Mac welding too powerful?

Hunter.S.T.Hunter.S.T. Join Date: 2012-05-26 Member: 152596Members
in NS2 General Discussion
Is mac welding is too powerful?? through experimentation, i discoverd that a single mac can weld an arc factory faster than an onos can destroy it.

Not that it isnt fun to seal up operations and shoot the onos over the top :D
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  • ssjsonic1ssjsonic1 Join Date: 2012-03-13 Member: 148729Members
    The MAC welding isn't unreasonable, but I think it could be toned down a bit, maybe by 15% or so.
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  • DrummerDrummer Join Date: 2004-02-18 Member: 26654Members
    the balance to that is the MAC will die in about 2 secs from any lifeform. MACs are insanely weak, just kill the MAC
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  • swalkswalk Say hello to my little friend. Join Date: 2011-01-20 Member: 78384Members, Squad Five Blue
    OP is very right about this issue, and I have wrote about it earlier, it resulted in a small nerf from 200 to 150hp repeared/sec.
    Which is still waaay too powerful.
    A MAC should build slower than marines(they already do! great job there!).
    They should repair slower than a marine welding, and definitely slower than a single skulk can do damage. (OH WAIT! Something wrong here.)
    Micromanaging the MACs to repair stuff while the aliens are attacking is really powerful.
    Try making the MACs automaticly repair eachother, and you will see how powerful the repair rate really is.
    You will be unable to kill them as soon as there are more than one.
    That's the current micromanage potential they have, which is definitely too powerful(unkillable, except for bilebomb).
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  • James.OllerheadJames.Ollerhead Join Date: 2012-04-27 Member: 151174Members
    I think that the fact that MACs get 2 shot at melee range and maybe 3-4 shot at distance (even by gorge spit) nullifies any notion that they are OP. Especially now that gorges can bile them from across the room and hit a group of MACs and then run away and grab the triplekill.
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  • TimMcTimMc Join Date: 2012-02-06 Member: 143945Members
    Marine welding in general is extremely powerful. However MACs are so weak its not really an issue.
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  • Cee Colon SlashCee Colon Slash Join Date: 2012-05-25 Member: 152581Members
    I'm wondering if the solution here is that something cannot be repaired while it's being attacked.
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  • Champlo0Champlo0 Join Date: 2012-04-17 Member: 150617Members
    Is it really that hard to take two seconds to kill the mac considering it costs 5 TRes from marines to build another
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