Simple food for thought idea

(Someordinaryguy) #1

It was probably discussed a lot before, but what if deployables cooldown did NOT start until they are destroyed (or go at a slower speed, f.ex. 50%). Personally I think it’s sometimes way too easy to spam deployables coughhealth stationcoughminescough. Plus it would make reclaiming them more appealing and destroying them would actually make a difference for a longer time.

Deployables I think should be affected by this:

-Health and Ammo Station

-Proxy mines

-Fletcher stickies (but our good ol’ meatball rubber needs fixing and buffing doe)

-Bushwhacker turret (same)

-Heartbeat Sensor/Snitch (but allow sensor to be reclaimed)

-Turtle shield (if he still has it and it’s destroyable when he’s added)

(snittah) #2

My most played merc is Aura at around 90 hours, and I wholeheartedly agree with a “Start the cooldown when the station is destroyed” kind of aproach, perhaps not the current full cooldown.
I can’t count the amount of times I’ve insta replaced a destroyed station with a new shiny one. And I’ve also felt the frustration myself while playing other mercs and taking out a station, just to see it replaced instantly.

So yeah, I overall like the idea, but think the cooldowns should be reduced a bit as well if it got implemented.

(sgtCrookyGrin) #3

maybe it goes down to 35% of max cool down, until destroyed it stays at 35% and decreases at 75% of the normal rate?

I’m just spouting out numbers here, otherwise they could do other things to balance deployables.

(Someordinaryguy) #4

@sgtCrookyGrin Interesting idea, but I suspect new players would get butthurt and call abilities “broken” etc. without proper information about this ?

(JJMAJR) #5

Ew… nerfing the third worst character in the game…

(GatoCommodore) #6

but if you think about it, it will reduce proxy pizza delivery!
why arent the SD implement this?

(JJMAJR) #7

[quote=“sweetColumn;206288”]but if you think about it, it will reduce proxy pizza delivery!
why arent the SD implement this?[/quote]

If you want to nerf pizza delivery, just make Proxy’s mines completely useless and give her a means to defend in a more effective manner.

For example, a crossbow, or an active denial system against projectiles.

Hell, the latter actually might make sense for Proxy, and the former for Fletcher. I think I got the two abilities in the wrong spots!

(Someordinaryguy) #8

@JJMAJR Who do you mean by 3rd worst merc ?

(JJMAJR) #9

Look at my profile pic.

(Dawnlazy) #10

Don’t like the idea of a nerf across the board which might screw up balance for specific mercs caught in it when instead you can simply say “X and Y deployables are OP pls nurf” and only affect those select mercs.

(Someordinaryguy) #11

Look at my profile pic.[/quote]

Well I might not have made it clear but I said both Bushie and Fletcha need fixing and buffs