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onii_luvs_otter's avatar
5 years ago

Thoughts on last Caustic buff to be reverted

To put it simply, Caustic has become unhealthy for Ranked, not to generalize teams, but the biggest reason is to reinforce a camping meta more-so than a defensive meta - even with grenades, both of the maps that will be in this season's ranked have buildings big enough for enemies to avoid them - the stronger teams have Wattson, Gibraltar and Caustic in them, farming evo shield damage, filled with gas traps inside, having to wait for the ring for them to come out, where you eventually get third partied for doing so - if you avoid teams like this, they will be the last alive that will eat you up, the position does not matter as all of his teammates can walk through his gas without issue. The end zone? A nightmare, only caustics throwing their ultimates pushing every other player out, even their own, completely toxic especially for people that solo que. I'm going to guess that Caustic's slowdown was implemented so it doesn't promote degenerate behaviour, but by giving him this buff it is completely degenerate. These are just my thoughts, my feedback and feedback from people that have been exploiting this advantage. Ranked was already camping meta, but this is too much imo.

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  • @onii_luvs_otters I like the change in meta to be honest. even watching tournaments where evey team was made of wattson+wraith+gibby/path started to get boring.
    Caustic for a change to the way players used to play and I think more legends should get proper buff, like how "Gibby" and "Caustic" get buffed, so we can see more diversity and more fun games.
    I'm not a fan of nerfing good legends... instead we should ask for buffing less popular ones.
  • I agree with the meta change but not when it's at the expense of your own teammates, this is a teamgame and that was my point, I also agree with "buff the weaker characters instead of nerfing" - I think this is gamebreaking and to put Wattson in comparison, just imagine how broken it would be if Wattsons could walk through enemy fences, this is the same concept for Caustic except it's actually implemented, you HAVE to have a Caustic in the higher ranks, this is outside of tourneys, we're talking about ingame Ranked here

  • @onii_luvs_otters I don't know why you guys are bothered about a legend that just got a buff instead of being bothered about weak characters also speaking from my own experience I have never faced a problem dealing with Caustic his gas isn't even thick at least not as thick as Bangalore smoke and you can almost see what's inside it
  • onii_luvs_otter's avatar
    onii_luvs_otter
    5 years ago

    Sometimes you have to nip the problem in the bud, because if you don't, devs won't know if the features are working as intended - big example, when Gibby got buff after buff after buff, this is the main reason as to why the response is so fast from us people

  • Citrix_Orange's avatar
    Citrix_Orange
    5 years ago

    I really don’t agree on reverting the caustic buffs, I think people are just trying to find reasons to blame for when they can’t push a location where caustic has it locked down, caustic has always been able to secure locations, it’s just he isn’t a nuisance to his own team anymore, in fact he still is, teammates are still blinded while in gas, it’s cost me a few games where I couldn’t see an enemy and they got away, and on the flip side, I’ve been in streams where people don’t respect the gas and just feed into it, then watch them die and complain that caustic is op

  • LordloshBang's avatar
    LordloshBang
    5 years ago

    His buff needs to be reverted. Right now its a problem in the last few zones, and a big problem in the last zone. He just needs to ult and spam his trap and its auto win, without using any skills.

  • I don't disagree with you but I feel that instead of nerfing him back to how he was maybe introduce a buff to a legend that will in essence nerf Caustic. For example, when Caustic has his gas out if Bangalore fires smoke on the gas the 2 will mix and dilute one another, the result would be that Caustics gas will lose half of its effect. I feel that Respawn should implement more direct legend counters, like when they made Revenants tactical stop Gibby's gun shield, to nerf Gibby but buff Revenant.

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