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SnubbyFighter's avatar
4 years ago

Rename NTW to Vehicle Tickler

It's now just an opportunistic joke weapon for infantry one shots and almost dead vehicles. So I think it deserves a better fitting name. There's no pros to out weigh the downsides. I would be fine with the dmg nerf if the rest of the downsides where balanced to at least make it still viable.

However right now it slow so vehicles just take off for cover with ease and magically repair. At least when someone had to get out you could shoot them. Cycling spent rounds is slow but understandable. Now that it's mag is smaller you're stuck with an insanely long switch animation when empty more often.  It's mid range so you're right next to the enemy team and will likely die during that switch if you didn't after the first few shots.

I mean I guess it could be op if  voip is ever enabled and you have at least 8 players agree to use them and target vehicles one at a time. However you might at well stick with 4-5 using recoilless/soflam or better yet the c5 silent drone.

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19 Replies

  • Lliadrin's avatar
    Lliadrin
    4 years ago

    what are you supposed to do when waiting for right opportunity? use secondary gun?
    ntw is primary weapon, not like m5 recoiless.

    Even before nerf, if you die from ntw from far away, you have problem with your positioning, i mean who will drive the tank in the middle of battle or stand still without any cover
    its still take 5 shot (22 damage each) to take down before nerf, its a longgg time, vehicle have ton of times to move away repair, or simply hide behind cover.

    this nerf doesnt make any sense

  • I used it for the first time yesterday and to say it’s underwhelming is an understatement…..it’s meant to be an anti armour gun not a pea shooter, I think the whole point of the gun is in its name!

    Its just like the anti armour grenades on the other specialist that you throw and they do virtually nothing 

  • UP_Hawxxeye's avatar
    UP_Hawxxeye
    Legend
    4 years ago

    @emerson1975The anti armor grenades are a lot more powerful per solid hit and also do not occupy a weapon or regular gadget slot and do not need an ammo box to resupply. You do not even need to know where the vehicle is, just throw the grenade on the air and keep doing whatever you do

  • Lliadrin's avatar
    Lliadrin
    4 years ago

    if the anti armor hit lols, lately it seems like to target air vehicle which it will never hit unless the pilot is an idiot.

    love the grenade before, now it become pretty useless

  • Lykosia's avatar
    Lykosia
    4 years ago
    @theCrazyOnes NTW-50 is not anti tank rifle. It's meant against lightly armored targets. It should do nothing against MBTs. It should work only against light and air vehicles. It was a joke that it could take out tanks with few bullets.
  • Sure that's fine but it doesn't work on light vehicles either and with all the downsides you're just a loud sitting duck for people to shoot after one shot. So in it's current state it doesn't accomplish any meaningful task.

  • @Lykosia on the heavy armor, it should take more bullet than light, it make more sense. but now it wont even effective any vehicles. thats the point, the nerf make this gun against it own purpose.

  • I understand the want for a SMALL nerf but it should have kept its damage and had nerfs elsewhere like damage drop off at extreme distances,

    or a little slower rechamber time with the anti armor rounds

    or a scope glint on all scopes while using anti armer rounds,

    or you only get 2 mags of anti armer rounds.

    My sole purpose for grinding so hard to level 60 was to get this gun and be more helpful to the team, while still using my preferred play style! If everyone has to run around with recoilless or Stingers, that leaves almost no one available for ammo and meds, which ads to the lack of squad play. The NTW-50 is all but useless at the moment. DICE pls bring back its damage! 

  • @SnubbyFighterIt should have a slower fire rate, reload speed, higher recoil / recoil recovery, and slower ADS time compared to other snipers. But be a beast and 1 shot to the chest on infantry without armor and do high damage to vehicles.

    While conversely, the AP rounds on other weapons need to have a much higher affect against light vehicles - especially from LMGs, DMRs and Snipers to reflect their typical higher calibre rounds.

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