in my very limited experience, this seems to be the case
Posted Jan 9, 2023, 5:26 AM UTC
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Spotter with flare is my fav thing to do besides command.
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It's unbelievably OP. I can't believe this design is Ok'ed to production
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Have you tried it with a jeep? That shit is nuts. 3xflare the. Redeploy and 3xflare
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I'm struggling to understand what you're trying to say
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Jeep gives you two heavy ammo drops. So two flare reloads
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It clearly shows the devs' level of competence in the area of game design. It's staggering that the flare is not on a cooldown mechanic, particularly after having experienced the effect first hand with the Support role and the supply boxes.
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The only thing I don't like, it how it's purely ammo based.
Upside though, if it's a rough situation on defense you probably die a lot and can spam it.
If it's a rough situation on offense you can do the same though...
Time based would take away that incentive to live a short and destructive life.
That said, I like living a short and destructive life in HLL.
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Just played a round on Remegan and me and the other recon were spamming it like crazy 🤣
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Lucky is the Sniper player who loves to do Recon and has a buddy who loves playing Spotter.
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Indeed! And if their buddy's computer is pretty quick so they create the squad in time.
And lucky I am on that front :)
Edit: Especially with the whole quick computer, my computer's pretty quick once it gets going but takes a while loading into the match.
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I have a friend that enjoys playing sniper and I enjoy spotter, every two games we switch roles.
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My Spotter has way too much fun with the SMG to snipe ^
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I love playing sniper and my friend hates sniper… we just both hate the recon gameplay loop of spawn camping.
Nothing was more enjoyable than the game where the other recon squad told us to fuck around since they were spawn camping arty and node hunting.
My friend basically placed an OP for me to be overwatch, I’d snipe everyone and be a distraction from him to sneak around and destroy OP’s and garrisons.
It was the most enjoyable game we had
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"BUt iM A 360 nOsCope SnIpeR mAsTaa on CoD AND my FaVORIte MovIe is ENEma aT the GaTe!"... - typical sniper mains
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Look at my KD, isn't it great?
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Brilliant 😂👏
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I can’t hit shit with a sniper’s rifle if much rather be spotter
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and they just want to sit and snipe on the front line, not do recon things like find garrisons, destroy nodes and kill arty players.
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I usually tell my sniper to go have fun for twenty minutes while I set up an attack garrison & then mosey on down to artillery town. After I put the OP down people are usually cool to go on a mission.
I've only had one 'fuck off' but that's why there's a button
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I rarely ever need the sniper with me to do recon stuff
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Same. Always good to have but don’t need them. I have no issue with them fragging out on the front lines and sometimes only being one guy is better for finding enemy resources
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I'm like level 6 spotter and 2 sniper so would be the opposite for me!
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Spotter al the way! X vs sniper V 👌
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I love being spotter, what pisses me off is locked recon squads
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Because EVERYONE hates command chat. They need to make it so you only hear it on that channel.
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I honestly would play squad leader more if command chat wasn’t a mess half the time where people won’t be quiet. It also doesn’t help that whatever the game uses for voice chat makes everyone’s mics sound like shit
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When command chat has 6 people talking at the top of there lungs about there favorite fast food, meanwhile my SL is yelling at me to move because he can’t get through. Except I can’t hear shit
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Lately it feels like a 50/50 of no one talking or the most obnoxious people possible. I had one game where a guy in command chat would call out every enemy he saw or killed
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I think the worst experience I had so far was squading up with level 13 LT Joe Biden. We had a heavy tank and I was commanding him where to go and what to do and he just straight up didn’t listen. I guess a lot of players just completely mute teammates. He drove us right into the point as I was telling him for 3 minutes straight, with some insults mixed in that we’re going to die, we have 0 infantry on the point. I was pissed. And we got destroyed in like 5 seconds.
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Too many streamers fill up the air time in command chat. They talk nonstop and market their channel.
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I love command chat. It's the times when people don't communicate that I hate
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Some of my highest kill games are as a spotter. I create locked squads and allow in any sniper who communicates. I do take sniper as Germany or Russia because I do like the semi auto with a scope.
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I don't think I've ever played Soviet sniper... but that Russian semi makes for some fun times.
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Yeah it's really good.
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I love spotter. Running all the way around to dismantle nodes and garrisons and then (if the team is good enough to push) watching the enemy team getting steam rolled because they can't spawn anymore.
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Spotter is my favorite role. I have a free recon in my pocket, a resilient OP, and my entire job is hunting garries and being sneaky? Fuck yeah
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I actually suck as a sniper and will take spotter any day.
