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[Gagzila]

DarkPulse, on November 08 2012 - 02:05 PM, said:

Simple. I feel it's worthless compared to the Slug Rifle. Hawkins fires faster but even with the faster ROF, it seems only "about as effective" as the Slug Rifle.

Plus, the faster ROF means that your enemy gets more notice of his armor bleeding away and could give him a chance to turn and burn, whereas with slug, he may be a lot less clear on if he can take the hit or not. Psychological advantage.

Fair enough from your POV and a valid point about feeling his imminent death and fleeing...I still feel the other way though, I find the Hawkins much more effective at taking enemies out than with the Slug. I take a nice chunk from the start with the Sabot and start munching away at their armour with the Hawkins at the same time, then even though the Sabot has since reloaded I wait that extra second or two for the Hawkins to bleed that little bit more armour till they've got about 1/3 to 1/4 left and then fire my last sabot shot to take them out before they realise they're already dead ...if it's a C class, I fire the second sabot round as soon as it's ready, then the third round usually finishes them off just as my weapon temp reaches the overheat critical point (sometimes I don't overheat, sometimes I do). Both of those scenarios are when I've got LOS on them from start to finish, obviously different tactics have to be employed when they jink in and out of cover or run away - "HUNTER MODE ENABLED"

Sometimes I do change to the slug for variance or when I know I'll be sniping from afar, a lot of the time I am a midfield / on the move sniper and so the Hawkins doubles quite well for a long-mid to close range weapon, especially when you occasionally have face to face run-ins with enemy mechs.

Cheers,

Gagzila

Edited by Gagzila, November 08 2012 - 04:05 PM.

[Marvyra]

Awesome! Nice patch and I love the new launcher interface. *cheers*

[DarkPulse]

Gagzila, on November 08 2012 - 03:56 PM, said:

"HUNTER MODE ENABLED"

http://www.youtube.c...pyD8UM48#t=1m07

Edited by DarkPulse, November 08 2012 - 04:39 PM.

[Ratchet18O_o]

AWESOME. They addressed and fixed some of the big bugs. Can't wait to try out the new beta. AND LUCKY ME! 4 DAY WEEKEND!

Really excited to try it out with the new fixes and additions.

[Silk_Sk]

I don't think mt Hawken Points are being doubled. Well, they are, but only because the booster I purchased in CB1 hasn't run out. Could that be the problem_

[Elix]

HP yield is definitely doubled since the last time I got to kick around Sahara and shoot at other people.

[Saint_The_Judge]

Sorry, but all my settings have changed to default. No big deal, of course. But the gameplay is way worse than before. I know it's not optimized, etc, but I'm finding almost impossible to play in this CB2. Not even lowering the res to the ground and setting everything to lower than low (lol) gave me a shade better frame rate.
Tnx.

[Silk_Sk]

Saint_The_Judge, on November 09 2012 - 03:59 AM, said:

Sorry, but all my settings have changed to default. No big deal, of course. But the gameplay is way worse than before. I know it's not optimized, etc, but I'm finding almost impossible to play in this CB2. Not even lowering the res to the ground and setting everything to lower than low (lol) gave me a shade better frame rate.
Tnx.

I had the same exact problem. But then I turned my computer off for a few minutes, came back and turned all the settings to ultra and everything was fine. However, PhysX still absolutely killed the framerate so leave that off.

[RockSlide]

Keep up the great work!

[Coldrew]

Just got done with my first match. Thank you so much for making the radar do an enemy spotted. Now I can focus more on taking fools down instead of having always baby my minimap.

[DarkPulse]

Coldrew, on November 09 2012 - 09:06 AM, said:

Just got done with my first match. Thank you so much for making the radar do an enemy spotted. Now I can focus more on taking fools down instead of having always baby my minimap.

...Spotting enemies showed up on the Radar on CBE1, too...

[Coldrew]

DarkPulse, on November 09 2012 - 11:32 AM, said:

Coldrew, on November 09 2012 - 09:06 AM, said:

Just got done with my first match. Thank you so much for making the radar do an enemy spotted. Now I can focus more on taking fools down instead of having always baby my minimap.

...Spotting enemies showed up on the Radar on CBE1, too...

I used the radar item the whole CBE1 and didn't notice it at all X_X. I'm talking about the radar item, not your mech's minimap. Shoulda been more specific.

[DarkPulse]

Coldrew, on November 09 2012 - 11:52 AM, said:

I used the radar item the whole CBE1 and didn't notice it at all X_X. I'm talking about the radar item, not your mech's minimap. Shoulda been more specific.

Ahh, I see. I don't use that, as I find it a bit pointless.

[Blackfire1]

Looks like a good time to come back.