Vantage feels “more clunkier” this season
Hello.
I'm Vantage main since season 20 and I feel like in season 29 she became “more clunkier” to use in two particular areas:
- I feel like there are now more instances when I can see an enemy and get information about their armor, but can’t mark them for my teammates (when I try to ping them I either ping a nearby environmental object with “Let’s go there” or even get generic “Enemies over there” ping that doesn’t mark them). I can’t point my finger on exact conditions when marking fails, but I feel like most of the time it happens when there is some foliage or cover in line of sight, so it may be related to Season 29’th Health Bar Updates. I wouldn’t mind if cover prevented Vantage from getting a read on enemies completely, but when you can see their armor, but can’t relate that information to your teammates via ping, it’s a bit frustrating.
- The replacement of 3x Optic with 4x in Vantage’s Ultimate made it harder to use it at mid-range in the middle of active engagement. I’m playing on console with default controller settings and the camera movement speed with 4x optic is often too slow to keep up with opponents who move around at the opposite end of your POI. You can probably deal with this by changing sensitivity or periodically zooming out, but this and the fact that the new 2x optic requires a separate button to activate contributes to the feeling that Vantage’s ultimate had become too mechanically complex to be used (this is probably not a common issue, but I struggle with multi-button inputs in all games). I feel like 3x and 8x was the sweet spot for the mid and long-range optics, so it would be great to replace 4x with 3x. I would also prefer (I think) if 2x optic was incorporated into the standard optic switching (you use the same button to cycle between three options), so if that can be added as an option to the settings, that would be great.
Thank you.
