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Athena and snipers
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jseah
13 years ago
Athena can fly around while cloaked.
This lets it reveal snipers by moving next to them. While the athena stays cloaked itself.
I love it. XD
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jseah
13 years ago
Why? Strategies are meant to be shared. Bugs and unintentional behaviour should be reported. (which I suspect this might be)
Eg. You can drive skeeters (scout boat) into a shipyard's collision volume and this makes skeeters immune to attack from outside the shipyard.
Related to the old bug about driving fleas into cloaky bot/light veh/heavy veh/hovercraft factories.
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xponen
13 years ago
It isn't a bug. Sniper really has a bigger "decloak" radius than athena: which in contrast has a very small "decloak" radius. This mean athena can see Sniper but sniper can't see athena! :)
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Saktoth
13 years ago
Burrowed fleas, ticks, roaches, spies, scythes and anything under a cloak generator does the same. Fleas are particularly good at this. This is because the sniper has a very large decloak radius, to make it easier to find. The skuttle has a similiar decloak radius, and you can use the same units against it.
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jseah
13 years ago
All right, fully intended behaviour then!
I just like athena even more now. But then again, I love cloak in general. And the athena is fully worth the cost just for its scouting potential.
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GoogleFrog
13 years ago
Athena doesn't need a decloak radius that small so it could be changed.
Athena shouldn't even have 9bp... which silly person did that...
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[pikts]wolas
13 years ago
Why not, I never seen problem with that. One fighter = 500 m wasted.
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[DE]Rick
13 years ago
What about random decloaks? I see my units decloaking randomly quite often. Energy was full and there where no units close to it.
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thefirstfish
13 years ago
Athenas are so hard to use effectively that I don't see any reason to nerf them. They die if they're sneezed on.
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[DE]Rick
13 years ago
If anything they would need a buff
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