He is the worst GDI General. Only use him if you want to severely gimp yourself.
On a side note as a balance suggestion ->
How about making him only able to heal 1 unit but actually have a decent healing amount?
In his current state he is pathetic. Why would you ever pick him when you can have a turret pop up anywhere you wish that damages and blocks?
Everytime he's my rare in a box it makes me physically ill
Edit: as for something useful to say, I think the armor on it could due with a slight upgrade but even then... the problem with just making the heal bigger is, healing mechanics are incredibly centralizing if they are strong in games such as this.
The fact that the drone can also be walked right under is another contributing factor to it's apparent non existence in the meta entirely. I'm just not sure what I would do to make this commander power useful without making it overbearing/borderline broken.
Personally I'm a bit mixed on having changes made to Dr Liang. Granted, I only have him at level 4and in GDI Sector 3, but I find the repair drone useful on those more critical moments in the match when fighting over a point gets serious and you're using vehicles to counter your opponent's current units on the board. It also helps that the unit can contest a point like any other unit.
I just like using him more than Lt. Strongarm.
@Brunski83 wrote:Agreed with all you said. Though i honestly thought it was a woman general.....
It might be lol. I am not sure at all.
I think that healing really falls by the wayside in a game that is dynamic and units change in the blink of an eye. Liang's style sort of atrophies the player by keeping old units around and blocking new unit production, and the drone itself is fairly easily sniped.
It's one of the reasons I think zone troopers are outclassed by cyborgs. The borgs kill things and gimp their ability to move or defend themselves. Zone troopers regen when not fighting. Pretty easy choice there.
Dr. Liang's heal drone is quite powerful as is right now. Remember that the heal works by percentage health, so the more base health a unit has, the more it heals. So it will heal a Titan much more than it heals a Rifleman becomes the Titan has more base health.
Dr. Liang is a late game hero. If you can survive the early game and start cranking out tech lab units, the heal drone becomes very powerful.
For any new players who stumble on this thread. The good doctor has since been buffed and his heal drone is cheaper now and he seems just fine to use if healing is your preferred playstlye
I have to disagree. I think that Liang's drones are too easily shut down by an alert player, and they often are just tiberium lost to a little micro.
To try to support my point: https://youtu.be/cjF9kx3nd9k
He understood enough to avoid losing harvesters to bike harass and made an attempt to field titans, but this was shut down by the obelisks which did far more for me than his drones did for him.
@Ivrezul you might find this handy so mentioning you here.
