This tank nerf is terrible.
Honestly you've taken the teeth of the tank away. Slowing the health regen of the tank AND giving the rockets more bite is like.... tanks are pretty much useless now. Everyone pulls out a rocket an...
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The only thing I could see doing right now to balance this is limiting the engineer to 1 rocket to start with and being able to stand on a health pack and pick up 4 more but very slowly ... which won't make it worth it in the long run. That way you 3 people can't spawn and shutdown a tank instantly on a point.
SMGs are already pretty powerful and lasers, and historically they're assigned to Engineers so really once engineers run out of ammo, they're kinda screwed on the health and ammo front.
I would say revert the changes on health regen for tanks and give visual identifiers what needs to happen for them to start repairing ... (can't repair, enemies nearby) or something to that effect. Because yeah, as it stands right now, I still have no idea what needs to happen in order to repair. I have sat at the back of the map for over 30 seconds fully stopped and still didn't repair... maybe I was painted and didn't know it? This change isn't clear at all and not intuitive by any means.
Cooldown is 12 seconds, but if you fire your cannon before the 12 second cooldown, the 12 second cooldown resets and you have to wait another 12 seconds.
There's also an additional change to how fast the regen works. It's now a second or so longer.
And additionally if your health falls into the red, then the cooldown takes even longer, I think...
Then finally, its bugged, so the cooldown can last longer than 12 seconds and sometimes the health regen can start after 6 seconds which may be related to the Maintenance upgrade, but... that doesn't happen most of the time!
So, yes its all a bit of a mess right now.
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