Isn't anyone mentioning bots?

But why should they be limited to only "Helping"? Why can't I mainly build Bots and have Tanks "Help" me win?

Mike

Because tanks don't have a combat healer, and bots don't have high health to survive a shot and utilize healing...

Why can't a heavy support a medic while the medic captures the intellegence, runs out in front, and scores all the kills with his syringe gun?

Seriously though, there should be more obscure indirect yet strong combat types in the infantry.

I

think dox should just be able to shoot air. I don't see any reason why the most basic of infantry units can't shoot upwards. Same goes for snipers.

Why can't we not put words in each other's mouth?

I never said there was a problem with Bots and Tanks Supporting each other, I said that bots shouldn't be LIMITED to supporting tanks.

Mike

I didn't, I was joking, nowhere did I specifically say "Gee Mike, bots support tanks, wouldn't that cause a problem?". Matter of fact, I said exactly what you just said now at the end of my post.

I don't think bots should just be tanks, but given that grenadiers are pretty strong, find something rifleman-y for the dox to do.

Hey, maybe lower the rate of fire for the ant, increase their damage to make the dps the same, then make dox 2 hit kill other dox while ants 1 hit kill but kill only 1/3 as many in the same amount of time. That way, grenadiers are pretty strong against tanks, dox are strong against grenadiers and balanced against other dox, and dox don't threaten tanks but dox can escape tanks before heavy losses.

Basically makes it like C&C balance, where infantry kills other infantry the fastest and tanks kill infantry the slowest, and high alpha infantry kill tanks fast but infantry slow and die to either rather straightforward.

I also argue this, because before it would take a hp buff for tanks to be that different, but Uber already did that, so now it is just re-proportioning tank dps to do more damage per shot and less shots per minute.

Can't argue it wouldn't be better than it is now, although any number of things can fix the current status quo.

I think the thing with bots are that they are pretty much supposed to be for people who want to do more zerg like stratagies so their trying to make all the bots be kinda like zerglings where while they are weak as hell you can pump them out super duper fast.

I mean I understand that the point of PA is pretty much to just go crazy and more or less out mass each other but bots do it the fastest.