As a Vantage main since season 20, I’ll say that gathering information is the identity of this Legend, so “Controlling my Prey” perk is a perfect fit for her. In fact, access to both Survey Beacons and Ring Consoles is what makes Vantage such a powerful character, so replacing that with access to Support class would be a disappointing development.
Regarding this season’s update, the knee jer*k reaction is that replacing 3x optic with 4x is a big nerf of her Ultimate. 4x is usually too zoomed in to survey the surroundings, while the new 2x optic is firstly cumbersome to use (requires a separate input to enable) and secondly is effective at ranges that are not suitable for sniper weapons. To be fair, I wasn’t using Vantage’s Ultimate much before this change (her power is in her passives), so using it even less is not the end of the world. And who knows, maybe I’ll get used to 4x optic.
The one thing that concerns me is the new “Herd Tracker” perk. The ability to track players you can’t see and ease of identifying isolated team members likely make Vantage annoying to counterplay against. I know that Valkyrie gets similar ability with “Eyes in the Skies” perk, but she needs to skydive to get this effect, which is trackable and doesn’t happen often. Vantage gets to scan through walls anytime she wants and can do that silently, which doesn’t seem fair. So, it would be great to either rework this perk or replace it with something else.
