Good news: you can pick the Scarab if you want that.
Scorpion is a joke.
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Fwiw: this happens with every new ship or vehicle.
"Yes, the cutter is fast with massive shields and firepower, plus it has loads of cargo. But I'd gladly sacrifice a little bit of that to also make it super agile with a huge jumprange."
Yeah, duh.
"Yes, the cutter is fast with massive shields and firepower, plus it has loads of cargo. But I'd gladly sacrifice a little bit of that to also make it super agile with a huge jumprange."
Yeah, duh.
I really dislike the increase in precision (spread) over time, its a stupid trope in games. Precision should be high in the first shots and should maybe go down a bit with sustained fire. Accuracy (the ability to point the rifle where you want the shot to land, (keeping your mouse pointer crosshairs on target)) should actually increase over time by being able to hone in on your target (tracers) and offset by the recoil of the gun, but these should be fully controllable by the player using the mouse or controller.
This actually goes for all ground weapons in Elite and makes them all feel like cheap toys, while actually would expect the distant future to have pretty precise guns (but maybe higher inaccuracy due to the heavier guns/bullets to account for increases in armor effectiveness).
Currently the whole balancing of gunplay translates to imprecise guns and high time to kill because of the closer distances to reliably hit each other.
This actually goes for all ground weapons in Elite and makes them all feel like cheap toys, while actually would expect the distant future to have pretty precise guns (but maybe higher inaccuracy due to the heavier guns/bullets to account for increases in armor effectiveness).
Currently the whole balancing of gunplay translates to imprecise guns and high time to kill because of the closer distances to reliably hit each other.
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Here I am playing wrong again. Having no trouble with the scorpion. Not thinking its a joke. Not trying to make it a scarab replacement.
Thank you for your input.Good news: you can pick the Scarab if you want that.
Its essential. Same with new ships, if any. If they directly replace what we have already its just mindless powercreep.
FWIW: the most upvoted topic on reddit is the one praising the scorpion.
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I had to say it, but I don't get why this new Scarab is too much hyped. It is kinda small, I thought its design could be more tanky. The performance is, well, meh...
And need a lot of improvements, imho.
BUT, remembering Frontier mantra: "Please remember that what we show will very much be work in progress and not final."
Everything become clear.
The gun DOES get more accurate. Pull and hold down the trigger until the target falls. Do not shoot if he is going to cover.
Steve 07
But it's not enough and arguably its stupid to have the gun become more precise over time.
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FWIW: If you read the comments, the people upvoting were doing so before they had tried it themselves. The latest thread about it a day later is questioning why the Scorpion exists.
Why?
It's mainly a multiplayer tool.
It's not a Scarab replacement
And multiplayer alone offers a lot of advantages over someone that is alone.
Making the Sorps's blaster like a sniper rifle would have been really bad.
What they need to do is flip it. Tight at first, then loosens up.
It really has no niche at all as designed. Two Scarabs are better than a multicrew Scorpion, the Scarab out-damages the Scorpion due to dispersion, the Scarab is better at, well, everything. At best it's training wheels for people who have trouble driving on low-G planets or maybe for people who couldn't figure out how to move pips to shields in the Scarab. It looks like it was supposed to be the combat SRV to accompany the exploration SRV but that's not what was delivered. If the release order was reversed people would be complaining the Scarab powercreeps the Scorpion and leaves it with no purpose.
That missile launcher will beg to differ.
It really means the difference of having someone safely tucked behind a rock and having someone dead
Also think the bullet spread should work opposite. Accurate at the beginning and more spread over time.
This would cause players to pay more attention to aiming then just pulling the trigger.
This would cause players to pay more attention to aiming then just pulling the trigger.
Yeah, that repeater sucks, looks like it is throwing rocks...
Have you tried it? I took it to a CZ and struggled to get it to even hit commandos let alone kill them. It's way faster to get out and shoot them and that ammo is free, and also way faster to shoot them with a Scarab. Again, it looks like it's supposed to be a combat SRV, it just isn't, and will either get massively buffed once the hype wears off and others realize this or it will be forgotten. It currently has no reason to exist.
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I tried it last night and it worked perfectly fine. Killing enemy troops left and right. It's especially useful when you track down the dropship and nuke the helluva a group of commanods right after they drop.
Scarab can't do it this fast.
The description in the patch notes for Odyssey is:
So... designed to support the ground troops.
Anyway, I guess it's only a matter of time for people to master it's abilities and start to praise it