Medusa gameplay/balance

[FadingBadger]

Currently I don't like how the medusa works in mp. The optimal strategy currently is to sit at 15K alt behind your own team and and aa and be practically immune while being able to completely eliminate at least two enemy planes/aa bateries while providing an incredible buff to radar guided missiles.

I don't necessarily mind the playstyle as it feels realistic, but the ability to softkill players doesn't and isn't fun. Instead maybe disable the radar of the target instead of completely eliminating the hud. This would prevent radar guided missiles from using the targeted planes radar, but allow them to use the team's target information until they become self guided, at which point they need to be jammed to make them loose lock.

This would also allow bombing runs to not be influenced by the jamming which is realistic for optical targeted munitions.

[yourdoom9898]

I just want to stop being stuck in the microwave zone by a target I can do nothing about, the buzzing is irritating, especially if you're flying the Compass, which doesn't even have a radar.

[Augmented_Orange]

The Scythe already uses datalink until going active, so a Medusa jamming your plane doesn't accomplish much if someone else keeps spotting the target.
However, all good Medusa players know to jam Scythes once they go active, so if they're jamming you directly it's probably to stop you from spotting with your radar and/or to mess with your situational awareness.

[FadingBadger]

Originally posted by Augmented_Orange:

The Scythe already uses datalink until going active, so a Medusa jamming your plane doesn't accomplish much if someone else keeps spotting the target.

If they target you long enough your entire HUD disappears, so you can't select or see anything besides incoming missiles. Not much point having weapons when you can't do anything with them, which is why I called it softkilling.

[Jukelo]

I agree, fighting medusas, especially medusas who know what they are doing, just isn't fun.

Plus, and this is rather critical, in the later parts of the game a radome medusa effectively locks newcomers out of the match since it becomes very difficult to get anything done outside the immediate vicinity of the AF in a cricket, compass or chicane when you can't hug the radar floor.

[Augmented_Orange]

Originally posted by FadingBadger:

If they target you long enough your entire HUD disappears, so you can't select or see anything besides incoming missiles.

Even at that point you can still select targets blindly, might take a few attempts to point the sight in the right spot but it's doable.