Balancing Fire weapons

Only you can prevent your own demise. You all know that the techniques to avoid mortars is the same technique to avoid FB, right? Use structures to your advantage. Players seem to lose their minds in TDM and forget basic strategy. You can protect yourself, even if you can't bash common sense into your teammates' heads.

As for mines, the obvious counter to players putting a Mine force field around them is long range weapons, and that's why we are seeing lots of FB/Mortar/Napalm spam in TDM. It's not that one or the other is OP, it's just strategy. Fixing Mine duration during TDM is a necessary fix here if you don't want to see this. I'm seeing extra Frost as well, which boosts Mortars and Torps.

 

that's what people don't seem to acknowledge

 

The devs should turn all the weapons into the same weapon and all the ships into the same ship so no one will F’ing be unbalanced and complain ever again.

 

Then we'll just be complaining about captain levels, ship levels, item levels, perks, currencies, cells, maps, matchmaking, events....

 

Thanks for reminding us. Get rid of it all and just enjoy a simple game!

 

The spam is real and annoying

 

As I said, make all the weapons the same and the weapons will be balanced

 

nearly takes no effort to use?
have you even tried using it?

 

Yes
And it took nearly no effort to use

 

show me a replay you hitting dead center without effort

 

I said nearly no effort, not no effort, and I never said I got bullseye's with no effort either. Also, how am I to prove that it took no effort when the only thing I can show is a replay.

 

Why would the user want their weapon to be nerfed

 

I agree with the first two bullet points of point 1.

Their damage is far too drawn out that the majority of the time you never see the full damage potential. This would also reduce the opportunity to increase cannon damage and gimped healing.

I don't think there needs to be a touch to the cooldown though considering the damage outputs are dwarfed by the cannon / mortar counterparts.

 

When I hit opponents on the edge of a FB ring, it only burns for a few seconds. I'm unclear why that is considered OP?

 

i wasn’t after the nerf. i was after how he said it was used. if we’re talking about flare gun then i would agree it takes almost no effort but fire bomb? C’mon..