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As I said in the UKF preview thread, this ability has the potential to be OP as fuck if it allows all friendly territory to be targeted which it now does, be prepared for it to be toned down.

Has the bug been fixed where the icon (or effect, unsure which) remains on sections even after the ability has long ended?

The only thing that has kept this ability under the radar is its requirement for maximum potential. As you mentioned, if the territory is decapped before 20-30 seconds, your frontline breaks and no fighters come.

If however you manage to contest it or the enemy attack after the 20-30 second mark, they can't even put a toe in the territory without being nuked.

It works wonders for late game final defences, but now imagine that across the whole front line where it is much easier to maintain the lines with 1/2/3 other players to mass the frontlines, defending against a push...

Should have remained as it is (only the players territory) but reduce the amount of time for the planes to arrive, this keeps it isolated in late game team games but also, sees its use in 1v1's more viable rather than throwing away 250 muni.

What a complete and utter disappointment to watch with the same factions and the same doctrines chosen almost all games. But what caused it to be so stale? Obviously there is money at stake so players will naturally be using the strongest factions and strongest units to win but if i were to go by the forums on a daily basis or even using my own experiences, I wouldn’t have seen the championships to end like it currently is with Osttruppen vs mechanised and 222 vs Stuart near enough every game.

So is USF mechanised chosen to counter Osttruppen or the other way around? The previous community tournament when the VP’s were cut in half, it was quite obvious that Osttruppen would dominate the meta with their Zerg-like spammability, so why are we still seeing them in this full VP tournament rather than seemingly more powerful doctrines such as German infantry and the likes?

It will be interesting to know why the world championships turned into such a stale series, more interesting than the games at least.

"Stuka to foot" lol

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You are either ignoring everything thats been said or trolling. However, since you are so obsessed with the T70, I will bite:

T70 can be snared and killed by AT weapons, they are expensive in the early game and cannot be spammed reliably due to the counters on the field. Flares, cannot be countered, are spamable (more so in team games) and are cheap, also, they can not be countered.

See what makes it OP? I made it easy for you. They can not be countered.

As I said it was an example to understand that "OP" is what you think but not necessary a bad thing from a game desigh perspective.

And if we were listening to people claiming whatever is OP for years, the MG-42 would fire apple, Jagtiger would be a bigger kubel and Riflemen would have to fight with sword, so yes, "claiming for years" that something is OP isn't necessary the truth.

Flares are uncounterable like every non-planes capabilities, and even with planes some might not fall (IL-2 bomb drop for the most recent similar post), so that's not really what makes something "OP".

So you can keep repeating to yourself a lie thousands of times, it won't turn into a truth.

""claiming for years" that something is OP isn't necessary the truth."

It generally is:

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"Flares are uncounterable like every non-planes capabilities"

These abilities are usually expensive, and or easy enough to dodge, you can't spam them constantly. Remember when UKF command vehicle had free recon via a plane? That was incredibly OP, do you know why? Because it was free and had a stupidly short cool down which led to near constant vision, and depsite the fact the plane could be shot down, it was nerfed and added a muni cost.

Flares however, cheap, uncounterable, last for a long time and can be spammed, there is nothing you can do to avoid them, nothing. You can move off from that side of the map, sure but then flares will just go to where you moved. There is no risk only reward and that is why it is OP.

Rifle flares/Mortar flares you at least risk getting units near to the area, flares you have to plant them, flares on the points (notice how noone says that is OP anymore? Yet before the nerf it was just OP) Its because they need to be manually planted, you need to activley use a squad to plant the flares that can then be countered by a mine sweeper.

Having something OP is not good games design, its the complete opposite, you can have power but you need weaknesses, take the KT, heavy, hard hitting, high armour but slow to move and to trun the turret and is easily flanked. If you made it the same speed as a cromwell and with the same turret rotation, are you saying that would be good games design too? Because this is certainly what your opinion on games design comes across as...