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5 years ago

Bangalore Buff Idea: Damage upon missile landing

Bangalore actually feels pretty balanced to me. Not overpowered, but still brings something to the table. However, her Ultimate feels a little off. It's almost impossible to get damage with it unless your enemy is cornered. I know it has it's other uses, like using it to give you cover as you gain ground on your enemy, but I think this change would make sense for it as well;

Landing Missile Damage: After Bangalore activates her ultimate, missiles strike the ground from the sky. If an enemy is right next to where a missile hits the ground, it'll deal 10 damage to them and stun them for 1 or 2 seconds.

This kind of just makes sense in a realistic point of view. Especially considering you can deal 10 damage just from hitting someone with your smokes. So I'd think a missile slamming down into the ground at mach speed would do something. You're not really incentivized to use her ultimate since most of the time it's easily avoidable. So I think this change would make her feel more fun and give more of an incentive to use her. Just a little bit of damage to get that dopamine going.

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15 Replies

MandatoryIDtag
5 years ago
@billybobbjoebob This is actually an extremely valid point.
In reality being directly hit by a missile would most certainly kill, but for game balancing purposes that's ridiculous. So some damage at least would be a good step.
Adendon
5 years ago
So instead of delayed damage from the ult (waiting for it to explode), it's instant (upon impact)? I like the concept, but to balance it maybe slow the rate at which the missiles hit the ground (a slower volley of missiles), or make the warning cues more apparent (i.e. flare for signal is brighter, incoming air strike sound is earlier, or a funny whistle affect that you see in cartoons that signals something is falling).
I do fear that this ult might be too similar to gibraltar's. Although this one is more of a carpet bomb and gibralatar's is more random.
billybobbjoebob
5 years ago
@Adendon No, it'd still have the big boom damage. Just additional small damage upon impact, but it'd have a much smaller radius than Gibraltars. Just something to make bangalore's ult feel more useful
Adendon
5 years ago
@billybobbjoebob Then in that case instead of a stun, I'd rather have a tiny knockback per missile hit or cloud enemy vision. I think a stun would be too op since it'd be almost a guaranteed hit every time if you don't have a skill to counter it.

Personally I think bangalore's ult needs a change as you say, but giving it stun, even in a small radius, would guarantee a kill.
billybobbjoebob
5 years ago
@Adendon I could agree with a knockback or haze vision. I just knew it needed something. And I figured a stun would be too powerful, which is why I suggested like a second or two
Mii4lyfe
5 years ago
@billybobbjoebob But Bangalores ultimate kinda does stun the enemy team already when the missiles explode. Its not much but its enough i think but i do agree with a small amount of damage upon impact or maybe another suggestion could be including damage if an enemy is inside of a building?
Sir_Named
5 years ago
@billybobbjoebob It definitely shouldn't have a smaller radius than Gibraltar's air strike.
billybobbjoebob
5 years ago
@Sir_Named No, I meant like per missile. The damage done by the missiles on impact shouldn't reach as far as the explosions from gibraltars missiles. Nothing changes on how much ground the missiles cover or their explosion range
Aegis_Kleais
Rising Hotshot
5 years ago
Why in the WORLD would you bring REALITY into this game? In reality, we cannot respawn, so after 1 version of each Legend world wide dies, we're out of legends. Reality has much less place in a game world than some people would like it to.
billybobbjoebob
5 years ago
@Aegis_Kleais Its not pure reality. It's only partial reality. Kind of like how the game has gravity and how if you get shot, you get hurt. Those are both reality things. I'm only saying partial reality. In reality, a missile landing on you at that speed would kill you