@bj You won't notice the cooldown at all if you only use a T3 ACU.
If you heavily assist with engis / kennels / hives though (which usually is the case) you'll get the impression it's bugged. At least I only learnt about the delay ~6 months ago and before that I always tried to walk and stop my ACU cuz I thought it was buggy.
The delay is there so you cannot spam 3 billies within 15 seconds (which is possible as you have the ressources for loading the billy after you upgraded it) and annihilate every land army on the map immediately.
Will TML ever be balanced?
Required rating for participation in balance talks when?
TML are by far the largest thing I dislike about this game;
- they can reach a hella large distance so on large maps you have to build a lot of TMD so 1 TML = about 10 TMD
- only built by t2 engies, so its even harder to spread TMD around, and if some try hard rushes TML launcher takes out your hq you can then no longer build T2 engies and the game is over.
- To much damage only 2 to kill a un-upgraded com thats standing still and doesnt leave any mass behind when killing t2 mexes.
- large capacity, so you can easily string 4-5 launches in a very small amount of time and kill opponents eco.
- very cheap for a t2 unit can easily be made with t1 energy.
@wtfboomnoob said in Will TML ever be balanced?:
@bj You won't notice the cooldown at all if you only use a T3 ACU.
If you heavily assist with engis / kennels / hives though (which usually is the case) you'll get the impression it's bugged. At least I only learnt about the delay ~6 months ago and before that I always tried to walk and stop my ACU cuz I thought it was buggy.
The delay is there so you cannot spam 3 billies within 15 seconds (which is possible as you have the ressources for loading the billy after you upgraded it) and annihilate every land army on the map immediately.
1 random loyalist and your billy ACU is a very sad boy anyway. It is such an hard counter to Billy its not even funny 
@firv At least you can shoot down your own billy now though. Also Cybran needs it as their army has no shields so you'd always kill 15k+ mass with each shot the moment they push out of TMD / static shields.
Required rating for participation in balance talks when?
Slightly off-topic but TML related
Q: what if you reclaim your own TML (considering it obsolete for whatever reason at that time). Do you get more mass if you reclaim it while it has still missiles loaded? Or is it the same deal regardless of missile content?
@jusbeginning Regardless of missile count, the amount of reclaim remains the same.
Required rating for participation in balance talks when?
@wtfboomnoob said in Will TML ever be balanced?:
@firv At least you can shoot down your own billy now though. Also Cybran needs it as their army has no shields so you'd always kill 15k+ mass with each shot the moment they push out of TMD / static shields.
Maybe, it just feels so wrong that a single unit can completly nullify a very expensive upgrade. Basicly when I see thats there is cybran land on the field, i don't even think about the billy upgrade anymore.
@firv There is no other way to balance it really besides "just stay in your base if you know your opponent has billy".
Required rating for participation in balance talks when?
@wtfboomnoob Yeah its just a bit jarring that they went from having no counter to absolute immunity though, which is a bit opressive. Cybran is already very strong and didnt really need a buff in that stage imho