On January 14 2011 13:28 baconbits wrote: raven can shut down other ships with blackout/emp and gets a decent nuke even if its slow to hit its mark. Railgun needs to be changed somehow, to make it more attractive, but all in all a pretty balanced and definately support ship
Maybe there should be an upgrade that removes the Railgun's cool down? Like the upgrade that removes the cool down from warp from the Carrier? That would make the Railgun way more attractive.
I personally think it's the charge-up that should be removed.
Both is fine, the problem is that you really need to get quite close to the enemy to fire it. Since the raven is more of a support vessel it would be better to increase the range so you can stay further back and heal your allies but still are able to cause some damage.
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On January 30 2011 16:17 vectorix108 wrote: hmm this new patch makes the range build pretty much useless... It makes me sad
How so? It costs more per upgrade, but since it also increases the range by more, it's cheaper up to a certain point.
Well with this new patch the first range upgrade is 50, then 100, 200, 400 then 800. I don't think anyone is going to go beyond 400, really.
That means the max range you can get is +4, combined with your original range can give you +13 range, which is quite long...
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Until you see someone +17 range from pre patch. It is absolutely imbalanced'ly powerful as it can kite everything---EVERYTHING. Including spells, pdd, EVERYTHING. Laser and missile boat back then was dominant, and nobody cast spells. The destroyer and void ray who can't upgrade their secondary weapon's range was totally trash...
On January 30 2011 16:17 vectorix108 wrote: hmm this new patch makes the range build pretty much useless... It makes me sad
How so? It costs more per upgrade, but since it also increases the range by more, it's cheaper up to a certain point.
Well with this new patch the first range upgrade is 50, then 100, 200, 400 then 800. I don't think anyone is going to go beyond 400, really.
That means the max range you can get is +4, combined with your original range can give you +13 range, which is quite long...
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Until you see someone +17 range from pre patch. It is absolutely imbalanced'ly powerful as it can kite everything---EVERYTHING. Including spells, pdd, EVERYTHING. Laser and missile boat back then was dominant, and nobody cast spells. The destroyer and void ray who can't upgrade their secondary weapon's range was totally trash...
Its actually 10/11 for laser/missiles, with +4 since you start at 6/7 respectively.
Yeah balance wise I agree with the range nerf. However I kinda miss it because it was the only safe build when joining a pub game with an entirety of strangers as it was a very solo-type build. Now, I only play with party.
I think the range changes were quite ok, yet Carrier still seems so very powerful to me.
Ok, it shifted my Battle Cruiser build a lot though. Previously I mainly tryed to get missile damage to >1000/Saliva and combine it with huge range, now the range is a little more limited. But that's still fine for it imo, few other people will go up to the 400 mineral upgrade simply because it's of few use for any other ship. Leviathian, Destroyer and Rays only get +Range for one of their attacks, for Raven it's really useless and Carrier usually go for interceptors anyways.
Now, since there's a rather clear cap for range for it, I just keep pimping missles and now always spend the money to keep one-hitting NPC fighters. Previously I only did so for the first 10 minutes and kept the lasers just updated for two-hitting. Also I add much more armor to it now.
Found a moment where to use an enemy nuke perfectly today, though a lot of luck was incorporated in order to make it a full success (insta kill and surviving), watch it yourself :D
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I've decided to share with you a couple of the most memorable scenes of my recent games. Most of the shots are either from inhouse or team vs random (pub) matches. I am a Raven pilot (name OldEnt), but sometimes I play Battlecruiser or Carrier in public games.
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Nicely done Ent. Also to those interested. We're tying to get a Starbattle Tournament going on among the various solidly formed and not so solidly formed teams with my team being one of them.To those who play this in public matches (which involves random team set ups) You guys should try arranged team matches (AKA:In houses).Sometimes we do those In houses with people gathered off from the Starbattle channel for a general organized in house for the Professional In house set ups #deicide is where we set these up where the decent to downright godlike players are located.
I know I could have just posted this in the Bnet forums but then that site is full of noobs.So I thought TL was the better option.Because seriously we need guys like you to make it more interesting.In houses aren't fun when there aren't enough good players to go around. :D
Thank you Merchant of Death. Next and shorter video should be done "soon". As for the tournament, did you posted on playstarbattle.com forum? This is the first place to be. Cheers!