Pathfinder is inferior to almost everyone now. Newcomers have no incentive to play him, hes kind of reserved for people who already know how to make it work.
I rarely play as caustic, but if I die to him I think 'man I should play him more' not 'nerf him 133%!' No one was even asking for that much of a nerf anyway. These devs are looking at numbers way more than listening to the community. It's like we all have to scream the same thing at them over and over to be heard, which is what you're seeing. Fix pathy fix hitreg. You should want pathy fixed too because a big section of the player base is not happy.
Caustic can have 6 traps put at once. It would be like if they reduced this to 2 because they dont like how players are camping. If they did that to caustic, even tho I dont play as him, I'd be annoyed as hell because that's what he's designed for. I wouldn't gloat like im seeing people doing.
It's the most drastic nerf of one of the most played characters. It wasnt a balance move it was to shift the meta.
Loba is a good legend and probably the most well thought out in terms of legend design out of all the new ones we've had.
She is no pathfinder replacement though. The bracelet has a distinct lack of vertical range,so pathfinder outshines her on this front.
If anything i would say shes's more Octanes replacement , simply due to the fact that she's a loot goblins legend, a title previously held by the vast majority of Octane mains. 😛
Even her tactical behaves kind of similar to his jump pad in the sense they both have a predictable arc so you know exactly where both legends will be at point A and point B. Yes loba can cut that tactical short but i mean literally nobody is utilizing this.
Pathfinder still has good teamplay viability with his zipline, his grapple still makes for a good escape(when used correctly). As said by a previous poster....the problem is basically player based,you just have to be willing to work around his recently added flaws.
Also how is what i said absurd when they are a company running a business and literally every decision they make has financial incentives behind it?
@MilkySteve-0 Well no. Pathfinder is still one of the best at team mobility. He's also tied for the best disengage (with Loba) having a tactical that can just whip him up to a roof to heal.
Throwing out a wild guess I'd say they made his nerf so drastic for two reasons.
#1 They saw the impact of the Wraith nerfs and decided to make a similiar change in one go.
#2 They didn't want Loba to be seen as overpowered so it was better to give all disengage characters a larger cooldown.
Plus the community loves buffs right? People will react positively to buffing Loba/Wraith/Pathfinder's tacticals after S5 rather than nerfing all three if the developers started them out with low cooldowns.
Dont forget how loba can disengage through windows.
I've thought about it more. Pathys no longer use their grapple to loot in case enemy's suddenly appear. Loba is a loot goblin.
I know it's like I'm a conspiracy theorist but this pathy nerf on top of the hit reg issue has got me all twisted up. Really wish they would have postponed this season. Fixing game breaking issues is hard, but they're all working from home so it's even harder. Would have been the perfect time to improve servers and work on net code but that's a different issue all together (that wont be fixed anytime soon).
Reverting back to season 4 whilst issues are being worked on would make me so freakin happy but now I'm just in dreamland
You make a good point about positive reactions to buffs.
Do you think they overnerfed him so when they reduce nerf (dont want to call it a buff) it brings pathy mains back in droves?
Weirdest thing is respawn made this exact same mistake with titanfall 2 and grapples. Community said they nerfed the most fun part of the game. *puts tin foil hat on* Maybe that whole situation somehow made them money so they couldn't WAIT to do it to my boy pathy
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