Profile of TickTack

You probably wouldn't even bother destroying them, so that your enemy can waste more of their manpower to recrew them. M-42 shouldn't be such a hopeless unit.

Thus, if you want to help making M-42 decent, open up a new brainstorming thread and get the community to contribute. Since M-42 should be weaker vs heavier tanks, at least it should compensate with utility.
- Avoid putting cheesy utility, like stun
- Designs without klingon cloaking fields are greatly appreciated

I'll start by mentioning that damage should go up to 100 (maybe even 135) to allow the gun to be a specialist light-vehicle killer, even if its penetration remains crappy.

Even if M-42 won't make it to T1, we could reuse the ideas for a potential commander rework in the future.

Mr Smith requested ideas to see if M42 light AT gun might be useful instead of Penal PTRS.

He thought it should get a damage buff to 100, so let's bear that in mind and instead offer ideas that would make the unit:
1. more useful
2. more versatile

E.g. I could suggest that it could Retreat like a Rak, but not garrison.

Because assuming that Penals are balanced, nobody is going to bother going with a risk/reward tier there is so many other options. Tier 1 needs access to some kind of anti tank, else Tier1 will just never be seen again.

Penals are balanced when considering them as an AI squad, yeah. The recent nerfs have seen to that. I'm not convinved that reducing their AI further is a good idea, even if it comes with the wonderful reward of T1 AT.

For that reason, M42 seems a more attractive solution for RUS T1 AT.

Else, make cons AT nade half price and time to research.

I would still prefer M-42 in T1 instead of PTRS. You know, more combined arms etc

Me too.

Re: the satchel sticky - it sounds useful, but as others have said, the windup time needs to be lowered to give it a chance to hit somewhat reliably. The charge has a very long fuse, so there's no real reason it needs a long windup as well. The windup is actually a squad survivability issue (i.e. it makes the penal take damage from enemy supporting inf while he's winding up), which might no longer be necessary after all the penal changes.

So yeah, reduce the windup.

wow broh, yes premade team are harder to beat for unknown but you can't blame them for teaming up with friends.

You fail at comprehension. Irrelevant!

The fact that teams are on the same ladder not only means they play against each other but also that the arranged team will usually contain worse players than random one. The matchmaker creates matches based on past matches, so on real outcome of matches. This means it takes only the data about outcome of all factors, not different factors themselves, into calculation, including the factor of arranged team. This just means that no matter if you are AT or not you still have the same chance to win if you play it fair instead of running away.

If you want premade teams to stop abusing the matchmaking system, you gotta drop every game they try to play until they're left playing against CPU. This may discourage further matchmaking abuses.

This is why strong teams rename themselves and enter the lower ranked ladders, yes? To manipulate the matchmaking system and rape pugs?

You are naieve! Else you are playing dumb and are an active twink that rapes pugs.

Any pug player that sticks around for the entertainment of a premade team deserves the raping, because they are actively encouraging the premade teams to form themselves and find means to play against weak pug teams.

If you want premade teams to stop abusing the matchmaking system, you gotta drop every game they try to play until they're left playing against CPU. This may discourage further matchmaking abuses.

And again! This is not a player problem, this is a Relic problem in that they designed a terrible matchmaking system that actively encourages griefing behaviour by the players!

So quit making these terribly naieve posts about people dropping and instead clearly tell Relic to sort their code out for the next game they are making, to spare human beings some pain.

After all, actual people play these games.

Any pug player that sticks around for the entertainment of a premade team deserves the raping, because they are actively encouraging the premade teams to form themselves and find means to play against weak pug teams.