Lets talk about Hammerheads

[TheMiracul]

Recently I was observing a replay.... realy funny one :corn:
One of the guys played Tau and went for motka path t4... i was just like "cool, HH ftw!" and after a minute or two they were already pwning the enemy...
But I nearly fell asleep when i saw how long they were destroying the HQ... how can this be?
acording to wiki:
HH railgun:
dmg vs. buildings 63(low) 23(medium) 19(heavy) dmg/s
in comparison to that a predator twin lasgun:
dmg vs. buildings 154(low) 68(medium) 78(heavy) dmg/s

I realise that this might be some sort of "balance", but i just go :screwy: when i watch that MEGA gun cuting vehicles like paper and then killing a building nearly a hour or two
Is it because the vehicle is made from metal and the building from bricks(stone)???

[ViS]

So you want the already uber Hammerheads to take down HQ buildings in seconds too?

[Deacon412]

ah yea autodidact is right!!! every one loves waiting and waiting and waiting to take out some ones base when theyv already lost a game

[TheMiracul]

uber Hammerheads?! cmon... they are not imba... and i wasn't talking about seconds...
adleast it would be nice to take all the building damage from those burst cannons and put it on the Big gun... just for the efect:)
Look at monolith for example.... when it is activated, it dies in 30 seconds to the fire of 2 HH, but when it isnt active it takes hours to kill it, even SS do more dmg....

[mlai]

How exactly is this a balance issue?

I think the proper balance solution is to nerf Predator lascannon to the anti-building dps of Hammerhead railgun. >:D

[TheMiracul]

IF i look corectly at wiki now i see that all other t4 tank do nearly no damage to buildings too.... weird....
Ok... nerf marine predators :D

[bman3k]

And if you check again you'll see that Preds do less damage to vehicles (isn't that what really matters?), I'd trade good AB for good AV any day.

[Zany Reaper]

I think that Skyrays would better suit the building-destroyer role for Tau. That'd keep them from becoming redundant in later games. Hammerheads would not need to be adjusted.

[fuggles]

Since when do skyrays become redundant?

[Slow_Runner]

The Hammerhead is not underpowered because of the damage its railgun does to buildings.