Before making strategy, maybe go little easier and go with tactic.
And it either wont work and be just annyoing or is so op that attacking makes zero fun.
- Toolkit but arty, tanks, tnt and explosives and bombs and rockets still do sams dmg.
Guess what people will pick?
- Nerf explosive stuff again to the point wind does more dmg than a 75mm shell.
People will make auto rifle engineer squads and game will make less fun… even less than rn because they dont want to play WW1 as attacker.
If body drop should stop, remove progress protection for attackers in Invasion so people have more reasons to stay alive and help defenders to recover (and in return increase ticket rates for attackers) which for me feels less one sided than geanting defenders basically the high ground for zero flaw in return.
I disagree that it should take up any other slot than a consumable.
The reason for this is that very few people even use binoculars to begin with. Meaning that if the tookit were in that slot, its something that everyone would automatically equip, and it wouldn’t have the impact that we need.
Sacrificing something you never use (binoculars) isn’t really a sacrifice. However, if it were a consumable like I suggest, players would need to choose between taking a backpack for toolkits or a grenade pouch/ ammo pouch. Making it substantially more impactful.
Not only that, but by making it a consumable with a limited number on it, it keeps people from going up and breaking down the entire front of a fortified building, making them instead choose where they want to try to punch through.
The ONLY way that it would work in the slot where the binoculars are is if there was something of at least equal value in that slot, as binoculars definitely is not. I’ve seen some good suggestions for other options such as a gas mask or even a flak jacket. The point is still that it needs to be in a slot where there are other viable choices and its not going to be an automatic equip.