Vanu Intel? - Page 3

NeoTassadar · 2003-03-20, 04:56 PM

Looks like the Vanu guy has a Punisher. That means mini-rockets, possibly the plasma grenade type of warhead (the devs said that there will be many kinds of warheads for Punisher secondary). Besides, he's probably only a distraction so the MAX will hold still for the Lancer-sniper off-screen.

Camping Carl · 2003-03-20, 05:02 PM

Originally posted by Fire_Monkey
1. Not really, otherwise there would be no point in specializing. If they were all equally powerful, everyone would run around with AA because it's most versatile. I'm under the impression that the AV will be as ineffective as the UT Rocket Launcher, took like 2/3 direct hits to kill. So the AA will be less effective.

2. He could have AP rounds.

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I kinda said that, tho I didn't type it very well now that I read it. Sorry if it wasn't clear. I meant that the devs have stated max weapons work well even against the things they aren't specialized for, just not as well as their speciallity. Unless they've said otherwise on this, I'd still say the max suit has a firepower advantage.

2. Armor piercing bullets don't give a damage bonus. All they do is ensure that you do the normal amount of damage. But that doesn't even matter, because vanu only use one ammo type, energy.

OmnipotentKiwi · 2003-03-20, 05:07 PM

Looks like the guy is drop=podding to me..

Fire_Monkey · 2003-03-20, 05:23 PM

Originally posted by Camping Carl

2. Armor piercing bullets don't give a damage bonus. All they do is ensure that you do the normal amount of damage. But that doesn't even matter, because vanu only use one ammo type, energy.

Yes, but the weapon is common pool, and Vanu can use common pool weapons, thus he can use the bullet aspect of the gun, and anyway, he could have scavenged some bullets if not.

Camping Carl · 2003-03-20, 05:39 PM

Yes, but the weapon is common pool, and Vanu can use common pool weapons, thus he can use the bullet aspect of the gun, and anyway, he could have scavenged some bullets if not.

Why does this matter?
Indeed, he could be using a common pool weapon. I assume it's a vanu weapon tho, it just looks that way to me. But it doesn't matter if he uses common pool or not. My point still stands, he doesn't get a damage bonus for using AP bullets, so that wouldn't improve his odds. (Rockets or grenades might help him a little, tho he still wouldn't win.)

1024 · 2003-03-20, 06:42 PM

Originally posted by simba
lol? Do you even consider that he didnt knew the MAX dude stood there? He might just had ran into him without knowing he was there? And I think its SO SO SO booring when they dont have HS, almost makes me dont wanna buy it coz that is one big thing that seperates the newbies from pros and almost eliminate the chances for an infantry to win against a max in close combat, with HS:S that would be possible.

qwll if they did add hs's then MAXs whould be crap. They move so slow and shit they're heads are huge even a noob would be able to unload into a MAX's face

Mauser101 · 2003-03-20, 06:49 PM

MAXs are slow? Have you seen the psbreak videoyet? That TR AI MAX was moving pretty darn fast.

Ouroboros · 2003-03-20, 07:05 PM

MAXs have to build up to that speed over a period of time. Plus their turning is shot to hell, and they can not fire their weapon while in the running mode.

NeoTassadar · 2003-03-20, 07:23 PM

Originally posted by Camping Carl
Armor piercing bullets don't give a damage bonus. All they do is ensure that you do the normal amount of damage. But that doesn't even matter, because vanu only use one ammo type, energy.

What are you talking about? We have better than armor-piercing bullets. We have armor-piercing mode. We don't have to unload and reload to switch to armor piercing. We merely flip a switch, and we're ready to rock. One of the many reasons I picked the Vanu was because of this versatility.

Edit: Oh yeah, Spnsr, NO HEADSHOTS. No body locations at all. Do start a thread on this subject, the horse has been killed, beaten, shredded, and distributed evenly across the globe.

Camping Carl · 2003-03-20, 07:52 PM

What are you talking about? We have better than armor-piercing bullets. We have armor-piercing mode. We don't have to unload and reload to switch to armor piercing. We merely flip a switch, and we're ready to rock. One of the many reasons I picked the Vanu was because of this versatility.

As I understand it only the beamer has AP mode, and that's a pistol. If you want to use that against a tank, be my guest. Otherwise you only have one mode to worry about, but do a little less damage overall to make it fair.