You're absolutely right........assuming you love 30 second spawncamps.
I will admit I love the vanilla dynamo kit and occasionally play it in RM or splat zones, however as much as I defended the dynamo I am seriously conflicted by it.
LOL, now the vanilla dynamo is one that to me is so bad even I wouldn't play it :P The kit is just painful. Though I admit I find absolutely zero use for ink mines, in either S1 or S2, and never found the sensors/echos to be overwhelmingly useful to me for my play style anyway. Echo moreso then sensor however. I've always found sensor gives me false negatives way too often to ever consider relying on it for flushing anyone out (and if I'm going to throw one, why not throw ink instead?)
I feel like, in terms of weapon releases, they're punting on these first few Mario weeks. They'll release something new when they believe people will actually take a break from Mario to play. Just a guess.
I can see the logic in that, but at the same time, isn't exactly enticing for the folks who haven't bought into Mario, is it? Regardless, it's a good kit that might be reminiscent of the old e-liter in it's usage. Burst bomb snipers await!
Somehow I could never get the feel of the jet....I picked it up only a handful of times in S1 and it never clicked for me. Maybe it'll be the first ranged weapon to finally break into the short ranged meta since it has the old burst bomb main trick of the old eliter for close range defense, but I can't help but think if you're going to burst bomb main, why not just go splattershot or tri-slosher with the short range meta? At least it's still more viable than most of the chargers :)
Just out curiosity, what's the range that everyone considers the line between different ranges? If we break it into thirds, that would mean a weapon would have to have a range of 67 or above to be considered long range, but I personally consider (probably wrongly) the group of weapons starting at 62 (mini splatling, rapid blaster, L-3) as the breaking point between mid-range and long range.
I certainly don't speak for the meta (my signature list should make that plenty obvious :P ), and I don't measure things by "firing range lines"....I think I've visited the firing range maybe 3 times in S2. I just play them and learn them by "feel". My own categorizing would be that yes, .96, SSP, RBP RnB, are all "range." Duelie squelchers,....AFAIK their range isn't so different from SSP, but they feel to me like they have less effective range. Mini and L3 I'd consider part of the short-mid meta.....H3 and heavy are "mid to long" (I"d consider heavy to be long if hydra were not a thing. In these small maps it feels long. The confusion of how to differentiate hydra from it when the heavy already reaches end to end of the midfield of most maps is probably why it's so delayed.)
My prayers have been answered, I wasn't expecting to get my favorite weapon from Splat 1 so soon...
If we're talking about weapons we want that has sting ray, I'm absolutely dying to try out this one:
And then when they nerf Stingray again everyone will be crying :P
I don't feel stingray needs a nerfs it is still really slow and as long as you are cautious most times you can survive and only 1 player usually dies from it.
The problem with the sting ray is that it's the special where its performance is most affected by lag/tick rate (although, teleporting ink jets are saying, "Hold my beer!" to that one). Sometimes you can stay in the sting ray's grasp forever and not die. Sometimes it grazes you, and you're instadead. So when you die from a sting ray that, for some reason, you were unable to avoid, the natural reaction is to want it nerfed. When it feels like you shot your sting ray at an enemy for a billion seconds and they didn't die, the natural reaction is to want it buffed.
I've still been playing it regularly in my mix (TW, which is all I seem to be playing these days :P ) , and I'm still of a mixed mind on it. I do seem to do very well with it. yet there are plenty of situations where I feel it would have gone better with a flingza. Yet then I switch to flingza and start missing that reliable range on the horizontal. Personally though it "can use" inkmines, it's really hard to beat splat bombs as a sub....pretty much at all, as they can be effectively used as an alternate main weapon which, the dynamo, really needs. the ability to cover both the rear escape around and obstacle and then move in with the impenetrable tidal wave of ink from the front, or drive-by-splatting by throwing bombs over a ledge to buy your team time to close in or take a sniper out while just refilling can't really be replaced by "here I marked you and tapped you slightly" :P I'm still kind of ambivalent about the ink armor though. Good team support but kind of useless on the slow dynamo since they can usually break your armor and splat you by the time you wind up. And lag kills with a dynamo remain just plain funny. Almost as funny as chargers when you get a splat by accident while inking :PI don't feel stingray needs a nerfs it is still really slow and as long as you are cautious most times you can survive and only 1 player usually dies from it.
Also on the note of awaited weapons...
Autobombs/ Baller (aka a competent new squiffer)
P.S there was more to say on dynamos but it was all deleted
Here are the bullet points
- You were right though they share the kits they players are very different, sadly I do feel many like myself just presume they are the same and give it up.
-I prefer mines cause this is actually a weapon that can actually act on it's mines with this weapon, plus it has stingray to push out longer ranged foes
-Lastly All run speed on a dynamo is pretty fun was an accidental gear setup but pivoting feels better and is slightly amusing
Yeah that's the thing with it. Any time I use it it takes like 10 ticks minimum to kill anyone ever. But I've often been killed in 3 ticks or less by one.