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Zephyr (AA Ship) is trash, completely useless

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DErankJxG
5 years ago
Sorry to use such colourful words but its true.

Had 8-10 Zepyr in a half-circle formation shooting Likho that bombed a target in the middle of that circle - Likho got away with over 80% hp. Even against Pickets it would probably be dead after this, but Zephyr just hit fuckall absolutely nothing.
Same with Swifts.
Maybe against GS they have some limited use but damn. Thats ridiculous.
No doubts about it, Angler and Flail are about 100x better than this crap.

Ships vs Hover often means a lot of kiting the enemy for Ships, same to a lesser degree vs Amphibs.
So building short-ranged stationary AA is really out of the question.
Only option to reliably kill Air as a Ships player is terraforming and doing Artemis then. Is that a good thing? I don't think so.

I suggest overhauling Zephyr and giving it same Flak as Ettin (Tankfactory AA). Or adding some missile to it or whatever.

Want replay?
http://zero-k.info/Battles/Detail/702567
9:25 - 2 Zepyhr, 8 Raven - all Ravens survive.
10:40 - same again, this time one of the Zepyhr got bombed, one Raven died - positive trade for air.
12:45 - Cousin Razor failing just as bad against Ravens, 3 Razor vs 12 Raven - 1 Raven dead.
13:45 - 4 Razor + 2 Zephyr vs 13 Raven, 2 Razor & 3 Raven dead, positive trade for team Lazor for once.
21:30 - 2 Zephyr vs 2 Likho + about 15 Swift, 2 Swift dead, 920 hp dmg to Likhos and ships worth 2k dead.

Blablabla, more timestamps, more dead ships and Zephyrs, more Likhos and Ravens that barely got their paint scratched...
Funny thing is that Raptors were almost as useless, with their slowmode against fleeing Likhos.

28:30 - 9 Zephyr & 3 Raptor vs 22 Swift - 2 Raptor killed by Swifts, no Swifts died in this encounter. Absurd.
29:11 - Same again, 1 Raptor and 2 Swift died. Even trade despite flying straight into AA with same value as Air.
31:00 - 7 Zephyr vs 1 Likho - Likho 70% hp.
33:45 - 6 Zephyr vs 1 Likho - Likho 94% hp. Yes, all of them were shooting it. Worthless crap.
34:45 - 6 Zepyr finally managed to kill a Likho! A proud moment in Zephyr history that shall forever be celebrated!
He flew straight into them and turned at less than 300 distance away from them. When u can't hit the broad side of a barn, sometimes the barn needs to come to you! Second Likho 93%.

So yeah, useless. Please fix this fake AA, its too expensive for a decoy unit.
Until then I'll make Hover fac or Artemis for AA.
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5 years ago
Yeah, it's bad vs. those units. It's much better against gunships than against planes, and wyvern is known for being very good against ships in particular.

The amph AA is much better against planes.
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5 years ago
haven't seen the game, but was it due to radar wobble?
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5 years ago
Zephyr cant track radar blips and swifts with boost.
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5 years ago
Agree. Protecting envoys from air is big anxiety with only zeph to help. But you know, the riot shit is great flex AA vs ravens
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5 years ago
@Sparkles The Corsair , the one with the twin shotguns?
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5 years ago
Zephyr has amazing DPS for mobile AA I think. It does a little better than 1 razor, and has a mobile radar. It takes about 3 zephyrs on an open ocean to ruin a Krow's chance to do anything, which is amazing for cost. But it does suck against bombers, like a razor. People complain about how gremlin is weak AA for similar reasons, it's a DPS AA instead of a burst AA. Burst tracking AA missiles are miles better against bombers, because their DPS is more irrelevant. An offending plane will take a full [COOLDOWN] seconds of DPS once the missile fires, and if it's retreating it will take the full [COOLDOWN] of DPS as well if the missile fires just before leaving range, where DPS AA deals a varied amount of damage more proportional to the time spent in range, as well as loosing out on missed shots. Zephyr can miss less if the radar is changed to be perfect location like owl, and combos even better with envoy then.

Factories can run into problems when their AA is just weaker against the air they face. DPS baised AA is just going to be weak against bombers, that's gremlin, vandal, ettin and zephyr. Against bombers, it's best to facswitch or build chainsaws, or the AA gets bombed and all the bombers repair.
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4 years ago
AA ship shuts down gunships insanely hard, it just can't hit planes
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4 years ago
Maybe give it instant hit laser like Toad/Gremlin then?
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4 years ago
Toad gets to have multiple AA guns, Zephyr could manage two as well. the front cannon could be the razor gun, and the back cannon could be a heavier blue anti-air burst lazer, just a heavier version of toad or gremlin tweaked to be like the heavy pulse laser the com used to have. In fact, having 2 of the same weapon is plane boring, so let's just change everything up while we're at it. Change the back cannon of the corsair to be a heatray, so when players play sea they get to have as much fun as when they play rovers and hear that CHCHCHCHCHCHCHHCHRUGH of the heatray to think they're playing on red comet instead of blue comet.
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USranko_o
4 years ago
Bring the HLT back to the warlord too!
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Its not completely useless as aa. AA ship sucks vs planes but they start to shine vs gunshits. Sea can completely shut down gunships. Try play with gs vs ships aa spammer and you will see difference. still i think AA ship is too costly.
Hover aa also is bad vs planes mostly. Missile launch is slow and in many situations its just bomb target before aa missile hits it. They are also better vs gunships then planes.
Razor is different story. It have many niche use. It was also effective in masses vs drones from older funnelweb(except that time before funnel drones (spawning time) was nerfed). But razor is best vs gunshits. Razor is cheap meat shield and do its role nice.
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