Sounds extremely familiar with something that is predominant in a large mass...
And button is definitely much crappier than a stun. Blitzing, smoking, waddling out of range, and shooting/causing the Guards to move an inch invalidated the button ability, which wasnt that cheap, especially when you needed to buy the weapon with munitions as well (100+ munitions to stall a tank until forced to cancel compared to a handful of munitions for an AT gun to shoot a sure shotted stun shell in which the tank cant do anything for a few seconds...)
It was all Guards were good for. The only use as to have them be rarer than Su-76's after the nerf... Ive seen Guards used less than a dozen times since that patch.
Mark target used to be even more powerful (as to be the prime option for negating the buff Old TA had). Button and Mark Target were seen as the assymmetry for superior Axis tanks. Having tanks that need to require a lot of force to take down also meant that the enemy can pull something out of their sleeve to even the odds.
Current Button is horrible, Old Button was extremely good. Really they are not comparable anymore. Old button negated Blitzkrieg and you could barely even move. Plus you couldn't shoot either. 100+ munitions to ensure the destruction of any tank is very much worth it.
I'm sorry Relic can't make an ability worth it but insanely overpowered *shrug*.
Guards need a buff, that much is certain, what they don't need it the ability to lock down any tank in the game.
You clearly A) Cannot read and B) don't know about button.
A) He said Target Weak Point, you quoted it directly, it's right there in the post moments before you say mark target.
B) Smoke instantly cancelled the effects of button, because it requires LoS. It's not just a smokescreen, it literally makes a soviet player pay 45 to have it cancelled for half that.
And to top it all off, all you need to do it set a PaK up in wait for said T-34-85 and click the TWP button before it comes into range, or the moment you see it. PaK reload is absurdly fast even if your first shot is not your TWP one.
And go look up the stun times for TWP and the duration of Button, and then get back to me. Because button duration never changed. It just got made worthless.
Bleh, I thought he meant the Mark Target ability.
Pak reload isn't insanely fast, it gives the tank several seconds to move out of range. Seriously this is starting to get silly. Button was an ability that
instantly blinded a tank and shut it down.
Yeah smoke, this doctrine only thing that you pay 45 munitions to activate. Which if he has a single guard squad behind you then your still fucked because Button is an instant ability.
Button was made worthless, but that doesn't mean the PaK stun shot is OP.