Zip Line Gunner

[Yoel]

After seeing it some many time, finally got to make a thread to wine about it.
Being on a zip line while bugs swarm your teammates is the most pathetic way of playing this game.

[SCamp]

Chad Zipgunner

=== VS ===

Virgin Zipwhiner

[Raph. ♡]

womp womp

[Silverheart]

There's room on the zipline for you my friend. Join me.

[ν]

Originally posted by Yoel:

After seeing it some many time, finally got to make a thread to wine about it.
Being on a zip line while bugs swarm your teammates is the most pathetic way of playing this game.

What kind of wine did you make? I'm sure the gunner would appreciate a drink after reviving you.

Pathetic? It's called strategic cowardice...

Some gunners also identify as attack helicopters, and this is their way of being themselves... we should support them for who they are.




...also it's hilarious when someone gets hit by a projectile and instantly falls to their death (unless they're role playing as a spider and have a web of zip lines). Have you played gunner? Their mobility is pain.

[Twwizard05]

go ride the zipline with him then lmao

[babuk.fracal]

Originally posted by ν:

Originally posted by Yoel:

After seeing it some many time, finally got to make a thread to wine about it.
Being on a zip line while bugs swarm your teammates is the most pathetic way of playing this game.

Pathetic? It's called strategic cowardice... :CatPeep:

RETREAT NOW FOR VICTORY LATER !


But for real, even if staying on zip for fights is a boring strat that you should learn to play without

Its not really like driller that force bunkers on you during a salvage or black box and even tend to make the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ bunker you ever saw.

If you see a Gunner do that, it doesn't really affect you and you can even have a good laugh if they fall.

[Victor]

It's not like using ziplines are foolproof. If a ranged enemy so much as looks at you for 3 seconds, you die.

Gunner's primary purpose, is to shoot at things, to prevent downs, and to stay alive so he can rez downs. Not to kite bugs.

He's only slacking, if he's inept at shooting the bugs before they cause downs, or is some waste of a slot inflicting more team damage than he is to the enemies just to score his kills.

They can zipline all they want. About 4 whole times but yeah.

[JeanneOskoure]

If the gunner takes too much damage, he'll fall off the zipline.
This includes friendly fire damage.
I'll leave you with that forbidden knowledge. Do what you want with it.

[gungadin22000]

It's a valid strategy. A bit greenbeardy, but perfectly valid. I'd not used it in years, but had to resort to it during the new purple pillar event.

Those monkeys hit hard, but are melee only, ziplines trivialise the encounter.

[cammy]

Originally posted by Yoel:

After seeing it some many time, finally got to make a thread to wine about it.
Being on a zip line while bugs swarm your teammates is the most pathetic way of playing this game.

Glad you were finally inspired to write your two sentence thesis

[gungadin22000]

I'm an academic, I'm naturally lazy.

[Sokaku]

When you're running AoE damage during a swarm, being in an overwatch position where you can have a clear line of fire without teammates running in front of you, *and* be in the perfect position to drop a shield for your teammates if they do appear to get overrun, then it is an absolutely fantastic tactic to use.

It's only when the gunner uses it as a "one trick pony", and with a gear setup that doesn't really benefit from it, and starts chewing up resupplies for ziplines as soon as they see more than two Grunts, then it becomes a problem.

[Chibbity]

There is a time and a place to shoot from your zip line, but it is not everywhere/all the time.

"Helicopter Gunners" are generally greenbeards yes.

[Frisky]

hanging from a zipline in every fight


fighting from a zipline during OMEN/core stone event

[Nightwolf]

its not bad, it just teaches you to suck.

you dont learn to drop a shield...because youre too safe and too dumb to know better

you dont learn to handle swarms....because youre too safe and too dumb to know better

and instead of getting better..... you actually get worse at the game

by the time you are good enough that those habits cannot be broken by a zipline you dont need it to start with


on the other hand...as a scout, i have frequently broken the gunners shield while he was ziplining high above a fight and watched him fall to his death. so 10/10 entertainment value for me. leaves me with mixed feelings for the zippy gunners