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ThatBoyZeus14's avatar
2 years ago

Crypto perks better than Network Traffic.

So I love all but one of the perks crypto received this season, the one where every time you throw the drone out it calls out squads in the area. After testing it a bit, It is slightly convenient when walking past banners. Instead of having to go into your drone and ping it, you can just throw your drone out and next time you want to check if there are squads around go into your drone to ping. But it kind of ends up just being more annoying than useful. Let me know what you guys think of the suggestions I have for an alternative perk to compete with network expansion below.

 

1: Mini Beacon - I think this was what the community kind of expected from early information about this perk. basically instead of stating out loud how many squads are in a 200m radius, Hack would serve as a mini survey beacon pinging the mini map with squads in a 200m radius. This could be a little broken in practice so a think having like a 10 sec cooldown between pings and restricting the highlights to just cryptos mini map would be fair.

 

2. Quick Release- Decrease the animation time when throwing out Hack. Back when crypto first got "reworked" in season 12 (I think) you could cancel the animation when throwing out your drone by pressing the Ult input during the animation. This made throwing the drone out feel much more fluid and active but was later removed bc your could bug it out to have infinite drones around the map.

 

3. Shock Resistance- Crypto isn't affected by EMP stun or reduced stun time for crypto/teammates. Similar to how Fuse can take less damage/slow from his ult.

 

4. Disruptive Pulse- EMP hinders use of shield cells and bats for a short period of time. This is a suggestion I've made before that I think would boost crypto's pick rates up a ton. It's just so difficult to capitalize on your own emp most of the time seeing as crypto has no movement ability and you've only got 5 seconds to get an angle on the enemies before they can pop a bat.

 

5. System hack- remaining scanned by Hack for a certain period of time hinders the use of tactical abilities for a short time and causes static visual effect similar to emp. Kind of like Sombra from Overwatch.

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