Caustic is terrible, and the new map shows it

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@heme725 wrote:

@CausticCoffey "Gas should not affect team members." A lot of players are in favor of this and some against. I'm not sure if this change would make things better or worse so nothing to say about this.

"Gas damage needs to be buffed." Why? Well I'm fine with buffing the damage if you're ok with getting rid of the slow and blurred vision. Too many players focus on damage and ignore how significantly players are affected by the little things.

"Traps need quicker animations for throwing and activating..." I'm in favor of this for most legends. A character that's highly dependent on their ability to compete needs to be able to use it quickly. Wraith is fine with just a gun because of her small size but bigger characters need their kit to do well.

I'm too ignorant of Caustic to have an opinion on most of your other suggestions outside of removing the ability to shoot out his traps. Its the only real counter to him and without it I have to give up if I see a single trap.

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First I would suggest playing about 10 games in a row with Caustic to get a feel for him and experience the game from his perspective. 

"Why? Well I'm fine with buffing the damage if you're ok with getting rid of the slow and blurred vision. Too many players focus on damage and ignore how significantly players are affected by the little things."

-The slowness and blurry vision are the only thing keeping people in the gas for the laughable 2 ticks as it is (4 at most) which comes out to a whopping 9 or (22 with 4 ticks) for staying inside way longer than you ever need to. You can push into a gas trap and through it before you hit 4 ticks. I think damage needs to start from 6 and tick up to 10, not 4.

"I'm too ignorant of Caustic to have an opinion on most of your other suggestions outside of removing the ability to shoot out his traps. Its the only real counter to him and without it I have to give up if I see a single trap."

-Again you can shoot traps to activate them. If you can just shoot out the bottom it forces Caustic to camp in buildings, and he can't be out in the open between cover points using the traps to deny area. As for a caustic that camps in a building, even now you wouldn't be able to shoot them out anyways as you can't get to them.

-Also not being affected by caustics gas as a team member let's you play with caustic and strategize with him, rather than trying to avoid being around him. Too many times I've died to people pushing through my gas with no help because my team does not want to enter and play around me.

-I would like many more people to play caustic so that respawn gets the data they need to confirm all of this. I am also going to make a thread on Mirage, Bloodhound, (both more buffs), and Pathfinder. (Further nerfs)