whats the point of being able to “constantly” rain down artillery on a point. ??? Personally I just exit the battle when I see im up against that tactic.
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Agreed the 30 second cooldown is a BIT extreme. Lmao even the perk upgrade sounds ridiculous “Call Artillery Support 80x Faster”
Like, WHAT 80X??!!
Proably mistake when writing - it is 8 times faster, not 80.
Maybe my mistake mis-remembering the text actually. Point still stands, even 8x is overkill. Why not 50%? 4 minute cooldown to 2? Seems more reasonable, especially now that many players are starting to unlock the Radio squads.
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I agree
Artillery is pretty OP just once or twice per battle, but to be able to call it every 30 seconds, it takes longer than that to run out. Then if several players have that unlock, just makes the game unplayable. That ability would be OK IF there was a limit as to how much artillery strikes a side or player could launch.
It literally only goes for 15 seconds. I think the cool down upgrade should be 1m30 and not 30 secs
Nah if we get 1 min between fine with that… you get a kill cam which shows the arty man for you to hunt down and kill as well don’t forget.
I think the actual damage that artillery strikes do is pretty low, particularly compared to games like Red Orchestra where one strike would completely cleansed the earth of everyone and everything where it landed. As much as I enjoy calling constant strikes, I’d be fine with a considerably longer cooldown after the perk upgrade if the damage was increased. Or perhaps even the radius of every individual explosion.
removing the artillery upgrade will destroy the radioman squad
Arty is currently useless. It barely kills anything.
The effectiveness depends from the map
I lost entire squads to artillery before. I wished it had a delay and a warning before it comes pounding down on you.
It actually has, about 3 random shots and “bomb whistles”. It doesn’t really help if its spammed
I disagree. Artillery has to remain the way how the devs made it.
In the end, In a real battle camp, the allys used more then 2 thousand howitzer in a single battle, at the moment, the Artillery needs to be effective because in a battle its not made only for infantary
in the way you guys think, you are only thinking about a infantary game
so then, remove the tanks and the airplanes
I have never killed more the 3 “people” with an Arty strike at one time even while watching 3 full squads sitting in the open in the middle if the strike. I can do more FF with an Arty strike and enemy when they are all standing right next to each other.
Just because in reality artillery was used, dosent mean we have to have that boring stuff in our game, most of the war was actually sitting in a trench waiting, should we simulate that too. A game is meant to be fun, having entire squad wipped out over and over again by artillery or bombs really is not a fun mechanic for humans to endure. Maybe they should spawn waves of AI soldiers to just charge at points so those bombs have a target that dosent care…
There is a red circle on your minimap, you have to check and run away!!!
The game is totally unplayable against artillery : as a level 4-5 player I can’t do anything to defend a point, I’m constantly under artillery fire : my vision is blurred and I can’t aim … I face a team with a dozen of radiomen … the result is that there is a constant barrage of 3 to 4 artillery strikes at various strategic points …
After 3 game like that I just quit … it’s not even playable, no fun at all, just disgusting… the screen is constantly blurred … its difficult to enjoy the game in such conditions…
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Played this game an awful lot more since my first post and I can confirm arty is so OP in the right hands, for example the last two games, I dont think the enemy stopped shelling infront of the cap point the entire game. We could not get in to defend it, enemy just walked right on in there as no one was able to defend the point, anyone who did make it was usless as there screens would have been all blurred and shaking for ages. This repeated for every point till they won. Its just stupid, I dont know what should be done to nerf it, but I know it needs nerfing somehow.
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