Flare Gun too OP against heals

OK, since this just happened a few seconds ago I had to post. A fully intact team all working as a group just let me go in among them and destroy their full health fixer. I didn't use hit & run tactics. I just stayed in among their group slaughtering their fixer. Then I took out the speeder who was trying to stop me. Then I took out one of their shooters before having to go chase down the stragglers. On the way out I saw that I was down about 300hp... two hits at most during the whole thing. It might just have been a single flare.

THAT is complacency LOL. If I had been on that team I'd be reviewing my life choices. Somewhere something went deeply wrong

*edited to add*
Or... perhaps it is just flare is OP?

 

Exactly! I'm sure if you watch the replay, you'll see that nobody sounded any alarms or called an Attack! macro on you, either. You'll probably see a bunch of Shooters who never turned around to look at the risk in their midst. I bet at least one of those people is posting on the forums about how overpowered speeders are after that battle, too. If everybody on a team communicates, stays relatively close to teammates, pays attention to their surroundings, and doesn't take senseless risks, then most matches are winnable. Getting to these reasonable standards, however, is a Hurculean effort

 

I did go and look and yes, you're right. There was absolutely no cooperation or teamwork at all among the enemies and the only boat that even responded was their speeder. He hit me once with a flare and that was it.

Of course, in the very next match the opposing team was much less complacent and while I took out one enemy boat I died before I could make my escape with 3 unfriends on me. This was in wayward pains rather than open water so they had to maneuver to get their sights on me. Even the enemy I killed would've survived if he hadn't already been wounded. I got greedy because I wanted to finish him before their fixer could just undo it all. Bad choice resulting in untimely demise. Such is the life of a speeder... or at least this speeder.

 

So is this when I start a fixers are OP thread? LOL

I suppose it's fair enough that sometimes you get to "undo all my hard work". After all, all I need is for a few of my team mates to get lucky hits on you and then you become my much sought after prey. There's some sort of karmic balance in that I'm sure.

 

Half of these replies were not even about flare gun lmao

 

LOL, since I was the tangent I'll drag it back on track. Here's where I'm at with it.

Overall I'd urge Rovio to watch player behavior. If, in fact, people are madly leveling up flare guns and/or adding them to their ships then yes, there is obviously something wrong. Beyond that my general sense is that the heal debuff probably shouldn't stack but is otherwise fine.

 

As per discussed in other threads the stacking power of flare guns' healing debuff is freakingly insane. I have my 1400 repair bolt doing 800 for 80% of the game