well not really, you can hear incoming IL or what ever plane miles away.
Drop plane spawning almost top of the cap gives / gave 0 sound next thing you know is paras opening schutes 2m above you.
They were broken as fk.
They weren’t.
Para planes are accompanied by flak explosions AND the sounds of them. Always were.
Paratroopers were already easy to shoot before any nerf. But then:
- Fall height got nerfed (higher)
- Fall speed got nerfed
- Bots chutes open as soon as they jump, they remain in the air like floating bubbles so slow is their falling speed now.
- Para planes now spawn much further away.
- para crates now drop randomly, far from where you wanted.
Those are all the nerfs the class received. There might be more that I forget.
They’re now just a gimmick, not very effective, just like bomber formations.
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This is quite probably just a bug affecting only German (/Italian) paratroopers.
But your point still stands either way.
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Yet the key sound aka plane is pretty much missing
which both are totally justified
Also justified, still cant hear the plane tho
Not really, they are still meta grade just with the recent nerfs you cant just “spawn” in middle of cap point.
Good joke lol.
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skill issue lol.
They havent lost theyr effectivenes in any manner except the fact that you cant literally spawn in middle of cap point.
Skill issue is the inability to perceive reality and just keep pushing my biased opinion as I am too afraid to play against the paratroopers
The only real problem associated with the paratroopers was that they weren’t (and still aren’t) in the tech tree, that’s all.
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With how random the box is for the Italian paratroopers it’s honestly devastating to them because that’s the only reliable place they can actually get decent weapons
Dont really think I ever said I was afraid of them, they were just broken and generally not balanced nor fun to play in any manner.
I understand ppl get mildly butthurt when theyr crutches gets taken away but how the paras used to work theres no argument that they were broken as fk.
Maybe someday
i totally hear them with music in background 
Lol xD I don’t even use them extensively. You can check my replays if you don’t trust me.
It’s really funny when ppl are trying to come up with similar “arguments”.
The nerfs devs implemented are braindumb. They could just take away the crate away from them, the class would be still usable but no longer so versatile. Plus add icons over their plans.
But the changes they come with are just lazy parametric changes that result in you being the sole survivor because your AIs dies before they can even land (if you’re fighting enemies that are somewhat good).
Not even counting the longer flight and so. In which you can’t literally do a shtt and it’s just boring.
They’re becoming just boring gimmick.
If you play with music, that’s on you… 
I never had issues meeting paratroopers. Ever.
Even when they fell fast, I managed to gun 2-3 with automatics (or even snipers!) Like ducks. If I was close enough (if the para player was DUMB enough to drop on my cap) I mowed down his entire squad before he had chances to even reach his crate (that dropped with him).
Situational awareness. My reflexes may not be the best. But I always know and read the battlefield around me.
Those who wanted nerfs of the class that badly are split among 2 groups:
- jealous ppl not having access to paras.
- ppl who can’t deal with anything that isn’t directly in front of them.
It is what it is.
roflmaolollerskates >:8)
Oh no, I can no longer technically spawn in middle of cap point top of enemies useless class now.
Perhaps you should try not to jump in middle of enemy formation like cap point ?
This sounds much like the defendor9000 arguments.
You cant spawn literally nowhere where is an enemy. And you have no way how to influence the outcome.
Meaning, theres no point in having drop ability in the first place XD
But I guess thats definition of fun and balance for people like you xD And I bet you are exactly the type of person who is behind nerfs for AAs, WPs, flamers and bombing runs.
paras are just your next victim
why? because you didnt like the gameplay they represented
btw. if paras are so much meta, I am expecting you to show me a match where you do not use anything else. defense preferably
they are meta afterall
sounds much like skill issue
If you mean the old AA’s that could wreck entire enemy team thru wooden houses in moscow.
Sure I did promote the heavy nerf of them.
I suppose this was your idea of balance & everything is fine ?
You forgot impact nades.
Far as I know they have always been useless.
They are somewhat fine now, high risk high reward also useful for building radios to places that would be hard to reach otherwise.
Yeah, I know when something is broken. Such as the above mentioned AA guns.
I dont pretend to be best player of the world and everyone else is just whining.
Got only 1 sovjet para squad, quite hard to rotate 1 squad.
Lol
Honestly, when people want to play as paratroopers they should absolutely be able to do so without limitations - what makes paras broken is not that they can be “spammed”, rather the fact that they break the game design of spawning wherever the heck they want.
New objective? Spawn right into it combat ready before the defenders even get the chance of defending.
Unreachable tank? Just literally spawn ontop of it.
Frontline too strong? Literally spawn ontop of enemy rallies and mine them.
Paratroopers should be flankers, but simply being allowed to do these things without any drawbacks makes them OP - heck, they are technically even stronger than Assaulter squads because they get extra HP - not alot more, but enough to turn a “one hit kill” into a “two hit kill” for some weapons.
Paras don’t need to be restricted, they need an overhaul.
Italian paratroopers not too threatening if they missed their box and if we care about extra hits what does that mean about Soviet Body armor with 10% damage reduction that you can practically equip to almost everyone in the Soviet army.
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Lololol, PARA’s are OP? You clearly havent tried jumping in and being shot down, or getting mag dumped by the guy who ran straight for you as you helplessly descend, Or when a really good tanker just machine guns your squad right out of their chutes from across the map. Dont even get me started on Para hunters whos sole mission in life is to hunt every single para down, just like Konigstiger hunters. Ive learned to always drop a couple AP mines wherever my DZ is, just for those players. How are you the only one not looking up? Situational awareness is a very powerful tool in enlisted.
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