Thread: 4.18 update discussion

the flamethrower change is funny. a few times i remember collecting CE below the middle and getting hit by flames from up top.

I think the cannons were fine as they were and I dont know of anyone crying for them to be nerfed. I guess it might make for more safe spots for ops like the little hill part near ravens base might be out of range of cannons now if so that would be a nice boon for blue-team. (You could actually shoot from there but its tricky and it was slightly in cannon range)

Also im glad they fixed the fat chocobo table chronometer I was worried for a second there, or maybe 4 seconds I dont know my clock was broke.

They could of introduced an overheat mechanic with the cannons, where if you fire them in succession to much you can't use them for an X amount of time. That would of been better then nerfing their dmg potency since as mentioned healers will just have an easier time messing around with the core now.

LMAO. /10char

I always felt the cannons were fine, because they were a last defense and crushed that one random person (or Chaser) trying to rush your base - that was what the cannons were good at - aiming at a few targets. The current cannons were already not very effective at dealing with more than 3 people running into the base at once, and had key blind spots.

With the nerfs:
- Oppressors/Brutes would just sit outside the north entrance and destroy the core without getting hit
- Brutes can MegaBeam both cannons down together and take minimal damage because only one cannon will barely reach it
- Healers would just out-heal the cannon damage; one can attack a cannon outside the base and the gunner will be stuck with two choices:
1) Focus the healer and stalemate due to healspam while other players file into base.
2) Attack the players rushing the core while getting killed by the healer.

Imo, the cannon nerfs pretty much defeat the point of them. They were already ineffective in a large push.

Doing enough games to get my mount not a single one had a person crying about cannons being too op and yet they still manage to make me angry about these rival wings changes. Took 3 months of suggestions and literally proof of the classes being not worth the effort of taking to progresssion and now they are top of the charts balance is a real issue with this company.

Originally Posted by Zeonsilt

This Cannon nerf is unnecessary, especially 20% max range decrease.

Yeah. This makes it harder to defend the core, which makes it worse in terms of snowballing. Not just healers, but CCs can rush the core easier too now. Have to see how the matches play out, but I'd really wish they'd explain why on earth they felt this would help.

I suspect the cannon nerf has more to do with the mammet changes. Most of the modifications seem to be focused on making mammet pushes more viable and the generator/oppressors less must have.

Faster mammets likely means bigger mammet stacks getting to towers/cores together even if the spawn rate stays the same. The cannon nerf is likely their so that a cannon can't single-handedly stop mammet pushes on the core.