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Queen escorts
If this suggestion gets put into place, I won't be able to solo queen anymore, but I'm an honest guy. :P
Anyway, the suggestion is: make the queen's escorts more... well... plentiful. I thought the queens could make hive ships!
The reason I'm saying this is that I can just waltz in there, shoot at the queen, come out, restock, come back in, shoot at it again. And meanwhile, I might get, say, 5 shots from the queen's escorts that actually hit me.
Another solution would be to not make the escorts chase you as much. Or perhaps make the assults chase you and the guardians stay fairly close. This is how I do it: I just wait for all the escorts to come after me, rush past them, and shoot at the queen. And there aren't any escorts shooting at me for another, say, 10 seconds. That's long enough for me to launch at least most of my swarms.
Not to say I have it easy, but I feel like I'm cheating somehow.
And, I'm going to bed now, it's 1:37 AM or so, and my parents are bugging me about it being at least slightly Monday. See you!
Anyway, the suggestion is: make the queen's escorts more... well... plentiful. I thought the queens could make hive ships!
The reason I'm saying this is that I can just waltz in there, shoot at the queen, come out, restock, come back in, shoot at it again. And meanwhile, I might get, say, 5 shots from the queen's escorts that actually hit me.
Another solution would be to not make the escorts chase you as much. Or perhaps make the assults chase you and the guardians stay fairly close. This is how I do it: I just wait for all the escorts to come after me, rush past them, and shoot at the queen. And there aren't any escorts shooting at me for another, say, 10 seconds. That's long enough for me to launch at least most of my swarms.
Not to say I have it easy, but I feel like I'm cheating somehow.
And, I'm going to bed now, it's 1:37 AM or so, and my parents are bugging me about it being at least slightly Monday. See you!
this would not stop me from soloing a queen
i take a rag with chaos and gems kill the shields go really rally fast to the station grab a valk with 3 hx blasters go back and finish the queen off with Hx by doing hit and run the amount of escorts would not really matter
i take a rag with chaos and gems kill the shields go really rally fast to the station grab a valk with 3 hx blasters go back and finish the queen off with Hx by doing hit and run the amount of escorts would not really matter
See my recent post about testing Hive Skirmish. In HS, the Queen's escorts are all off fighting the NPCs, so it's not much different from killing a Queen after you've finished off the escort. The only real difference in HS, is that she's often stationary which makes it easier to get the swarms to time on target.
More escorts doesn't help (my tactic is to take out the escort first with swarms and rockets, which can be done with hit and run tactics. More escorts simply takes longer).
I think the Queen does need a close escort of some sort, which can intercept incoming ordinance and ships, to make HS a bit harder.
In the end though, how ever many bots there are, it will always be possible to solo a Queen (unless the shield strength is increased). All the time that the Queen's escorts are static (i.e., she's not able to call in reinforcements), a solo player can pick them off one by one until they're down to a level where striking at the Queen is feasible.
Sam.
More escorts doesn't help (my tactic is to take out the escort first with swarms and rockets, which can be done with hit and run tactics. More escorts simply takes longer).
I think the Queen does need a close escort of some sort, which can intercept incoming ordinance and ships, to make HS a bit harder.
In the end though, how ever many bots there are, it will always be possible to solo a Queen (unless the shield strength is increased). All the time that the Queen's escorts are static (i.e., she's not able to call in reinforcements), a solo player can pick them off one by one until they're down to a level where striking at the Queen is feasible.
Sam.