Next proposed item: weasel needs serious overhaul

[Ward]

so...we let u guys ruin the levi...

I'm sorry, but who's "we"?

[Dack Falu]

The weasel is the farthest thing there is from a basing ship. If you want to make it into a basing ship you would need to completely change all the aspects of it. I'll list why the weasel isn't a basing ship and how it is possible to change it.

1: Durability.
-The weasel is a very fragile ship, in a basing situation you will encounter many bullets fly towards you and your team mates. Due to the weasel's low energy capacity even an L1 bullet will force it scrambling back to safety because another hit would mean certain death. An increase in this will allow the weasel to fight on despite being hit once with a spider.

2: Cloak + Stealth
-Probably the biggest reason for why the weasel stays away from the base. Cloaking allows the weasel to kill a single ship without receiving damage. This isn't beneficial to the base in any way because Terrs, javs, and lancs have xradar. Cloaking also means the weasel is more likely to fly solo in spawn cloak-spawning people rather than helping the basing effort. Removing this will keep the weasel out of the shadows and into actual combat.

3: Thrust Shot
-This is what makes the weasel like a mini-WB, something it shouldn't be. This allows the weasel to make long range shots, also something it shouldn't do. Since most basing takes place in medium to short range combat removing it will get the weasel to preferably fight there.

4: Bullets
-With the weasel's less than great recharge rate I believe it would be better if the bullets were degraded to L1/L2. The rate of fire should also be increased to be greater to that of the spider's for L1 and greater to that of a lancaster's for L2. This will allow to take several shots without worrying too much about getting strayed by a lone L1 bullet.

5: Agility + speed
-The thrust speed and overall speed and turn rate is what allows the current weasel to survive in the spawn area against spiders, WBs, lancs and the like. But, the previous weasel was dreadfully slow and horribly clumsy, which is why it was easy prey for the more agile ships, such as the terr. A turn rate + speed between the old and current weasel will allow the weasel to dodge bullets and get out of the way of an incoming terrier while giving it a rough time in the spawn area.

[Iguana Bob]

But I mean really can anyone find a real reason balance wise(not talking about the thruster shot) to change the x other than "OMG I was killed by a noob X he was invisible!!!!!111!" It is a fine basing ship right now with a lot of counters. And I mean these suggestions have to come from someone who actually pubs and has experieince in an x and its limitations not someone who plays for 5 mins and gives up after getting killed and goes to elim.

Otherwise the x will turn out like the lev lame and broken just to satisfy a bunch of crybabys while they go on to complain about other ships and ruin the entire zone.

[Doc Flabby]

Otherwise the x will turn out like the lev lame and broken just to satisfy a bunch of crybabys while they go on to complain about other ships and ruin the entire zone.

truth ^^

[Ornlu]

Enough with the changes already..for each mofo setting change that has been done the game has started to suck more and more

[dads revenge]

just do to the weasle what I did to it in ?go TeKs and give it level 3 bullets lol

[Doc Flabby]

is there an arena where u can still play with the old levi settings. ie the settings before this recent change? im getting levi withdrawal :fear:

[Stultus]

The lev settings are unchanged in private arenas.

[kthx]

Nerfing the levi was the worst idea since axing that Wark <ER> fellow, he sure was a good host.

[A Chronic Brownie]

if u use the weasel i dont cloak i just use the thrust shot.. it pwnz

[Fluffz]

yes, revert increase turn and make stealth and cloak at the same time reduce the nrg