This is true.

One very hard thing about design is that when you attempt to make a counter, there is often collateral damage. A classic example is jedi reflexes. It was intended to be a lancer counter, and it is annoying for the lancer, but it kills melee swarms dead in their tracks. It hurts melee in general, which was not the intent. Targeting a smaller, more specific group is better. Instead of Jedi reflexes, we then came out with force-attuned reflexes. Now instead of screwing all melee, it just hurts flight and wall-climber. Much more specific.

Which was my thought when the idea popped into my head. It would be for guys like Bane and Krayt; Big guys who take up most of your squad, and who shouldn't be able to be nickle-and-dimed to death the moment they step out into the open.

you have to consider what the real issues are.

Activations are part of the game and if you nerf shooter swarms then you go back to people spamming mice (not that its gone anywhere) because of WotCs Gha.

Having a swarm of tempo control troopers that can do a mass of damage is a bit of a headache to design around. Strafers might keep them in check but strafers used to cause so many headaches for many squad types which is why the needed curtailing.

The intimidating presence is an interesting one, for todays game perhaps

Intimidating Presence - Non-adjacent enemy non-unique characters attacking this character ignore all bonuses to Attack and Damage.

As a side point that is probably best for another thread I've often thought about introducing a game errata for the Vsets. Perhaps this could be an actual card set release where we, as the community, decide on which Vset pieces need a tweak and those pieces are distributed as a mini (micro?) set.

Certain things i might consider are
Poggle losing Rapport and/or SD10 on geonosians
Klats reduced to 20 Hp
Dr Evasan gains a +16 save on enemy damage

etc.

This is something we can discuss in another thread if the idea has any merit.

Maybe something like:

Blackmail: Replaces attack; Line of site; Target enemy disrupts allied commander effects within 6 squares.

Or some sort of Exectute Slicer Code like ability to send a virus to your opponents team, and make it so a character with the computer virus disrupts ce's, and characters within 6 squares of the infected ally also disrupt CE's while they're within range.

I still question if this is going to fit the problem. I could be very wrong, but even without commander effects, it seems like lobot + all klat assassins is all you need to win the game, and the commander effects arent the issue in that case.

the problem with disruptive is that a lot of the new boosts are now from special abilities that can't be suppressed as they are given about by SA's rather than CE's.

It was a reaction to ABM and increasing distraction and disruptive but its gotten a bit out of hand.

Its possible to have counter abilities to special abilities, that has been available since the 1st Ackbar.

I would rather any SA inhibitions to stay with the 6 square bubble. We should try to avoid convoluting the game with greater "bubble" ranges. There is already some of this but its kind of on the fringes of the game and i think it should stay that way.

Detonator or Bomb Disposal expert (Characters within 6 squares lose self destruct).

Jammer (Characters within 6 squares lose cloak)

Arrogance (characters within 6 squares lose Prideful bonuses)

etc

Obviously, these are hard counters and so the pieces they end up being on should be well thought out.

Yeah sensors rocks, I think the self destruct inhibitor would be nice

I'm aware.

Its more than just making a character lose cloak though, it basically takes cover away from everyone within 6. Its very strong and is basically unused only due to the faction its in. Having this in the imperials, separatists or rebels could have serious ramifications.

Simplifying counters allows them to be cheaper and possibly fit into factions that need them.

Virus Airdrop - Enemy droids that activate within 6 squares of this character gain -4 attack and -4 defense and speed 2 until the start of their next turn. Small non-unique droids that activate within 6 squares of this character are defeated.

That might hamper mice swarms that are used to out-activate people. There is always the challenge of getting the character to where the droids are though.

Fair point, i glossed that it was on the scout tank.

I believe this is worth its own thread. I do believe that at this stage in the game, we can readily identify some of the things that need/deserve changes. I like all the ones you have listed are a good start.

I too really like this. It also feels like less of a patch and more of a cool gameplay mechanic that can be useful in most squads. Even if you're not facing a swarm, squads almost always have pieces costed under 20 that would want to be careful of this.