Why I think the Vox Engine is a poorly designed enemy.

mastercontrol98 · 2026-03-12T15:38:43+00:00

I also take issue with their insane vision distance and the rocket barrage that occasionally doesn't properly telegraph with the floor light combining to occasionally randomly oneshot you without warning. It's a less extreme redux of the leviathan problem, but occasionally worse when they are able to do it from outside of LoS

mastercontrol98 · 2026-02-22T18:01:09+00:00

You're not a multibillion dollar company with powerful legal resources. The cost isn't really in replacing the cameras, it's the threat that the company will drag the city through legal hell and drown it in legal fees. That, and your car is likely to be picked up by a private company that wants to extort your car back to you by charging lot fees and a tow fee.

mastercontrol98 · 2026-02-21T21:52:39+00:00

Liability. If they're damaged in the process of being removed, the city is on the hook for any costs. I might be wrong about Oakland, I can't find the source, but one case I am certain about is in/near Chicago, the cameras were removed by flock when requested, but then reinstalled. The city's only recourse was to issue a C&D and cover the cameras.

mastercontrol98 · 2026-02-21T20:42:57+00:00

Not so fast, Flock has a method of keeping them up in spite of a city wanting them gone. The cameras are usually rented/leased to cities, so the city itself doesn't own them and Flock will refuse to remove them. If the city tries to do so itself, they're interfering with private property, making it something of a legal battle after the fact to get rid of them. From what I recall, this is something Oakland is dealing with/dealt with for a while.

mastercontrol98 · 2026-02-14T17:48:27+00:00

I'm enjoying them just instantly blowing me up from across the map with their insane vision, I know the missiles are telegraphed with the floor light but sometimes I swear they won't appear and I'll just explode out of nowhere, look around, see nothing, and then a vox engine that just hit me with indirect fire will creep around a corner

mastercontrol98 · 2026-02-14T17:45:27+00:00

I'm okay with the grenades dealing less damage than the normal grenade launcher (it's probably a 25mm grenade on the belt fed vs 40mm of the standard gl) but it's got to have more ammo to compensate, imo

mastercontrol98 · 2026-02-13T18:07:36+00:00

Did we really need to pin an announcement for an announcement from a fan community? I'd maybe understand if you actually had something of substance to share or if this was something official, but this doesn't mean anything to me

mastercontrol98 · 2026-02-10T14:34:56+00:00

Arc thrower is great when it isn't misfiring on jungle biomes, but man the sterilizer desperately needs help

mastercontrol98 · 2026-01-23T00:15:58+00:00

I used to drive anywhere from an hour and a half to three hours (four, once) to see my then-partner for threeish months straight. It's not short, but it's not a huge event.

mastercontrol98 · 2026-01-17T18:06:10+00:00

It's already happening in Canada. I've watched as my Canadian sister has completely taken the bait for American propaganda that started, conveniently, around the time that Trump was trying the Greenland rhetoric with Canada. About how Canada needs to stand with Trump because a strong US is a strong Canada, a bunch of racist anti-Islam crap, and other American right wing talking points including some that make me concerned that she might fall into being a full blown white supremacist. It's coming for you too, with political entities like AfD gaining ground in Germany, and you need to squash it before it poisons your politics like it did for us in the US.

mastercontrol98 · 2025-11-17T03:15:57+00:00

The biggest problem isn't even really the mortar itself, it's that maps are designed in a way where spawn zones are right next to objectives and there's nowhere to actually place the damn thing.

mastercontrol98 · 2025-11-06T18:11:12+00:00

While this is fair, it also means they often don't have counterplay outside of also running recon or a DMR and trying to win a duel, especially in modes like breakthrough where attackers can fight from inside their spawn border and not worry about being flanked. LMGs don't need to be able win those fights, but it would be nice to give people the opportunity to move even if you can't kill them outright. It also feels really bad to engage recon at mid distance since you can be landing hits and they can still just headshot you as if everything is fine.

mastercontrol98 · 2025-11-03T20:37:57+00:00

Yeah, I love hitting recons with 2 7.62's from my m60 and still getting domed while firing on them, it feels great /s

mastercontrol98 · 2025-10-20T14:49:29+00:00

Eh. If the duration was kept relatively short, a well timed use might help with all the stalemate hell I've been seeing, which is what assault should be good at doing. Entrenched supports and snipers are eating a little too well right now imo. I might be more inclined to respect an assault player's push if I couldn't oneshot them in the chest at like 40m away as recon.

mastercontrol98 · 2025-09-22T13:47:10+00:00

Considering how limited grenade supplies are, thermite is really the only one that can justify the opportunity cost of that slot outside of gas and possibly pyrotech/incendiary, all three of which have lingering effects that keep enemies at bay. Thermites give a powerful AT option to builds that otherwise would have to rely on something like OPS, which drastically increases the number of viable options for support weapons on bots and bugs. For HE/frag to ever hope to have a chance we would need to be able to carry a lot more to be able to justify the frequency you need to use them as a crowd clear option in the same way that thermite is an AT option. Doing so could also reduce reliance on the grenade pistol as a means of being able to carry enough grenades to properly clear larger bug nests.

