Talk:3.1 Patch/@comment-4632427-20131021061036

Much as I dislike losing access to omnistun, the Boom Bus nerf was probably needed. No other unit could, by its very existence, completely render at least three hostile factions harmless. Critters, Raiders, and Infected could all be stopped in their tracks by Brown Noise, and I would suspect that it was making it difficult for Z2 to make new challenges. The Raider Boss Strike was far, far easier than the other two we've had so far, and any new missions they try to give us involving those factions would have the same problem. Even worse, the unit in question is not universally available - new players have to wait for it to pop up in a promotion, meaning that the difficulty of new missions would be radically different depending when a player joined the game.

All around, the game is probably better for the nerf.