Tanks camping and watching the 70+ meter approach will be far harder to avoid especially in city maps and conquest making the rallies almost none existant
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Yeah had it happen to me already. Simply couldnt build a spawn that could avoid it or it would be so exposed it would be destroyed immediately providing no cover for the team
Increased time to capture points incoming, if they won’t fix it.
It’s stupid
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A constant stream of Kamikaze attacks are the new rally beacons for defenders.
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another thing is that some points are so small that it’s impossible to make a rally, like second point wilhelmstrasse
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Yeah or theyre so impractical theres no point any way. I’ve already removed my engineer squad from my line up because why run around trying to find a place to actually build one
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Next big update that adds new campaign levels we’ll probably see a T3 Riflemen squad.
So attackers on Invasion maps will be able to rotate three 9 man squads and burn the same amount of tickets as smaller squads.
Defenders are fucked
Further rally points will finally slow the pace of the battle back down and force players to relearn tactics other than human waves attacks.
Rifles and machine guns should be more effective while SMGs should be less effective as you can’t just spawn in SMG range anymore.
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Naw, attackers with large grenade pouches and 3 TNT each will clear the point of defenders and the smgs will be able to hold it.
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That was never the engineer squad’s thing anyway, any engineer can build a rally.
Engineer squads are about their special constructions and higher resource pools.
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No you dont understand my tactics. I would take the engineer squad to ensure one or two made it to an advantageous position so I could set a forward rally. Try that with one engineer and alot of the times he wouldnt make it there for I couldnt establish the flanking rally point
I just use my 1 engineer in other squads to keep rebuilding gradually closer rally points in case something happens en route or the place I want to build isn’t safe.
If I die, I just respawn on the rally and try re-placing it again.
If it’s not safe, I don’t have to do anything other than wait for it to be safe because I already have a rally up.
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Just had 2 battles and the engineer is now mostly useless and defending much harder. I could build rally only once, all other times it was either too close to spawn or too close to objective so impossible to place at all. Once the only place green was in the middle of wide straight road with no cover - really? The problem you defender cannot uncap is now much greater.
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They won’t be, bcs when their ammo will land place that was spotted - there will be no enemy already.
They become even worse bcs ppl nor more scattered across the map.
Why they should?
This was my problem. Most places I can build it are suicidal and dont help anyone
Let alone I wasted time trying to figure out where to place a rally only to find out there simply is no such a place. They should roll this change back quickly as they really did more harm than good.
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Yes this is an issue. I look like an idiot with my hammer out spinning around lol waste of time
You forgot #8
Veteran players STILL using engineering squads on defense will be able to build castles, OR spam 20mm guns and sandbags lmgs like you won’t believe.
“Oh, now the enemy can ONLY come from here and I’ve got a 80m buffer zone? Well helloooo mg42!”