Hello all who play BTB - after playing a few BTB matches I noticed that my team consistently gets rekt by a single enemy Wasp (upwards of 30+ kills by that one player)
I just want to say - if you stay inside buildings, that Wasp won’t be able to get you - also a 1v1 with a Wasp will not play out in your favour unless you have a power weapon. Either the whole team has to focus fire on it, or you just hide from it throughout the game. He can’t kill those who he can’t see - so he will just fly around feeling high and mighty.
So please don’t run out there trying to take on a Wasp with a BR.
You can’t stay hiding for ever though. People also don’t coordinate in btb. I have damaged a wasp pretty badly with my br once. Though the best strategy would be for everyone to group up and take it out.
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> You can’t stay hiding for ever though. People also don’t coordinate in btb. I have damaged a wasp pretty badly with my br once. Though the best strategy would be for everyone to group up and take it out.
I guess I phrased it poorly, I don’t mean hide completely, but don’t run out in the open. You want to make the pilot’s life as hard as possible. If more than two people focus fire on him, he will have no choice but to back off. Also people have to remember that Wasp’s weak point are its prop-engines.
Its (to me) common sense if you get attached by any sort of vehicle and there is cover around then get into cover. Then if its a building try to find a way to flank them, I do this a lot and get the kill.
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> Its (to me) common sense if you get attached by any sort of vehicle and there is cover around then get into cover. Then if its a building try to find a way to flank them, I do this a lot and get the kill.
Its really hard to pull this off when you are the only one trying to get him.
I solo Wasps fairly often, just make sure you have a place to hide when its rockets come for you. The turbines on its wings are super weak.
Yeah sadly not many use mics anymore so you can’t coordinate to team shoot, or use warthogs or power weapons to take them down.
If you’re talking about the wasps on the map unearthed then that is because how garbage the map is. No clue how it got into multiplayer. the map is a good concept but it plays poorly because of the crane you can get onto in the middle
It only takes a plasma pistol
If a Wasp driver is getting 30 kills, then your team is either really bad and/or you’re playing against a full party. Not much that you can do in either of those scenarios.
My solution: Take the Wasp out of BTB. It’s definitely one of the worst additions imo.
I love the wasp, but it can be frail. It is, indeed, quite frustrating to know that two or three guys with concentrated fire can take it out without too much difficulty. Unfortunately, that does require one or two others take notice that there’s a wasp in play and shoot at it, too…
There was one time I went 17-0 on Deadlock awhle back due to the Wasp. The other team was pretty bad especially for that map. But in general, a Wasp can be taken on fairly easily with standard weapons. If it catches on fire any bit, I usually see the driver run away out of fear i guess.
While Wasps are generally annoying in the hands of a capable pilot, that’s all they really are: Annoying. Have your squad focus your fire on it (make sure to keep its shields down) and eventually it’ll become a smoking pile of twisted metal. Most power weapons and standard chaingun turrets are especially effective.
Even blindly spraying at a Wasp can cripple it badly, especially if you have Kinetic Bolts.
On most maps the wasp is quite a bit OP, especially on the new BTB map Risen. On that map besides the sniper and PP, not real threat to the wasp since there is so many structures to hide behind to recharge shields. If I get the wasp, then I usually go 20-30+ kills, mostly because people do not understand how to take it out. Most people rely on the BR to take it out but actually the AR can shred the wasp in a clip and a half if you are shooting mostly the turbines.
Overall, the wasp is frail and in generally when running with my team the goal of the wasp is support. Thus you are looking to see which teammates are engaged in a firefight, fly over quickly and mop up whatever is over there.
The wasp is a vehicle which you must avoid in btb unless you have something made to deal with it. I have gone 22-0 in a wasp because no one ever got power weapons to take me out. They would shoot their BRs at me and would not get to cover. One on one with a competent pilot is a death sentence but a team of average weapons can easily overpower a wasp.
When everyone shoots at the Wasp it’ll go down fairly quickly, but some pilots can be really tricky and end up racking up a lot of kills while avoiding everything shot at them.
If I had it my way though, I would remove aerial vehicles from BTB altogether.
4 sniper shots in a row = buckle up
but don’t miss, a reload kills the chance b/c the shields go up again