TIE Bomber needs a nerf
Limit the number of bombers available, decrease their hull value, ANYTHING. Right now every game looks like this - 4 TIE Bombers doing suicide runs and 1 other player who isn't it on the joke. With...
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If there is a problem, its not specific to Tie Bombers - It's with both bombers.
It's insane that with EITHER team, with a bomber, I consistently end matches with as top 1 or 2 in player kills AND capital ship damage. That is nuts (not to mention boring b/c why play other classes?). Bombers are plenty slow enough that they can't dogfight... but it's not about dogfighting, it's about being able to melt any other class with their chain gun anywhere under 1000m.
Don't kill the survivability or maneuverability, adjust their insane gun to be less effective against fighters.
Honestly, I don't think they should be nerfed at all. They aren't really game breaking. Imbalance makes things interesting anyhow. IMO games become bland and uninspired when things are nerfed to a state of "perfect balance" in an attempt to appease every single part of the player base.
It's like a plain rice-cake... or maybe it's like taking a peperoni pizza - shaving the peperoni into a fine powder and sprinkling it over the whole pizza to ensure every bite has the same amount of peperoni. Or hell, just puree the whole pizza and drink it. Perfectly balanced is like drinking your pizza.
Its good you have experience guys, but it might be more convincing if you have Gameplay vids to help with your claims...
- @Reposter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2ZIpoJ0Os8 - first game in that video. The top scores were Bomber, Bomber, Interceptor.
And this was a lazy game, after some beers and dinner- @Petersaber I see what you mean, but I mostly believe the fire rate of fire should be slowed down and the cool down rate should be longer, though the weapons overcharge should let the chain wined up start faster to open fire or reload faster.
- @ldanceswithcowsl "its not specific to Tie Bombers - It's with both bombers." - TIE Bomber outlasses the Y-Wing in every respect. I rarely see Y-Wings, I constantly see Bombers.
"Bombers are plenty slow enough that they can't dogfight... " - Y-Wing, yes, but TIE-Bomber is easly agile enough to dogfight with.
" They aren't really game breaking. Imbalance makes things interesting anyhow. " - found the Hanzo... I mean TIE-Bomber main!- @Petersaber I feel the imbalance makes it way more satisfying to destroy a TIE/Bomber
The fundamental issue remains that bombers are supposed to be cap-killers that need escorts or effective sweeps to make it through. That an unescorted bomber attacking into the maw of ready defenses should be a dead man flying.
Instead he just ignores the fighters with his massive tank, or melts them with a chain gun, then delivers his bombs effortlessly to the cap ship in question, then sits there chain gunning targets until eventually the massed firepower of the other team finally overcomes him - at which point he may explode as a second bomb.
I mean, yes, it’s a given that EA really must have pulled the budget out from under the game or something, and the result is tiny tiny maps. I doubt they’ll give the game any decently sized engagements where you can’t just choose to roll forward impervious to fire, so for now the raw math holds - the bomber makes it through each time, every time.
A fighter literally cannot kill it fast enough with any normal load out.
- @Petersaber "TIE Bomber outlasses the Y-Wing in every respect. I rarely see Y-Wings, I constantly see Bombers." - I 100% agree tie bombers are stronger than y wings, and still y wings are still comparatively OP vs non bomber classes. But okay, sure, tie bombers could be said to be ever more "broken" from that pov.
How are you not seeing y wings? Do you not play fleet battles? I don't even know how to respond.....
"Y-Wing, yes, but TIE-Bomber is easly agile enough to dogfight with."
Ok, sure, it can be, but that's a dumb setup in fleet mode... (btw I don't care about dogfighting mode if u havent guessed). But maneuverability is not what makes them broken it's 100% because of the gun and how effective it is against fighters.
"found the Hanzo... I mean TIE-Bomber main!" that's very internet of u to assume I get turned on by Tie Bombers lol... I'm a pretty weird gamer in general... I get super bored be repetition and lack of challenge... like, once I get really good at game, I usually quit shortly after. I got bored of bombers once I realized they are so OP. I'll only play a bomber if there are no bombers on my team and we are losing on fleet battles... its so * boring, give me a challenge!- @ldanceswithcowsl "How are you not seeing y wings? Do you not play fleet battles? I don't even know how to respond....." - I am nearing 100 hours in multiplayer. I rarely see Y-Wings. X-Wings with dumbfire rockets are better at attacking capital ships.
"Ok, sure, it can be, but that's a dumb setup in fleet mode... " - the video I posted is literally from Dogfight, not Fleet Battles
"But maneuverability is not what makes them broken it's 100% because of the gun and how effective it is against fighters." - yes. And they are maneuverable enough to perfectly use those powerful guns.
"that's very internet of u to assume I get turned on by Tie Bombers lol..." - I hoped the "Hanzo" comment would imply that I am just kidding ☹️
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