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#41 curlupanddie

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Posted March 21 2013 - 03:13 PM

OP's post is formatted like the world's worst poem. yes, special ability is rubbish.

#42 JCBeastie

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Posted March 22 2013 - 02:39 AM

View PostWasabi_Wei, on March 21 2013 - 03:11 PM, said:

I love staring at the reticle while firing on the battleship in Seige and just working the mouse buttons as fast as the cooldowns allow.

Please stop doing that, capture AA.

But yeah Reaper is definitely about strafing in and out of cover an landing simultaneous shots.

Edited by JCBeastie, March 22 2013 - 02:39 AM.


#43 StephenHawking

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Posted March 22 2013 - 04:09 AM

So the OP's answer for too low TTK is to lower it even further okay cool story pilot.

#44 Wasabi_Wei

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Posted March 22 2013 - 07:17 AM

View PostJCBeastie, on March 22 2013 - 02:39 AM, said:

View PostWasabi_Wei, on March 21 2013 - 03:11 PM, said:

I love staring at the reticle while firing on the battleship in Seige and just working the mouse buttons as fast as the cooldowns allow.

Please stop doing that, capture AA.

But yeah Reaper is definitely about strafing in and out of cover an landing simultaneous shots.

Please do not assume I do that all match long. There are times to shoot the ship, I know the difference. I play pub and trust me - sometimes there is no getting the AA. I am not 'that guy' shooting the ship for kicks. I too am very sick of people shooting the ship while I die at the AA. After the third trip to the AA without support I switch to ship. That's: 'confirmed everyone else is standing back shooting' not: 'I ran in and died alone without trying to group up first a couple times, we must be losing.'
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Posted March 22 2013 - 01:19 PM

I think the devs just don't know what assassins are. Both the Infiltrator and Reaper seem to have no purpose.

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Posted March 22 2013 - 03:53 PM

View PostOvermaster, on March 22 2013 - 01:19 PM, said:

I think the devs just don't know what assassins are. Both the Infiltrator and Reaper seem to have no purpose.

The infiltrator borders on being OP. I've run into some really good infiltrator pilots out there that gank me constantly. The EOC infiltrator is probably my most hated mech as an enemy (besides EOC Raider but I don't count that as it must simply be a mistake and doesn't actually exist).

As for the Reaper, I finally got it. Reaper = the grim reaper, who comes for you when you are already on your deathbed. Otherwise, don't fear the reaper.

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Posted March 22 2013 - 04:06 PM

View PostKriminaal, on March 22 2013 - 03:53 PM, said:

As for the Reaper, I finally got it. Reaper = the grim reaper, who comes for you when you are already on your deathbed. Otherwise, don't fear the reaper.

That actually sums it up quite well.

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View PostAsianJoyKiller, on July 02 2013 - 03:18 PM, said:

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Posted March 22 2013 - 08:47 PM

View PostStephenHawking, on March 22 2013 - 04:09 AM, said:

So the OP's answer for too low TTK is to lower it even further okay cool story pilot.

The fact remains that the reaper is the weakest mech by far.  So it's either buff the reaper a bit, or nerf the rest.

I love my reaper, but even once you finally get the slug, the damage output is just too low.  Ke+slug is still only like 160-180 when fired together (depending on build and scoped/no scope).  That's less that every other mech's secondary alone.  In my estimation that should be closer to a hellfire stirke to be viable. Like another 20 damage on the KE would be nice.

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Posted March 22 2013 - 10:51 PM

View PostPirits, on March 22 2013 - 10:07 PM, said:

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A Broken Game presents: "Why not make gods of us all_" A purposed re-vamp of each mech ability to a level requiring less-skill (this is a very wordy joke one need not read if one does not wish to).

These mechs shall be listed by categories, A class to C class, and in increasing difficulty.

A-Class:

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Reaper: Slow down enemies with ALL weapons fire, items included, lasts for five seconds, initially starting at a loss of eight percent, each additional shot removing eight percent of the movement speed left (one hundred percent base movement to ninety two percent base movement then eighty-four point sixty-four percent base movement and so on), with a regain of five percent (normal) movement speed per second (a second after being shot once you move three percent slower than normal), usable once every sixty seconds, each level increases the slowing effect by six percent and increases the amount of time to replenish five percent speed by a second (level zero five percent equals one second, level one five percent equals two seconds equals two point five percent speed regeneration per second of not being shot (this was the meaner of the two routs the other being decrease speed regeneration by a percent thus a second equals four percent with this more humane rout)). At level three the ability removes 25% movement speed per shot and four seconds to regain five percent of ones normal movement back (one point two five percent normal movement speed regain per second). Ability name: Ice age.

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Take the gold text seriously and I'll feed you primed EOC pucks.

At the top of that quote box is an arrow, you may click it to read the full text. It was about a similar thing, however the OP suggested giving the SS a wall hack for it's ability and the reaper the SS's.

This quote is lop-sided to show that giving one mech an extremely OP ability will either lead to the hate of the mech or the raising of other mechs to it's level by decreasing needed skill to use the mech.

This ability was designed to show what can happen when people want a change, just not this drastic. SS isn't strong enough, SS to too strong now and reaper is weak. The above ability is designed to make the receiving end (of the ability) hate his life/game and question what's fair and what isn't.

Edited by Pirits, March 22 2013 - 10:56 PM.

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Posted March 25 2013 - 02:46 AM

I finally got slug on reaper, makes a huge difference, Still now the ability is even less useful than ever.  I'm down for a change of the ability, not sure what though.  How about an ability that marks targets and apply's a debuff, increase damage taken by 10% level 1, 15% level 2, 20% level 3.  It can be called the Reaper's Mark.

Edited by Amisto, March 25 2013 - 02:51 AM.


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Posted March 25 2013 - 03:07 AM

If you use capslock the whole time, I literally read it like someone shouting at me... the ideas you stated would make it a bit to strong. But I agree it does need a slight buff. It feels a little bit weak at the moment, when the devs nerf down the SS eventually then I think the reaper will have a more viable place. But as of where it stands, there are a lot of other mechs that I think provide more usefulness to the field.
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Posted March 26 2013 - 10:23 AM

I think the Sabot could use a slight damage buff.

But what I hate about the Reaper is how randomly inaccurate the Sabot is when not scoped, especially during CQC.  If the close range un-scoped accuracy were improved and long range un-scoped accuracy was left the same I would love this mech. If the un-scoped accuracy remains the same, perhaps reduce the cool down on precision overdrive by 40% so CQC is improved.
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#53 z0mbie

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Posted March 26 2013 - 05:39 PM

Give the Reaper "Blitz" Or buff the KE-Sabot...Or both.

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Posted March 26 2013 - 05:51 PM

View Postz0mbie, on March 26 2013 - 05:39 PM, said:

Give the Reaper "Blitz" Or buff the KE-Sabot...Or both.

How would the Reaper benefit from Blitz_ the intent behind that ability is completely different than the role the Reaper is supposed to perform. The versatility of the ability is lost with the Reaper.

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View PostAsianJoyKiller, on July 02 2013 - 03:18 PM, said:

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#55 Taw_Archangel

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Posted March 27 2013 - 05:49 AM

Reaper feels like a novelty. If the SS is nerfed down it will be slightly more useful. But you over heat before you kill repairing mechs...
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