Unit to put out fires

The fact that a phantom can die after smelling the coals of a dante from five years ago is stupid. We need some way to effectively counter that.

Maybe turn the goliath into a unit that can drop water on units? Might need a rename that reflect it can pick things up and put fires out.... Fire Plucker?

Yeah but the thing is that then cloakbots would be overpowered, because napalm is the only really good way to counter big armies of cloaked guys.

Ye, give cons ability to drink water and piss on other units after a while :D

1) use the hotkey sequence VZ to make a ramp, then drag the endpoint below zero. Now you have a water pool.
2) obtain charon or djinn
3) evacuate the unit that is on fire and place it into pool.
4) fire is extinguished. return unit to front.

Do not attempt on acid or lava maps.

But really, the dante fire duration seriously needs to be turned down. It's just... never ending. Or maybe buff engineers to reduce fire duration (ie, not directly putting it out)?

Maybe it needs a buff then? Every time I try to heal a phantom while it's on fire it dies anyway.

Dante is best strider for a few reasons:
- it is the only heavy that can defend itself from raiders - it's a riot
- it has the best counter for cloaked units - 37 sec long burn time revealing anything for duration within large aoe, outright killing all light units below 550 hp if they are not repaired
- it can play as flex artillery with its dgun, especially with some raised terrain

I'd agree to change that only if area cloakers are seriously nerfed - say paywall mobile cloaker behind strider hub and make it cost more and make static cloaker able to build only by Athena. And/or make all area cloakers match their reveal radius with their area cloak.

Right now in current meta of forever strong cloaked snitches, puppies, lances and other cancer in big team games it is necessary evil I am okay with. I believe that cheap cloaker is common cause for these issues with meta.

quote: You must be talking about teams. I have bad news for you.

Yes, sadly this game mode is seriously neglected. It has been in very bad shape of cloak/artillery degeneration for a long time. It took soo much time to nerf Bertha for example...

Yes I get it, still I reckon it would result in fewer cloakers used, since Striderhub is not free as cloak factory/plate and communication to give make any nano frames for teammates proves to be hard. They would still be used but less abundant. I argued also for price increase together with that (say 600 -> 800)

the main reason ppl hate dante is because they dont know that shields stop the fire, 1 aspis counters the burn.

I dont think dante is OP