7 years ago
Pathfinder Feels Useless.
I've played a lot of Pathfinder, hoping to make it work because I enjoy him thematically. Unfortunately, I just cannot justify playing him anymore. His passive is offensively useless and leaves your ...
@instanaterr wrote:I find pathfinder to be very situational with his ultimate. One example I can think of from the top of my head is a game I had last night. The squad was Bloodhound, Pathfinder and Mirage. The circle was near its final round and there were only 2 squads left, mine and one other. I, as Bloodhound, used my ultimate to run to the inner circle and pick up on enemy signatures.. they were on top of the giant skeleton thing near the bottom of the map. I pinged the enemies while my squad caught up with me and Pathfinder used his ultimate to zipline us up to the enemies to get the jump on them. It was a suprisingly effective tactic as the enemy squad had no idea we would come from that route (they were watching the "obvious routes" up the skeleton) and we only barely lost the game. I think his ultimate could use a buff, though, say if you use a Pathfinder zipline you are silent.. since the only reason we lost is that two of my squad mates were killed due to the loud noise of ziplining.
So in recap your teams mistake was not having one person diverison as bait on the obvious route and draw fire.
One of those things you think about after of course.
Pathfinder is anything but useless and one of my favourites, only his rather big hitbox bothers me.
The ziplines pathfinder makes can really help your team get places, which is especially important in the end games. After many tries, his grapple works great but I think it can be improved by giving some kind of signal when an object is within reach of it. Also, his hitbox needs some fixing IMO.
Yesterday I discovered that Pathfinders can use the same survey beacon twice. When the green circle is gone from the map you can reuse the exact same beacon!
What do you guys think about making Pathfinder travel a bit faster on ziplines than other characters (as an addition to his passive) ?
"only his rather big hitbox bothers me" - LOL
I really wish we could see what this game was like if hitboxes were normalized and we could actually pick and balance legends based on their abilities.. instead of this silly hitbox inequality.
Fear not! Pathfinder gonna be so OP when they up the number of survey beacons! Everybody gonna play Pathfinder! 12 beacons to stand completely still in front of! Robot FTW!