PSA to BMG users during Sieges

[Yrkul]

Oh, and since we're both on PC-EU.....

Please stay away from me.

If you see me in my desert camo tech suit with red helmet, you should keep your distance, then. Because that's when I'm in my medic loadout, and I will heal you and ress you and patch you up, and screaming will only make me heal you moar!!!

[Tekrunner]

3) Killing blow rewards promote killstealing. Solution: Remove or tone down the killing blow bonus, or make it dependent on how much damage you've dealt. Furthermore, make the assist points dependent on damage dealt as well. (Isn't that how it's done anyway?)

Yes, this is already how things work. I've gotten 2300+ point assists on elite visceras before. I don't think regular kills even give that big a bonus. But attack / defence / rescue kills do.

And yes, healing is mostly useless now, but syphon isn't the only reason. BMGs just don't heal fast enough to actually be useful in most situations, and almost all mobs go down fast enough that survivability is much better when everyone is damaging enemies: healing is not needed when all enemies are dead. About the only way you can assist others in a useful manner at a siege is by sludging Volges with an FRC Sludge RL.

[ten4]

I am going to leave it at this:


BLAME THE GAME, NOT THE PLAYER.

BMG effects obscure screen to much? Not the players fault.

Scoring system is totally whacked? Not the players fault.

You will never force every single person to play how you see is 'optimal'; they will do what they want, use what the game provides, and play in a way that is fun to them.

As to you discounting deathblows, I beg to differ. I have landed DBs on 1% volge many times (over 100 sieges now) and it always gives me a ton of personal points majority of the time. If I dps a mob down to 1% and someone grabs the kill: I always get a patheticly low assist score. That's my experience, take it as you will.

Anyways, please continue with your crusade; anyone who disagrees is clearly wrong so there is no point arguing further.

cu~

[Dracian]

Glad to see that my weekly rant brought so much hate from BMG leechers... Anyway, I don't care : trolls will never change while smart players will do all the job, as usual.

So here's an advice if you want to use a BMG during Sieges AND be smart : use a VOT Spanner Trapper in attack mode. Prefer one with +1 Link bonus and Reduced Link Time if you really want to be OP.

Side note : it's funny to see how a so-called MMO game is far more enjoyable when you play solo... You know, Skitterlings, EGO Boosts and that kind of things...

[crasher]

If they wish to use the bmg in that way let them. You do not dictate how they play or what weapon they should use.

I dictated nothing.
I'm withdrawing from the competition.
It's not worth my time to show up and get blinded.
Take down the viscera's with your BMG.

[Ssdmiddleman]

I think people just do it because it's the easiest way to get 20k points, at least that's what I heard..

[Yrkul]

Glad to see that my weekly rant brought so much hate from BMG leechers...

BMG leechers... Generalization is such an ugly thing. Did you even read the other posts discussing the problem? Discussion, not rant. Guess where the hate is in this thread.

Anyway, I don't care...

But you do! Otherwise you wouldn't rant weekly over it.

trolls will never change while smart players will do all the job, as usual.

/patback

You assume people heal you because they want to troll you or steal your kills. Some do. Some don't. But try not to bunch them all together and call names. Furthermore, it's naive to think that with all the particle effects flying around, all the shooting and whatnot, that anyone can see your name in tiny letters floating over your head. So what's your rant for, apart from venting your own anger?

[vizibledog]

I think people just do it because it's the easiest way to get 20k points, at least that's what I heard..

I think that may be a bit of a myth. I have never scored 20k using just my BMG to heal but if I use my trusty Tachmag I can hit 20k no problem.

[Indra Echo]

Please stay away from me.

You are making the ennemies stronger while bringing no additionnal DPS, your blue glow is messing with my aim (even more if you use a Spanner Protector), and I don't need to be healed since my Siege's loadout features two Syphon weapons with huge Crit bonuses.

Thanks for your comprehension

I agree with you but will add that people are going to do what they're going to do. They use them because they want the weapon xp, the healing credit points you now get for sieges, and because when they heal you they get things foes you kill drop.

However, they cause incredible lag and lag people, even themselves out of the game. I think some of the bad effects could be minimized if they were better at using them. Too often they spam them on fully healthy people until they lose power, reload, and spam again. It would be far better if they used them in bursts-heal people that need it for longer bursts, but run around and shoot and stop, shoot and stop. Lag and the blindness you're talking about is due to this constant spray of BMG fire. Since they want to heal you to get your drops, the key is you need to be able to see to kill foes. And it doesn't help to have 5 people BMGing you when you're at full health.

I have people that run after me at arkfalls and sieges in order to BMG me-I'm running away so I can see to shoot and get out of BMG range and they follow after me and BMG me at full HP.

But you're spitting into the wind. At our clan Volge marches, we'd tell people to help limit lag they should walk-no cars allowed, use BMGs only at the events we found for healing people, and only use the detonators to attack enemies. This was because these things lag people out. We voiced our notifications, put it into text chat, and had others relay the message to friends a lot of times.

So, some people drove cars, used BMGs constantly, and kept shooting their detonators as we walked. People won't always do what is the best thing to do.

[SlimShady78]

Getting the most killi g blows does not infact mean the win. I read a post on healing and points so ttied it out. Even if you are healing ppl with full health you get a tonne of points. So for the win its whoever heals the longest.