Crypto suggestions

Yes, your ideas are along the same tracks as mine. Here's my take on Crypto right now:-

Why is Crypto underpowered?

Crypto's entire kit usage relies on him standing still for short-medium amounts of time. In a game where movement is king and many of the top-tier characters have movement abilities, it is clear that the current benefit that the drone provides does not typically outweigh the cost of being stationary and not having access to a movement ability.

What approach should we take to improving Crypto?

I don't believe that Crypto needs any re-design but instead Respawn could bring down the opportunity cost of using the Crypto drone whilst enhancing the payoff and still keeping in theme for the character.

What this means is we want to make Crypto have to be stationary for less time and make the drone abilites more powerful so it is more worthwhile to use them.

Practical & User Experience Considerations

• We also want to consider only ideas that are reasonable to code for Respawn game designers (i.e. no autopilot nonsense).
• We want to only consider ideas that the average player would enjoy using & find easy to play with rather than making any overly complex abilities

DRONE USABILITY BUFFS

• Reduce the time delay between hitting your tactical (Q) and entering drone view.
  • The animation does not add anything to gameplay so I think that this should be almost instantaneous. (Crypto is a cyber enhanced human ffs he has no time for delay!)

• Whilst in drone view, the fire-button (left-click) should cause the drone to advance in a straight line toward the clicked location.
  • The drone will stop when it reaches the target location, is obstructed by object or the drone reaches the separation limit.
  • The drone's movement continues even when Crypto is not in drone view but new commands can only be issued from drone view.

DRONE POWER LEVEL BUFFS

• Increase Drone Scan Range to 50m.
  • EMP Range remains to be 30m
• EMP prevents usage of shield healing items for 20 seconds.
  • Shield Batteries,  Shield cells and Phoenix kits cannot be used.
  • Shield healing items that are mid-use are cancelled.
  • The flavour here is that cells seem to be electro magnetic devices so an EMP would definitely fry them!!
• EMP destroys Gibaltar Shield and Watson Ultimate.
  • It just makes sense thematically and makes Crypto fulfil a bit more of a counter-defense role.

CRYPTO PASSIVE

The detection ability of Neurolink should just be a part of the drone. The passive I'm suggesting instead is called Closed Circuitry.

• Crypto is not slowed by electrical effects.
  • Arc star, Crypto EMP and Watson pylons will not slow Crypto but will still damage him the same
• Crypto cannot be detected.
  • Bloodhound tactical and enemy Crypto drones do not show Crypto.
  • Digital Threat / Digital Scopes do not display Crypto in red highlight.

I believe that overall, these upgrades would make for a more well-rounded Crypto who was less dependent on being stationary and would have a touch more impact on the game without being overpowered.