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6 years ago

Balance Update - July 31, 2019

GDI Liang “This is to prevent the near 100% uptime Liang had. This should give a more clear window to attack in as well as punish the Liang player more if the drone is killed.” • Cooldown increas...

DarkGarithos

6 years ago

No different on changing laser drones, make it the most dominant cheap unit in ccr, slingshot has only one functionehich is to attack air unit only and yet dev increase the price to become useless unit compare to attack bike and pitbull which is more cheaper and more function, i dont understand their concept of setting units price.

Mister_Crac

6 years ago

@DarkGarithos wrote:
slingshot has only one functionehich is to attack air unit only and yet dev increase the price to become useless unit compare to attack bike and pitbull which is more cheaper and more function, i dont understand their concept of setting units price.

Slingshots were very clearly overpowered at 40 Tiberium. You can hide them behind another unit and take out air with it, just like you can hide Snipers behind another unit and take out infantry with it. So if the price for Snipers is correct at 50 Tiberium, why should Slingshots be cheaper?

DarkGarithos
6 years ago
@Mister_Crac slingshot are very easy to kill, so i dont think hide it will give any different, even 2 laser drones can kill slingshot with same level match, so imagine 2 units x 20tib can easily kill one unit x 50tib? 50tib will make slingshot become one of useless unit soon. Thats why i dont understand developer concept of setting unit price.
- Mister_Crac
  6 years ago
  @DarkGarithos wrote:
  @Mister_Cracslingshot are very easy to kill, so i dont think hide it will give any different, even 2 laser drones can kill slingshot with same level match
  It makes all the difference.
  Also, the Slingshot shreds Laser Drones quite fast. Not convinced that two Laser Drones would be enough to kill one Slingshot, especially since the Drones had their damage and attack speed reduced now.
- thavidu
  6 years ago
  @DarkGarithos wrote:
  @Mister_Cracslingshot are very easy to kill, so i dont think hide it will give any different, even 2 laser drones can kill slingshot with same level match, so imagine 2 units x 20tib can easily kill one unit x 50tib? 50tib will make slingshot become one of useless unit soon. Thats why i dont understand developer concept of setting unit price.
  As someone who has been using laser drones extensively for the past 2.5 weeks, I can tell you with great certainty that 2 laser drones *cant* kill a slingshot with same-level match up, and especially won't be able to after this nerf. Slingshot is pretty powerful against air units, I mostly play air unit decks on both GDI and Nod and the only thing I have that can take them out is orca bombers. Its possible that regular orcas might be fast enough too, but I don't use regular orcas so can't be sure. Slingshots will rip apart pretty much any other air unit
  The other way to take them out with air units is to use venoms as tank (they have deceptively high HP) to draw/distract the slingshot fire and use laser drones to attack it while its occupied, but pulling that combo off takes a lot of effort and maneuvering to pull off.