Reduced Range on Attack Helicopter

[Meister_Obiwan]

Dear Team of Dominations.

I enjoy playing Attack Helicopters instead of the overpowerd Mortar Tactic. But since you introduced the latest update, the Helicopters are now not good enough to compete with Mortars. I don’t know why, but they fly way closer to buildings than usual and therefore don’t use their range to destroy buildings. They also now get hit by Anti-Tank guns (which was not possible since the +1 Range in the Manufacture for Helis), even if the Anti Tank gun doesn’t have the extended Range. I don’t know why. I played many many hours with helicopters so I know what and how the should behave normally. If this gets not fixed, the last alternative to Mortas is gone. The Attack helis die way faster and are therefore not as strong as before the update… And it is not against the new drone, if that’s your suggestion. I am aware of that.

Plattform: All
Device: All
PVP Issue
Happens every time

 

[Maximus_ATL]

The range of all units really needs to work as intended. A fundamental and essential component of unit balance. Please, please, please make this right.

 

[King Crimson]

The range of all units really needs to work as intended.

I know right??! It's ridiculous we have to remind them that things should work as intended.

"Hey Samsung - my phone doesn't take pictures and when I play music, it deletes all my contacts. Any chance you can you make it work like it should?"

 

[King Crimson]

@Harlems369th
When is this attack heli range farce going to be looked at?
You'll notice l said 'looked at' because you've admitted that you can't be bothered to fix it but I'm hoping the team will, at the very least, be willing to investigate what the issue is. Who knows, you guys might actually come across a solution but you'll never know if you just ignore it.
As they say: you miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

ps: it's not working as intended - isn't that incentive enough to fix it?? Our complaints should make no difference to your desire to fix things.

 

[Seek]

So basically people spent time and money in most case to achieve this plus 1 range that was listed a part munition. Then without announcement or anything range gets reduced. Without a refund or compensation for all the munition for the Helicopter.

Then development team knows this has happened and are not fixing it. If the balance has them worried why was this not tested properly before people spent time and money to achieve the plus 1 range. Just to have it taken back. If this happened to mortars the game would have been in up roar.

If you sale a product that says it does this or that, folks buy it and then you change product without telling folks. That is called Bait and Switch where I come from and in some places considered much worse. Just saying

 

[King Crimson]

@Harlems369th
When is this attack heli range farce going to be looked at?
You'll notice l said 'looked at' because you've admitted that you can't be bothered to fix it but I'm hoping the team will, at the very least, be willing to investigate what the issue is. Who knows, you guys might actually come across a solution but you'll never know if you just ignore it.
As they say: you miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

ps: it's not working as intended - isn't that incentive enough to fix it?? Our complaints should make no difference to your desire to fix things.

Almost a week and no response. I wonder if it's a case of no new information or just can't be bothered answering?

 

[Seek]

Almost a week and no response. I wonder if it's a case of no new information or just can't be bothered answering?

King C hang in there brother. Have patience all you will get told lol trust I know this is their go to response lol

Mean while their are companies out there in this world that actually require performance from their employees and fire them if a problems aren’t fixed in a timely manner. I think professors said this is part of a successful business model.

With that said stop being the KIA of game industry and fix problems. Fix problems before releases of content or money maker artifacts because then y’all will find happy players that trust your product are repeat customers and tend to be loyal lol Just ask all your pick up owners in USA. Just saying

 

[King Crimson]

@Harlems369th
When is this attack heli range farce going to be looked at?
You'll notice l said 'looked at' because you've admitted that you can't be bothered to fix it but I'm hoping the team will, at the very least, be willing to investigate what the issue is. Who knows, you guys might actually come across a solution but you'll never know if you just ignore it.
As they say: you miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

ps: it's not working as intended - isn't that incentive enough to fix it?? Our complaints should make no difference to your desire to fix things.

2 weeks and still no response. Why not surprise us with an update?
Just saw another post about the death of the game, makes it hard to argue when stuff like this happens.

 

[King Crimson]

@Harlems369th do you have any update on this?

 

[King Crimson]

By make noise I don't mean spamming a thread for a balance fix, you might not even get a response back with what action was taken (if any)
What you call spamming is us making sure the issue isn't forgotten - like when Seek asks for proper replays.
I'm sure I'm not the only one who's made multiple reports to CS, these posts are a two pronged attack.
And, getting a response back is not mandatory but it is a courtesy.
And, when the CS responses are cut & paste, a response in the forum is very welcome.

 

[Seek]

It’s would be nice to get update on this…..

 

[Harlems369th]

It’s would be nice to get update on this…..

Looking into this isn't a high priority as this is how they've been for quite some time, and it is possible that this will not be changed at all.

 

[Seek]

Looking into this isn't a high priority as this is how they've been for quite some time, and it is possible that this will not be changed at all.

Thank you for being honest that basically not going happen anytime soon or at all.

 

[King Crimson]

Looking into this isn't a high priority as this is how they've been for quite some time, and it is possible that this will not be changed at all.

So ..... the fact that the heli is not working as it should seems to be irrelevant? A heli shooting at the same range as a bazooka seems to make as much sense as lots of other things wrong with this game.
Oh well, that'll teach us to have any expectations at all.

 

[oddin]

Looking into this isn't a high priority as this is how they've been for quite some time, and it is possible that this will not be changed at all.

how is it possible that a unit that doesn't operate as intended is not a top priority when it should have been fixed within the month... It blows my mind!

 

[Seek]

how is it possible that a unit that doesn't operate as intended is not a top priority when it should have been fixed within the month... It blows my mind!

How indeed. Units working as they should should be prioritized cause it bad look for the Bait and Switch. People get bad taste in their mouth when this happens just like not knowing if money the spend be ripped off. As this case seems to be.

 

[Harlems369th]

how is it possible that a unit that doesn't operate as intended is not a top priority when it should have been fixed within the month... It blows my mind!

The design team confirmed that the unit works as intended; if you witness otherwise, please submit a ticket to the CS Team.

 

[King Crimson]

The design team confirmed that the unit works as intended; if you witness otherwise, please submit a ticket to the CS Team.

@Harlems369th can the design team explain how a bazooka (range 3) shooting from the same distance as a heli (range 6) is an intended design?

The manufactory was supposed to give our troops bonuses - bringing their stats up just to be on par with other troops seems a wasted effort.

ps: this was originally mentioned as a known issue that you're not intending to fix and now it's a situation that's working as intended ...

 

[Harlems369th]

@Harlems369th can the design team explain how a bazooka (range 3) shooting from the same distance as a heli (range 6) is an intended design?

The manufactory was supposed to give our troops bonuses - bringing their stats up just to be on par with other troops seems a wasted effort.

ps: this was originally mentioned as a known issue that you're not intending to fix and now it's a situation that's working as intended ...

Again

...this has been how Helicopters target, at least since the Barracks update. But I and the others are not sure if that has always been the case (prior to that Barracks update is beyond my time), it's also not out of the question you may be running into something else entirely.

Feel free to share your findings with CS. They are compiling all the information that is brought to them. The team is aware of this and is only considering reworking it for the time being. I am told that due to the work involved, there isn't an estimated timeframe for making any changes to this unit and it may not even get reworked at all.

 

[King Crimson]

Again

Thanks for the effort.

ps: When people ask for a response or answer, we're not really asking for anything over and above, just the bare minimum.

 

[Maximus_ATL]

Range should mean the same thing for every troop. It can’t possibly make sense that range was “intended” to mean one thing for bazooka, mortar, or artillery and something different for AHs. Just make them work the same…