Arguing about the balance of units/mechanics on only a single map is pretty irrelevant imo.
Still, breaking trees in the early game is just an unintuitive feel bad mechanic all around, so why keep it?
Scouts and labs should not break tree groups
Well it is a thing in the game maybe it is bad but if it is removed is make the game more linear less interesting
It’s just an aesthetic thing honestly. Maybe breaking tree groups should still happen but allow the engineer to still suck up the whole group at once, fallen trees and all
put the xbox units in the game pls u_u
@zeldafanboy Def not only aesthetic when u see that on all maps with trees and +1800 players they all try to break opponennts trees (last setons tourney, watch nexus vs petric on LOTS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjX79ZgVd0Y)
Recently there has been a suggestion to perhaps make the center of tree groups visible when you are in reclaim mode (CTRL-Shift). A problem with this is, that it will make the trajectory of unscouted enemy labs visible to the player. See this discussion in Discord: https://discord.com/channels/197033481883222026/1190144799588745277
A possible solution is to make treegroups impervious to labs. It might even make sense considering the labs have "legs". But I'm not sure. What do others think?
Tree groups need to be visible on the reclaim overlay since they are important to reclaim on many maps. A more generalized solution that shows energy contents on the reclaim overlay instead of just mass would be preferable to showing some arbitrary dots. Though currently tree's are pretty much the only prop containing energy.
You can already determine the trajectory of units by noticing the trees falling over, or if the tree groups have enough mass they appear/disappear on the overlay already. You also already get free intel by seeing what bits of mass your opponent has reclaimed. 99.9% of people probably don't utilize this information, but weirdos like me and ZLO sometimes look at the falling trees to know there are labs coming, or to know precisely where to raid engineers that are reclaiming.
Having labs not break tree groups makes sense to me since they are tiny units and I don't think the deliberate breaking of tree groups is an important game mechanic anyway.
@thomashiatt They are not tiny, selen is the same height as a tree, it's impossible for such a vehicle to not break trees on passage.
@robustness said in Scouts and labs should not break tree groups:
[...] there is no such problem on the gap [...]
What more needs to be said?!
Jokes aside i think it will be a massive improvement if there was (1) for example a small yellow dot in the middle of tree groups (basically something you only see if you are looking for it) and if (2) tree groups do not get broken by small, fast, raiding units (labs, scouts)