Re: (REWORK) Megathread Lifeline / Newcastle megathread

Unfortunately now EA has an opportunity to "sell" a new legend so they are willing to give the "OP" skill again to someone else. I agree 100% that LL needs to be brought back to relevancy.

Also considering that they both have damage reduction and shields they can throw up, while lifeline is completely vulnerable at all times when reviving.

@ROTTERDAM-BOSSTo respond to your question (sorry this is late), I think while her character does very well based around the concept of a combat medic, at the same time I don’t think she should be so reliant on teammates already being downed to have an active use of her abilities. Therefore I’m not so worried about making her too centered around her revive mechanics. I think any changes done should be to her ultimate (such as what I was talking about in my first comment) and her tactical, and making sure they compliment one another as well as the passive when used in combination. A worthwhile idea is for her tactical to have an increased movement speed and tether range to where it can follow you into combat at full sprint and give your team some extra healing as you fight, no matter how much movement you’re pulling. It would help top off your health on some fights and really be more of an asset in active gunplay, as opposed to how it is now where you have to stay in one spot for the healing or otherwise risk diving in and out of battle to return to the drone for heals.

@ROTTERDAM-BOSSI had whole reply written but my phone died haha, I’ll try to rewrite as much as I can:

I getcha! I’m unfortunately not a lifeline main, so I don’t necessarily have the most informed opinion on her. However it is my general belief that, for all legends, no major part of the utility of their kit should be too reliant on otherwise unwise play from you or your teammates, like having abilities too far centered around revives or respawns. The object of the game is to not get to the point of needing a revive or respawn. However that doesn’t mean those kind of abilities shouldn’t exist, I actually encourage it for future legends, just on passives only though. Therefore I wasn’t too worried about the strength of her passive, only how can the rest of the kit compliment the current one. Anyway, you already knew all this though, and at this point I’m just rambling, so if there is any change to her actual passive as it is now, my ideas are:

For starters, to make her revive invincible, unable to be cancelled by shooting and killing the downed teammate until they fully revive. It’s not a major change, but what it does do is stall, and that could be all the difference between winning and losing a fight, giving just that little bit of extra time for lifeline and/or the third teammate to return fire so the revived ally to get away (or fight back, if they’re feeling risky). And it prevents them from being downed again or fully killed until they actually have their weapon out, so it can come in clutch in niche situations. Of course the enemy can always camp the revive but it still gives your team that precious extra time. To prevent camping however, there was an idea which I had on my own post that I made covering various legends, and that was for the DOC to stun and deal small damage when enemies get too close. I think this could be adjusted to instead apply to the revive drone to prevent enemies from trying to hang out on top of the reviving ally, which could be useful and tricky in its own right. All this implies that lifeline is not immediately present during the revive however, which is because my third idea is for lifeline to be able to revive at a decent range (10-15m) while also maintaining an advantageous position to fight from. She could just send out her drone with no need to rush in to where your teammate just got downed only to get downed yourself. Anyway, those are my thoughts, let me know what you think!

@ThisIsYourMomentThose clutch moments sliding like a crazy medic in the open to put up you shield and revive was so satisfying and cool!

If there is no space for a return for Lifeline shield incl (knockdown or breakable), i think sending DOC drones that would revive and stun enemies would be a great idea to add to Lifeline’s arsenal. Thank you for your input i will add this idea to “Accept as solution” list!