the scout rifle did used to annoy me, but in the end its no different to taking a few well placed bullets from a rifleman. becuase thats as good as an instant kill in the right hands as well.
People will complain when they can't deal with a problem easily. The only thing that annoys me is when people don't know how to deal with a problem (scouts...) and the balance issues. Fix the balance and were ready to get aircraft, but the people.... only time.
long range sniper guns are verry dangerours on the most empires maps. no place to hide and a long view distance.
Jimather is right though, with the speed rifleman bullets tear things up at close range, the scout's rifle is hardly different at all. At range of course, it is not a one shot kill but often a 3-5 or 6 shot kill which is painful with a bolt actoin weapon in your hands. I really believe that it works as is. As for artillery, it could potentially use some smaller damage on vehicles and infantry not 50% on infantry, maybe more like 20% less damage than now on infantry and 5-10% on vehicles. I'm still for just increasing the range of artillery so they can't blast you in sight fo your base and must actually aim themselves without seeing you as artillery should be.
maybe artillery will be more balanced when a well-run bombing strike from aircraft will knock them out. sometimes i think artillery is the single most annoying thing about the game, then my good friend emp_recruit shows me his five jeeps and i think again.
ARGH! Arty! ARGH! BOOM SHIATE! I WAS TAKING A PISS YOU ARSE! ARGH! YOU SON OF A MISSILE! I CAN'T EVEN FETCH RASBERRIES WITHOUT RAINS OF NUKES GETTING DROPPED ON ME HEAD ARGH! YOU INSOLENT ARTY BOMBER!
So when did the damage get upped? I haven't played scout since 1.03, and there its rifle didn't seem as powerful as it seems now. I played it on emp_money, I was hiding and waiting for people to come and build the walls, so it was almost point blank that I shot them from behind (while uncloaked of course) and I never got an instant kill
Then you must've missed. It has been instant kill at close range since 1.0. The only things changed stat-wise as far as I'm aware is that the accuracy was increased to a point that you could actually hit stuff at medium range and the BE rifle was changed to be the same stats as the NF one.
I think the NF one did more damage at the cost of ROF, but they were changed to both be the same in 1.03(? I think, can't remember).
What annoys me most is that I've not played since 1.03 [And even so I only played 1.03 for just a day]!! >_<; Damn work. :cry:
Artillery, especially on escort. Just played against a team with an annoying arty guy. I dont get what they get out of it. Annoying people by being 4 miles away, getting a score of like 60 for 1, doing that crossword they always meant to do but never had time? Writing a novel about a lonely guy who tries to make himself feel part of society by going online and getting everyone annoyed at him? At least then he's getting attention, right? Arty on escort especially is a nuisance. Elsewhere, you can move, you're not stuck in narrow corridors and the like. I just played as scout and I still cant hit anything, so they cant be all that bad.
Trying to sneak past a turrent farm as a scout. You can't, so the scout is reduced to a sniper. Try it in District 402.
I thought you could sneak when hidden. Did the new patch mess that up? I know there were complaints about crouching players not being shot at, did the fix break the hiding sneak?
I was able to sneak just fine as a Scout. Turrets would fire on me only when I wasn't hidden (e.g. standing/running, taking a shot, etc.) Perhaps they were tracking players behind you and you were getting in their line of fire.
I TOTALLY skipped over almost all of this thread. I revise my previous post, i don't remember what annoyed me most, and I'm not about to scan the thread to see. Because what annoys me most, hands down, are asshats like psycoslibe or whatever his name is. You know who I'm talking about.
Yes, unfortunately many of us know exactly who you are talking about. He seems to really like the Stormed servers, because on the official server when he's not TKing with jeeps he's spamming "...play on Stormed..." or something like that.
