SSL1 does admittedly give the Maakrep hacker a nice little niche, but I think what they need to do is drop the MSV from half the profiles (eg. the Hacker) and maybe give him a 25pt-ish sensor or FO option too. To go with the whole "tracker" thing, i suppose.
Perhaps Multiterrain? It sucks that Maakreps fail as soon as they hit difficult ground. I'd love some sensor options for them.
Makes sense for a tracker unit. Though I'd much prefer seing such fix on Zerat first. Switching K1SR and MSR between Vanguards and Zerats (skirmisher will be far more able to use it well), giving them Sensor option, some additional skills like Stealth and Marksmanship.
Can we address Morats paying 1swc for Fireteam: Haris profiles, where every other faction seems to only pay 0.5?
I wonder if it's to do with the fact that you can use Kornak to form a bunch of Haris teams for 'free'? Seems odd to funnel you into using a character all the time though.
Morats have more Haris options than average, and two(Three if you consider Kornak can form two different ones) of them pay 0 SWC for the haris, so the two more paying 1 SWC actually makes some sense from a game balance perspective. What morats could use is some mixed fireteams (Three yaogats is too much and five is paying nearly as much as five suryats). The Zerat getting minelayer and/or sensor on some profiles would be very welcome and appropriate too. Or maybe give minelayer to the zerat and sensor to the oznat. I'd still like for the avatar to either get a points reduction or an extra buff.
Actually... makes perfect sense following their existing design work. MilOrd - Joan/DeFersen links Corregidor - Senor/Jaguar links Tunguska - Spector/Percy/REM link Starco - Uhahu/Emily duo, Emily Riot link, Brigada/Senor/Daktari link Phalanx - like... every link. etc.
The things I find myself using little or never in Onyx are, indeed, some of the things that people have already mentioned as possibly being overcosted. Umbras - NWI is not worth it, there is too much shock ammo going around. Malignos - other factions seem to have very similar specialists for quite a few points less. Is the automedikit really that good? Well perhaps...it ought to have good synergy with infiltrators wroking far afield, away from Dr Worm. I don't know about these guys. Perhaps because Onyx whenever I play them seem to dominate the board due to their long-range fire power, infiltrators feels less necessary in my lists. Suryats - a point more of PH would solve most of the problem, really, but I still don't quite see why I would take them when there's only a duo option. Let'em link with an Umbra or something. Rodoks - perhaps the Morat rule is a bit overcosted yeah. I dunno, but it's a bit boring that the Unidron link is so superior that these cool guys are almost not worth taking. The boarding shotgun dude with mines for 19 pts has performed some decent work for me solo though.
I just want grenades on all my morats. MORE GRENADES. NEW KINDS OF EXTRA MORATTY GRENADES. I'm looking at you, potential Sogorat profile. Who also needs a reduced automedcost for his automedkit. Also I think kurgat is tough choice vs worm in MAF. Mk12 and mines... so good. Maybe better BS on kurgat though.
The Malignos point costs would make more sense if they had Regeneration instead of Automedkit - elite level TO infiltrators for about 35 points feels about right if you were to make that small change. They could possibly also do with a KHD option - price it the same as the FO at 36 points. That's a fair chunk of points, to be sure, but on the other hand there's not many KHDs that are on such a strong profile.
I used to think the extra SWC was to balance out the fact that the Mk12s are good out to 24" without an SWC cost of their own, but with the recent proliferation of marksman rifles, that doesn't hold up.
That's not the point. It's just annoying that freaking ORC troopers and mobile brigada have more PH than Suryats. It just feels wrong. Suryats are usable, they just need +1PH because that's how 'standard' HI roll nowadays.