It is honestly ridiculous that this post has to be made but it needs to. Paratroopers need to be added to the Research Tree for all factions. An entire class should not be locked away behind premium or the rare event. Imagine if other classes were locked like APC or Guerilla. There should be multiple squads just like there are multiple Riflemen, MG, Assault, etc squads but at the very least and most important for now there should be at least one
I can assure you that this was, if not the first forum thread, then one of the first when the paratroopers were just announced. You can see the results of the reaction to that thread in the game right now.
There are goods and there are bads, if we add it to the research teee it would be very nice because people get the opportunity to use it more and if you’re experienced it would be a very fun gameplay, but on the bad side you’d meet someone abusing it while he always dies and keeps using it over and over while being bottom of the list and too much paratroopers could’ve also be historical innacurate or something in some ways.
There are some pluses: plenty of easy kills.
However, there are downsides: 1. No one will ever go to the capture points again, as they’ll spend half the game searching for that freaking box. 2. Johnny, they’re in the trees! On the roofs! Glitched into the textures!
researchable paratroopers could only have rifles instead of SMGs this would not make them OP (since they would be spammed en masse) and premiums would keep their uniqueness
Man I’m already imagining spawning and suddenly realize that I’m the only one going for the control point while the others are getting mowed down by machine guns. “Hans it’s not a warcrime to mow them down with the flak.”
Disagree. They will have access to Rifles and Assault weapons, like the custom Soviet paras.
Paratroopers often carried smgs on them because they were compact enough to carry when jumping. A great pdw during the chaos and scramble on the ground
Ah yes the spam of the paratroopers, watch as I mow down 3 squads of the Ivans and change the tide of the battle easily because of how incompetent most reds mains are.
Every faction needs a TT para squad, I’d place them at BR III because it would take a bit of time and improve the odds against “noobs” using the para squads. Middle of every factions TT is honestly the perfect spot, this way you would be more experienced and know how to use a para squad by the time you unlock it. And since it would be a first that every faction would get paratroopers in the tech tree it’d be best to allow you to swap out the weapons just like the Soviet squads can.
4 para squads at BR III, one for each faction with switchable weapons to move them to any BR you want to play.
We’ve sat here for well over a year with them exclusive to premium squads or event squads. This is the only class that is not in the tech tree.
I don’t believe paratroopers should be in the tech tree because paratroopers would get spammed too much. Maybe if there was a limit of 2 paratrooper squads per team like with tanks or planes
