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+---- Thread: Nova ramming - adding a small arming time to Novas (/showthread.php?tid=131647)
RE: Nova ramming - adding a small arming time to Novas - TheSauron - 07-16-2015
People do use SNAC + Nova combo on medium/light bombers meant for battles though. What with those?
RE: Nova ramming - adding a small arming time to Novas - SpaceTime - 07-16-2015
How is that a "combo"?
RE: Nova ramming - adding a small arming time to Novas - TheSauron - 07-16-2015
Combination, loadout, call it what you want.
RE: Nova ramming - adding a small arming time to Novas - Antonio - 07-16-2015
Heavy bombers can keep dual novas, since they are very vulnerable to enemy fire.
Please, nobody uses snac + nova anymore. It's dual novas or snac + cd 99% of times.
RE: Nova ramming - adding a small arming time to Novas - Tachyon - 07-16-2015
Neither Haste nor me see any issues with the current state of the Nova torpedo, not to mention this isn't even a new thing, but merely a re-discovered fun tactic.
This is a player-issue, not a balance problem; to put it sincerely.
RE: Nova ramming - adding a small arming time to Novas - MonkeyMan - 07-16-2015
(07-16-2015, 03:43 PM)Antonio- Wrote: Please, nobody uses snac + nova anymore. It's dual novas or snac + cd 99% of times.
Guess I'm the 1% that uses Nova and a snac...mind you I mainly play in group battles
RE: Nova ramming - adding a small arming time to Novas - TheSauron - 07-16-2015
So there are two of us "1%" dudes.
Sure, I always use SNAC + CD on my lone pirate bombers, but all of those few bombers I have specifically for groupfights have Nova + SNAC on them.
RE: Nova ramming - adding a small arming time to Novas - Haste - 07-16-2015
(07-16-2015, 03:52 PM)Tachyon Wrote: Neither Haste nor me see any issues with the current state of the Nova torpedo, not to mention this isn't even a new thing, but merely a re-discovered fun tactic.
This is a player-issue, not a balance problem; to put it sincerely.
(07-16-2015, 01:56 PM)Protégé Wrote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSMH0K4T3bY
Whoever is doing the Novaing in this video seems to be mistiming the launch a fair bit (perhaps they're unaware of the inbuilt 'launch delay' Novas have), but the video happens to also show exactly why people die to these loadouts to begin with: you do not blindly joust a bomber over and over with shields down. If the bomber pilot whose perspective is shown had a SNAC and some aim, they'd have killed Lancer-1 seven times over.
RE: Nova ramming - adding a small arming time to Novas - TheJarl - 07-16-2015
Dual Novas are fun because they at least are something different for once. Once again, balance=/=everything exactly the same. Dual Novas are just different from guns or mines, that doesn't mean they are unbalanced. As soon as someone realises he's fighting against a dual nova bomber he can easily win from the bomber. As said before, they mostly effective when the enemy jousts you and jousting a bomber with a SNAC is just as dangerous.
I'd also like to note that personally the first time I tried to Dual Nova someone it ended up in me blowing myself up after half a minute. Might just be my stupidity but it didn't seem all that easy to me.
RE: Nova ramming - adding a small arming time to Novas - Connor - 07-16-2015
Dual Nova ramming is an art and personally it's fine as it is (: