BFR tactics are not what I expected. Due to the fact that the shields don't cover within about a meter or two of the BFRs themselves, combat with BFRs generally revolves around getting point blank and laying into the enemy BFR, totally bypassing his shields to damage him directly. I was chased by three aphelions half-way across Searhus, with a mosquito coming in at the last 1/3rd of the way or so. Despite all three of them pelting me with weird energy rounds, I was still doing just fine, and my shields were regenerating faster than I was being damage. It was the mosquito, oddly enough, which caused my death, because it damaged my generator as I was going across the bridge to the base south of Wakea and the three really laid into me hard. Having some support to take out the enemy BFR's shields will be decisive in BFR fights on live servers. If you've got nobody to take out the enemy's shields, you'll be pounding away until you run out of ammo, or hugging the enemy BFR and shooting point blank until one of you dies.
BFRs are also huge, huge grief machines if you are fighting alongside some friendly BFRs as well. I have almost 900 grief from simply hitting the shields of friendly BFRs with my 30mm guns a bunch of times. Didn't do any damage at all really, but I'd get about 5 grief per bullet, and when you've got a bunch of BFRs rubbing against each other in a big orgy of metal and guns, it's difficult to prevent yourself from hitting the shields of a friendly.
BFRs are fun though. Definitely more of a siege weapon than a replacement for a tank, however. Tanks may not be able to take out a BFR, but their low reacquisition timer and simplicity will make them popular even once BFRs are released.
Last edited by Warborn; 2004-09-30 at 01:41 PM.
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