Remember when Thunder's Conc had the EMP effect?

(Brycko) #1

Those were the good ol’ days. I jumped into a game today, after not playing for several months, and the first thing I do is throw down a Conc Grenade to take on the Aura hovering next to her health station. sigh.

Not to say that Thunder isn’t ridiculously good now, but I just miss the days when an assault merc had some utility that wasn’t death oriented. Plus Redeye’s smoke grenade is basically a better version of Thunder’s Grenade, just longer lasting and with area denial, and minus the ‘headachy time’ affect, which rarely occurs.

Maybe it’s just me, but if the devs added back the EMP affect and increased the cooldown time, I would be happ(ier).

Does anyone even use Phantom for the EMP field?

(watsyurdeal) #2

Offense was definitely more fun for sure, I agree. A lot of the more broken and unfair portions of various maps became more fair and balanced.

(Tanker_Ray) #3

I do use phantom that way.

BUT I never want my Thunder to be played like everyone else like you expect.

He was NEVER a good assault.

Slow + EMP combination was something that should be simultaneously done before, but this is way too much for him.

To be honest, if more than one guy shoots back to Thunder, he still can’t tank enough/finish the situation fast enough.

This is mainly because of his weak primary weapons, but let’s check the fact even Rhino is bad for exposing himself and shooting against bunch of defenders.

It’s just so obvious that 200HP + 300DPS isn’t enough with straight-shooting weapons, then what do we expect from Thunder even he gets that mighty-CC.

Reason why Nader/Fragger is good for Offensive Assault, is they don’t have to expose themselves while using AoE skills.

The time when he had 8 secs of EMP was so useless compared to new Phantom

(BananaSlug) #4

if he is as main dps in team comp, he is meh, but if he is 2nd dps he is broken, but double assault is almost a must have

(hoyes) #5

You know, I used to think he needed the emp, but that was when I thought vassili was overpowered. O_o

(GatoCommodore) #6

but now phantom become more…
Shiddy.