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6 years ago

5% Nerf too Generalized

The top three Legends season 1 were Pathfinder, Wraith, and Lifeline. I understand why the characters needed nerfs as, at the time, none of the other legend's kits came close to matching the utility ...

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Anlbrd

6 years ago

@NNeil6991 I personally think that increasing/decreasing damage taken to balance other things like hitbox size instead of actually balancing the things causing issues is a really, REALLY strange design decision. It smacks of them not having the resources to allocate to fixing this particular problem because it would interfere with their roadmap : but it's one of the most complained about things with Apex at the minute.

They ought to do the work to normalise the size of the characters, remove any artefacts from the models so what you see - you can shoot. If they did this then the balancing between the legends becomes infinitely simpler to work through.

NNeil6991

6 years ago

@AnlbrdIt would have been infinitely better if they had brought Lifeline and Wraith up to a midsized hitbox and gotten rid of the weeb run and perma-hunch Wraith has. I believe they just went with the general damage increase because it was far easier (and wouldn't take time away from their roadmap like you said), they wanted people to use other legends, and they especially wanted people to play Wattson, who has a Lifeline sized body and Pathfinder's visual fluff. It's a short term non-solution that doesn't even take into account what makes each of these characters strong...As a side note, I don't think you can normalize the hitboxes with Gibby and Caustic in the game. You can bring Lifeline and Wraith up to a medium sized hitbox, but bringing those guys down to medium would create Pathfinder legendary skin problems all over again.

Anlbrd
6 years ago
@NNeil6991 I meant that it would take a total re-design of the models mate. That's why i don't think they can devote the resources to it and why i don't think they ever will. It's a shame but someone let the art department have enough rope to almost hang the game with.
- NNeil6991
  6 years ago
  @Anlbrd Damn that is a depressing way to look at it. Especially if you're a Gibby main lol.
- WoahItsTea
  6 years ago
  @Anlbrd You really do heavily push for hitbox remodels for every issue in every thread don't you? hahaha
  - Anlbrd
    6 years ago
    @WoahItsTea When it's relevant mate 🙂 The ironically named LowProfile being applied to the 3rd largest character definitely means that the discussions around it fall under the remit of hitbox/model discussion.