Non Randa-Nerf Balance. Other Plane Ideas

[chesspig]

More people complain about the randa being overpowered than anything else. But i would just like to suggest a few buff changes to each plane help avoid knocking the Randa yet again. I'd actually like to see the tail put back on a bomb carrying TA to some extent. As a relatively new player, watching some of the old games, it is really quite a sad thing to see TA now. If some of the following changes were taken on, i think that plane compositions could be far more dynamic.

Loopy

1. Shield perk

My first suggestion is to have a shield red perk for loopy. It should be shorter in time than the shield item, activated by 2ndary, and come with a non-tracking projectile. This would give the loopy an interesting role in TBD, 1dm and ball games. And of course do away with the most hated aspects of loopy play, fffffdfffffdfdfffffffdffffffdffffff.

Bomber

1. slight flexi buff for turning

When flak/flexi/turbo bomber vs a trickster 1v1. Trickster wins. But if the bomber has 3 silvers or more, it's even. Buff the baseline flex to double or triple silver.

Biplane

Seems quite balanced

Expoldet

1. slight flexi buff for turning
2. remote mine off-screen camera

Remote mine camera would pop up as the whale moves off-screen from the mine. This would immediately make the whale role more interesting. As, in addition to making offscreen kills not based on luck, it could be used to spy on the other team, for instance, adding to the power of the whale in an attacking mode.

Chess

[CmdrNoval]

inb4 Leggo lols

[Kafka]

I can totally see all of that stuff happening very soon

[Woofy]

I may be totally wrong but it feels much easier to just nerf the randa, especially the laser, instead of buffing everything else.

[leggomyeggo]

Originally Posted by CmdrNoval

inb4 Leggo lols

was actually thinking about it but it's way too long for me to read. maybe if someone summarizes it for me.

[chesspig]

Originally Posted by Woofy

I may be totally wrong but it feels much easier to just nerf the randa, especially the laser, instead of buffing everything else.

I agree with the principle of the simplest solution. But there has to be a way to reward the effort that people have already put into mastering their respective planes without punishing those who play the currently overpowered plane. I really think that nerfing the randa again and again punishes those randa players, taking away some of the really great nuances in altitude such as the TA.

Even tho this would be an across the board update, in most of these cases they would be really simple things to do. Sheeeet, even I could probably do it all except for the remote mine cam...

[abski170]

I want to see the randa returned to its glory. I also like the idea of remote mine off-screen camera.

[Appeltaart]

Originally Posted by Woofy

I may be totally wrong but it feels much easier to just nerf the randa, especially the laser, instead of buffing everything else.

Hurrdurrr nerf randa.
It's been nerfed enough.

[Void]

Originally Posted by Appeltaart

Hurrdurrr nerf randa.
It's been nerfed enough.

wait when did randa get nerfed?

[Nikon]

Whoa, this just made me remember that patch that nerved the bombers turning. Sad day, I want that back!

[elixirwithani]

Originally Posted by Nikon

Whoa, this just made me remember that patch that nerved the bombers turning. Sad day, I want that back!

i bring this up every few months

probably the most brutal nerf of all time

made bomber play extremely unforgiving, and with all new ball maps having ashley olson skinny tunnels, it's even sillier

[CmdrNoval]

Originally Posted by Nikon

Whoa, this just made me remember that patch that nerved the bombers turning. Sad day, I want that back!

No s***..., I second that.

Originally Posted by elixirwithani

probably the most brutal nerf of all time

And that too...

[silent skies]

Shield perk
My first suggestion is to have a shield red perk for loopy. It should be shorter in time than the shield item, activated by 2ndary, and come with a non-tracking projectile. This would give the loopy an interesting role in TBD, 1dm and ball games. And of course do away with the most hated aspects of loopy play, fffffdfffffdfdfffffffdffffffdffffff.

And then the randa player decides to use laser.

dang

Though it would be funny to see ppl playing short volleyball matches in tbd

[Zombi]

Originally Posted by chesspig

Remote mine camera would pop up as the whale moves off-screen from the mine. This would immediately make the whale role more interesting. As, in addition to making offscreen kills not based on luck, it could be used to spy on the other team, for instance, adding to the power of the whale in an attacking mode.

Imagine Kluss with this...