7.2 APS sentinel change. Are you out of your mind?
lets first quote the part in the patch notes:
APS Shootdown Sentinel
We are aware of the long lasting issue of vehicles camping hills and it has become a bit more exaggerated when Irish’ APS Shootdown Sentinel is included into this equation.
With Update #7.2.0 we are removing the capabilities for this Specialist Gadget to shootdown any Anti Vehicle Weapon or Gadgets. This should allow Air Vehicles and Infantry to once again attack such ground vehicles, as well as pushing the gadget itself into a more infantry-focused mentality.
This is absolute nonsense.
The ground vehicles are the most bullied thing in the game. The aircraft can attack them from angles they cannot reach and even the nerf on the attack helicopter will not do that much of a difference. The infantry can easily overwhelm the vehicles with sheer numbers both up close and from large distances depending on what gadgets they use. Liz in particular can attack even vehicles have have taken cover
The APS sentinel was one of the few things that could allow a vehicle to take some refuge, especially in smaller more linear maps where there are less places to go to.
Drivers camping on a hill are not a symptom of the APS sentinel but a symptom of how fragile and clumsy you made medium to heavy armor vehicles in this game.
If you want to make tankers to camp less, you got to to followup after the APS nerf by making their life during more active combat more fun and less stressful.
Make the turrets faster, the acceleration more sharp, the vertical turret angles bigger ( do not care if it clips into the model, make it go both higher and lower) as well as make it less horrible to lose your tank (right now you cannot select your prefered vehicle again after losing it until nobody else has show any interest in taking the slot (and usually wasting it) for like 10-15 seconds beyond its respawn timer.
You have made the vehicle experience in 2042 a lot less fun than it was in previous games. I do not know if you are willing and able to make any real changes in 2042 but I am hoping someone is taking notes.
DIsclaimer:
Before anyone accuses me of being a vehicle only ... enjoyer, I want to make it clear that I like both infantry, tanks and aircraft as well all destroying them when I need to I will just pick whichever works best. I believe that the life of a tank is considerably less fun than that of other assets in 2042.
