Temporary energy shield for commander to counter high-dps snipes

Jaedrik · June 4, 2014

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I just played my first FFA with a lot of people. I crushed all of them on the main planet. I was about to crush the last one with my vast armies of Bolo tanks, when all of the sudden: "Invictus Commander under attack", it was the last man with a few Gil-E bots.

The yoke of my own fault weighs heavy upon my shoulders, and I blame no other but myself. It was my greed that had the commander building a few more factories while a little away from my legions of tanks. It was MY arrogance that stayed my hand by not responding more graciously to the inspiration to move him earlier.

Sure, it sucked for a moment, I fell into the same gut reaction of "THAT'S BULL", but I sucked it up. The guy even apologized to me. I demanded that he not, as it was all fair and he outplayed me. In the end, I had a very enjoyable time, and I live with my mistake, it's all said and done, and the matter is truly, truly trivial, far enough to make any serious concern about the issue seem ridiculous to me.

'Cheese' as they call it, I despise that term. If it cannot consistently be viable at the highest levels of play it is not worth any serious consideration outside of personal satisfaction in use. None.

Though I may seem haughty as I write this, there are three key virtues that one MUST have to break free from the mentality of 'my opponent's exploits are not worthy of the victory he has gained', or 'some strategies are inherently evil': Humility, humility, and humility. Do not appease envy by allowing its internal victory; swallow pride, learn the lesson, move on.

I say pity the man who cannot endure his loss, pity him, for he is weak of mind. Pity those that bear grudges against a particular opponent or against any who would dare use a strategy or tactic that seems intolerable or otherwise unjust.
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While I agree with the sentiment, we do need to be discerning about aspects of the game that do and don't work.

As an extreme example, let's say that we're all playing an FPS, where all the guns act as one would normally expect guns to work, except for that one gun that has infinite range homing bullets that fires full auto. Now, there would theoretically be the same argument of being beaten by the player who went with the superior play/ weapon choice/ strategy, but at some stage it just becomes bad game design, and everyone knows the game is silly.

Now, the problems with some sniping strats that we currently have are nowhere near that level of extreme, but that doesn't mean we don't look for, and point out certain units which are capable of vastly outperforming other units, and ask ourselves whether that is good for the game.
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You are, of course, right, but my intention is to extinguish any inclination to react to unfavorable circumstances in an ignoble manner.

As for myself, I am hardened against instant death. In fact, I revel in it. I am the sort of person who looks at the vast majority of the FPS games and ridicules their inconsistency (in the case of cone of fire and recoil), long/high TTKs, and disgustingly unpractical shotguns, unviable LMGs, weak sniper rifles, and lame explosives, all of which I lay blame on many people's understandable, yet irrational, gut reaction to 'cheese'. It should be no surprise that MW2 was probably my favorite shooter ever, many people who previously played CoD would agree that it is the best designed bar none. The only thing anybody really complained about was DC OMA Propipes, and even then it was only the best choice in domination games. A close second is UT2k4.

I have not experienced any situation so far in PA which, in my personal opinion, has been so starkly at odds with how I would expect a weapon or unit from that setting to work that it causes me to ponder if it is poorly designed. Though, I have heard tell of numerous SXX Space Lasers Of Death coming into orbit directly above the commander, which is the only situation I'm willing to call of dubious design or balance.
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I think we can agree on the ideal for 'losing well'. Especially when you have access to identical unit rosters, and the game is clearly still in the middle stage of development in terms of balancing. Certain things might be questionable in terms of their balance with the rest of the roster, but in game you just have to roll with what works in the current patch, whilst still making clear what you'd like to see changed.
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I had not thought of this, BUT, a spin-up time to fire in general for the SXX would work. It would stop SXXs less in number than 5 or so with sufficient Umbrella/Anchor/Avenger coverage, but if they put in the metal for, like, 15 or so+ SXX satellites? I feel as if they deserve the snipe, that costs a lot. Oh, and a critical mass of Avengers would still be able to take out nearly any number of SXX with a spin-up time that come in if the point of re-entry was telegraphed sufficiently.

The Commander would also do well with the mobility an Atlas/Valkyrie air transport from TA could afford.

I am still very much opposed to shields, however.

Temporary energy shield for commander to counter high-dps snipes

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