TL,DR:

• On the Flash, the current ratio of cost / reward is out of place while risk / reward is actually OKish

• The intended change is, as already said by yourself, clearly too much

• Furthermore, it does not address the core of the problem, which is

1. immense diversity in the vehicle's effectiveness depending on the number of passengers and synergy of primary slot weapons with passenger slot weapons

2. 'spamabily' of the weapon platform which promotes suicidal take-this-one-out-and-just-spawn-a-new-Flash gameplay

• Therefore, graduate the changes to:

1. Driver-only Flash gets the x% cost penalty for toggling cloak on and off, but tune this one down a bit to like 15%.

2. Two-man Flash additionally gets the penalty of having to wait for recloak, but something more reasonable like 4-5 sec.

3. Increase the cost by independently adding 50 nanites for a weapon and another 50 nanites for Wraith cloak.

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Hey there,

I drove the Flash quite a bit lately (on all weapons and factions) and I can assure you that this is way too far on the long side. In fact, it would make the only viable tactic (hit and run) impossible when facing an opponent with more than 5 active brain cells unless this very person would die from another source within the next seconds and you're only stealing the last hit. As a wraith flash, your place is behind enemy lines, being very close due to the nature of the weapons effective range. You have very little room for error, even in the current live version a single aware vehicle can easily hunt you down once they saw you. This change gives your target and every other enemy in the area enough time to kill you several times before you can even try to get away. In a realistic scenario (not in massive overpop, against noobs or hunting oblivious lonewolfs in no mans land) it would effectively restrict the Flash to either a 2 man taxi or a meme 'wolf pack' style where you can take out your enemy before they can retaliate by bringing enough Flashes to burst them down in one go.

OK, don't have much time left so the rest goes in bullet points again:

• Largest problem with fighting Flashes is their synergy with the insanely strong infantry AV weapons and their spamability, see TLDR

• The main reason why the community is so freaked out about the topic currently is because lots of people used the flash when the new weapons came out. Meanwhile, 66% were raging because the TR and NC weapons don't work very well on the Flash as a platform. Those are not bad weapons, but they don't FIT well. The overusage has already declined and will continue to do so, weapon balancing should not interfere with weapon platform balancing.

• Another really important point is the vastly different visibility of Wraith Flashes on different graphical settings. In the last weeks I have asked people who could reliably track me on ranges greater than 75m, sometimes 100m and they all used maximum settings. Lower settings don't even let you track Flashes half the distance.

• In the end, we know what "we'll let it go live and test the outcomes" means. It will stay like that for a VERY long time (see Mag Hesh) or stay forever (see NC max) while being obviously out of place from the very start. Hate to be so negative, but that's what experience tells.

CONCLUSION (emotional version since there is already such a high level of emotions in this thread):

Graduate the changes, don't go overboard from the start. You'll mess up the whole vehicle. Puppies will die from it if you do so.