I do believe that is the case. When I think of it, nids who were not attacking me would die faster to melee, but I just assumed they were shot and weakened before I got to them, I also was trying to avoid hitting my fellow teammate, lol.
Will the Plasma Pistol be able to damage vehicles at any point? I would be happy if I could use a charged shot to finish off a burning vehicle, as it is rather tricky to do so with a melee weapon. Though admittedly I rarely go vehicle hunting as melee, as the Power Fist doesn't seem to be very efficient at it (the stun is nice, but the dps is low). Thinking about it. I wonder if the Dire Avengers have any other means of damaging vehicles, as the Plasma Grenade is inefficient at it (just like the Krak Grenade) and the Fusion Pistol is so brokenly OP that I need not mention it Considering the overspecialization and all that, I will assume they have nothing else until the arrival of Haywire Grenade (which would be nice to get on them). Anyhow, someone I spoke with earlier said you would allow basic Dire Avengers to carry melee weapons, e.g. the Diresword (I assume this means Power Weapons are a go too). Is this true? The Diresword seems far to powerful to be allowed use by basic troops, unless it is very expensive. Power Weapons could be good, as they don't rip out the soul of the enemy.
Yeah, Plasma Pistol is supposed to damage vehicles. That's been an ongoing bug - I'll try to squash it tomorrow. It will definitely not be an efficient choice against them though. The Fusion Pistol will be usable against vehicles, though mostly I suspect it'll be only useful for parked transports. In general, while we are trying to improve the killiness of Dire Avengers against infantry, they'll be depending on other characters for anti-vehicle support. Power Swords and Direswords are only for Dire Avenger Exarchs, same as the Shimmershield. We're actually quite close to having them in the game, though I can't say for sure whether they'll make it for launch. If not they'll be in one of the first major patches afterwards.
This would help, right now you can only hit things from point blank lol. It's one-shotting people though, not like 3 shots from the older versions And pleaseeeeeeeeee get us hawks and banshees! Testing Eldar doesn't really mean all that much until every class is in! xD And will we have 7 default load-outs and custom loadouts instead of 5 since we have seven classes?
No Direswords for launch? But, but, my Mael Dannan Anyhow, that is what I thought, as you have always said that melee is only for Dire Avenger Exarchs. Since Eldar have easier access to Force Fields than other faction (maybe except Necrons), will they then be able to equip Force Fields of different kinds on their basic classes? Thinking about it, the Iron Halo is just a force field of sorts, so it wouldn't be OP (I think).
In PVE, I have noticed that the 'nids don't take damage when you're above them on a ramp. You must wait for them to be on level ground before your hits do any damage. That could be where @Yellow 's difficulty with melee arises.
Oh, uh, sorry. Just remembered. Please consider a solo mode for PvE content. I know going into the hive alone is the articulation of a profound death wish, but I'm in that group of weirdos for whom there's a need to go kill things alone. I'm fine with heading into content balanced for 5 people alone if that's what works.
I feel that the group system for PvE could be Tweaked alittle. Like having us ready up for the Instance, and have it automatically group us up with Four others. Kinda like how we find PvP groups. Just a thought though.
