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Jump back to quoted post11 Nov 2017, 14:18 PM__deleted__

4 seconds are too much IMO, even a dead horse can move away from it that way.

Demos should create chaos one way or another, at least forcing a squad to retreat sounds fair to me.

After all you can still sweep them

Jump back to quoted post11 Nov 2017, 13:44 PMblvckdream

Why? Because they cant dodge 3s timers? Since their micro is so bad?

Anyways...Apart from the fact that you are totally and utterly wrong about your idea of "buffed demos", you should also realize that 99% of games in COH2 are not top-level 1on1 but team games and "normal" 1on1s. If we balance the game around top-level 1on1 (which has a playerbase of what? 10-20 players?) the balance for 99% of the playerbase is going to become terrible and thus the game will die.

Jump back to quoted post11 Nov 2017, 13:12 PMsherlock

I like both solutions. I'd also suggest these other alternatives:
2) have demos kill all but one entity in a squad within its blast radius (potentially increase the radius): the demo starts being more cost effective the more squads are within the blast radius and it stops wiping squads outright, for one squad it would just be a really, really expensive mine

• Top level players can still put them on the side of maps on strat points, and wait a few seconds before clicking it, no one will see the timer.
  
  
• put them on buildings (near doors ways), and 3 seconds won't mean shit
  
  
• put them on retreat paths and just time the three seconds out.
  
  
• put them where support weapons are likely to set up, and that's one dead support weapon.