[Suggestion] C4 fairies aiming up

Problem Officer · Apr 1, 2017

lololol
This again ?
C4 should be placed the same way as spotters/beacons/turrets.
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DeadAlive99 · Apr 1, 2017

DemonicTreerat said: ↑

“Its not C4 that is the problem per say. Its that C4 combined with the ability to completely ignore obstructions and cover plus moving fast enough that actually killing the fairy before they can drop their payload and detonating it is far more difficult and people-intensive than getting 2 bricks of C4, equipping drifter jets, then finding a place to jump off of. Especially compared to say a medic attempting to C4 a sundy, which is as likely to get a snide "lucky SOB" as anyother response. Reasons? Because A) the medic had to work his/ her way through the fight instead of just jumping off something and B) even when successful at planting their C4 the medic is at a high risk of getting killed before detonating it). Now since we can't remove the mobility part of the problem, the solution is either remove the C4 options from the LA (as was done with infilitrators) or change how C4 is detonated for LAs such that the risk of trying to solo-C4 a sundy is comparable to other classes doing the same.

1) My least favorite: Limit LA's to only 1 brick of C4. This way they won't be blowing up any decently protected vehicle on their own without sticking around to use their freebie rocket gun a few times. Doesn't really solve the problem but does remove some of the whole "Rambo solo take out everything" that currently defines the C4 fairy.
2) Remove their ability to use C4 entirely on the grounds that their mobility is just as effective as infiltrators cloak at avoiding detection and that if infiltrators can't have C4 then neither should light assaults. Replace with the options for AI mines or some sort of spotting beacon.
3) My personal favorite is removing the option to manually detonate C4 from all classes except engineer, replacing it with a 45 second timer after the brick is thrown (engineers having this as an alt-fire mode). That way a fairy who doesn't stay around is going to quickly have their C4 disarmed, but sticking around exposes them up to the same risk of getting killed as every other C4-using character.”

I agree LA + current C4 is the biggest problem. I've been complaining about that for a long time. But I disagree that more than one class should have it. I'm the kind of gamer that favors strong class distinctions, but the devs here have gradually watered down the classes.

I don't think medic should have C4 anymore than an Inf should have a rocket launcher or an HA have a revive grenade. It doesn't matter to me if non-jet classes have to 'run it in'. It waters down the classes, and personally I don't care for that. I say give it to either engy or HA and that's it.

Of course, that won't happen. Everyone has gotten used to it and there would be a huge uproar when taking it away, so, in lieu of that, I like your #3 idea lot. They already implemented Engy disarm for C4 in the last patch, which I'm glad to see, plus they boosted the sundy shield against C4 a few patches ago, so it's obvious they've begun responding to C4 complaints. Maybe with enough discussion we can get them to implement your #3 idea.

DeadlyOmen · Apr 2, 2017

Whatever the other guy does should be 'balanced".

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