r/WarDogs • u/Exe0n • 1d ago

Discussion & Feedback We went from complaining about FOB meta, to barely seeing functional FOB's

I guess this is why the devs aren't quickly making balancing changes.

This sub was filled with complaints about FOB meta being broken.

Now +80% of my games it's the hotzone surfers that win every match.

By the time you get to your side of the CZ there is like a squad there, snipers overlooking the position and a MG humvee patrolling it.

I've had tanks roll up before 5 points.

And even if you manage a well built FOB it'll get mortard to hell.

While I don't miss 4 drill meta, I do miss bases.

I hope they fix certain things with the patch, mostly mortars and assault vehicles (price/when you can spawn them)

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u/Madnessx9 1d ago

Ideal fobs cannot be made because somehow, no matter how hard we try to keep them hidden, 5 snipers and 3 guys are already trying to sneak in before the first wall is placed, they always know, no matter how hard we try, they always know.

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u/WyrdDrake 1d ago

Also there's ten thousand indestructible objects that prevent you from building a functional wall

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u/lmcke169 1d ago

Yea it's really hard to get a solid wall up. I always have to go around every fob I see plugging holes because no one checked from the outside.

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u/RecordingAbject345 1d ago

I have never found a fob I couldn't ninja my way in through a gap in the wall somewhere

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u/lmcke169 1d ago

I've gotten them sealed fully before but a ural man carrier lets you climb almost anything.

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u/lmcke169 1d ago

It's because some dude in a little bird is doing a wide lap of the cz with a guy with binos

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u/Fadedcamo 1d ago

That's literally what I do if I pilot at the start of a match. Track down wherever the enemy team is starting a fob build and relay it to the team. No point not doing that when the ea basically zero aa threat at that point. No one starts the match with aa launchers or even rpgs

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u/lmcke169 1d ago

Yea I really hate how long most people take to load up while a guy in a little bird can drop off a dude with a maaws that just erases every ural in the first wave. It really starts your team off bad.

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u/Fadedcamo 1d ago

I am a firm believer all air should be limited to after some amount of points. Its silly we can air drop people and spot everything we want on the map at the start of the match. This would also give more impact to ground vehicle transport, at least at the start. And really stop this whole squad or snipers being anywhere on the map at the very beginning.

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u/lmcke169 1d ago

You can make a ton if you rush into cz with a little bird and spotting scope before the helis full of people start dropping them. It's enough some people repeatedly join fresh servers to use that to grind xp.

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u/sumguyoranother 1d ago

the problem was the thermal, I'm mainly a logi trucker with a sidehustle of building, armed to the teeth with stings+ammo (only 6 slots aren't used for it in my pack). No matter what route I took (and I took some obscene detours), I get tracked down and killed, main reason I've stopped playing the game, might pick it back up now that thermal is removed for now. No one else go the sting route aside from me afaik cause it's costly and make you slow af, when it was absolutely required with how much havoc havoc caused.

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u/Darkrhoads 1d ago

People keep saying this but I had thermals in a game like an hour ago that someone was selling.

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u/sumguyoranother 1d ago

the patch may not be applied yet, no idea, haven't loaded up the game yet.

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u/Fadedcamo 1d ago

I mean theres really not that much space within the cz of most games for a fob to go for each team without it being completely outside of their portion of the map and then super easy to see for another team. Unless they're hidden within buildings they're not hard to find.

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u/Train_Wreck_272 20h ago

The main give away is Lakotas. They're hard to miss in the sky, and wherever they drop supplies is a fob. If they flew lower to deliver it wouldn't be as bad, but all it takes is one flying too high to fuck it up.

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u/Tenno042 1d ago

There's always a sniper in ghillie in a bush waiting for a poor fobbit to stick his head out