[Weekly Phantom Post] Assassination Marking Ability

(darlingClaymore) #21

Phantom is a blast, He does not need a ability, but hey! Buff a merc that I like? and already think is fine? Cool, just don’t cry nerf if it happens

(JJMAJR) #22

General consensus is that recons use spotter abilities in order to give their entire team an advantage, while assaults are for straight up killing and employed to destroy enemy infrastructure and area control, as well as deny an area with their competence in combat.

If Phantom is made to shake up enemy infrastructure, he needs bombs or something comparable to the Rhino’s minigun. He can’t simply have EMPs either, because he already counters deployables-based classes very easily if he could kill more easily. The problem is, when he’s in a room of people, he dies.

Phantom without a spotting ability is NEVER a recon-status-worthy merc. He gives jack shit advantages to the rest of his team that assaults can’t already provide for. I only stated something that assaults have that the Phantom doesn’t, not the other way around.

Phantom doesn’t have bombs. I didn’t say that he isn’t an assault class because of it, but he’s definitely a less competent version of one. The Phantom doesn’t give his team more information. Therefore he isn’t a recon class. You can definitely fight back against a Vasilli or Redeye if you don’t have anything better to do. It’s easy if you aren’t being shot.

In the Phantom’s range, the guy is just as much of a target as everyone around him.

Since you think that assault classes are supposed to be crowd control, then you might as well consider recons to be a dumping ground for whatever shitty class ideas you may have.

TF2’s Pyro might as well be a recon class since it can’t control a crowd. A riot shield class without a spotting ability is a recon class. They definitely aren’t fire support or engineers since they don’t give ammo or complete objectives. To hell with you if they become medics. They don’t control a crowd, they are just targets for you to shoot because you get fucking scared.

Phantom is a target to shoot when the player gets fucking scared. Drôle.

Same with Vasilli and Redeye, why not.

The DB classes are separated to what kind of support they bring.
Fire Support - Ammo (It’s not EV destruction since Kira and Stoker can’t do much to vehicles, and Javelin is said to be an assault class.)
Medics - Healing
Engineers - Objectives
Recon - Information
Assaults - Killing

If SD confirmed your words, I’m done with the game, as there’s only going to be snipers with spotting abilities then. Besides, there has been a lot of ideas for secondary abilities with Phantom, and it would be just pitiful to see none of them implemented.

(JJMAJR) #23

I hope you would like some explosives.

But if SD smartens up then he’s going to get a spotter ability. Just make sure you don’t get caught when helping your team.

(Naonna) #24

They said no spotter ability of any type for phantom. Seeing health isn’t spotting, but would be good in competitive for call-outs, even if the cloak STILL isn’t useful against observant or level 10+ players.