I know this isnt exactly news, but I want to take a moment to express how much I despise the fact that after two months this still hasnt been addressed.
In a match dedicated to a specific spartan ability that’s plagued by people who are in it to win by standing at a side and taking potshots with the beam rifle. I’ve played three matches of this today and all three winners were those who used the beam rifle over 2 to 1 to the method the map was based on. So why, why is it that there’s a beam rifle for ranged fighting in a melee based gametype?
I mean seriously, I guess it’s a “legitimate” strategy but come on now, it breaks the point of the gametype. They dont need to remove it per se, but would it kill them to nerf weapon damage, remove headshots and increase melee damage further? Though replacing it with another weapon would be more generous.
And the worst part is I feel even I’m leaning more towards this strategy because it works too well with people who know what they’re doing.
Yeah, this whole game mode is flawed by adding the Beam Rifle. It’s easy to fix, just swap it for a plasma pistol.
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> Yeah, this whole game mode is flawed by adding the Beam Rifle. It’s easy to fix, just swap it for a plasma pistol.
Exactly. But it’s pretty clear that simple fixes are few and far between now…
Yeah it’s pretty crap coming second or third only using ground pound, then looking at the pcgr to see the winner had 20 beam rifle kills.
Simple fix A- remove beam rifle
Simple fix B- reduce weapon damage setting significantly for this mode
If only they could disable zooming in. no scoping while moving to the next grav lift is pretty fun.
They should make it so that melee are the only way to get kills, no other weapons.
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> They should make it so that melee are the only way to get kills, no other weapons.
Funny thing is I even mentioned this one to my brother while we were playing. Sure, let them rack up some kills, just as long as it doesnt effect the match. But then that’d just lead to the question “Why have beam rifles in the first place then?” which Droog already mentioned, just replace them with a plasma pistol
The addition of the beam rifle is to keep the fast paced nature of the game type. Without it people would be camping the high spots all of the time waiting for people on the ground and the game would take much longer.
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> The addition of the beam rifle is to keep the fast paced nature of the game type. Without it people would be camping the high spots all of the time waiting for people on the ground and the game would take much longer.
And now people are camping on the ground waiting for them to go in the air or hit the ground. The beam rifle isn’t a good solution.
If it doesn’t get changed by the next update, then I doubt it will ever get changed.
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> I know this isnt exactly news, but I want to take a moment to express how much I despise the fact that after two months this still hasnt been addressed.
> In a match dedicated to a specific spartan ability that’s plagued by people who are in it to win by standing at a side and taking potshots with the beam rifle. I’ve played three matches of this today and all three winners were those who used the beam rifle over 2 to 1 to the method the map was based on. So why, why is it that there’s a beam rifle for ranged fighting in a melee based gametype?
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> I mean seriously, I guess it’s a “legitimate” strategy but come on now, it breaks the point of the gametype. They dont need to remove it per se, but would it kill them to nerf weapon damage, remove headshots and increase melee damage further? Though replacing it with another weapon would be more generous.
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> And the worst part is I feel even I’m leaning more towards this strategy because it works too well with people who know what they’re doing.
Agree 100%. Beam rifle is the wrong weapon. It should either be the promethean pistol or plasma pistol.
Don’t you people find it easy to ground pound people who are scoped in with their beam rifles? When I play, I focus only on ground pounding and I usually finish at or near first place…
yeah everybody just use beam rifles
Plasma pistol is virtually useless though, beam rifle was added in by the creator as a way to defend yourself against an incoming pound. I’ve never actually tried it, but I think a shotgun would be a fair replacement. I mean I think a well timed shot would kill the person before they connected with you, no?
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> Plasma pistol is virtually useless though, beam rifle was added in by the creator as a way to defend yourself against an incoming pound. I’ve never actually tried it, but I think a shotgun would be a fair replacement. I mean I think a well timed shot would kill the person before they connected with you, no?
That’s kind of the point. I can see why the OP had added the beam rifle as self defense but perhaps a close range weapon would be better, such as a shotgun. Just add melee damage increase and using a shotgun becomes risky that way it can be used in defense but people cant rely on it as a crutch
Spartan laser or binary rifle would be way fairer.
Better yet, Gravity Hammers. They can take out an incoming pounder and they have their own pound animation as well.
Totally agree with @The Omeggos on this one. The beam rifle totally changes the dynamics of this game. The first few times I played it, it was a blast…everybody ground pounding. But now you pretty much get rekt’d by beam rifles when playing a ground pound strategy.
I tried playing the beam strategy once, and finished second…2 kills from first place. So it’s seems to be an effective strategy. And I can’t fault anyone for playing the beam rifle…especially if they’re still working on the weapon commendation. But from a social/enjoyment perspective, I really wish it was primarily played with ground pounds.
I say a Spartan Laser. A PP could just be Charge+Shoot+Melee. Splaser is easy to dodge and hard to aim.
I don’t even attempt to ground pound if I’m going for the win. Beam rifle non stop! lol
It should be called “Beam Arena” instead because that’s how you win.
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> If only they could disable zooming in. no scoping while moving to the next grav lift is pretty fun.
I really like the idea of disabling the zoom. That would make to a pretty awesome match.