Doshneil Antaro wrote:So far Im liking what Im seeing with the equipment changes. These changes will go a long way to the equipment spam nonsense that is going on. Placing equipment (beyond supply depots) will have to take thought, which in turn makes it more tacticaly used..
A few more tweeks are still need to make the support logi more thoughtful about how he needs to handle his buisness are needed IMO:
1. Total placed equipment per player needs to be capped.
2. Placed equipment should disapear after some time has passed. 2 minutes on most sounds about right.
3. The nono injecter should have only x amount of uses per life.
4. The repair tool should be tied to the logis stamina bar. When your out of stamina, your reps stop. This will be especially needed with the changes to heavies being even bigger brutes than ever before. It is already takes alot of work and skill to take down a decent tag team, but after the changes it is going to be fruitless.
1. Not sure if I agree or not it would depend on the limit I guess.
2. Disagree defending a point would be incredibly dicey if all of a sudden all your equipment can vanish, would also defeat the purpose of a fall back uplink or RE's if it applied to them as well.
3. Disagree I don't see anything wrong with the nano injector, fair enough people can revive you infront of a red heavy from time to time but limiting the number of uses means the logi supporting your team would have to keep count and if he hits the limit leave the squad to go and restock it which would be a giant pain for logi's and the squad. Plus imagine the QQ on the forums when people don't get picked up because the logi has no revives left.
4. No, good god no to repair effectively I would have to fit cardiac regs? also how does this make sense I can fire an AR all day only stopping to reload and not get tried but lifting a small rep tool tires me out? Think about it you shout for a logi because you need repairs, he now has 2 choices 1, take his sweet time waddling over to you to conserve stamina to rep you or 2, sprints over getting to you quickly but then has to either wait out stamina recharge or repair you a little bit at a time. Logi's also have low stamina.
Also if anything lower effectiveness of hives will mean even more equipment spam, say now I can put 1 triage hive and one nano hive in a good spot for a heavy to defend, in 1.8 these hives will run out quicker so people will be tempted to put more in that spot to get the same effectiveness as before. Uplink spam will also increase they take longer for people to spawn and have less health making them more vulnerable so people will place more to try and guarantee an uplink survives. People who spam equipment in weird places hoping for random points will still do so it just means their hives etc... wont last as long so the occasional logi who spawns coats the map in hives and afk's for WP will still do it but to make up for the lower time their equipment can be used they will probably just put more out.