Pretty bog-standard query here.
I notice that the description for the Shocker states that the aircraft has a TMD flare, which either isn't functioning or has been removed in faf lua's.
I'm curious why this is currently so. I can't say I have Shockers sitting around just to stop TML, but hey - it's a flare, and it was originally there.
Chances of getting it back, purely for multifunction capability?
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Re: The Will-O-Wisp, The Shocker, and YOU!
by errorblankfield » 14 Feb 2014, 04:45
Like a volcano flare?
O_o
That sounds ridiculous. I mean maybe not OP or anything, but volcanoes are REALLY good at their job. Tack on mobility and a few patrolling shockers = no TML joy.
O_o
That sounds ridiculous. I mean maybe not OP or anything, but volcanoes are REALLY good at their job. Tack on mobility and a few patrolling shockers = no TML joy.
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Re: The Will-O-Wisp, The Shocker, and YOU!
by snuffles » 14 Feb 2014, 04:56
Requires the player to have them in the right place in the first place though. Check it out in non-faf'd SCFA
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Re: The Will-O-Wisp, The Shocker, and YOU!
by TheKoopa » 14 Feb 2014, 05:02
No, it is not TMD. It is a will-o-wisp that makes A/A target the bubble instead of the actual bomber.
And I only seen 2 instances when the bomber actually dropped it: In dat QAI mainframe capture mission in the vanilla as the Aeon and in the UEF last vanilla mission.
And I only seen 2 instances when the bomber actually dropped it: In dat QAI mainframe capture mission in the vanilla as the Aeon and in the UEF last vanilla mission.
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Re: The Will-O-Wisp, The Shocker, and YOU!
by Hawkei » 14 Feb 2014, 05:26
That was removed from the Vannila SupCom years ago... 2007 if I recall. Having a Bomber which could decoy SAM's as it was making it's bombing runs was very much OP. So the capability was dropped from the unit.
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Re: The Will-O-Wisp, The Shocker, and YOU!
by Mr-Smith » 14 Feb 2014, 11:26
ya the problem was that that those bubbles atrack any guided projectil including sams and Cybran asf.
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Re: The Will-O-Wisp, The Shocker, and YOU!
by snuffles » 31 Jan 2016, 06:22
I want it back 
maybe as a toggled/manually fired ability? Pretty much the only instance of an aircraft with a countermeasure.. It's funny how subs and ships have countermeasures, but aircraft just don't.
maybe as a toggled/manually fired ability? Pretty much the only instance of an aircraft with a countermeasure.. It's funny how subs and ships have countermeasures, but aircraft just don't.Play the Beta.
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Re: The Will-O-Wisp, The Shocker, and YOU!
by Sir Prize » 31 Jan 2016, 11:49
As everyone said above, it would be wildly OP if you didn't nerf the bomber in to the ground, effectively taking the way strats are currently used away from one faction so that it could have a SAM/Cybran ASF-resistant cheese plane.
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Re: The Will-O-Wisp, The Shocker, and YOU!
by snuffles » 31 Jan 2016, 14:11
isn't it possible to change what the flare attracts, though? It's listed as Tactical Missile Defence, not Missile Defence
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