I know how averse you are to adding paras to the research tree, perhaps saying it’s too hard to balance.
So here is my suggestion, as an unknowing outsider
Make it an interval-based spawn every X minutes where people can sign up to drop in as paras. And all jump out of the same plane. Hell, make a plane formation if you want, similar to the bomb run. That’s how you bring that shit in line.
But then again, you probably prefer beating that dead horse until it stops spitting out money. Steam won’t be so kind to make forum posts. They’ll write their suggestions attached to a review for everyone to see
You’re missing the point. Yes, in the current implementation it would be a big nerf to paras. But if we work with the pretense that paras are too strong to add to the research tree(that statement alone gives me headaches), it would be a way to streamline the mass adaptation of paratroopers.
Having them exclusively behind paywalls and very occasional events with the reasoning “They’d be too strong if everyone had them”… you do hear how that sounds.
That’s like locking guns behind a paywall saying “Everyone shooting a gun would be too broken”
that would be really cool, but how do you imagine implementing it? would players wait in the squad selection menu until they can spawn paratroopers? This is a bit ridiculous for the current core gameplay.
The first idea was similar to warthunder’s ground arcade battle where you sign up to hop on a plane. In WT the tank doesn’t move but, perhaps, with the changes to AI the squad could be “discarded” by the player and AI commanders take it over as the player is in the queue waiting to be deployed
If they buffed AA at the same time it could be fun for both sides.
I absolutely loved seeing all the platoons sized formations at the beginning of matches when the events dropped. Good times.
The point of it would be to enable everyone, even the f2p Timmies and newcomers to have the ability to use all the game’s mechanics and not have them locked away.
I sadly don’t have this optimism. Paras have been in the game for 1-2 years now with slight changes to their current existence and no sign of adapting them to a new system, which leads to believe they’re decisive to keep them the way they are.
I keep seeing this running around of “Steam reviews” but in the end, I don’t think that will be what kills this game or whatever. Let em say what they want to say. And personally, I say the paras have been nerfed already. Hate to nerf them into the ground, eh…
There goes my trust in discord. I asked them beforehand how long they’d been in the game and people said 1-2 years. You know, so i didn’t talk out my ass but i guess that went out the window
Paratroopers are already so useless that even if they were put in a tree, no one would play them. From appearing on the plane to landing is more than a minute. So you’re actually AFK for a minute. The plane can be shot down, so you might not even jump. And even when you jump out, everyone sees you and you’re there like a duck on a shooting range. All it takes is one good player and you’ll never land.
