It’s not hard to survive long enough to call in several strikes from the same squad if you sit back and play fire support with MG, engineer, and riflemen.
That’s a you issue if you can’t compete with a handful of bolt actions, my dude
They’re a support squad, but put an engineer and MG gunner in there and you’re far from useless.
And yet you can still get same or even better results with different squad… so what is the point of using it then?
Elitist bs aside, it is unlikely to survive with radioman for long enough to call artillery multiple times with such timer.
It’s the artillery support squad, you sit back, build things, and drop the hammer on people. The squad isn’t geared to be up in the thick of it. Even reducing the cooldown with the perk to two minutes is more than enough at keeping the fire coming. Just up the barrage length a bit.
I never had an issue in CBT getting at least two strikes off. And now that you have to play them like a support team it’s even easier to get more than 2 with or without the cooldown reduction.
I have plenty of games where I’m on the front lines and i’m alive for 5+ minutes with bolt-actions without issue. Shooting first and being positioned well does that. A concept which seems foreign to you.
Artillery squads shouldn’t be FRONT LINE. They’re support. Stick a gunner in there with a Breda or a BAR, and the AI itself will get kills with it, stick an engineer in it to build a rally point close to the battle and that one squad is already a force to be reckoned with.
Not to mention bolt-actions are absolutely fantastic. Provided you don’t suck that is, they’re very reliant on player skill.
Even in CBT, 7/10 matches I got two strikes off before I got killed, sometimes even 3. Now I get several dozen. And i’m not the only one. This is disgusting.
The timer needs to be increased, full stop.
this is a hellhole
I´m not saing it shouldn´t be increased. All I´m saying is, that the mere idea of increasing it over 2 minutes, or outright raping them by nerfing timer to 4-5 minutes (CBT) AND placing 1 minute timer on start of the match is pure bs.
You of all people so fiercelly advocating for not overnerfing things should understand this.
Who the hell is asking for 4-5 minutes AND a 1 minute cooldown timer?
Who are you arguing with?!
I’M ADVOCATING FOR A 2 MINUTE COOLDOWN ON ARTILLERY AND THAT’S IT.
WHY ARE YOU ARGUING WITH ME WHEN I DON’T WANT ANYTHING OF WHAT YOU SAID YOU’RE ARGUING AGAINST?!
Artillery needs work but mortars are just fine IMO most players really struggle with mortars and often times if you dont have a good team it makes mortars that much more difficult
You should at least read the conversation. But just for you:
With you perhaps? With the way you reacted I naturaly assumed that you agree with Shivex on overnerfing the squad.
Also try to lower the amount of CAPS YOU USE BECAUSE IT IS PRETTY RUDE AND UNCIVILIZED TO YELL ON PEOPLE FOR NO REASON. Last time I checked we aren´t neanderthals anymore
Hmmm this post comment section is pretty LIT ngl 
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You should agree that you disagree and stop with this nosence .
The proper aproach by developers will be mainly based on the good old Gaijin statistics. This post or arguing can have some results, but don’t expect much.
If you want nerf in anyway spam it as hard as you can. With that you will at least make the issue more obvious on the good old Gaijin statistics.
…or you can stream snipe Mike and Tom on official stream with arty which can make the issue even more apparent than it is.
TLDR:
screen shake arty bad,
get gud,
you bad i gud,
but i gudder > gud,
arty bad me gud,
Hey guys can lets make some sense of this?
you bad arty good
Huh?
me shake you screen me gudder
arty bad you bad me gud
This is LIT…
So the question still remains…
Who Put The Sham In The Shama Lama Ding Dong?
Ok devs I lost interest in the game because i got tired of constant bombardment and screen shake, just not fun. Ill be back if you fix this problem, which I really hope you do, because I rly thought this is one of the best shooters ever, until I got worn down with explosives spam.