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What happened to the surfboard?

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3 years ago
So I found this page which has the units and factories as they were in the past before I even knew about Zero K. I thought the surfboard was cool looking and have wished to myself for something like this to exist in the game. I was curious why it was removed.
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3 years ago
Mostly allowing any unit to surf around while retaining the ability to fire broke the game's balance. You could turn lots of non-sea units into sea units. You could make some units move around faster than designed. Etc.
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3 years ago
>turn lots of non-sea units into sea units

Like... Say... ASPIS?!
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3 years ago
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Tactics and Strategy


Remember that the Aspis (along with the Iris) is amphibious, so it can be used to shield friendly ships, amphbots, hovercraft, Reefs, Shoguns, and even Detriments alongside land units.
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Nice. Remind me whats the sea equivalent of Tremor these days?

Edit: My point being - you cant really call Aspis a sea unit. It is NOT balanced for sea interactions, as most sea artillery and skirms lack any reasonable ability to defeat massed Aspis, both in DPS for cost and any other stat. Shockley and Nuke remains only viable solution, yet any ccompetent player is able to evade Shockley by sound, and Anti also exists.

If there would be Sea Tremor - its fine. But there is not.
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3 years ago
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Like... Say... ASPIS?!

am i miss understanding something?
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3 years ago
Surfboard was very rarely used and the existence of a transport which allowed transported units to fire required an unreasonable amount of maintenance to keep bug-free.
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3 years ago
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If there would be Sea Tremor - its fine. But there is not.


umm... sea homing shockley?

like the reef missile. except buffed to have more aoe and being water-penetrating. It would make reef actually useful for one more thing.

just food for though I guess.
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like the reef missile. except buffed to have more aoe and being water-penetrating. It would make reef actually useful for one more thing.

Pretty sure Reef missile already penetrates water and has shockley-equivalent aoe.
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3 years ago
I thought about bringing it back as a hoverboard at some point in time.
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