scrin mothership

[GDI EVA SCTCU]

seriously what is wrong with the mothership. i use the mastermind to capture a enemy building and build a signal transmitter in his base deploy a mothership now every time i have done this the motership charges its weapon is about to shoot then just stops then usually blows up because his AA destroys it or he sends tuff to kill it. but seriously what the hell everytime i do it this happens and no he is not selling the building the ship is also not destroyed before it fires it just stops

[Derek]

If the MS takes enough damage (like 2/3s or something) it will reset the animation. TBH this is necessary to prevent the MS from being overpowered.

The Redeemer has a similar glitch. If it drops below 1/3 health while the Redeemer is deploying the deploy animation resets (which is quite long).

[Avapodnaught]

I noticed the Reedemer has a bad firing rate anyways, slower than an Avatar, and it constantly stops

[Chev]

I noticed the Reedemer has a bad firing rate anyways, slower than an Avatar, and it constantly stops

What i heard is that a Redeemer wins vs a MARV (unupgraded) so can't be that bad of a fire rate right?

[Daishi]

I would love it if the Redeemer had twice the ROF, or at least twice the damage. I doubt it would be OP, considering it still has the other epics to contend with.

[wkw427]

epics can crush all other vehicles right?

[YuriRuler90]

Yeah. I had a Redeemer run over 4 Mammoth Tanks earlier.

[Chev]

Yeah. I had a Redeemer run over 4 Mammoth Tanks earlier.

Wouldn't it be fun to stealth your redeemer put it on non attack mode and just run over all those charging in mammoths?
They won't spot it till it's to late :evil:

[Zardac the Great]

That, I believe, is evil. :D

[GDI EVA SCTCU]

i love how a question about motherships being stupid turned into a thread about the redeemer

[l2uNuoVeR]

To stay on topic, the mothership I've found from the countless games I've played as Scrin is; worthless.

[LaughingCheese]

seriously what is wrong with the mothership. i use the mastermind to capture a enemy building and build a signal transmitter in his base deploy a mothership now every time i have done this the motership charges its weapon is about to shoot then just stops then usually blows up because his AA destroys it or he sends tuff to kill it. but seriously what the hell everytime i do it this happens and no he is not selling the building the ship is also not destroyed before it fires it just stops

I don't know what you're doing wrong. :( I've won at least one game using the mothership on my oponent's base in the same manner you describe; I snuck a commando into his base, mine controlled a building with a build radious, deployed the signal transmitter and called the mother ship.

Needless to say it worked wonders, and all he had left was a tiny outpost. :D

Maybe you're connection was slow?

But yeah, I guess it is a pretty easy strategy to counter, although if done right, the pay off is so massive that it's worth the struggle to deploy it.

What you can't do is build a signal transmitter in your base and expect the mother ship to be able to traverse the whole map without getting attacked.

To stay on topic, the mothership I've found from the countless games I've played as Scrin is; worthless.

See above. :p ;)

[GDI EVA SCTCU]

yeah i know i pretty much do that mastermind, build signal transmitter , deploy and start to fire almost done, just stops. it hasn't died yet either. in case i didn't mention it, i forget to check but this is in the 360 version

[Side2]

The mothership has very annoying glitches. I use a similar strategy with the Mastermind controllign the enemy con yard and puttign a signal transmitter (I use a new drone platform) and everytime i summon the mothership, it is sure victory. Agaisnt a brutal AI, I used it, but when I targeted an enemy structure, it never charged, and jsut floated around!!! Even while the AA guns are tearign it apart, it never fires, as if it was a pacifist. I had to use a force-fire into the groudn in order for a shot. I call it the mothership lag. FYI mine is the PC version.