Enforcers with dual shields (exploit)

This way of thinking will never improve the game, this game needs more options to reach a natural balance between all the ships and possible builds. If there’s ships and builds that are underused means there’s a need to make them more interesting not just nerf what’s working every couple of months

 

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Maybe if you stuck with your team a bit more, missed less or stopped trying to play pacman with those mines you'd have an easier time of it?

For real though. I'd much rather 1 vs 1 an enforcer than a monster p2w defender or shooter.

 

Jaws, you totally get the point I'm bringing up (and for the love of Rovio you and Banderas should not be allowed to fleet anymore, lol). But you're a prime example of the issue/ exploit. The enforcer boat was never meant to go 1v1 against a maxed out defender and win that battle, yet that is exactly what is happening. I am a maxed MK7 shooter with all T5 epics and a T4 Leg Grenade that can't take down a dual shield enforcer. I literally don have a maxed epic that can out perform a dual shield enforcer. But when the "meta" shifts the game to a point where a 20k HP defender can be destroyed by an Enforcer, Tesla shields seriously need looked at.

 

Nope. If you do similarly what the devs did with Tesla bolt the first shield won't be affected, it's the second one that should be reduced in strength and duration.

 

I wish Peachy.

But the room to make a shot either in between double tesla shields going up or breaking the shield has gotten unbearable since tesla bolt nerf. And ex cannon nerf.

Think of it this way enforcers. 2 items got needed that can drop the tesla shield. Ie speeders got needed. And defenders got nerfed.
Translation. It's harder to fight a dual tesla shield user.
The devs neefed Bolt and ex cannon to hurt speeders. But in affect. With those items nerfed. Enforcers got a tesla shield Buff.

This needs to be fixed. I don't care how. But considering I am the only top 75 defender only player in the game. ONLY.

Let that sink in people.

All other players ahead of me are primarily enforcers or shooters with a few speeders.

Recognize the new meta. Recognize no one is upset at enforcers. U got buffed once via ship stats. And twice via weapons nerds that could have broken your shield.

Come up with solutions to balance the bay. Knowing that it's easier to nerf something than to buff every other ship not named "enforcer"

@The Grim Repair @Miika

 

It's not enforcers, but whales that are overpowered.
Whales are playing a lot of enforcer at the moment.

 

This meta starts at MK5 because you have 2 yellow slots and 4 slot points, and people don't like to waste slot points. What are your yellow 2-slot options besides Tesla shield and Frost Canon? Considering Enforcer can't equip a big shield at MK5, how else do you beef up the relatively low HP? 2 Tesla Shields. Move 1 yellow slot point to blue and that solves the issue at MK5. MK6/7 when you can throw on a big shield, it starts looking OP. It's really a matter of balancing those yellow slot points and providing more yellow item variety.

 

Hey m8 I get ur point and feel ur pain, I was kidding with the game posted I agree there’s a balance needed with some boat/config. But since take months to properly upgrade a specific build the way to go should be to buff or rework some underused mechanism, maybe more difficult to do than nerfing stuff but that’s up to devs to find right balance for all levels

 

I only read the OP, but if you're going to nerf enfos, DO NOT:

• nerf Tesla Shields because that will be another unwanted nerf to speeders
• nerf enfos in general because everything mk5 and under is actually under powered and can't really use double TS.

 

Much respect.

I was completely in the camp up buff items and fix ship/configurations thru buff of underused items. Even back before the frost nerf. I was against it. As a slow defender. I was against nerfing frost. Can u believe it? Many post.

Same with nerfing tesla bolt. Same with the nerfing of ex cannon. I was against all of it.

But now here we are. A bunch of items got nerfed. Primarily as a way devs could hurt speeders. Whatever meta was used by speeders. They nerfed.

Ex cannon nerf they didn't think it thru. My opinion. Since it nerfe.d Every defender on the bay. Meta defenders were using 2 ex cannons and a flare. At a whopping 85 to 95 percent. In mk5 thru mk7.

So here were are. I wish it were as simple as saying balance defender and buff it.
Or do this buff to this other weapon.

Maybe making more weapons be able to break tesla shield would be a start. But developers aren' interested in even fixing the obvious flare bug vs tesla shield. So most know. Any flare epic maxed should every time be able to break a tesla shield. Epic maxed. But it doesn't. This is a known bug for months.

And I have no interest in hurting setups that took months to build. I felt rocked when my setup got nerfed.
And I know many speeders who feel similar.

There has to be a workable solution tho.

I would appreciate a longer cool down. Or second tesla shield loses % of effectivenss once armed. Or something. Or an Epic level V nerf of longer stun duration if broken.

Whatever. If buffs can do it first. Cool.

But devs have nerfed....so many items to now without ever considering what would happen after. A developer told me Since last 2 updates. Enforcer is the boat to play.

They brought us to this point. Not players.

 

Agreed. This shouldn't be a one tesla shield nerf. It should specifically be aimed at 2 tesla shields usuage.

 

They lack the splash dmg capabilities of 2pt weapons that all the other ships have access to. Makes them less effective against multiple enemies.

 

I bet that same guy that can wreck you in an enforcer can probably wreck you in his speeder, defender, and shooter.

 

Enforcer is the only boat in the bay that can use 2 Tesla’s. They did nerf the shield last time as now there is a stun when broken.
Pop the shield then hit. Or take out the teammates and hit him last. and as others have stated the nerf on the shield doesn’t just affect enforcers.

 

Nerf enfo? Nope.
Nerf Tesla shield? Nope.

Buff speeder? Yes.
Buff Tesla bolt? Yes.
Oh and buff defender? Yes
Buff EC? Yes

Nerf guys who post about nerfs? Sure go ahead. I'll hand out a ton of ideas. Leave the nerfs alone please. Think buff.

B-U-F-F

okay?

 

Personally myself was a Tesla Bolt user as a Mk4 Player and now Mk5 player with still on 1 Spare Yellow other than my OverBoost. I only switched to T-Shield cause T-Bolt got a heavy Nerf. I can’t imagine nerfing TShield when it has already a 20Second Cooldown! It’ll be useless until I get the additional Yellow Slot. Even then it will be horrible.