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Aug 25, 08 11:18AMps2fan4life
The only thing this game really needs, is sharper counters. And no more bs overpowered defense.
Aug 25, 08 06:52AMAulis Vaara
If they would only release the Mod SDK for Kane's Wrath so we can undo some of those 'balance' changes.
Anyway, the Avatar was just fine at first. It had a good role as a support unit, and it worked perfecly in that regard, but for one reason or another they felt it was necessary to make it the Nod Mammoth tank.
The Tripod is also ridiculously overpowered, mainly because of its EMP attack. It even kills epic units for crying out loud !
EA obviouly sucks at balancing. And they screwed up a few other things too. Tiberian Sun, and especially Firestorm had such beautiful Tiberium environments, and C&C3 only had the glaciers, which were cool, but hardly enough to make a red zone look 'alien' as they said in one of the GDI missions.
What happened to all of the Critters? And the Tiberium trees?
All in all, the game needs a complete overhaul for details and balancing and if given the chance, I'd do it.
Aug 25, 08 01:48AMSunderdown
Anyway, after about 5 pages of discussion it comes down to this: EA screwed up C&C, Bring back Westwood! (Or at least Petroglyph, as most of them went there). That's my opinion at least. As they never released as many balance patches (I don't think they did anyway). I think the mammoth has lost its charm (at least it's role), as Nod never used to have a single unit as powerful as them, now it has competition from two other similar heavy units.
Aug 24, 08 11:25AMps2fan4life
Pitbull or w/e to detect stealth, then bomb it with planes. It's a good tactic but not to be abused. And it costs a crapload of money.
Aug 24, 08 02:10AMflyingcornflake
lol im just reading this and how your all laughing at the redeemer... BUT, a good plan for the redeemer is to put two black hand in/ or 1black hand and an engineer, then stealth it. then run through the enemy base, its got more armour than a flame tank or a purifier, so it would decimate a base...right?
Jun 12, 08 11:35AMCypher8492
lol, as you say..
well, i try to bring in quicker units, pitbulls, apcs, even preds, to take the heat off and let a mammy get away when it needs to...
Jun 12, 08 07:43AMArchimonde_STG
I've been saying that from page 2 of this forum!
And yes they are useful but you can almost always expect them to die in the end but the thing is, how many units will it kill when it's alive? If you can kill $20000 worth units with 4 mammoths then you've done good but since they are so slow and hard to retreat an experienced will always destroy them.
Jun 12, 08 06:00AMCypher8492
quote Archimonde_STG
I was saying Mammoths are underpowered
thank you
not that i dont think ppl realize it, but at least someone, besides me, finally came out and said it....
for the, "biggest, baddest" tank around, the poor mammy has a lot more weaknesses than it used to, yet i still say not to underestimate its usefulness, despite it lack of stats..(damn patch!!..lol)
Jun 12, 08 02:44AMArchimonde_STG
No my friend, if you're smart enough we know the early game scrin strike force. Gun Walker, Disintegrators, Seekers and sometimes buzzers. If you pay attention the gun walkers own infantry very bad plus disintegrators are actually quiet decent themselves.
Plus what was I saying anyway, was I saying GDI is very underpowered? No, I was saying Mammoths are underpowered, use a tripod and get to close range and see what happens to the poor mammoths, in bigger numbers it hurts even more because tripods will use their 3rd laser too and the EMPed unit gets killed even faster not to mention Tripods move faster than the slow mammy.
Jun 12, 08 12:04AMps2fan4life
He still looks crazy cool. And since it´s still better than 2 preds, I´ll choose it above 2 preds any time.
Also, Mammoths can, unlike purifier/tripod/blabla, drive backwards, so it can keep it's front armor to the direction the enemy is coming, while also deal some damage when retreating. If you do this correctly, you can easily stay out of Purifiers flame reach and demolish it because the purifiers laser is useless.
This message was edited by ps2fan4life on Jun 12 2008.
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