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Why doesn't everybody fly?
DocEllis611
Member Posts: 86
I am an acrobat, and I enjoy it. But I feel like I have an advantage over people who are fast-travelers, and that flying characters have an advantage over me. How is this balanced? Does the game even attempt to balance, or is it just a preference feature? Why doesn't everybody just chose to fly??
I haven't explored much of beta, I'm only level 5. I'm just curious. Sorry if this has already been discussed.
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Hit level 9, purchase rocket glide assist, problem solved.
Also everyone has skills that can ground flyers, figure them out
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It's very hard to catch a flier, but very easy to escape one.
As an acrobat I find tons of ways to get up buildings and escape quickly by using the grappling hook movement perks, but there really is nothing you can do to catch a flyer that's way above any buildings you can use for climbing or rocket-gliding lifts. If you can manage to target one and get within the distance needed to CC them, they will fall to the ground and be yours though. It's just hard to get to that point.
I would have to say the vast majority of players choose flying though, because it seems to be the best way to avoid getting caught... so long as you always perch about a mile into the stratosphere, regardless of where you are headed.
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Thanks GTwander.
Now I know. I still plan to stick with acrobat for release.
Flyers have it made. I fly. I attacked a hero my lvl on a roof top and afer a few exchanges he, after stunning me, leaps of the building to escape. His acrobatics were impressive until I looked over the edge to see him run up the other side of the building across the street. I started flying towards the roof top of the other building to meet him and when he arrived at his destination I helped him check his bags.
Because he didn't have the grappling hook perks.
There's no way you could catch him if he had both the perk that lets him zip horizontally to the next building, as well as the one that zips him up top in a blink.
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What does that prove? Clearly you were fighting someone who didn't want to fight you if they stunned you and tried to run. If they were playing PvP then it's likely that they would want to fight if it was fair. If they ran they were either lower level than you, or they were new to the game,.....or both. You say they were your level, but clearly they were trying to avoid fighting. None of that makes flying superior. if you were close enough to attack them, they were close enough to attack you. They could use an ability to pull you to them, and clearly they could stun you. If it had been a real one on one fight your flight wouldn't have mattered.
It's also clear that they weren't using any of the special acrobat abilites, so I'm guessing they were still pretty low level and hadn't taken any yet.
Gravity.
I haven't bothered w/ Superspeed, but Acrobatics performance increases dramatically when you start putting points into some of its movement oriented powers (ziplines, jets, etc)