Dogs

[Showdy Howdy]

How are you supposed to combat dogs? I hadd 2 striders attack one dog and the striders literally just stood there and didn't do ♥♥♥♥ to Dog, and dog just butchers them both.

[Dr Mad]

Not with striders.
Dogs (has you may have seen in EP2) tears a Strider apart.
It's one of the main counter to the Strider.

But seriously if you were slow enough to let your enemy have dogs , you may have a problem.

[Handsome Jack]

Elite soldiers can stun dogs with their energy balls, BUT, since they can be easily evaded and making enough firepower is just not cost efficient against dog -- Dog needs a LOT of balance to fit nice

[Dr Mad]

Originally posted by Handsome Jack:

Elite soldiers can stun dogs with their energy balls, BUT, since they can be easily evaded and making enough firepower is just not cost efficient against dog -- Dog needs a LOT of balance to fit nice

Meh. You can spam nades and AR2s and Dogs drop like flies , with about 14 AR2s and Grenades , I took out 3 of them

[Handsome Jack]

Lol their jump does AOE damage. If 3 dogs jump -- they will obliterate your soldiers that's for sure. Also you have to be superdumb not to evade nades with Dog -- one of the fastest unit

[Dr Mad]

Originally posted by Handsome Jack:

Lol their jump does AOE damage. If 3 dogs jump -- they will obliterate your soldiers that's for sure. Also you have to be superdumb not to evade nades with Dog -- one of the fastest unit

AOE damage.
BAH. That's for idiots , when you have 4 barracks producing AR2s , 14 will take down these 3 and the rest for the barracks will finish the rest

[Showdy Howdy]

So whats the solid answer for the counter to dogs

[Dr Mad]

Originally posted by BTF Soldier:

So whats the solid answer for the counter to dogs

Speed and violence.
You don't wait until he has them , you just take out his base with low tier units.

[Handsome Jack]

Originally posted by Dr Mad:

Originally posted by BTF Soldier:

So whats the solid answer for the counter to dogs

Speed and violence.
You don't wait until he has them , you just take out his base with low tier units.

We talking about balancing units, not spamming. I hope spamming capabilities will die soon, bringing microcontrol and strategic moves into higher position instead of "spamming until enemy is destroyed" bullocks

[Dr Mad]

Originally posted by Handsome Jack:

Originally posted by Dr Mad:

Speed and violence.
You don't wait until he has them , you just take out his base with low tier units.

We talking about balancing units, not spamming. I hope spamming capabilities will die soon, bringing microcontrol and strategic moves into higher position instead of "spamming until enemy is destroyed" bullocks

That's gonna go on for a while so better get used to it.
That's how the game runs currently.
And that ain't gonna change soon.

[Showdy Howdy]

Jack is still right tho, the game is supposed to be tactical, not some spamming bs; also your not giving me a direct answer for what the counter is for dogs, ur just telling me to wipe out their weak units as soon as the game starts.

[Handsome Jack]

Originally posted by BTF Soldier:

Jack is still right tho, the game is supposed to be tactical, not some spamming bs; also your not giving me a direct answer for what the counter is for dogs, ur just telling me to wipe out their weak units as soon as the game starts.

When the game was just released it was far more difficult to spam since resources was very limited -- flags had infinite req, that's true, BUT -- the rate at which players gained that req was slow enough to make 2 rax spam impossible, unless you had like 3 flags per player captured and upgraded max, or you were spamming partisans (which was a funny cancer back in a day). Now the req is going like crazy for everyone, despite being limited, and spamming is the only way to go. So most of players love to spam manned turrets to defend against waves of countless hostiles.

I hope that will be changed soon, if Sandy will notice. Maybe go with a hashtag in every comment section or smth

[Showdy Howdy]

by manned turrets you mean those huge pulse machine guns, because when i use em, my soldiers dont even bother shooting them when the enemy is right in front of them

[Dr Mad]

Originally posted by BTF Soldier:

Jack is still right tho, the game is supposed to be tactical, not some spamming bs; also your not giving me a direct answer for what the counter is for dogs, ur just telling me to wipe out their weak units as soon as the game starts.

That's how the game runs currently buddy.
You're not happy with my answer ? Find it yourself then.

Tactical is a thing of the past.
Now you adapt.
There's no tactical ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ about micro management anymore.
Micro management is only useful if you meet powerful foes.
Which is less than 3% of the actual community now.

This game will most likely not advance for months.
So adapt yourself or drown in losses.

[Showdy Howdy]

Im not trying to start an argument, just looking for an answer to my question

[Dr Mad]

Originally posted by BTF Soldier:

Im not trying to start an argument, just looking for an answer to my question

Dogs have no counters aside from a RPG spam which are only for Rebels.
As combine.
Spam. A lot.

Just take meat shields like roller mines to distract the dogs and have a lot of units behind.

Or a ♥♥♥♥ load of snipers if the damage output is the same as I remember