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Old 2016-01-03, 11:02 AM   [Ignore Me] #65
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Re: Smedley - "Planetside 2 2.0 in September"


Originally Posted by ringring View Post
Do you think a relatively weak ant will force cooperation and by that I mean troop of 1 ant plus protection in the form a harrassers and/or battle sundies?

I suspect it will depend on the reward at the end of it. If the base that can be built at the end of all all this is powerful and not easily knocked-out then maybe outfits will think the end result is worth the effort.
In my opinion, it is relatively moot to escort a weak ANT. High value targets will always be priority. In the case of Sunderers, players suicide just to take it out. That's why the Sundy was (eventually, finally and thankfully ) buffed so it could stand a chance surviving all these attacks (I've lost count how many 'buff Sundy spawn' post I had before they listened).

You do realize how difficult it is to keep Sundy alive during battles, right? I know this very well because I always guarded my Sundy. I know every trick they use, including underhanded ones using alts to drop friendly mines in conjunction with enemy c4/grenade/rocket rush and many other chicanery such as deploying a friendly Sundy out of place to block others from placing at any apt hiding/parking spot (via friendly Sundy no-deploy zone).

Hence I suggested putting nametags on Sunderers, so players can report these ***holes. Apparently, they just recently implemented that one too.

Secondly, I really doubt they would release all the new Base-building systems all at once. Hence they got 3 choices:

1) Release a weak ANT. It will buffed anyway. If the airborne Valkyrie was initially widely lampooned as a flying cert pinata, then the ANT is the grounded version where everyone essentially can take a pot shot at with it having little to no defense/resistance.

2) Release a buffed ANT (as I suggested) and adjust/nerf it later if necessary once they release the rest of the base-building components.

3) Release the ANT and the whole Base-building meta in one go 10-12 months later. Highly unlikely.

Lastly, I think a proper ANT escort should include at least one Repair Sundy and a Harasser to scout ahead of the destination. Plus 1 tank or combat harasser. Even with those, how do you stop 3 determined tanks/harrassers from focus-firing on the ANT/Repair Sundy? That repair Sundy won't last. And these guys would gladly exchange kills as long as the ANT goes down, no different to what would happen to a Sunderer spawn.
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