1564 Posts
November 17 2011 15:51 GMT
#6885
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
Rob28
Profile Joined November 2010
Canada705 Posts
November 17 2011 16:01 GMT
#6886
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.
"power overwhelming"... work, dammit, work!
Little Rage Box
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
United States84 Posts
November 17 2011 23:08 GMT
#6887
Is there any point in posting in here to try and get people on the TL server? Or was it down to long for anyone to care about it anymore?
RoteX
Profile Joined May 2010
Sweden8 Posts
November 17 2011 23:19 GMT
#6888
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
Belisarius
Profile Joined November 2010
Australia6233 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-11-18 02:55:58
November 18 2011 00:21 GMT
#6889
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 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:
Show nested quote +
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


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.
iinsom
Profile Joined December 2010
Australia339 Posts
November 18 2011 01:52 GMT
#6890
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.

Show nested quote +
On November 18 2011 08:19 RoteX wrote:
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


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?
askTeivospy
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
1525 Posts
November 18 2011 02:05 GMT
#6891
lol@that video, mav must be nerfed since thats kind of obviously not intended for that. Its not hard to stinger it though so w/e
hihihi
Hibzy
Profile Joined November 2010
United Kingdom445 Posts
November 18 2011 03:26 GMT
#6892
Uhh so I can't even play BF3 right now because EVERY game it freezes, has just started happening today...FFFFFF
"Uhh, I just have an insanely good sense of fashion." -TLO
Skullflower
Profile Joined July 2010
United States3779 Posts
November 18 2011 03:29 GMT
#6893
I was fucking around on one of those 64 player Conquest Metro servers and I went up to knife someone running down the escalators and right as I went in for the kill his teammate spawned on him so I got him instead. I laughed and felt bad at the same time. Worst spawn ever
The ruminations are mine, let the world be yours.
Mithhaike
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
Singapore2759 Posts
November 18 2011 03:37 GMT
#6894
i've just watched the MAV video. and its time for me to go back to recon just to try that out at least a game or 2.
Mew Mew Pew Pew
zoltanium
Profile Joined April 2010
Australia171 Posts
November 18 2011 03:46 GMT
#6895
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.
mate
Belisarius
Profile Joined November 2010
Australia6233 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-11-18 05:19:39
November 18 2011 04:10 GMT
#6896
Oh, I mean you can absolutely kill them. I found it completely hilarious that he'd actually found a server so dumb that he could rack up 100+ kills on a team in a single game and still not one person turned around when the thing buzzed up behind them. It doesn't need to be nerfed because someone managed to do that and record it. In fact I don't think it needs to be nerfed in any meaningful way at all, really.

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.
askTeivospy
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
1525 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-11-18 05:37:18
November 18 2011 04:10 GMT
#6897
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
hihihi
Grettin
Profile Joined April 2010
42416 Posts
November 18 2011 17:54 GMT
#6898
New trailer
"If I had force-fields in Brood War, I'd never lose." -Bisu
Rybka
Profile Joined March 2010
United States836 Posts
November 18 2011 22:53 GMT
#6899
On November 19 2011 02:54 Grettin wrote:
New trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjTmieRMKjo


Woooowwwwwwwww, that was hot.
"I like winter, you can put a beer outside of the window and come back later to have it nice and cold. But in Belgium, it'd better be the 3rd floor window." -Rowa
Grettin
Profile Joined April 2010
42416 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-11-18 22:54:28
November 18 2011 22:53 GMT
#6900
Bump from last page:
On November 19 2011 02:54 Grettin wrote:
New trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjTmieRMKjo



BF3 update next week.

http://blogs.battlefield.ea.com/battlefield_bad_company/archive/2011/11/18/incoming-battlefield-3-update.aspx##
"If I had force-fields in Brood War, I'd never lose." -Bisu
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