One of the best reads I ever had in this forum. Thanks!
I don't like these frustration elements (vehicle crits / plane crashs) neither.
I totally agree with the OPs arguments about there are more then enough elements creating drama. Besides the beautiful armor mechanic I would also like to emphasize the small arms battle: tense fire fights where you have to decide "do i retreat now or keep on fighting maybe winning this engagement but risking to loose this squad". That's drama and absolutly exciting. But you as a player can influence and control it (cover, supression, [soft] retrating, disenagaging behind a house/hedge, using abilities, etc.), this is what it makes such a great and fun to play core machanic.
For Quinn holding on to such, to call them like they have to be called, "lame" machanics after creating such wonderfully working ones like the smalls arms and armor system is out of all reason for me.
If Relic dont't want to get rid of tanks crits, fine but then tie them to more abilties, make em part of regular enagements (>40% health, like its works for infantry), but not a completely frustrating vehicle savior.
If you want to stick on the plane crashes, then programm them to crash at the outer margins of a map. I can't understand how Quinn can not see that it is NOT enjoyable to get wiped by planes truning into V1 rockts after you did the effort to get some functional AA. It's plain stupid.
The thread hits the Nail pretty neat. Relic would be well advised to listen to this.
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