Homing SNOT.....

If you practiced with it enough, it was a great weapon. But if you notice now, Nobody uses it anymore, thats how terrible it has become.

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@Carbonic wrote:

Oh I "got your point" alright - I just don't agree 🙂

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I don't think you did. It may have something more to do with EA finding a way to eliminate most of the cheaters/hackers, which would then create a more even playing field that would be acceptable to reducing the power of the Homing SNOT that flicks itself at the enemy. Or perhaps it's a reference to finding the only fair alternatives to playing against people using cheats.

Either way, too many cheater, cheater, pumpkin eaters.

Points for the visitors of this site.

everybody had their own weapons that they got really good at and probably used way too much in a cheap way. thats half the fun. I loved the homing shot. But now its so terrible i lose every game if I use it. They nerfed it way too much, its sad.

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@shade1968 wrote:

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@Carbonic wrote:

Oh I "got your point" alright - I just don't agree 🙂

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I don't think you did. It may have something more to do with EA finding a way to eliminate most of the cheaters/hackers, which would then create a more even playing field that would be acceptable to reducing the power of the Homing SNOT that flicks itself at the enemy. Or perhaps it's a reference to finding the only fair alternatives to playing against people using cheats.

Either way, too many cheater, cheater, pumpkin eaters.

Points for the visitors of this site.

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Oh I did. While I agree that cheaters are bad and should be removed I don't think overpowered, homing, fire and forget weapons will help in any way to get rid of them. Why not just make a feature that randomly kills people in general? That will surely scare away the cheaters :D

And just to say it again, I do agree that the homing shot is useless now but it did require a nerf as it was overpowered before, just not as big a nerf as it got.

The change to the homing shot is ridiculous. If it was found by many to be overpowered, (not my opinion) then they should have just increased the cool down time or decreased it's damage, not change the targeting function to the point of making the weapon useless. If their intent was to level the playing field, I'm not sure how screwing up a useful wepon that's readily available to noobs and vets achieves that. To anyone who was complaining that they kept getting shot by the homing shot, that should have been a clue to take cover and increase your stealth game a bit.

I don't know where you got the DL44 / Homing shot comparison. But it is out of whack too. I play Walker assault and Blast games. It was fun to see a guy running in an open area thinking he was going to take down your team mate, and you were able to take him down with a homing shot. If I were to do that I would expect the same thing. But now when I am trying to lock onto a guy across a canyon and it takes forever to lock and he takes me out with 3 shots from a DL44! That is insane! A pistol should be a close range, point blank killer. Not something that has the range of a rifle. All the pistols should have lower power and range of the CA 87.  It is fun when a guy has you in his sights and you can quick shoot him with a homing shot and take him out, but his teammates will still get the best of you. It s not like taking 3 guys out with a grenade. I have seen guys use the smart rocket to quick shoot at close range also, why isn't anyone complaining about that? 

With all the complaining about the Homing shot you can bet that changes back to the original settings are coming, and soon.

Agreed. I thought the homing shot was pretty equal and was not overpowering to others. It had a certain strength in certain areas when used right. It was no full proof weapon and you could easily get taken out if not careful. Why would you dumb down wepons? I was disappointed too and didn't see a need to that. 

Funny thing is, this change has profoundly hurt the Honor Guards who rely on them against Heroes and Villains. Its also hurt those who use them offline against bots. And let's not forget who gets hurt the most in MP, the guy starting out on his/ her own without a Friend or Clan assist.

Maybe they should take away the lock on (no more beep beeps) and let players dumbfire the thing...

I have no fun playing the game anymore since they messed with the Homing Shot