How to balance Gibraltar on both platforms!
Hi! I've been having a lot of discussions on this forum lately regarding Gibraltar. I am a PC player and on PC he is clearly the worst legend by quite a lot, but according to the console players in ...
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So far I've never seen Respawn doing balance changes only for one platform. Therefor I believe this is their philosophy and I doubt it will change. It's therefore meaningless for me to discuss solutions which require separate implementations.
I disagree about sizes, I think they should keep them as they are and compensate with perks and abilities like they try to do. This makes for more variation and interesting characters.
I basically agree with every decision Respawn has made regarding balance fixes and mechanics design, they just need to do a couple more minor tweaks like the ones I proposed.
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Every legend have conditional abilities, some more than others. Gibraltar is designed to be a tank so let's make sure he is one in reality. Going toe to toe with him close up should be dangerous since he is so easy to pick off at a medium to far distance, and every angle except his front WHEN he has the shield out in close combat.
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I am trying to follow what I understand as Respawns philosophy. Your proposals goes directly against them and I therefor think you will have an issue with anything I would propose.
Anyways, thanks for the feedback. 🙂
Gun Shield indeed needs to go back to 50 HP if they going to make him 15% reduced damage. His gun shield doesn't even count towards our damage either.
What do you mean if they are going to make him 15%? He got his base health (100 HP) fortified increased from 10 to 15% for the Season 2 update. The only reason the gun shield should get back to 50 HP is if it also covers his head, which it should to make it usable on PC and not OP on console.
@ZeptikkHueAnything that covers his head is OP. Currently if you get the benefit of the doubt on saying headshots are always easy to hit and that's all anyone on PC does anyway : he's got the same size head as anyone but he takes less damage in it. Why would he need a buff so that you can't headshot him while he's ADSing?
[edit] - Are you 100% sure that the fortified buff only affects his health? If this was true our damage numbers on his armor would be the same as they are on other legends : and they're not. They're lower even if he has armor.
1. He needs a buff because he is too weak on PC. If you can think of any other ways to buff him without making him OP on console, please come with suggestions. Every legend is OP in some situations, I want Gibraltar to be OP in 1 or 2 situations, which is head on close combat and maybe when sniping, since he is basically UP (under-powered) in every other situation. He is UP when running, walking, sitting, near, far and from every angle except the front IF he is ADS'ing without a broken shield. On PC he is UP even with his arm shield up since he can't really dodge bullets. It's so easy to shoot him in the side, head or legs that his shield does not really matter.
2. Actually you made me double check and it seems like Fortified might affect shields now too after they resolved some bugs, but I did not find any actual tests\empirical evidence yet. I will have to run tests myself I guess. Anyways 15% even with body armor level 3 is not much considering his model is 240% larger than Wraith's. Point is I've played both as him and against him more than enough to be absolutely 100% sure that he is a terrible legend on PC. I've yet to see a top player or streamer play consistently as good with him as with other legends as well. I've seen some good plays on console though, but even Staycation who is pretty big on console admits he is not quite up there even after the Season 2 buffs, although his initial reaction would lead you to think otherwise. I like challenges so I usually get a bit sad when I see Gibraltars because I know the chance of them being an easy kill is 9 out of 10. (mainly because mostly newbies choose him as they are not aware how bad he is. I bump into good Gibraltar players more often in Season 2 due to players choosing him to do missions, but I always get a confidence boost when I spot him)
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