Mines

Instead of nerfing mines, I think the game would be better balanced if they just had a counter. Why can't they be shot at? Why dont they explode from mortars? or torps? Why can't the new teal barrier be a mine sweeper?

Any of the pulse weapons or the new teal ones could sweep mines. Or take a short range weapon like carronade which can blow them up.

Or take something under used...cough FROST... and have it defuse any mine.

 

saying that player are inexperienced who run into mines is so wrong . if there are few mines then okay people can avoid it but in few battle i saw all the see full ow mines and there was not even inch to move . can't go forward or backwards . this is so demotivated thing because you want to battle and when mine spammers fill all the sea with mines its not fun at all .

 

Mines must get nerfed... either way as below
1) Friend / unfriend color code
2) maximum time for auto blow up
3) Mines should not have range, they should be dropped right where the ship is
4) Ship must come into contact with the mine in order to be damaged by it.
5) Maximum mines one ship can plant. As soon as it plants beyond the max limit. The very first one should be automatically blown / removed.

I have tried to summarize above the very doable and desired nerfs. Devs please look into MINE problem. It is the scourge of the Battle Bay at the time.

 

good suggestions . I like the idea of no range and number of mines per player .

color thing work in both way if both team have mines then both afraid moving over them . but they should give it try .

 

I think the biggest issue with mines in TDM is that they persist through death. If mines detonated once the player who laid them is killed it would solve a lot of the problems.
Personally I think the same should apply to any other weapon/item effect like fire, Frost and stun.

 

As a mine user my counter answer is nerf everything else jokes aside, it`s not the easiest running a speeder with mine and nade and making success with it. Anyone who thinks elseways might just go and try it out

 

I meant TDM as in event TDM modes.
Currently I'm able to hit some one with flare and blast, die, respawn and hit them again with a blast before my first flare runs out.
I guess if you're able to pull this off you deserve the extra damage but at what cost?

I've seen many people suicide to get a final shot off and that 1 death could be the cause of a loss.

 

My main problem with mines is: There are quite some guys in the game which play mines only (I have seen this on fixers, speeders, enforcers and even defenders - also had the "pleasure" to watch a shooter with 4 mines lately, slowly dying in the end game) and when they are in my team, we loose. And especially with speeders and selfish fixers: You have to watch them evading for minutes until the four enemy surviving ships finally kill him. Those guys are unable to apply any pressure in the first few minutes and are responsible for the loss of the match and get the most "screentime".

 

Mine is a map control item, im using mine as well and barely got any hit on it. But, the map controlling is amazing, lure the whole unfriends team to an open zone where your mates can focus fire, put some near the shooter who camped with all of their mortars, torps, FB and SC to get his *ss moving. On event, it should be a reduction just like in CTF so we wont have a field up mines out there but mine is fine

 

Something needs to be done about mines. Look at this game from earlier today.

https://replay.battlebay.net/RCPHBKBX#NFGDXGMH

Towards the end I can barely move for mines. It’s a miracle I managed not to hit one, and really just lucky that I didn’t need my Nitro more. The fact that they do 5k damage if you even go near one, which is usually an instakill, makes the game almost unplayable.

And this isn’t just some ‘crazy’ game, like that time you got five fixers on the same team, every game is like this, to some degree.

I’m not anti-mines, I even have a Legendary one myself, but the spam is way over the top, and the damage is just ridiculous for something that is no longer ‘easy’ to avoid: not when every inch of the map is littered with them.

 

10 ships in the match and only 9 mines?
Need to buff cooldown, range and damage on those bad boys.

 

This. I love seeing the dual mine speeder thinking they're clever then dropping one of mind into their spammed field.

It doesn't take skill to lomb mines in a starting area, but it does take skill to pick a spot where they're difficult to avoid. It also doesn't take skill to launch a big torp in the general direction of unfriends, but they, like mines, are moves that don't always pay off.
It's far less skillful to spam mortars and forebombs

There are also set backs to mine, ie if you're 1v1 you are basically a weapon down or if you're in the open they're pretty much useless and avoidable.

TL;DR : Mines are strong, but they're balanced

 

I would love to play that game, all the thrilling of moving through a mine and hope that it wont explode, nitro through a mine field just to realize that there are more mines a head, make a super sharp and perfect turn to deliver the final blow.

Games like that make BB fun and great to play, i would love to have that instead of this same ol camping and button pushing BS.


So many FBs, so fun yay...

 

That's a lot of firebombs..
*sprays Debuff-Away*

 

Well, that only happen if someone play the boat at all not to mention using the item and buff the team not himself