Nerf dogs please

[dogar]

Seriously, these little guys are basically Getz on rollerscates, and they've become quite good at ruining the wonderful tension that's pervaded my iron man play through up til now. A damage nerf would probably be the best, since I think their high ap and special abilities(knockdown and panic attack) more than compensate for a small damage nerf. I know I could just leave them at the shelter, but I kinda like the little guys, and it'd be nice if I could use them without breaking the gameplay.

[Kinoringan]

Get better armour and dog bites won't hurt that much. Dogs die easily when you attack them.

[Drunk Zombie]

Dog allies can't wear armor so guns tend to take them out easy.

[Revan Tair]

Any decent player will knockdown the gun wielder in a fight with the dog allies. You can literally knockdown all the gun wielder with one dog and still attack and move on.

[ShadowSkill]

Originally posted by Revan Tair:

Any decent player will knockdown the gun wielder in a fight with the dog allies. You can literally knockdown all the gun wielder with one dog and still attack and move on.

maybe on some early maps. Dogs can only use Knockdown attack twice per turn, tops. This attack cost 7 AP, AND knockdown only work 50% of time. All dogs have 19 AP




Btw - from meta game standpoint no sane individual would use dog as a party member.
Im not talking about dogs combat power -masive disadvantage of dogs are:

Dogs have ZERO survival skill.
What the fuss// who cares?
Well its simple. Any dog in your party WILL slow you down to a crawl both on foot and horse travel (not apply if you travel by car) -this is related to game travel speed mechanics (that pulls all members Survival skill then divide by number of characters)

So, only dog a player should use -is a Survival 10 skill dog -very usefull 5th party member, and even better a meat shield that regenerate between fights.
And yes -you can send this dog to knockdown enemy big gun wielders (or at least create havoc and magnet bullets)

If enything -both Pepper and Lighting should be buffed with 6-7 survival skill (btw im guessing that this also allow dogs to work as farmers ;D )

[Daliena]

Fighting dogs yourself is annoying enough when they tend to come in packs and take a long time to land all their attacks (Not to mention make a ton of noise doing it just about guaranteeing zombies..)

Haven't tried bringing one in my party. I suppose as farmers they'd run wildly around the rooftop farm scaring away all the birds trying to eat your crops? ... Your guess is as good as mine how that'd work when you install a greenhouse though.

[Revan Tair]

but in the other hand they are n1 to lure off-map zombies for l$$t <3 espcially in the "cabin in the wood" map