Nod Scarabs overpowered
The Scarabs are overpowered and have no counter. Kind of rediculious that two hits take out a Sandstorm, or wolverine,or zone troopers.
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I hate these things so much, that fact that the only counter is get on the pads first means that's your only strategy. You should not be able to just spam one unit and win. If they were more expensive or only had one scarab per unit or didn't leave behind fire, or couldn't also hit air then they would be fine, but they can do all of it. I have beaten them once by rushing the pads and if I run that strategy every time it's fine, but that's so boring and is bad game design to force people into specific strategy's.
I think scarabs can be useful as a defensive strategy. I think they shouldn't target aircraft however. Seems incorrect to see a bomb fly straight to a flying aircraft. I just reached Nod and will try playing it tomorrow.
I think scarabs need a nerf, like maybe reduce damage against vehicles. I mean lets say I use tick tanks to defend along with anti-infantry. if a scarab managed to get through and my anti-infantry is distracted, I'd easily lose the tick tank in one explosion. Also like I said before, scarabs attacking aircraft are illogical, I mean why and how would you throw a bomb at a helicopter, your not superman or Mr. Incredible.
- play with them and we talk again. i know they are rly annoying but if u adept to playing against them almost every game your enemy runs scarabs is a free win for u
I did win against someone who used scarabs once while I was playing as GDI. I was scouting with riflemen squads and saw one from a distance. I needed rifleman squads cause of a task I need. I even won the said challenge battle easily. I even lost a pit-bull to a scarab, but nothing else with scarab related losses.
