Profile of Neph

Yeah... I haven't been able to participate in the beta. But I've only heard good things. I heard one of the biggest issues with BF was the hit detection, and apparently Titanfall has some of the best hit detection was what a lot of my mates have said.

I also haven't played BF4. I played 3 for a long time though and have been a big fan of the BF franchise.

post a view replays. and i want a truckload of the stuff your smoking.

If you spent half as much of the effort you do spamming posts like these with inflammatory "nerf this, nerf that" arguments on actually improving your play and micro, you wouldn't have any reason to rage, cause you'd be able to avoid the situations you complain so adamantly about.

You might even gain a small modicum of credibility cause then people might believe you're not just a fanboy, and that isn't just merely your lack of skill that is letting you down.

Wow thats an interesting idea. That would totally suck to be on the recieving end of I would want it to be expensive as all hell.

The idea would be that it would come with Vet 1, meaning that you'd have to build some penals and keep them alive. But if you could do that you would have a niche unit that would combine well with either t3 (T34 rams) or t4 (by punishing tanks that pushed deep into your lines looking to snipe your SU-76's with a combo of AT nade/"penal main gun disable").

Number one reason I ever used ram before it was nerfed to hell was for destroying the maingun on an enemy tank.

Nothing else was more important than disabling the gun on german tanks. Immobilization or engine damage was secondary to eliminating the damage output.

Implementing an ability that disabled the main gun would necessitate a removal or rebalancing of abilities like button and ram.

Button <-> Ram <-> Disable main gun

Any two and you have ensured methods for disabling german armor. Honestly I kinda like that sort of reliability. However I personally feel that what would be MOST useful would be the ability to damage or destroy tanks ability to rotate their turrets.

Forget anything else, if turret rotation could get slowed or even stopped viz critical damage, then a whole new element of vehicle facing and positioning would be highlighted.

A panther with it's gun stuck to the side would have to make a choice between trying to fight more or facing the wrong side of its armor, etc. IMO that's a whole lot more interesting than trying to get point and click abilities to fire.

Button is a doctrinal ability meaning you have to pick a build with guards in it for it to work, and Ram is far from a reliable main gun disable.

As far as the disable gun ability, it would have a ridiculously small range, meaning that you would basically have to be sitting on top of tank IOT to do it, meaning that you would A) have to pull off a really good flank, or B) disable the engine first.

Now, this is also combined with the fact that Penal squads are extremely fragile, meaning if they have any sort of AI capability they are going to get chewed up and you're going to lose them, which you then don't have the ability to instantly replace that ability as it would come at Vet 1, meaning you need to build another 360 (320 with decrease) squad, get them vetted against presumably vet 2/3 Grens/Pgrens, before you could do it again.
[edit: you could make the ability work like a demo charge, with a faster set up time during which they take additional damage]

I just think it would give penals a bit more of a niche. There would then be a point in combining a penal squad in with your con squads knowing that if you could keep that penal squad alive it's going to pay off later when the powerful Ostheer armour rolls out.

Finally, this would give you an opportunity to nerf the Ram that everyone keeps complaining about slightly, or take away some of the randomness from it, while still maintaining the ability to disable German tanks offensive capabilities.

So basically we're suggesting an initial price reduction, 360 -> 320.
Possibly a reduction in upkeep cost.
And some minor AT ability at vet?

(On that, I was just thinking that they could have an AT ability that has quite a short range [smaller than AT nade], but disables the vehicles main gun. That way you could use them as a medium/long range unit that can punish vehicles that push into your lines, or use them as a tool for epic flanks, again punishing vehicles. It would also serve to delay (The FHT would just be able to drive away and get repairs) over aggressive use of say the FHT against t1, which still punishing you with good micro.) My one concern would be snipers + Penals obviously becoming a huge problem if you keep Penals sniper sitting. However considering this is a ~700MP investment, and would be vastly outranged/outgunned/out manouvered by the SC, it could be mitigated.

Edit: This would also synergise well with Ram.

I'm just waiting for Titalfall... I have heard amazing things. I think BF4 is about to be knocked off it's perch.