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(POLL) Should the Arthropleura do Increased Damage to Meks?


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(POLL) Should the Artheropleura do increased Damaged to Meks?  

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  1. 1. Should the Artheropleura do increased Damaged to Meks?



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(POLL) Should the Arthropleura do Increased Damage to Meks?

Before you post, keep in mind that Meks are insanely overpowered at the moment and need a nerf anyway. Also, this is not a nerf, but rather a small buff.

The arthropleura is known for being able to melt armor and destroy any type of structure with its bite attack. The Mek, being a giant suit of armor, should take increased damaged from the arthropleura's spit attack, which is the attack that melts a players armor. 

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1 hour ago, KRONOSDOUBLE said:

(POLL) Should the Arthropleura do Increased Damage to Meks?

Before you post, keep in mind that Meks are insanely overpowered at the moment and need a nerf anyway. Also, this is not a nerf, but rather a small buff.

The arthropleura is known for being able to melt armor and destroy any type of structure with its bite attack. The Mek, being a giant suit of armor, should take increased damaged from the arthropleura's spit attack, which is the attack that melts a players armor. 

Please explain how they are overpowered other than their siege cannon.  Any boons they have other than that a Giga can do much better.

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1 hour ago, RipRavage said:

Please explain how they are overpowered other than their siege cannon.  Any boons they have other than that a Giga can do much better.

Well, one way they are overpowered is that you aren't affected by extreme temperatures while in them, which makes building in the murder snow, murder-murder snow, or the hot regions of the map as obsolete as they can just wreck all your stuff without worrying about freezing or burning to death. There definitely needs to be a balance on that part

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2 hours ago, KRONOSDOUBLE said:

Well, one way they are overpowered is that you aren't affected by extreme temperatures while in them, which makes building in the murder snow, murder-murder snow, or the hot regions of the map as obsolete as they can just wreck all your stuff without worrying about freezing or burning to death. There definitely needs to be a balance on that part

The balance is that they are extremely expensive to craft for decent ones, cant level at all, can only get armor with the MDSM, and they are pretty much going to get melted in combat by anything with decent damage and a decent saddle, barring them sniping you from a mile away.  Gigas on official will destroy any tier mek in minutes on top of being a million times easier and cheaper to get your hands on.  As far as the insulation bonuses go those and the cannon are pretty much the only redeeming quality of the meks.

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3 hours ago, KRONOSDOUBLE said:

Well, one way they are overpowered is that you aren't affected by extreme temperatures while in them, which makes building in the murder snow, murder-murder snow, or the hot regions of the map as obsolete as they can just wreck all your stuff without worrying about freezing or burning to death. There definitely needs to be a balance on that part

I wouldn't dare say they are overpowered as they fill a very niche role PvP-wise, which is spam/structure clearner. Yes they indeed gives very good advantages to the pilot in terms of protection against extreme temperatures and/or the ability to go underwater unhindered.

However, they are a slow, large (and easy target to snipe) and weak in terms of HP, no matter the quality. They are a laughable joke in actual PvP combat and get melted down by anything remotely good. They still take massive radiation damage and thus can't really help itself in Ab's red zone.

As for being able to reach you in muder-snow, YOU gambled to build there despite the current cave meta. Besides, building there also requires massive resources and very specific base designs. I'll remind you that cost is also a major factor when crafting meks.

If you really want everybody on board with a poll, how about the stupid desert titan? The thing is the only flyer than can enter Aberration and actually fly around wrecking havoc... Let's also not talk about how easy the tame is...

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On 10/29/2019 at 4:39 AM, RipRavage said:

The balance is that they are extremely expensive to craft for decent ones, cant level at all, can only get armor with the MDSM, and they are pretty much going to get melted in combat by anything with decent damage and a decent saddle, barring them sniping you from a mile away.  Gigas on official will destroy any tier mek in minutes on top of being a million times easier and cheaper to get your hands on.  As far as the insulation bonuses go those and the cannon are pretty much the only redeeming quality of the meks.

Not when you can buy dozens for 5 dollars on FB. They've duped meks by the thousands.

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Generally meks are not on the front line. They are down the back clearing spam, providing ranged support and providing a shield from sniper fire. Arthros take 3x damage from ranged weapons, they are very slow, have low health, no imprint buff, no mutation breeding. An arthro will be destroyed in an instant before it even gets close to the meks. It's not a viable strategy even if it were implemented. 

Arthros are a budget mek for spam clearing, this is their only use and a buff against meks wouldn't change that. It would just be some weird quirky thing that nobody cares about. 

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