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I'll take spotter any day of the week. Gimme those binocs.
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I'd play Spotter forever if I didn't already have it maxed out.
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When my friend wanted to go recon, I didn't mind spotting. What I dislike is dealing with arty, so I stopped doing recon all together now.
I feel that system should change so a spotter can become a fulltime thing again, spotting and marking enemies.
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Im fine being the spotter… if the gucking sniper plays with me and isn’t off in god knows where raking up useless kills
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Yep exactly.
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tbh when I first started playing HLL when it released on steam, the sniper seemed like the "coolest" class available. But after the devs added the flares, spotter seems like a more fun option (assuming you can aim for a good flare). The only thing holding me back from letting beta scope lovers join for a free sniper class is the command channel. I value my hearing more than a limited offer class in game
TL;DR flares make funnie swoosowowsowh sound but I dont want to lose hearing due to command channel having like 5 guys with mic volume at 5000% who never stfu.
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Give me a saboteur loadout and i will be spotter all day behind enemy lines missing up shit.
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Take your 2 man squad set up Gary's, and as a soviet act like a spotter. For your anti tank gun You get to see their heads pop it's hilarious.
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Start of a new game
"Who wants a squad made"
"Who wants to be squad lead"
To be fair it's not very rewarding to be SL if you're the only one communicating.
I mean, I've had plenty of games with zero to none comms from both command chat and squad chat. That really sucks.
Also it's hard leveling up the other classes if every new player wants the more experienced one to be SL.
Plus I've had new players literally screaming at me to build "sPawNInG POinTs" while simultaneously not wanting to drop 50 supplies or help defend an objective.
Having to parent at least one often more squad members who don't understand the game because they didn't care to look up a tutorial or anything and isn't listening to advice from the group - and is simultaneously being COD-level toxic is just not fun.
That's why people make locked squads for either friends only or people who communicate. Or maybe go for solo squads so they can help CMD without someone screaming at them.
Not to gatekeep, but everyone should try to get at least af few rounds in as SL, CMD, Support and Medic. That would help people tremendously to understand why some objectives fail from people treating it as a generic FPS game.
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Yeah I'll often create a locked squad and accept anyone that applies. Keeps out people who don't have a mic usually.
Yeah I request to join locked squads of 3 people and never get accepted.
It’s a bit or miss from my experience
Sadly I can't lead every squad. Keep on trying and if you really want to play with other people with mics it might be worth joining a clan. Most servers are run by them and it's nice to have a regular crew to run with.
I still say you should try to keep some kind of ratio.
1 in 6 games you should play SL.
1 in 50 you should play commander.
If everybody did it it would work yeah.
Also by this logic I have hundreds, maybe thousands, of games banked up until I have to play command again.
Yup. My job is literally babysitting adults making sure they do their shit. I don’t want to babysit adults while I play video games
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This.. this is exactly why I’ve almost stopped playing pub matches completely 😅
Yep. If I'm not getting on with my pals, I'm not playing. That said, are you in a group that plays matches? I'm in a WoR regiment, but hadn't found anyone that does that sorta organized matches in HLL or Post Scriptum other than Easy Co
Yeah I help run a competitive clan. We actually just played Easy Co yesterday in a 49v49 scrim 😂
100% agreed.
Agreeing with everything except “parenting squad members” I do not expect people to look up long ass tutorials before playing this game and think it’s much more effective showing them in the action. Had a nice player take me under his wing when I started and try to pay that back whenever I can. I’ve had plenty of games where a squad member comes in not knowing what a node is and by the last objective they’re flanking off an airhead and dismantling all the the enemies resources.
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"ItS NoT vErY rEwArDiNg t..." Just play squad lead, put down good ops, and make marks. You can literally turn off command voice AND unit voice and just watch the chat bar. if you do just two things well you could have the worst score on the team and still be called a good sl for doing your basic job.
Part of what is unrewarding is getting mobbed by a bunch of players that get in and just completely blow off everything you're trying to do. They want to run around with an automatic rifle like a chicken with their head cutoff working on their K/D ratio and, typically, failing absolutely miserably at it.
If I wanted to completely ignore command and my squad I'd play Battlefield and zerg with the rest of the mob.
Weirdly, even though it's also a hierarchical game as well, I get bait'n'switched way less when playing Squad
People are too busy levelling the stronger kits. Then, once they get the stronger kit, they are too busy playing the strong kit.
Nobody wants to sink exp into squad lead