Remove commander Sniping

I dont know why theres a Commander-setting at all, but comm sniping leads to hours of gaming into someone hiding 3 t2 air factories, even if they are losing on the °$°"§$°"§ whole map it doesnt matter, because enough air just finds and kills your commander anyway.

Thats no fckin fun, and happened already like 3 games in a row. This will probably the reason why i will not play PA at all, because i see no reason in playing hours "skillful", when i could go for commsniping straight from the beginning and win anyway no matter what my enemy does.

You are bad.

You are already wrong because is singlehandedly just won a 2v2v2v2v2, only the last remaining enemy won because of comm sniping, even though his bases were down already. and this happens again and again. And again. Aaaaand again.

scout and build hummingbirds to defend. keep your commander in the "bossom of your base" surrounded by buildings.

Aww, clopse, you remembered!

He's right though, late game, put your Commander smack in the middle of your base, sandwiched between 2 or 3 T2 Factories, with AA Towers and Hummers all around. If you really do need to run away, you can just self-destruct the T2 Factories and Air Towers and leg it.

Also don't forget that eventually, the Commander will be your primary tool for expansion to other planets, it's hard to Commsnipe when the Commander is on another planet.

Mike

The game's major goal is to kill the enemy Commander. Things would be pretty stupid if you couldn't kill it.

While it makes sense for the Comm to be primarily used to expand, the mechanics for that don't exist yet.

I love this sentence. :mrgreen:

So you won the match but... you didn't won because somebody else was better then you and won. But you would have totally won if it wouldn't have been for those meddling kidds. :evil:

I don't think a commander is vital for this game to work. As in each player could start the game with a worker (perhaps more BP than a normal worker) and the objective is to kill all enemy units (in reality people would resign before this point). I think the resulting game could be balanced, good and recognizably TA inspired.

In other words it seems to me that the idea of a strong commander is sacred and not to be questioned. This can work but it would be nice to try a new approach.

hahahaha this is amazing. +1

T2 AA towers will make comm sniping way harder.

this game will have different modes, you could play annihilation rather than assassination game types, in the final product.

indeed. played this gentlemen earlier today. Game never would have ended if com wasnt "snipe"-able.

This. Get some T1 fighters, have them follow your com. Here's a tissue

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I like those "get better stop whining" posts, because they just show how blind people can become. Everyone who says the worse player should still win after loosing 3 bases and couple armies without dealing any dmg seriously needs to rethink his position.

Well, UBER say they dont strife for realism but for awesomeness. Well, i actually cant see any awesomeness in building 50 t1 bomber and suiciding em for killing one target.

Alright, heres another alternative: Give us motherfckin shields. ANYTHING to protect our commander from being cheesed.

There is not a single reason to give a loosing player the possibility to win the game in 5 minutes. Actually, this is against any reasoning. You fight for hours and lose because of some buildings a loosing player hid somewhere?
Well, guess what, that doesnt even comes close to anything strategy related, but exploiting weak mechanics of the game.

You are really bad.

You are aware that the only thing that matters in TA-like games is your Commander, right?
You do know that the only thing that matters is killing his one before he kills yours, right?
You do realise that "bases" are only a means to acquire the units needed to snipe the enemy Commander, right?

You do realise that, don't you?

How about we talk about what WILL happen instead of whining?

The Commander WILL be a powerful tool for expansion to new planets, moons and asteroids. This not only expands your territory, but also makes him safe!

Until that gets implemented in game there isn't any point in trying to "solve" this "issue".

The Alpha is for testing, not playing.

Mike

FIGHTER AIRCRAFT. In the world of airpower they are beyond OP but since you and everyone else are too busy building tanks to notice air power is a thing in this game...

EDIT: that is until it (it being airpower) kills your comm due to your negligence. and then you come here. One day they will remove tanks super AA capabilities and then you all will have to build air power and this wont be a problem anymore

The game isn't finished yet. Tactics that currently win matches will quite possibly be useless once the game is finally released.

To say you will likely never play the game once fully available, due to it's exploitabilities in it's current unfinished form is ridiculous.

You've invested in the product. Either wait until the game is released, or come back every couple of weeks to see if the game is more to your liking as patches and ugrades are introduced.

Or play solo.

Good luck with asking for shields....