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SpaceHamster199
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6 years ago

Low profile

Are there any plans for an update to low profile? Why does lifeline have the same percentage as wraith? Why does revenant have it at all? It is frustrating that this nerf is the same across all low profile legends and doesn't take into account kits and different hitboxes.

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  • Low Profile should honestly be removed from Lifeline and Wattson. They don't need it.

    Wraith on the other hand needs it because she hard to aim at and has an escape ability. Pathfinder another problem, people say he thick but truth is he escapes too much and is hard to aim at. Good luck aiming at a grappling Pathfinder with some serious skills or one that grapples across the map to the point he gets hook off cooldown again. 

    Revenant is an odd Legend. He had Low Profile at the start of his release and after playing against him. He has hitbox issues almost similar to Pathfinder. But Rev is super hard to aim at when he crouching and shooting at you. It's on par with a crouch spamming Wraith shooting at you. 

    And yes, a crouching spamming Wraith is the hardest thing to shoot at. 

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    Sir_Named
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    6 years ago
    @Leo_the_Lion25 Pathfinder actually does have a small hitbox/hard to hit. Also, his head hitbox is pretty small. It doesn’t matter too much if he can escape easily, Low Profile is meant to counter small hitbox legends. Which Pathfinder kind of is.
    Lifeline does have a small hitbox, but I see what you mean, because Lifeline and Wattson don’t have any real escape or movement abilities. I still think they (Lifeline at least) should have Low Profile because having a small hitbox even without movement abilities is still relatively big. (Wattson, maybe not. She doesn’t strike me as a small legend, but who knows. Her pylon doesn’t count as part of her though.)
  • @SpaceHamster1991 Honestly they should just remove this debuff and only leave fortified for the big legends, or increase their max hp and remove that passive as well since it doesn't do * to help them most of the time, it's stupid that someone with a already busted weapon like the PK (when it actually works) can accidentally one shot you without trying because of the extra damage you receive
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    SpaceHamster199
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    6 years ago

    @PretzelnutcakeI dunno about removing it. It doesn't seem coincidental that the legends who have low profile (minus Revenant) are also the consistent top tiers of this game. Wattson, Wraith, and Pathfinder all have amazing abilities, and Lifeline has fast heal and a fast revive. I think that the low profile helps balance these legends against their bigger counterparts (with the exception of wraith, who's hitbox is an op joke) but it imbalances them when facing another low profile. If a Wattson or Lifeline gets into a firefight with a Wraith or Pathfinder of similar skill they are already on the backfoot due to having no disengage and more honest hitboxes (both are bigger than wraith and easier to hit headshots on than Path)...The across the board 5 percent nerf seems like a lazy quick fix by the devs to the consistent top tiers of season 1 and 2 that they never bothered to actually balance, instead making it their modus operandi for future small body legends.

  • Pretzelnutcake's avatar
    Pretzelnutcake
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    6 years ago
    @SpaceHamster1991 These legends were meta mostly for their mobility though, yes hitboxes play a part specially at range but for the most part they aren't impossible to hit assuming you can actually aim (except maybe pathfinder who seriously needs a better hitbox or different model so he doesn't have so many curves and gaps making him nearly impossible to hit specially with headshots and during his grapple), but considering they nerfed the mobility on Wraith and Path pretty hard over the months it's only fair to revert this low profile thing for a bit atleast to see if it makes a difference anywhere.

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