Torpedoes seem so ridiculous...

I don't know how many times I've dodged a torpedo to have it hit the wall behind me and kill me. I just feel like this is so ridiculously OP for a weapon that does over 1000 damage. At least when you dodge mortars but are still in the kill zone, the amount of damage done is highly reduced.

 

I think you answered your own complaint... "I don't know how many times I've dodged a torpedo". Lots is the answer. They are a difficult weapon to use and there's an awful lot of misses. For that reason the big blast zone on the big torp seems reasonable to me. You should know that I don't use them and getting hit by one is frequently a one-shot for me. I'm still OK with how they work.

 

My issue is that I feel like those are just lucky shots. I don't mind getting hit when it is a highly skilled shot where someone actually led me correctly, but about 80% of the time I get hit by torpedoes it just seems like complete luck. And the blast area often does >1500 damage. How about something reasonable like 500-700?

 

1- You can chose rather stay next to a wall or not, this is part of the play. Will you keep you ship next to an enemy mine or napalm area? No.
2- Splash damage are different than a full hit, way lower.
3- Highly reduced doesn’t mean that the damage you are taking from a mortar is insignificant. Big berthas can do a huge strike, even if you are quite next to the end of the area.
4- A very difficult weapon to use has to be that way. Can you imagine each torpedo doing 900 dmg on full hit and 300 of splash? You you think this is fair ?


And finely, If you are posting this, it means that you are a torpedo magnet.. lol.

 

Absolutely true. Just one or two weeks ago I also started to use swift torpedo on my shooter - never used any torps before and I say you, it's so damn hard to hit anything when you first start learning (and my swift is still almost twice as fast as big torp). Now after hundreds of battles I still miss majority of my shots, even from near. Effective torpedo play requires high level of skill and lots of practice so absolutely any torps shouldn't be nerfed.

 

My torpedoes

Well...some maps it is not that possible to stay off walls; Wayward Pains for example. There are walls everywhere. The torpedo can even hit you through the wall.

 

That’s the point. At lower leagues ppl just spam they everywhere.
Things change a lot since you start to play at NM league

 

Is there something wrong with "just lucky"? Sometimes they do land a big torp on me and I die and it was a "spray & pray". What's the problem? I do that too. I've hopelessly hurled a flare after a near dead unfriend disappearing around around a corner behind a wave and had it land. The target died as a result of my "spray & pray" luck. These things happen.

There's nothing wrong with luck so long as it doesn't become the dominant factor. Given my 1700hp, if luck was even close to a significant factor my life expectancy on Wayward Pains would be 30-60 seconds. Honestly, when I die that fast it isn't a big torp. It's because I crept around some corner and "WOAH! THERE'S FOUR UNFRIENDS LOOKING AT ME."

 

Destroy Destroy Destroy

 

Why yes... how astute of you. I did say "4 unfriends looking at me". Given my 1700 HP and 600HP hits I take that means only 3 of the poor unfriends will actually get to destroy me. The guy with the slow trigger finger only shoots my burning wreck.

It always amazes me how fast I can die when that happens. One second I'm stealthily creeping around a corner and the next moment I'm looking through someone else's eyes and my brain is trying to catch up.

 

Float for 30 sec then go chilling in battles. Currently I am trying reverse speeder

 

Nerf eeyore

 

Loool, maybe next update!

 

I use big torp and love it, and it's not hard to use sorry and yeah if a weapon like ex cannon needed to be nerfed then sure big torps needs it too

 

I don't have problem with any other torp. I'm not a pro, I run it on almost every ship except enforcer. it's true that big Torps are easy to dodge, but not when everyone keeps spamming them, which happens in every battle. If aimed well from mid range it becomes nearly impossible to dodge it. Big torps are ruling the bay since a long time.