And how about shield and hammer ? Extra slow then. How about every other melee class in game ? They will be faster than ranged ones ? Or will TDA's be a snowflake ?
but the devs said they will have the same speed.... and no a Thunder hammer + shield dont have the same weight with vehicle weapons...
Your example gives an ingrained anti kiting ability (the very shield) and he would be able to casually stroll towards the people who are kiting him with his shield up high. Thus your example variant isnt as phased by movement. Then again i repeat myself gameplay>logic. The game already dropped logic out the window when comparing it to lore the day it was announced, so actual balance should take place rather than nitpicking. Or should we start arguing why in most RPGs you move the same speed irrelevant if you are wearing only your nickers or a full set of platemail and a giant sword paired with a full invertory of hundreds of weapons and other items? Gameplay>logic.
The guardian comment was sarcasm... the slow movement is the downside of terminators and equivalents, you can't expect to just run across an open field and engage in melee combat, you are gonna have to flank people, rush them with transports or attack them in a place where they can't run.
Allright. Yeah, actually I do remember that too. Devs said same sprinting speed for everyone. Then it will be balanced between acceleration and sprint speed lasting no doubt.
"We're going to try having Terminators be able to sprint as fast as other players but with a very long warmup" Slower movement, very long time to reach maximun speed, the result is the same, you should be able to avoid melee if you are in the open, the difference is that the longer warmup same sprint speed will make kiting really hard/impossible and I think you deserve to be kited and killed if you spawn a terminator to run after people in open fields.
Fantastic post, the Terminator sprinting scares me. One of the disadvantages of being in a terminator is your mobility, buffing that in my opinion would take that advantage away from the enemy.
Say no to kiting... Just launch a barrage on everyone... (jk if you didn't get it...) Devs plan for terminator sounds perfectly logical. Let it be tested first.
speed is not the only thing. two class can have the same speed but have abissal agility and mobility difference. probally a terminator will have some problem to change direction and similar.
