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Jump back to quoted post5 Sep 2021, 03:57 AMShimizu

I have been seeing AT over watch commanders more often recently and so I have been encountering the AT over watch ability more frequently. It is insanely powerful, the first time I encountered it I was astonished by how much damage it does to even the heaviest of vehicles. First off it is very cheap for what it does, it costs the same as Stuka close air, but it can target all the tanks in the circle and obviously it cannot be shot down like Stukas can, so there is no counter to it. I know that vision is required to maintain fire, but vision can be had with overflight, flairs or you can even sacrifice a couple infantry squads for the cause to maintain vision. Secondly and what I think is most egregious is how fast the ramp up time is. It shoots faster and faster so quickly that something like an Elefant has no chance to escape, and if you're tanks are close together and the map is narrow then you can say goodbye to several of your tanks as they try to path find their way away. Even if you manage to escape the barrage without losing anything all your tanks will be so weak that the inevitable tank push that fallows will kill whatever survived. I'm not saying that AT Over Watch is an "I win button" but when used properly it can shred any German tank force and leave you extremely vulnerable very late in the game.
I think there are a few things that could be done to try and balance this ability. An obvious solution would be to just increase the price. I don't think this would solve the problem though, Even if it was 300 muni I think it would still be a no brainer to use and building a few muni caches will still allow you use it with relative frequency. I think the best solution would be to slow the ramp up time. I know it is an ability to punish a stagnant front line of tanks, but even when you move it is extremely damaging. I think a damage debuff could also be an effective solution. I just feel like this ability shouldn't be able to destroy a heavy tank all on it's own when other AT attacks have no chance of doing so.

Jump back to quoted post25 Jul 2021, 13:48 PMNoinga

I cannot stand the agonizing experience of the B4 any more. I stopped playing the game seriously a while ago due to "high Elo" gameplay just being Metaspams and tactical blobs but now I cant even go into a 4v4 without some Russian guy building 3 B4's and stalemating the front instantly. The suppression radius is insane, and if you want to crawl through it I will 100% guarantee the next one lands on your head. Its range veteran bonus means nowhere is safe, I had sturms repairing a KT in MY BASE get NUKED. Maybe it would not be so bad if it didn't lock everyone in place, I don't play COH2 to play red light green light with a B4. At least if didn't cover direct strikes or your random teammates happened to pick non-direct strike commanders you could play around rocket arty and heavy arty by remaining mobile and dodging through the barrages, since the B4 essentially renders you immobile the only solution is to die, that's it you just die. BOOM dead.

TLDR: Remove the suppression. WE as a community don't want it
(agree with me)

possible fixes: No suppression (EZ)