Rifleman Archive

Well since they upped the hit points on enemy lairs I have notices it takes an impossible amount of time to kill an imperial base. I tried killing a sergeant major'sbase after dispatching the enemies by going prone at ideal distance and just letting the auto fire go, after a few minutes of waiting I got bored and used my overcharge shot. Now, all this firing of course uses up my rifles condition, so now I carry one rifle that I ONLY use on bases, so now I can keep my good stuff for when it really matters at something that shoots back. I understand they wanted to stop the burst run strategy, but as usual the number crunchers went too far. Shooting at an enemy base for a few minutes does not equal fun.

My suggestion is that after you have killed every enemy in a lair, I mean actually cleaned it out, so that no more spawn, you can walk up to it, and just destroy it by laying an explosive charge or something, no skill required to push a button and run. There, no more burst run, and no more boring waste of a good weapon.

You get no armor piercing bonus when shooting a lair. That being the case, when I have drained the lair of all possible spawns, I just whip out my trusty Stick That Sprays(tm) and go to town. I can take out a lair faster with a Spraystick on auto than I can with a Laser Rifle on auto OR overcharge.

I too carry a rifle just for killing lairs when done wiping out the MOBs. In my case its a sliced E11 rifle. But my spraystick gets used for this purpose also.

I also have resorted to my spraystick for the 21k plus "camps". I even pull out my level 15 pet and let it do its sad damage and I still have to leave the room and watch tv for a while. This new feature is quickly going to the top of my list of fun things to do, right behind camping for xp. You would think that something that takes me 5 minutes to destroy would give me more than 100 rifle xp and 10 combat xp.

And the increased loss of condition of our weapons is just another way for weaponsmiths to take all of my money.

YOu all are crazy it takes memaybe 2 minsof time to kill a base/lair as it did before, I have always switched to my spray stick for this though to save the main gun and cause I like the sound the Spray stick makes when shooting

I just had a rifle made just for taking out lairs. It has insane HAM costs but great dmg. I had it made with stock and scope. I use it only for auto attacking lairs so the HAM doesnt matter. I seriously think they overdid the creature lairs. I usually end up walkinng away from the computer before the lair is destroyed

I have an old Laser Rifle with really nasty HAM costs (almost as much as my T21) but with excellent Max Damage that I use for Lair Killing now. The AP is worthless, of course, and the speed is not great. But I throw some cheap speed-ups on it and it doesn't do too badly.

The truth is that I got that old Laser Rifle easily the second or third week of playing, when Laser Rifles FIRST came out on the server. So it's rubbish compared to what you can buy now and not worth selling. I figure I will just keep using that until it breaks. Heh.