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Jump back to quoted post1 May 2019, 12:52 PMJibberJabberJobber

I don't agree on-map recon is always more useful. Radio Intercept provides invaluable intel that overwatch flares wouldn't be able to:

- Knowing a countersniper is on the field.
- Knowing your opponent has skipped a certain tech building / chose med or mech.
- Knowing how many tellers have been made.
- Figure out which doctrine your opponent went (doctrinal units).

Again, not saying Radio Intercept should be changed in any way, just that the main problem with overwatch flares is not their strength, but their implementation.

Jump back to quoted post1 May 2019, 04:56 AMthedarkarmadillo

Actually that's a great example, because using it wrong doesn't change its value.

Look at the commisar squad. Both of his infantry modifier abilities have no cost to use but generate value. Free but valuable.
Something can have no cost and still have worth.
. The free flares are, well... Free and provide recon without so much as an arming time. That's poor design frankly. Adding the need to deploy them would really round them out. This is legit the only commander I can think of that grants passive that require nothing from the player as I think about it.

Jump back to quoted post30 Apr 2019, 17:16 PMdistrofio

Overwatch flares was always as it is, but now since it gets picked more often, its flares have become overpowered? (Note the irony)
I don't think so.
Flares are not op, jli were. The free recon is a very deceptive description of this ability, like each time allie fanboys say that axis get 'free' stuff. Recon flares takes a commander slot altogether with goliath (I wonder how much till complaints of goliath start to appear). A commander slot that could be easily used on other abilities as well. And it's not free, a territory must be both, captured and triggered mine like.

The only detail that would make sense is to shorten its duration, but flares are just fine.

Leave flares out of l2p issues.

Jump back to quoted post29 Apr 2019, 21:45 PMnigo

Just to remember something like that happened in Battlefield franchise. A former DICE dev had a portfolio with WW2 weapons LEAKED in the internet and this thing goes to public 1 year before the BFV reveal.

Jump back to quoted post29 Apr 2019, 22:11 PMSander93

Something early Cold War (the end of the 'mechanical' warfare era) would be pretty interesting though. Basically 1950s-1960s with Pattons and T-54s and with light tanks like the M41 still in service could basically be a reskinned CoH/CoH2. The same mechanics and core but in a new and unique setting.