STOP THE WALL HACK META (BARRACUDA)

[dusk shadow]

Playing with a full squad , we can use barracuda 100% continuously the whole game placing it where ever we are headed. This makes the game more about pre firing and always knowing where the enemy is. It ruins the game and makes it less skill based. You literally have a real time 3d marker of the enemy position in a huge radius/Area of effect. lets make it cost more, so it cant be spammed the whole game. It is almost cheating when you coordinate with a squad and use it the whole going towards objectives. Even solo, 80% of the time its like having a wall hack and contributes to me being in top 5% most games. It needs to be more expensive or less area of effect. The only way to counter it is using JAMMERS passed level 20 something. Lets change this and make it so it actually takes skill to play this game and less about relying on a 3d real time mark of the enemy (wall hack)

[hoary bane]

barracuda already balance enough, well yea if u squading those are very broken, but that same as spamming UCAS.

Countering barracuda ? just shoot it , well yea without Piorun its kinda hard, but with practicing shooting UAV are easier than your think. also giving 200 extra point, Maybe increasing it to 500 can make player will hunt UAV more often

for the 3d marking, well those thing didnt auto updating , but had interval, i kinda agree to increase the interval of 3d marking,

[last linden]

I agree they can be shot down. Maybe all those sniper can get them down. I like the idea of increasing the reward for shooting them down.

[viral sparrow]

If you have ever played against a full squad that coordinates it you will understand, but it literally feels like you are playing against wall hackers. They always know where you are and aim at you before you come around a corner.
Yes you could use a jammer, but that would just enforce another quad to coordinate jammers as well and would defeat any purpose.

[hoary bane]

That tactics about squadplay, this thing also broken when a squad spamming UCAS, and those are more powerfull than people spamming Barracuda . As i said before , need teammate awareness to helping other teammate by shooting the uav,

[last linden]

Jamming , shooting them down , be on the move seems counter enough. And if they are always using them ... they won't have points for Artillery and Armors.

[hoary bane]

Yep exactly, and those are making squad advantage, or having good communication on random squadmate.
if u cant get a good squadmate and always radared, be a piorun user, im always do that when doing soloq

[molten nimbus]

If the game say everytime somethink when you enter on a monitored zone... it'll be easyer to play again radars.... But you never know if you are under radar before diying and see "marked by radard"... Or you are very lucky to be exacly on a zone where a drone is juste spawning.... And not every drone trigger the audio announcement.... Juste give use an audio when entering on a monitored zone, or a gadget who desynch your point on a 10m radius... so enemy know you are here, but not exactly where.

@last linden you can shoot drone, but not from every where. Especially on a map with a lot of building because you can't aim drone :
-No time to lock because drone go trough buildings or there is some strange cliping hitbox.
-You haven't the range to lock because he is right in the middle of large building you want to access and you can't shot trough the floor to reach the drone.
-The server lag AGAIN and Rng's god is on answering machine...

@hoary bane Not realy similar to the broken jammer, because when you are jammed, you know it. So you can play safer to wait mate respawn or imagine you got the combo radar/jammer so you go back etcetc. Radar is juste invisible 80% of time. (but 100% true about teammate awarness. We are 51 with my friends so we don't care about XP and we are 2 Rpg and 1 pio to hunt armored and drone for other mate)

We juste need an audio announcement every time we are under radar, so we can deal with it before dying.

[hoary bane]

u dont know how broken spammer jammer compared to barracuda, especially on preventing collecting info and using strike to deny any cap
when jammer finish and u wanna launch a strike then suddenly another jammer pop up, ez wasting time

[molten nimbus]

I perfectly understand because i get jammer spam (as radar spam) too. It's way easyer to play with jammer than radar. Wone a lot of party with 10000 stricks points left because there is a way other mech for win than stricks. But when guy can see you trougth the wall it's another think.

[hoary bane]

that why im saying need teammate awareness to helping other teammate, im seeing some people bring piorun to shoot down barracuda and its make my game winnable

[molten nimbus]

even with a full jammed party we can win. Maybe because, as a duo team, we know how to progress without respawnming at our friend who stay back and safe ^^. Btw piorium need a re-balance to be more viable. So more player will play that... Like can oneshot litle uav but need two rocket for larger (so heli need way more) but make him to less consumme the ammo bag and add a bit more range. So you have more choice about place to shoot but as your rocket dosen't oneshot (medium/large uav) you can be countered.