Season 17 Opinions

So far all the changes coming in season 17 sound amazing and sound like its going to change the game a lot. Not sure if it would be for the better or for the worse though. We'll just have to wait and see. I do got some opinions about the upcoming season.

- Legend Changes (That I know of) -

- Didn't even know the Seer / Catalyst combo was even an issue, mostly because I'm not in pred or ALGs lobbies. (Where Catalyst puts up her ult, and Seer ults to tag everyone as a free xray of sorts.)

- Ballistic's abilities sound cool, yet broken. The tactical is going to annoy a lot of players as it takes 20 or so seconds before it stops taking an effect, and it can seek out targets. That just sounds like a cheater's best dream. All they have to do is tag a player, aimbot them down, and that player cannot do anything besides punch or run, maybe throw grenades or use abilities. The passive is a cool idea, although sounds broken considering the ult makes it a gold level weapon and gives the team unlimited ammo and faster reload speeds. Ramparts with LMGs are going to basically instantly reload LMGs as Ballistic can reload a havoc at half its speed and Rampart can reload all LMGs 25% faster, so Rampart (assuming its not nerfed for her), is going to have a 75% reload LMG speed. Who thought that was a good idea?

- Rank Changes -

- No splits, no rank points, (rather ladder points), no <insert rank here> lobbies, credit for unique kills, (aka no more easy boosting), placement focused, and you must be level 50 or higher, (should be level 100 or higher, but I digress), this all sounds interesting and like it could be a good thing. This sort of ladder system should be applied to all modes should it actually work out.

I'm playing pubs right now to avoid getting deranked out of plat, and there's so many below level 30 bot accounts, and by bot accounts, I mean those accounts that seem to be ran by an AI, but they got cheats. Saw a duo bot team lagging out and aiming at walls, hitting players in the head who were still behind cover, etc. This is just... wow... I don't know what to say.

- New Items / Weapon Changes -

- Glad to see the Re-45 return back to floor loot, would of loved to see the Charge Riffle go in instead, not sure why the rarely used L-Star was put into the care package, but ok. Also interesting take on the new items being put into the replicator, (Alternator and the Sentinel), with the 30-30 and EVA-8 returning back as floor loot.

- The R-99 losing that one bullet going from 20 to 19, I'm just going to laugh at how they broke the R-99 this season and made it way better then the R-301, but they're not going to make any changes to the Nemesis which does indeed need a nerf.

- The EVAC Jump Tower survival item is an interesting idea. While I would say "just run a Valkyrie", its nice to see alternatives and it wouldn't stop a Valkyrie from ulting and then using one where they land, so there's some uses at least.

- Map(s) Changes -

- I can't wait to experience World's Edge after all the changes made to it and I hope we get a playlist like how we did when Olympus came out, where we can just jump in and experience the whole map. No idea why we never got this mode for Storm Point or even for Broken Moon when those came out. Could drive home the idea of a museum by allowing players the ability to check things out and visit the oh so mentioned gift shop.

- The firing range update looks insane and I wish I had a team to go play with just to have fun on the new map. Hope the rumors about being able to join friends who are already in the firing range is true as well. I also hope that maybe we'd get the ability to que up for matches, but be able to play in the firing range until a match is found. I rather wait out que times in the firing range, than on the lobby screen.

- Newer Approach to fight cheaters and smurphs -

- Its said along with the rank changes that the increase level requirement for rank is to help prevent a lot of the smurphing, even though I've seen smurph accounts go well into level 75 and beyond. I just hope that the talk of a better anti-cheat system works out, although I hear that a lot of players have been falsely banned by the new system already. While as mentioned above, I just hope smurphs are dealt with in every match, not just rank They need their own lobbies or to just get banned.

- Final Thoughts -

There's a lot in season 17 to be excited for, and a lot to also worry for, (such as how many things are going to be broken, how much more audio died, and how many server hamsters drop dead). As for now, I'm concerned how bugs like this one below exists. I'm playing duos with a random player who's level 7, and I somehow pinged a banner card. I'm guessing a random team crafted their teammates banner, but when we went over there, there was nothing on the replicator and no one got spawned in.

All I did to trigger the banner card was try and ping the raven ping to say "ok", even though you cannot ping the raven ping currently. (As in it does nothing).