English is not my native language but i will try my best.
Instead of give bigger arty for the radio, why not give them the ability to call a airdrop?
I cold call for Ammo crates, a AT-Gun, a tripod fixed MG, or even a temporary rally point, where the troops spawned as a paratroopers, yes i imagining too much and it cold be years to be implemented, but its good to dream right?
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airdrop idea is absolutely genious!
we shouldnt have rally points dropped tho…
once AT guns are finnaly movable this would be awesome, however, wouldnt this make engineers less useful?
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Actually a nice idea, it probably needs some polishing.
I’d say more like complementary. Engineers can build at will but are limited by resources and actually getting there; airdrops would perhaps have no resource limits but be tied to a cooldown timer.
Edit: it should probably be a separated timer, unrelated to the arty call.
Also, I think the full drops menu should be accessible to dedicated radio squad only (just like engineers), and radiomen in other squad should only be able to drop ammo or such.
To further differentiate from engineers, airdropped supplies could maybe be larger, all-purpose supply crates that replenish the whole inventory, including medikits and grenades. They could be balanced by being limited to 1 only and vulnerable like normal crates. (Maybe go BOOM when destroyed?)
How about the ability to call artillery pockets, maybe up to a max of 3.
So essentially artillery pocket would be 3 smaller and less powerful artillery barrages that can be all separately set in 3 different places instead of one giant cluster at a time.
And/or in-line barrage.
Good idea. And this time allow ANY squad to do this, not just radio, or it will be useless again, just like smoke
Smoke = useless? I use smoke artillery in every match. It is the best tactical option in the game.
Btw. I love the idea of an airdrop! @Keofox : please foreward this idea to the devs. This would improve radiomen 2 and 3 a lot.
I dont mean smoke arty is useless it is useless to carry a radio OP squad for it. I would rather have a MG squad, or a flamethrower or assaulter or engineer. When most people have 3 slots the radio OP squad is really not worth it.
Ah ok, I understand.
It depends on your playstyle. If you like playing as a supporter then it is not useless to spend one slot for the radio squad.
It would be preferred that a radio man in a regular squad get smoke too, just they have the 4 minute cooldown is all.
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Engineers - chaotic good. They can devastate a ton, just having ability to build AA and AT. Dropping MGs, crates and spawns would not make them less useful.
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i really like the idea of the airdrop call-in, even tho i think that being able to set a rally point as a radioman will make the engineer useless unless the “rally point” is indestructible because its not a building and as the OP said it will make the soldier spawn as paratrooper but instead of spawning in the air they spawn on board of a transport plane that will reach the drop point and “eject” the paratroopers. Obviously the plane can be shot down by AA or planes and the “rally point” wich will be cool if renamed “drop point” is timed, so you place the drop point and after 1min 2 min it autodestroy. What do you think?
oh and instead of placing the drop point like an engineer squad you point it on the map like an arty strike so a coordinated team can paradrop soldiers behind enemy lines
Edit 2: maybe the drop point instead of being timed can only support limited respawn, like after 3 or 4 squad respawned on that point it autodestroy and the radioman have to wait like 3-4 minutes to replace it
engineer best class of the game
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Duh of course, they can perform the same job as the AT squad, gunner squad and fighter pilot, they’re 3 squads in one, don’t stop there DF more power to the engineers team
Good idea your English is not that bad btw, radio squad definitively need a rework and a overall, they’re literally the artillery call in WT but made of flesh
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all i read was the perfection, great idea!