Shovels are in a suboptimal state, as theyre most useful on engineers, but engineers need movement speed from swords and axes more, leading to most players not using the slow af shovels.
Solution: Add Pioneer Shovels, either as an item unlockable in the game or as (recurring) event rewards.
Pioneer Shovel:
Lets player dig as a normal shovel, but doesnt slow down & gives the same speed bonus & charging ability of an axe. Can be used only by engineers. Attack speed same as axe. Use a thin & high quality looking shovel design for it, for flavor and to be congruent with the ability. To implement the feature faster, you can use the current shovel models and make them cleaner & shinier instead of waiting for new models to be available.
→ Promotes more engineer game play, makes playing engineers more fun & is a fun item to unlock/grind for.
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Honestly, just make it it double as a melee weapon and I will use it happily, Its a bit sad I cant savagely rip into a guy with a shovel
yes, I always wanted to be able to charge with them like in Battlefield 1.
Or change shovels to be equipable to the binocular slot instead of the melee weapon slot. Most of the time binoculars are useless and the slot goes empty.
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I would like them to add ability to order bots to dig holes. That way when i am making rallies and barb wire my bots can make trenches around the point
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The melee animation for the shovel is horrible. Allies have two different kinds of skins for there shovel.
They show add more skins for the shovel for every faction. I personally use shovels with my engineers.
I would love if they spend more time investing in better quality collision for all melee, especially shovels
instead of useless lens flare effects and premium rider/motorcycle squads.
maybe add a blueprint for digging like you have for buildings so you can tell bots to dig?
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Honestly as long as I had even 30 seconds to prepare a defence, I would actually use the shovel for non meme reasons.
I’d much rather have this than extra run speed.
Imo it’s better to make equipment have unique roles than have one do-all thing.
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yah that’ll be fun! and i agree with Admiral, in real life you can use a shovel to attack, (i mean you can use anything) the only reason i don’t use shovels is because it can dig… that’s all, but if it can charge into a person with it… I’m using it for all my soldiers! and the only engineers part I’m sad about because i don’t have much room for engineers, and i don’t like them ether (just the fact that they can give you more xp)
