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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@ZeptikkHue "Your friend is good at the game because he is good at gaming and not because his main is Gibraltar.."
And that's how it should be. If he was as underpowered as you're saying it wouldn't matter how good he was at the game, he'd be worse when playing Gibraltar and good when playing everyone else. This isn't happening.
Normalising the character sizes is a realistic solution. Nothing anyone else has suggested is actually a SOLUTION to the stated PROBLEM. They're just window dressing. Just attempts to make him equally unbalanced but in a positive way in another direction, to hopefully mitigate his lack of balance in a negative way in his size. That's not a solution to a clearly identified problem : it's a workaround. We've tried it (Fortified, buffing the shields health) and workarounds aren't working. The base issue remains for you guys.
And that's how it should be. If he was as underpowered as you're saying it wouldn't matter how good he was at the game, he'd be worse when playing Gibraltar and good when playing everyone else. This isn't happening.
Normalising the character sizes is a realistic solution. Nothing anyone else has suggested is actually a SOLUTION to the stated PROBLEM. They're just window dressing. Just attempts to make him equally unbalanced but in a positive way in another direction, to hopefully mitigate his lack of balance in a negative way in his size. That's not a solution to a clearly identified problem : it's a workaround. We've tried it (Fortified, buffing the shields health) and workarounds aren't working. The base issue remains for you guys.
To be clear : I think the issue of him being easy to hit is MASSIVELY overstated, especially at the top level of gameplay. To people at the top: as a general rule - most things are easy to hit, because they're all consistently good shots. The logic of "why make it easier then" is sound, and it's why I would argue that they should all be approximately the same size, if not the same shape.
In UNRANKED play : the issue is more relevant, as the disadvantage means better players are far more likely to be hit by worse players than if they were a smaller target - which will really annoy anyone who makes a living by pubstomping in multiplayer games for spectators.
Look at the logic of how you've stated the problem. I'll paraphrase and if my understanding of what you've said is wrong please tell me specifically where:
"On PC everyone aims for headshots, and it's easier to do with a mouse than a controller. His shield doesn't cover his head so it isn't relevant in its current guise as a mitigating factor to him being easier to kill."
^ His head is the same size as everyone else's and he takes LESS damage in it. If the problem is exactly as you've stated it : Gibraltar isn't actually at a disadvantage. This means that either the problem is different to how you're explaining it or that it isn't actually a problem. In either case : it needs to be re-examined or re-explained.
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