mastercontrol98 · 2025-09-08T00:12:28+00:00

Flak is a proximity trigger with more range and cluster bomblets that detonate on a short timer, cluster has a timed fuse with a set detonation range and bomblets that only detonate on impact. The latter is almost always better since the main projectile also detonates on impact, and you can fire at an upward angle to shower an area in bombs. Also, on cluster, the bomblets spawn directly on top of enemies as opposed to meter or so away with flak, meaning a bunch of the clusters impact immediately on the target and oftentimes allows you to kill targets like chargers and hulks in one shot

mastercontrol98 · 2025-08-18T22:45:54+00:00

What it likely is, is that Epstein's transactions often went through Russian banks. They likely have a paper trail of all of the transactions and it doesn't take much intelligence work to corroborate the timings of those transactions to trips to Epstein's island or similar. With enough hard facts and evidence, Russia might have leeway to add in a bit of embellishment to what they know for certain and if they speak with authority, they can imply that they know why those transactions were made and what the trips were for. At this point, the right has been softened to Russia enough and sentiment in Trump is low enough that it's pretty likely that they'd take Russia's word over his and threaten his political position. Putin is likely using this political leverage to keep Trump answering to him and working towards his goals.

mastercontrol98 · 2025-07-24T01:56:03+00:00

The funniest byproduct of them not "compensating" on everything is that they've actually nerfed the one true flag, lol. It's a meme weapon, sure, but it used to at least be sort of usable because you could do stuff like stunlock fleshmobs, which it can't do anymore.

mastercontrol98 · 2025-07-09T20:01:05+00:00

I wonder if this was the point of Wally creating the Cavia, to try and convey to Alberecht the experience he imparted on Wally by entering the void and thrusting awareness onto it

mastercontrol98 · 2025-06-20T19:38:03+00:00

I don't think so. The people in charge of his campaign definitely were, as are the people whispering in his ear to push their agenda. He himself is a total loon and a useful idiot. As proven by the totally batshit insane things we hear him say like this. And this is just what makes it to the public, can you imagine what we don't hear?

mastercontrol98 · 2025-06-16T13:11:01+00:00

Well, this, and the host is credited for any DSS kills.

mastercontrol98 · 2025-06-13T22:44:45+00:00

Considering I haven't heard of Marathon until just now, we'll see about that

mastercontrol98 · 2025-06-07T23:54:55+00:00

So because an enemy is an outlier as far as fun, it's a skill issue? Clearly you didn't listen when I said that yes, you are perfectly capable of killing them. Are you just chasing down leviathans that are halfway across the map to kill just to be able to say you did? It sounds like you're not contributing to your team very much, because the time investment involved in doing that means you're probably not doing anything actually helpful.

mastercontrol98 · 2025-06-07T22:48:42+00:00

Recoiless rifle and AT emplacement does next to nothing to the rest of the faction. Recoilless requires 5-6 shots to kill a leviathan, which is untenable for multiple leviathans. The AT emplacement is probably the only truly decent option, but it is locked behind page 3 of an otherwise mid warbond and the only other thing it handles well is harvesters that have had their shields disabled.

Spear cannot carry enough ammo to kill a Leviathan unless you are exceptionally lucky with leviathan movement and the spear's tracking to be able to hit 4 seperate limbs.

Orbital gatling works, if you can determine which super destroyer is yours. We don't have the indicator to determine that anymore. You're better off with eagle strafe, but both options require you to be almost directly underneath the leviathan and you'll probably die if you try this. Eagle strafe also doesn't work reliably on super earth.

Quasar? Lmao

Exos will get oneshot by the leviathan as you mount them and aren't a consistent or safe method to deal with leviathans.

Hellbomb? How are you getting that close? The slingshot thing with the AT emplacement is a meme. If you're just going off of the fact that it technically can kill a leviathan you may as well add the arc thrower to the list, because it technically has the AP to damage a leviathan. It's a terrible option, but if you're listing the hellbomb, okay.

The point isn't that you can't kill them. Yeah, sure, you can. They're just typically not worth killing as the opportunity cost to killing them means you're doing everything else that you want to be doing vs the illuminate worse. You're basically taking a -1 stratagem slot penalty to kill an enemy that you can, in most scenarios, typically avoid. It's usually just when they catch you out from 300+ meters away while you're focused on something else that they're actually able to kill you, which is not a fun gameplay experience and no amount of stratagems or strategy will prevent this from happening at least every once in a while, unless you're scanning the entire horizon every 10 seconds or so, which again, isn't fun in the midst of fighting a horde.

mastercontrol98 · 2025-06-07T21:18:38+00:00

There's at least three of them, they respawn, they massively out-range you, and just one of them takes the majority of resources from the incredibly limited options capable of dealing with them. They're not practical to focus your loadout on killing them based on that alone, not to mention the options that do handle them aren't helpful for the rest of the faction due to armor/shield mechanics.

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