With the influx of new players coming with the Steam release, you’re going to have a lot of disappointed people when they find out paratroopers are premium/event exclusive, especially since you included shots of paratroopers in the Steam release trailer. F2p paratroopers in the research tree for all nations are long overdue and I have a few ideas how you could balance them out.
Weaponry:
These paratroopers could equip any rifle as their primary weapon. They could still be able to choose from other BR-appropriate weapons in the supply box but rifles would be their primary weapons. In real life paratroopers of all the nations that are in the game were typically equipped with rifles as their primary weapon, so it’d be realistic. This would also keep the soviet paratroopers ability to choose from assaulter weapons unique. It’d also be more balanced since now every player would have paratroopers.
Squad upgrades:
Like other research tree squads, you’d have to play with them a bit to unlock all the upgrades. These paratrooper squads could start out with 4 soldiers, upgradable to 6, and you could have some of the different supply box loadouts (like mortars, machine guns, sniper rifles) also be unlocked this way.
trust me. in 4 years, devs are allergic to restrictions.
heck, they even tried to add 2 fighter planes and 2 bombers plane active per match
until got pushed back relatively hard and quickly.
so yeah, they don’t like restrictions.
only exception being engies with ar. at least they agreed it was bad.
but
remember the carousel of squads?
( the ones meant to stop cycling outside premium stuff? the one with purpose ? the one meant to be carried on the merge)
so basically they tried to loosen restrictions and community didn’t like it, meaning that after all restrictions are needed. I know that from devs perspective having free paratroopers is bad since players will buy premium ones less, but… cmon. When the idea of whoever built rally point gets the priority to spawn they said that ‘every player has the right to enjoy the game and no one should be higher priority’ so, how does it look regarding paywalled paratroopers? are players equal unless they pay?
c’mon.
it’s common sense that every tools should be available for players.
we have to despise their urge to get things paywalled, not encourage them to do it.
i think it was due to mixed thoughts of community, i think everyone will agree we need free paratroopers… with few exceptions such as you
The free paratrooper should just have rifles and nothing else otherwise they’ll make other classes just redundant and the only one who should have the privilege of getting special loadouts are the premium ones or the event ones.
So overall the free paratroopers just get to have their rifle and a box of extra ammo and that’s about it
I have already created a topic on my native forum with a proposal to introduce similar units in the form of achievement awards so that new players can get old unique units and weapons
fair to who, the people who have been playing the game, the attackers who see the work of taking a cap undone in seconds by para drops, i would like to know the game is fast enough as is
You still will all I’m asking for is a tier 2 airborne option that uses base riflemen weapons similar to the para marine unit. Those that use the kriegdoff and Thompson 100 round drum will still wildly outclass the conventional contemporaries.
