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Dontaew24's avatar
Dontaew24
5 years ago

Season 7 Buff for Octane Apex Legends

I believe Octane is very underwhelming with his ability in creating a gap, between him and his aggressor. I have an idea to help fix this issue, and add another stat line to the apex archives. “Steps per game” is my proposal. Not limited to just a single match, but tracking the amount of movement a legends has taken is a great incentive. So by using the steps per game Octane’s stim will increase its speed for the players with steps greater than x. (x) being the determined amount. Think of it as potential energy kind of. The stim rewards the user for the steps they have taken. So the more steps, the faster Octane can run. It’s also fair if Octane isn’t able to gap till about stage 4 of a 4 stage process. Each stage representing an amount of steps. This balances Octane out of the gate, and can be adjusted easily.

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6 Replies

  • Eurlannd's avatar
    Eurlannd
    5 years ago

    should have been buffed this season

    he needs some combination of the following

    - replace heal cost with something else to prevent him from being stimmed at all times (like a heat mechanic)

    - lower heal cost to like 5

    - increase health regen to like 1hp/s or even 1.5hp/s

    - decrease jumpad cooldown to 50 seconds

    - further increase speed to 50%

    - remove green glowy trail

    - remove the WUB WUB WUB WUB WUB WUB sound he makes while stimmed

    - allow octane to cancel stim

    - remove the stim cooldown entirely and make stim a toggle-able ability

  • CompleatBeet's avatar
    CompleatBeet
    5 years ago

    Hi @Eurlannd 

    Unfortunately there are two reasons why I disagree with your ideas.

    It makes Octane completely broken and no premium Legend should be broken.

    And it completely overlooks the main issue with Octane: he is in no way, shape or form a team player.

    Besides, the developers have confirmed that Octane's upcoming changes have been planned to make him more useful to a team.

  • OctobberOctane's avatar
    OctobberOctane
    5 years ago
    @Dontaew24 his hit box needs to be decreased just a bit and i think he should have a 2nd passive where incoming damage is reduced since he has more of a smaller shape
  • notregitserd's avatar
    notregitserd
    5 years ago

    I agree with most of what You said but I think the 2 second stim is necassry, because he would be able to zoom around the map. I do agree with the speed increase, he is just so underwhelming. The stim takes away to much health. I think his ultimate is right where it needs to be. That green trail that follows octane is just stupid, also has anyone else noticed how freakin loud his legs are. Alos I agree that he should not make that loud of a sound when stimmed.

  • notregitserd's avatar
    notregitserd
    5 years ago

    So this is for season 7 I hope that they add an octane buff because he is my main. I have heard rumors of an octane buff were he drops a pack of stims for him and his team. I would not like this to happen because it will ruin octane, all u would need to do is have and octane on your team and you would have his abilities plus whatever legend you are using. It would be pointless because everyone would be going 30% faster and that would just be like how it is if nobody was stimming. So I think it is best to keep octane as the unique speedy dare-devil he is.

  • notregitserd's avatar
    notregitserd
    5 years ago

    yesssss thank you i dont know if you guys watch itemp plays but he explains in a video that octanes hit-box is soo broken. He has this huge area above his head that when u shoot it it counts it as a head shot.

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