MACs fly above player/exo height

schkorpio

<div class="IPBDescription">where possible</div>They kind of get in the way, if they floated just a little higher than a standard marine, or exo then it would be much better. they also wouldn't get caught on buildings etc and might lessen the load on waypointing since there is less for the MAC to avoid. no buildings or marines to dodge.

Skulks can always jump to get them so not a big deal there.

1dominator1

They're hard enough to kill as is imo.

arnyboy87

really don't like this idea.

If fact I just hate macs altogether I get the fact that the marine comm has to get someone to build the haversters and that but I hate the fact that macs can repair build fair eough but repair an already built structure seems off this reason for this is the mac spam on the Exo's which really bugs me

Laosh'Ra

i agree that MACs can sometimes get in the way. you attempt to turn around to run away while reloading, suddenly with a MAC in your face.
an onos usually doesn't have this problem with kharaa structures because their collisions are apparently handled different somehow, how about doing something similar for MACs? since they can fly, i don't think people would be bothered if their collisionsize/mechanics were somehow made more subtle. afaik they can already pile up with overlapping models as it is.

Sythian

I reckon that MAC's getting in the way is handy because people hate it, and thus you'll find that commanders will generally send marines with welders to keep Exo's out of trouble in place of a MAC army because the small army of MAC's will sometimes end up causing a lot more harm than good for the team. Making the MAC's fly above the rest of the team pretty much removes their one biggest weakness

schkorpio

I get that MACs are exploited or whatever right now - but you can't honestly say that having a buggy/annoying movement system for MACs is a way to balance the game?
There are better ways to balance these things without making the game look amatuer.

e.g. they have a cool down on the amount of repairing they can do (like the armory) or the repairing does not stack with multiple MACs.

But I dont want to get off topic here - The original suggestion is to improve playability of the game.