(REWORK) Megathread Lifeline / Newcastle megathread

@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!