Patch 15: Marksman focus and focus target are badly designed

[NeoLuna]

Okay, strait up, these are badly designed, the reason why is that they encourage bad habits that get you and your team killed on higher difficulties.

Marksman focus: The problem with this is that standing still like that is a death sentence on heresy and damnnation, I know fatshark wants there to be a sniper playstyle, but without threat reduction, which is in the stealth tree, your just going to get yourself killed. It leaves you open for disablers, getting hit from behind in melee, snipers, and basicly just makes you a sitting duck. This keystone tbh needs to be fully scrapped and the devs need to come up with something else.

Focus Target; Okay this is actuly a good idea, mark a target and then it takes more damage from your tean. The porblem is that sense it relies on spending stacks, what WILL happen is that nobody will use thier target ping untill like a boss shows up, and thus the team is denied critcal info, and thus your more likley to die. If the stack spending was removed and replaced with a flat bonus on tag, that would mostly fix this.

[Reginald]

Why don’t you try them then give feedback.

[NeoLuna]

Ill gadly amend my statement if they arent a porblem when the update comes out, but im just calling it as I see it, as a vet main with 300+ hours on the game.

[Sothrey]

We can tell how they are going to work out of the gate, thats the problem with them. The issues are blatantly obvious. I do have a feeling focus target is going to have a talent that will refund your stacks on tag kill or let the stacks refresh quicker, which obviously would counter the issue, though i do worry it will require YOU to get the kill or something.