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SERPENT_DESCEND
Seasoned Ace
6 years ago

New passive ideas for Crypto

Crypto desperately needs a passive that isn't part of his drone, I'm not going to cover everything he needs I already made a post before about how to make him good instead I'm going to share possible ideas for his passive ability:

1-(DDoS hack): Enemies HUDs in Crypto or his drone area is glitched and won't show progress, Map shows glitching Crypto logo instead. Can't ping, Have slightly distorted hearing and vision capabilities and keep hearing buzzing sounds. The effect becomes worse the closer the enemies to Crypto or his drone.

Side notes: The main purpose of this passive is to make Crypto a dangerous legend even when his drone is not around, It would also makes the drone much more useful. Crypto should be able to disable this ability in case he want to hide from enemies.

2-(Hiding expert): Crypto is immune to scanning and won't leave clues. Is invisible to threat detection scopes and drones. 

Side note: Beside the fact that it would be effective in game, It also makes sense to Crypto lore since he is known to be very hard to find. Although that would make Bloodhound abilties less reliable which himself isn't a top tier legend, A buff for Bloodhound would balance things a little bit.

3-(Hacker knowledge): Crypto can see how many squads in the area without having to log in his drone if his drone is activated.

Side note: Someone suggested this, Could save you some time.

Qol changes:

1-EMP should show how much  damage it inflicted and it should also show where are the damaged targets and their body shields level in drone view, Currently this is only possible if you EMP then log off from your drone.

2-Crypto shouldn't be effected by his own EMP.

3-Fix the issue where there is a delay on refreshing the number of squads in the drone range.

4-Add this as a banner for Crypto and name it  (Cryptic):

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  • BirkelandPSN's avatar
    BirkelandPSN
    4 years ago

    I would really like to see some love for Crypto, any of the below changes would be very much welcomed:

    • Increase the drone's in-air speed
    • Decrease time to enter/exit drone view
    • Indicator notifying when an enemy is within 30m of Crypto's body while in drone view (similar to Casper on Battlefield 2042)
    • Let drone have 100 health, since we can't be in the fight physically
    • Cool down reduction for when drone is destroyed
    • Allow the ability to see the mini-map in drone view, this way we can see if our team is moving without us or if the hill is closing on us
    • Spiciest Suggestion: Change passive to allow Crypto to stack Ultimate Accelerants, similar to Watson. The accelerants don't have to grant Ultimate immediately like Watson, but it would be nice to hold more since it takes 3 mins to get EMP.
      • The current Neurolink passive seems to be something all legends with vision abilities have, as their entire team can see their scans.
  • @SERPENT_DESCEND I have two passive ideas I would like to see. The first passive is, enemies in Cryptos view appear on your team mates screen, just like the drone.
    Secondly, I think while he is in his drone he should go invisible, however his green screen will still be visible, and enemies will be able to hear him moving the drone controller if they are close enough.

    This has been mentioned a few times, but he should also be able to throw his drone to a location which then floats about 10 metres in the air. This way Crypto can still push with his team mates.
  • One of the problems is getting 3rd partied well looking through the drone.i suggest a turret that shoots anyone who comes near Crypto for low damage similar to trap damage and as soon as the turret shoots Crypto drops out of drone view back to first person.

  • One more thing players needs slow down a little if you are playing with a Crypto. Mark the enemy and don't engage let the drone get in position or at least in the air. So many times people just run into fights get knocked the expect magic. 

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