"The Paratrooper" Achievement Rework

[JackofSpaidz]

Tl;dr summary: Rework “The Paratrooper” achievement or add paratroopers to tech tree to bring achievement in line with other class-related achievements, as current implementation is unbalanced.

For almost two years the paratrooper class has been locked behind a paywall on the Enlisted store, where you can purchase premium paratrooper squads for ~$40 USD, the only other way to acquire these squads is to have participated in one of a few events that all occurred pre-merge, or get incredibly lucky when opening a silver lootbox (though none are currently available).

As such, there is no way for a new or casual player who missed those old events to realistically complete this achievement, hence why at least on Steam platform, it is one of the rarest class-based achievements, at only 0.7% of the community earning the achievement:

while all other class-specific achievements have much higher completion rates:

Even the much more difficult to complete achievement “Specialist” that is locked to a single match, is at almost double the rate of the paratrooper achievement on Steam:

Therefore, it is my suggestion that the achievement should be removed entirely and replaced with a different class-specific task (guerillas maybe?) of similar difficulty

Or,

Add paratroopers to the tech tree with a slight nerf (similar to premium KV-2 getting mg, but tech tree does not) to keep the premium/tech tree squad balance intact so all players have an equal ability to complete all achievements, as many like to get 100% achievements in games.

[Mopuit]

That just steam there more player on the official launcher with paratrooper

[JackofSpaidz]

Yes, and I acknowledged that

@JackofSpaidz

hence why at least on Steam platform

But I cannot see completion rates for the official game. To my knowledge no one can, maybe console players can for their platform? I just used the numbers that were available to me

[Yuri_Enjoyer]

I have all the paratroopers I could ask for but I still don’t have the achievement since I haven’t used any of those squads since they nerfed drop speed and now the enemy is going on a pigeon hunt whenever they see your chutes above.

Truth is plenty of folk have the Para squads from the Pacific, Tunisia and Normandy events but we aren’t gonna use them if it essentially gives your enemy free kills.

[Luvs2spooge]

Even the paratrooper squads you get you’re locked into a certain BR level since you can’t change the weapons…Unless of course, your a Soviet, then you can use them in ANY BR level. Frankly, I never understood why DF granted one faction swapping out weapons loads, but not the other three? Makes zero sense to me, but what do I know, I’m just an old dude who has spent entirely to much money on this game.