Bangalore should have innate digital threat inside her smoke.

Pure_Funk_Nugge
6 years ago
@EA_David The only thing I can think of is possibly take away the damage from a direct smoke hit.

I wouldn't want to take anything away from the ultimate as I feel it's still easy to evade compared to the Gibraltar ultimate.
Pallo420
6 years ago
@EA_David Increase her damage taken by 100%, remove double time buff, increase hitbox size. Then you can have sight inside smoke.
S8N_Spawn
6 years ago
@EA_David If they ever thought about adding this in, they'd need to make some sort of nerf to the smoke to balance it. Reduce the timing of it, make areas players run through the smoke disappear, or take away the second shot.
Monhulio
6 years ago
@EA_David Since Bangalore is professional soldier, perhaps tactical buff and passive buff that allows her to use other ordinance in her launcher?

So instead of pulling out the throwable item, it instead just toggles it into her smoke launcher. The exact nuances of how that would work would need tweaking but one way could be:

- She has 4 grenade selections in her grenade wheel
- Using the launcher for any grenade consumes a tactical usage
- This would allow players to essentially fire ordinance upto 2 times quickly
- Better aim control with launcher, making her more skilled in grenade usage
- Tapping L2 while ordinance is loaded and L1 is held resets it back to gas

Bangalore is in a decent spot, this final touch would make her highly competitive.
LaggLocked
6 years ago
@EA_David
One idea was to temporarily reduce movement speed after using smoke, but I'm not sure how well that would feel when playing Bangalore.
Another thought was If you hit an enemy with the smoke canisters when it explodes it tags them making them identifiable as if you had the Digital Threat optic. This way you have to accurately hit the player with the smoke in order to get the extra ability. There could be an identifying powdered in the smoke grenade that is left on nearby players, allowing Bangalore to see them through the smoke.
Her glasses are able to detect the identifying powdered or residue. If you were to smoke the same player(s) again that were tagged you would be able to see them again because they still have the powder on them. This would also hold true if they were tagged early in-game and then ran through smoke late game. (if that is too OP then you could say each Bangalore has their own unique identifiable powered in their grenades, but that could be a neat experience when the late game as a Bangalore you happen to see another player tagged in smoke from earlier on and from the other perspective if you get tagged you need to remember not to run through the smoke!)
- Sir_Named
  6 years ago
  @LaggLocked That would still have the problem of buffing Bangalore too much. Besides, the glasses are only there on some of the legendary skins. Default Bangalore doesn’t have glasses.
  Tagging an enemy still has a similar effect to a dig threat, and Bangalore does not need that kind of buff. Sure, you could do it and nerf other parts of her, but why would you? Why rework a balanced character?
  - Peri_Longbow_pl
    6 years ago
    Bangalore is more of a synergizing legend. While you gain no real advantage other than being hidden, you will give team mates such as Caustic or Bloodhounds, or those with danger visors on their weapons an advantage. And yes, Bangalore and Bloodhound fit together very well. Especially when being in an open field where you put down a huge field of smoke where you and your bloodhound friend can move freely in.