Plane power

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Planes are so strong with the stop bug.

I did some testing.  3 planes can kill a nexus in 14-15 seconds. While 4+ (a 5th came in and attacked at the end) dreadnoughts took 12 seconds.

 The AI had anti air just to the left of the nexus. But abusing the stop bug meant i stayed out of range allowing me to kill the nexus super super quick.


Expenditure

3 planes = 600 metal and 720 gas.

4 dreadnaughts are 12,000 and 4000 gas.

 

Time

Game was over in under 14 minutes. I am sure i could probably get that down to less than 10 fairly easily if i tried. You simply can't get anything close with that from any other unit

Counter.

I don't see how anyone can build enough anti air counter defence to stop this. Considering in the pic below the planes barely moved from the spot they are shown in the screen shot.

How to

 

Have the planes selected. Just mass spam stop, then attack + click. stop, attack + click.

Obligatory Pictures

Planes

I then Reloaded, and decided to see how many dreadnaughts it would take to do the same thing.

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Reply #1 from AshesoftheSingularity Forums Top

It is not power is more like straight up abuse.

Never did this to me and it was painful. I have basically locked the map with phc and from that point I was expecting to just plain outmacro until I get hit by the punisher combo.

6 of those guys sniped all my orbital defense and got nuked systematically. The same thing happened on my nexus too and he almost turned the game with that. I don't think they should work like that, like long range aerial snipers that can dps any defense and dread along the way.

Solution was mass fury and mass random aa to deny vision. 

ps: both dominator and punisher units are superb in air to ground warfare, especially when you are comparing them with their phc counterparts. 

Reply #2 from AshesoftheSingularity Forums Top

hi neinhalt hi neat,

dev are aware about this bug, i worte this  in the forum already a month ago. 

 

 

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