Proximity Stun

Best ship for a season*.

Speeders are constantly evolving, and, though I like this idea(sort of, I still think it's OP since shooters are glass cannons not meant for the close fighting this weapons deals with according to me), I'd like all shooters to consider the fact that speeders can adapt really well to nerfs, due to the fact that we are constantly being nerfed.

This might just lead to counterproductive results for those who support this idea so that they can just beat down speeders. Wanna know why?

How much of a stun will this have? It would take 6 seconds for a speeder to turn his turret 180° IF he's turning his ship to turn the turret. This means that if a speeder 180°s you with OB, he's still gonna have superb acceleration while your average shooter will be "stunned" virtually, since he wont be able to shoot at the speeder. Which is precisely the point of getting that close to an enemy shooter.

I guess the question is, how is it gonna help?

 

Youre a tough target. However, if you're the sharp shooter that I know, you "chase butterflies(kiting speeders)". Remember this. If you're with a team, taking down the unfriends fixer, and a speeder appears from behind you, it's a diversion. Take out the fixer first, then call the hit on the speeder. You ended up chasing me on Dropdead Gorge, and though you did end up killing me, your team lost because they couldn't overcome our fixers healing factor.

Oh, and btw, I used a smurf back then. The name was 5.56x45 NATO.

 

I'll give you a good tip on how to recognize an offensive play and tell it from just a diversion.

In an offensive play, the speeder will have someone backing him(or behind him, we both know these potato teammates), and he will most probably start with a flare or another such "combo starter tool" like frost. He will have a lot of health, or a fixer to whom he's just called for help. These guys are overconfident, and more likely to make mistakes(I've been one countless times).

However, when your team is making a push in a direction which may lead to his team being compromised(maybe, say in the Crude Awakenings area, your team is heading into the aircraft chassis with torps ready, and he saw it, AND his team is about to head in), he will try to distract you. He'll fire his dps surehit weapon and hope that at least one of his teammates turns around to assist him, so that he can bait one of your teammates into leaving formation near the capture area or something.

When you put the hit on me, my fixer was in the capture area and one of my mortar shooters was taking position, with a brawler shooter on the other side of the map. This sort of dispersed team is useless. I also saw your team moving into position near the barrel wall(you know, that chain of barrels near the cap area). So, I fired my flare at you, you saw me, and then I managed to get three guns off my fixer for 35 seconds or so while you chased me. Meaning that my fixer got the time to heal and get the team together.

THIS is what you must be able to recognize. Am I attacking? Or am I diverting?

 

About that first part, yeah, some people do say that I think too much about strategy, but I think people just do it accidentally.

About the second part. I have a bad memory IRL, but I can narrate every battle if I just see the person that killed me or the person that assisted me or just someone whose name stood out. Like oppai popcorn(jeez), or bone daddy(jeeeeeeez) or even *censored*.

Anyway, the reason I remember you is because I had to see the replay afterwards, while I was looking for a video tutorial. The kiting one, if I'm not wrong. I wanted the battle code. So I went looking. I'm usually not last in any battle, but there it was. Dropdead gorge. One kill, 3k ish damage. One of my best assassinations, except for the fact that I don't encourage kamikaze tactics, and thus, it never made it into my phone memory xD. My blast shot went over a wave, hitting that fixer (I believe he had one of those generic names) with perfect lead. Work of art. I died a few seconds later xD.

I suggest that you remember names that stick out, ESPECIALLY WHEN IT COMES TO SPEEDERS. There's a lot of real raptors out there, people for whom, under the right conditions, even a double fixer team is EZ. Remember the great assassins especially. These guys act like they are pure instinct, but it's much more than that.
Here's a starter pack:

B' nice to me pls(dont ask, the name is just...*sigh*)

Devils demon
CobraINS(snipe+bt, perfect aim)
Slasher swag(a SNIPER with his flare+blast, too accurate)
Texas girl(fixer, box expert, bolt MLG pro)
Beast hunter(shooter, one of the best snipers out there, if he has a good commander to call out the targets)
Thor(paladin, lege duct tape)

These guys really stand out for me in Ace 3-Ace 2. I'll focus fire on them when I'm against them.