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New na2 mercenary company *Defiance Spoiler*

Discussion in 'General' started by atomicfryingpan, Aug 11, 2021.

  1. atomicfryingpan

    atomicfryingpan Well-Known Member

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    *Defiance Spoilers*


    So with the outcast and revenant expansions for defiance we find out that the the crew of the defiance after returning from the suicide mission and clearing their name they form a mercenary company called revenant company. How cool would it be if we see that as a new na2 army. Heck I'd love it if every defiance playable character was in the game and you could make crazy fireteams with them like the foreign company.
     
  2. MATRAKA14

    MATRAKA14 Well-Known Member

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    Maybe the game doesn't need more na2 armies. But proper balance for all the existing ones...
     
  3. Cthulhu363

    Cthulhu363 May his passage cleanse the world.

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    I would be a huge fan of this idea!
     
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    Space Ranger Well-Known Member

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    Sounds like what we already have so unlikely to have another like it.
     
  5. AmPm

    AmPm Well-Known Member

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    Agreed, fix the sub par factions before making new ones.
     
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  6. colbrook

    colbrook Grenade Delivery Specialist

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    Judging by the blurb on Xanadu Rush most of the crew have gone back to their parent nations by the time of N4 (at least Jazz and Cadin, anyway)
     
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    Even if I was in favour of making this sectorial the truth is it'd suck ass, specifically because building fireteams around the Defiance crew would be fucking shit.

    Uma is shit and so is Gao, Cadin is "meh", while the only standout is Jazz but she only goes from good to gross in CJC because of the retarded fireteams they can build. Specifically ramming her into a link with Tsyklons and Brigada tinbots rounded out by ultra cheap crap. At no point do you give a shit about putting any of the other Defiance crew in her fireteam.

    Are you expecting Agnes to carry the fireteam on her shoulders or something?
     
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  8. RolandTHTG

    RolandTHTG Still wandering through the Night

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    Honestly, if you extrapolate out the crew, many of the supporting units after the named characters would probably be O-12, which could be interesting. Maybe you have another Foreign Company, where some of the characters are a trap, but there are several NA2 armies that get buy without many useful characters. Or if you use all the ones in the later expansions, shinobi and Uxia are good characters in their own rights.
     
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  9. Lucian

    Lucian Catgirl Nation

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    Imagine an army with 18 characters + rems + Tags and mercenaries shown in Outcast (?). Can't wait to see yet another Nomad army.
    They could also boost luxumbra's profits by making Stalker availavle for Airborne deployment in games.
     
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  10. atomicfryingpan

    atomicfryingpan Well-Known Member

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    I wouldn't expect it it be winning tournaments or dominating but I enjoy the game and it's characters and would like to just put out a character heavy list and play out the future missions of their mercenary company.

    Did you ever play the outrage mission pack? In those you got to play as the 6 members of the dolly dagger crew but each of them generated 2 orders and I loved playing them and even played them in unofficial matches and if I'm being honest I'd play em today if they were a legal army. But alas I get my fix by playing starco and proxying.

    I just want official options for cool thematic lists even if they're sub par.
     
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  11. MATRAKA14

    MATRAKA14 Well-Known Member

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    No no, not only the sub par factions. I mean all of them.

    It's not only about win rate but about quality and variety of gameplay, that includes levels of lethality and powercreep / profilecreep.

    The inner balance and external balance of the factions requires improvement and a proper redesign with all facions in mind at the same time.

    But you know, that is not going to happen because we have too many factions. Includin far too many NA2 with even more to come.
     
  12. atomicfryingpan

    atomicfryingpan Well-Known Member

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    What do you feel is so off balance wise?
     
  13. AmPm

    AmPm Well-Known Member

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    There is a lot to say on this subject. There is a large discrepancy in faction strength. You can look at win rates and see where some do really well (55%+) and others hover at about 32%. ITS tournaments are entirely different than casual play.
     
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  14. atomicfryingpan

    atomicfryingpan Well-Known Member

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    I'd imagine the vast majority of infinity games played are not ITS tournament rounds. I just saw that ikari company won some big tournament. I think any faction can win. It just needs the right person piloting it and of course some dice luck because it's a dice game.
     
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