Usually heavy raiders have -speed, +dps, and +hp, like pyro.

Usually light raiders have +speed, -dps, and -hp, like bandit.

However not all units fit this description.

Kodachi: +speed, +dps, +hp, along with a retreat advantage, health regeneration, flame damage, massive los and it's weapon not being blocked by other units.

This brings up an entirely different problem of having a unit or units in a factory that counter another factory in the terrain it's designed for.

Thy was old Kodachi removed? the long burn times made them really good counters to most raiders

a good kodachi used to be able to dominate the raider game with quality over quantity

new kodachi is just bad

so it was improved by making it worse for the same price?

quote: Worse? Lol.

the ability to fire and forget on a mex to kill it is pretty strong no?

old koda could just run circles around a base killing soft targets all day

quote: A Flea can hide in a base all day and run over cliffs. It does not mean that Rover would want to swap Scorcher for a Flea.

no but it would take a scorcher price leveler happily :D

im not saying old kodachi wast janky, it was, but it balanced out the tank lab by being the only unit that can affordably skirmish-raid on the cheap. now there is nothing in that lab that is a good skirmisher or a good raider (koda is killed by practically every other raider on fight)

and no a 900m ball of 3 blitz that you need to raid is not a good raid option

Dregs

im not saying new kodachi is a bad raider, im saying its just not a great one
im also saying that the old kodachi was much better at the job

if only we could have old kodachi vs new kodachi mirror XD

and i though the only conclusion we could reach from those matches is that im very rusty?


also i hate to say it but those example matches only served to solidify my understanding that outlaw is at best a utility unit now and at worst an end game fap unit that served no mainline purpose

Anarchid we get it you beat @Godde with puppies, good job...

but not all crappy balance choices have the effect of making a unit overpowered. most changes result the unit being irrelevant in the grand scheme of things because it has no role (see blast wing).

when the answer to "how many of X are made in a game" trends towards 0 after balance change this is bad.

at the end of the day even if i fought Dregs it would prove nothing if neither i or dregs do anything meaningful with kodachi

If kodachi was bunk why would UG's ZK biography be made 80% out of them?

He even lovingly handed them down to ATOSTIC.

I personally can't stand kodachi raids, especially the old ones. Those were effortless, particularly on open maps. Just drive by the mexes, take a bit of llt damage and ride on back for a moment. Repeat. Ain't no shortage of micro time in the early game when they were most effective especially if the enemy has all resources spent defending so that arguement can implode.

You want my take on koda?

It toasts glaives, is cheap enough to be a real pain to spiders, and can be frustrating to handle with rovers. Shieldbots and hovers do fine. Amph also probably does fine but they ain't exactly competitive are they. I'm sure JJ do ok with cuntstubble and puppy.

Useful but prone to the whims of factory RPS just like anything else.