Squad Leader Archive
Thread: Covert Squad leaders in PvP battles
i was in a battle last night and actually paid particular attention to this......even mentioned what im about to say on Ventrilo to all the rebels who were there.
Ive noticed it before but liek i said, i was watching it pretty carefulyl last night.
There was a covert or perhaps even neutral SL shouting out Formup, Steady Aim , and Retreat commands and he receive dno TEF off of it.
I know one guild in particular tends to use this tactic a lot.
In MY opinion...i feel this needs to stop. Your basically giving abuff to an entire group, and you can not get targetted for it. That is ridiculous. Doctors get a TEF for buffing and healing. SL's should DEFINATELY egt a TEF for using commands.
I would even go as far as to say That Neutral SL's should not be able to grant bonuses to overt members of either faction...or that they receive a TEF for doing so as a covert would.
Call it anerf if you want but it needs to eb done.....if the enemy has a leader calling otu commands, etc you ARE going to shoot him and not just let him stand there hunky-dory and continue as is.
I'm with PanzerGR on this one.
If you can buff a group in any way, you should get a TEF. You're a participant. While I admire those who are looking carefully at game mechanisms and utilitzing them to maxium tactical advantage, in this case the devs need to step in and fix this game mechanism so that it's in line with a CM getting a TEF for tossing an area heal and healing an overt or TEFd player.
I've gotten a TEF using rally and pretty sure steady aim before.
No idea what happenswhen a neutral player uses them though. They shouldn't be allowed to use them on overt / tef faction members if they can.
You forget that SL commands can be used on a squad over 1000m away from were the squad is fighting. I have tested this an it seams it will go much even more then just that. I have been told from some group members that the SL ablities reached out to even 3k meters out from were the SL sat.
Dunno, but from time to time it happens that my group gets attacked while i am still covert in the cantina, buffing.
Whenever i use ANY of my abilitis in that state, i get a TEF. Every single time. I do not mind, i think it should be that way and the time i spent online covert is miniscule anyway, but i dont know why this SL PanzerGR mentioned did not get a TEF. Sounds like a Bug.
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-Myrick- wrote:
Hmm, I've never had any active abilities work outside of radar range.
Passive probably would, but people outside of like 64m ish did not get the effects of rally.