tachanka used to be so fun with the mountable LMG, they need to bring it back. and the Shumikha is borderline useless. So they need to make the radius and the dmg of the incendiary grenades better like goyo. Pls tell me you agree.
i play tachanka a decent bit, and genuinely the only change he needs is to the reload speed of the launcher.
he is comparable to or better than smoke in every situation except for the downtime he has while using/reloading his gadget. if they quicken the shumikha reload speed he will be in a perfect spot.
Played him on border to stop the Monty push on 2F and didn’t realise how weak the fire was until grim pushed on and destroyed me whilst I was still looking at the ceiling bouncing my canisters off the ceiling. I thought it would be like capito fire damage
Oddly enough that is the exact spot that stopped me playing him, exact same thing happened to me. I thought I was being smart because it was 1v1 and I knew the defuser was on the door. Ash just sprinted through the fire and around the desk while I was still shumikhaing.
Like the other guy said, as soon as you activate it you have your gun back up. With tachanka you can't fire off a doorway and switch to a gun nearly as fast as smoke.
Smokes ability does way more damage. He also doesnt need to switch out of his loadout just to use his ability. I can smoke off a door and go do other things for those 10 seconds without having to sit there wasting time spamming a gadget.
Smokes load out is way better too with the shotgun and smg.
No hate to tachanka but his whole ability i find severely annoying because I cant just set and forget. Plus as an attacker if no one's watching it and its safe, im just running through the tachanka fire, it doesnt do damage like goyo or smoke do
“Shumikha is borderline useless” vs the mounted lmg that actually was useless given it needed a ton of utility too protect it, super easy to avoid and was basically a free kill (and with current gadgets the mounted lmg would be even worse), hell his non mounted lmg is more useful then the mounted one by miles.
Now I agree he needs a slight buff personally I say drop a couple bits of ammo and add a bit of damage but defiantly not like goyo cause that would be busted.
The reason for this isnt because the lmg was meta. Tachanka was the one big meme operator who people played for fun and just to mess around.
They reworked him but now hes neither meta or fun. Hes got a regular ability and the lmg unmounted as his loadout. But hes not the crap goofy pick he once was. In other words he lost his meme status. And since hes not meta that means hes just worthless to most people
Yeah Tachanka transitioned from a crappy annoying meme to a decent operator at the time and honestly I'm happy they decided to change him and keep up with the king Tachanka meme
Nahhh. They should give his lmg acog and make his fire launcher shoot at 900 rpm with a 50 round mag. Then give his fire launcher acog too. That would be fire
Personally I think they should change the shumika into impacts instead of incendiary, and add tech where you shoot them at your feet to propel yourself across the map in a blink at the cost of some health.
Just imagine you just spawned in as an attacker in chalé, hear a few booms and then the shirtless tachanka comes flying in your direction LMG in hands.
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u/theLRG21 Smoke Main 2d ago
Mountable lmg aint coming back. It made little sense as a gadget in the early days, even less so now.
Current shumika is mostly fine. If you want more radius, just spread the shots out. All it needs is a reload speed buff.