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GamesPlayer99999
Seasoned Traveler
1 year ago

Crypto perk upgrade suggestion

Hello,

I mostly play Crypto. I think at lv2 the 'off the grid perk is good, but sort of a gimmick. So I've been experimenting the 'network expansion' perk, which I find pretty good. I do go back and forth and both are useful.

But at lv3 perks, I think 'hackathon' is better than 'satellite imagery' at this time. Giving you the drone back faster when destroyed. Which is really good. While 'satellite imagery' does not seem to give really that much more useful scanning ability.

So, I was thinking that to change the usual choice of 'off the grid' at lv2 and 'hackathon' at lv3, we could improve 'satellite imagery' to do the following: scan through smoke and give life bars with shields information as long as the drone is scanning (Neurolink). This would give you information like if you can push or not a team given the information of their life bars with the increased range. Sounds useful and not broken. 

This improved 'satellite imagery' at lv3 with 'network expansion' at lv2 would increase the range of action while improving the scanning ability giving more information which strengthens the whole idea of the drone and using Crypto in the first place.

I think this is a good competitive algs choice.

What do you guys think?

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2 Replies

  • Zulkiers's avatar
    Zulkiers
    Seasoned Ace
    1 year ago

    I think that off the grid tends to be useless. Enemies within 15m of Crypto see him clear as day, which is 90% of fights. Can't use it as an escape anymore.

    Now, if it also changed the fire from cast ult to teleport, then we could use it to escape again. Cast out drone, fly for a sec, then fire to cast a teleport to teleport Crypto beneath the drone. Teleport have its own cooldown.

    Better yet, remove the sparkles effect when crypto is hiding in a bush. The whole point of bush hiding it to become invisible, and those sparkles make him more visible than caustic when hiding in a bush. Cant tell you how many times I've died while invis droning from a bush, vs lived as other toons bush hiding. Those sparkles are a nightmare. I'm never choosing off the grid again.

  • GamesPlayer99999's avatar
    GamesPlayer99999
    Seasoned Traveler
    1 year ago

    I used to get caught in off the grid even before the nerf day 1 of its release. I think it's cool, just not as useful as it seems.

    I think that in algs, for example, being able to hold a position for a good while, off the grid does not sound that hot. It's played differently. Maybe the extra range is better.

    I think there's room for improvement. 

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