This ability is overused. Every imp comes in and takes the turf while vanquishing some foes in mech form. And if you destroy it, Imp still survives and carries on as nothing happened. It should be just like in GW2. If you vanquish a mech, Imp goes down.
This is one of my biggest issues with character balancing.
The thing that bothers me is, I can be on a roof a good distance off the edge and still get vanquished. Any time I randomly die I just curse in my head “bleep bleep mech”. And sure enough, that’s what it is. Honestly the rare occasion I play imp, that’s the only thing I use the mech for.
Yep bothers me too.
But in GW2 players could achieve the same thing, correct? They knew they needed to eject from the mech before it died, so that's what they did. The net effect was the same: the mech exploded and the imp escaped.
As a plant my policy is to keep far enough from mechs that I won't get caught by the explosion, then immediately pounce on the imp. Same with Deadbeard's barrel blast. Both are risky manoeuvres similar to chomper's Burrow ability, in that they are usually suicide when performed in a crowd of plants.
Edit: OK so my burrow analogy is a little wonky, since the chomper is essentially stunned after chomping, whereas imp and Deadbeard can hightail it out of danger. And mech and barrel blast have the potential to neutralise retaliation by taking out multiple plants, unlike burrow chomp which only removes one zombie from the battlefield.
But the Mech is different in BfN. This game does not have armor. The mech is treated like anybody else. That's why its health melts away so quickly.
The worst thing about Explosive Escape is that it hits you through walls. You cannot take cover from it.
Two problems. 1 he should die with mech, no question. 2 explosive escape damage area is way way too big, I've double what a typical safe distance was in gw2 and still died in bfn.
@jnicol1975Surprisingly, I only saw few players do that in GW2(and that’s fine cause it’s not automatic and also they happen to be good Imp players so they don’t suicide like crazy). I usually kill them(players who don’t use eject) quick enough with Solar flare beam and Pea gatling or even Husk hop if his health is low enough before they eject.
@Gormey wrote:Two problems. 1 he should die with mech, no question. 2 explosive escape damage area is way way too big, I've double what a typical safe distance was in gw2 and still died in bfn.
Couldn’t agree more.
