Team balance in PS

[GrayRage]

They are obviously thinking about this. I am concerned. No one is playing VS they say....why? Is it the purple color? Is it the annoying laser sounds? Or do they just suck? Are they gonna make VS more uber just to make up for their suck color and annoying weoppn noise and graphics?

Why does it seem TR is over powered? Is it cause they are the ONLY team with a missle that has tracking capabiltites on ground targets? And the ONLY non max air tracking capabiltites? Why was TR given this? Do they really believe the Stryker is balanced when no vehicle can survive a single grunt soldier with one (this includes maxes). Compare the Phoenix (NCs version of the stryker) It is a SELF guided missles that fires like once ever 20 seconds or more depdning on how long it takes u to hit your target and reload....the stryker could prolly unload 5 times in the period one phoneix can be fired. I believe VS has some kind of retarded high damage laser that has periphial damage for their anti vehicle weapon.

These "special" weapons are what truly determines the power differnce of the teams. These are the weopons you get when you advance in the game. Who honestly believes anything the VS or NC gets is anywhere close to the stryker? Can't they just see that every single TR has a stryker on them....and isn't that a big clue that's its overpowered?

Solution: If Sony believe vehicles are overpowered (and we don;t want everyone in a vehicle), then give ALL Teams a ground tracking missle like the stryker. This will keep being a grunt viable...and likely will not limit the number of vehicles on the road. But for gods sakes...don;t just give ONE team this massively overpowered weapon.

Toad also made a good point...to perhaps increase the reload time on the Stryker. The phoenix shoots one....u have to guide the missle.....then u have to go through this long reload. Just do the math...the strykker will outdamage the phoenix on average of 3 times....its lock and forget OWNS the self guidance. And god knows what the value of the ghey VS anti vehcile weapon is.

Look there Sony....that's the first place u should be workin' on.

[Exivate]

Toad is right, just slowing down the recoil time on the stryker is the perfect fix. Not only do the TR have the leet weapons, they look the coolest and have the cooler looking weapons, the chaingun especially.

[GrayRage]

Since the4 missle also uses radar, I think the shooter should show up on everyone's radar when the weapon is equipped. Just like IRL....if u use active radar, passive radar systems see u.

[Toaday]

i see VS infantry using the lancer(AV weapon) to rape ground troops in packs more so than using them on vehicles (like they are supposed to)

[GrayRage]

Our AV weapon just takes way to much time to reload and u cann't do anythjing else while u are guiding the missle to target. Seriously, put a moving vehicular target at any range out there and have someone with a stryker and someone with a phonix go after them (one target for each of them) who do u think is gonna destroy their target faster and more efficiently...BY far? its not even close.

[Toaday]

Put the target behind a tree, boulder, hill , etc. thats where the phoenix shines

[WaabDu]

Since NC's thing seems to be higher damage per shot ... perhaps the phoenix should do more damage, about 50% more imho.

This would mean that it would only take 2 shots to take out a lightning and/or max instead of 3. It is extremely difficult not to catch the brunt of your targets attention after the second shot, making the third quite a tricky feat (since you are also immobile while you guide the rocket home)

[Phreak2000]

I only use Phoenix for MAX's, usually one or two shots (max) and they are dead.

The only reason I use Phoenix missles on vehicles are to scare them away from a squad of our guys, other than that I don't bother because it doesn't do shit to vehicles which is totally fucking gay since it's an Anti-Vehicular cert. they need to up the damage it does to vehicles.

But now that they are coming out with vehicles that actually DO dmg to vehicles while also maintaining a speed faster than running, it therefore makes Anti-Vehicle cert useless, unless they made it a prerequisite for the vehicle.

[GrayRage]

Well the phoenix is the highest damage of the missles, but 3 or 4 strykers could hit for one phoenix, thus making the stryker far more effective. A stryker wielder could kill any target far faster then a phoenix wielder imho with alot less skill. Also, it's alot easier to miss with a phoeix cause of lag and other variables....stryker is guided by the server.