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darkdragon1142's avatar
5 years ago

LOBA NEEDS SOME LOVE! in arenas

okay so i asked this on the twitter account before arenas came out before but loba needs some love in arenas as she stands now she is very bleh in arenas. the ring is nice but her passive and ult do nothing in arenas thats useful. the reply i initially got when i posted on twitter was that her black market would be useful because she could steal care package weapons and supply items....noone does that. the time it takes to activate her black market most people are already at the supplies already. not to mention in order to use her black market you have to give up your positional advantage. between that and the fact that her black market advertises to the whole world when it is used this is not worth the credits to get. i havent seen anyone do this since the start of arenas when people were first testing waters. its simpler to just get her extra rings and toss them to the supplies to keep position.

so i propose a compromise. if an enemy dies in the affected area of her black market to increase credits earned.making placement of it key, making it worth getting if you have a strong team, and making it not useless. this would obviously be an arena only affect. but the amount of credits you have can have a huge impact on gameplay since that dictates if you can get a fully kitted weapon, or a ton of grenades, and so on.

secondly i think her passive needs to be useful in arenas as it is right now its 100% useless. we already know supplies have a pheonix kit in each, we know that most carepackage weapons are above blue with the exception of the first round or two. that said i havent come up with a halfway decent idea for her passive to be more useful in arenas tbh since maps mark supplies and materials. and theres a beam of light to indicate where care packages land. so the only thing i can think of would be like lifeline can open the extra compartment on the supply bins in arenas. she has a healing cross on her character selection screen like lifeline and its loot related so it would make sense with her character. but maybe make it also give random grenades if she opens it instead of just shield cells.

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  • Loba is a long game character for Battle royal, arena is short term. There are others that don't have a good fit in arenas based off the kind of game it is.  

  • @PilotBAs so just so you know thats lazy development. it just takes a level of creativity to make loba useful. shes long game true but in the short term in BR she helps get gear for your team. and in arenas she cant do that. but giving her the ability to increase credit gains or allow grenades from come from the extended supply bins are in line with her character type.
  • @ItzN0tU true but they just need to implement a follow ability for his drone to follow crypto to make him a bit more viable. kinda like how mirage works with his clones. just let him control it in a linear movement. and alow him to sit it or take control.
  • Adendon's avatar
    Adendon
    5 years ago

    Honestly what they need to do is rework the format of arenas.

    1. The mode should be like the standard long term battle royale where you need to explore to get better weapons but with the reduced map size (making loba more essential)
    2. Maps should be a bit more complicated so that there's verticality and not just the standard 1 level flat plane (cuz there's barely any obstacles for height advantage)
    3. And a few beacons around the map to tell when the next ring will come (that way crypto has some use)
  • @Adendon the point of them is not to be enourmous. and to be more tight. i like your ideas but think that might be better for another game type vice trying to revamp something that is enjoyed more by casuals for the quickness and fun. i just want a bit more utility for each legend to make um more useful in said arenas and most these can work in BR as well or wont have any affect on BR.
  • KyleByle's avatar
    KyleByle
    5 years ago

    I always run loba and I think these are great ideas. I think her passive could honestly be to just let your team earn extra credits in general? It would make sense that a team with loba on it would be more stacked than a team without. Also, the black market should let you take materials (in br as well) and cover the entire arenas map so you can actually steal your opponent's supplies.

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