Why do Respawn hate Octane?
Any official responses?
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@StarMystro 14k kills with Octane and will say two things: the buffs were garbage, and the nerf to healing when stimming was very harmful.
Also, jump pad is very poo as an ult. Deploys and doesn't work a lot of the time (fully deployed too), bugs and falls through world.
Only tact to negatively impact the player in the game. Why doesn't Wraith text take her health? Or Pathfinder? Both are faster than stim.
Respawns neglect is woeful. Much rather they publicly come out and just admit "yea we hate Mexicans" and that be that.
@S1mmOJ That’s so true man, what’s the point of being the fastest character in the game if you’re gonna go into a fight with gray body shield even tho you have purple... it’s kinda wack
@BillyCrash100 dude Mirage is powerful since his rework... They completely rebuilt him and it WORKED.
Octane is voted joint worst with Crypto, and honestly I'd say Crypto isn't as bad as at least he has some offensive damage dealing capability on his ult.
Look, I've mained Octane for a long time. I'm regularly top 50 on kills, dmg and wins. I genuinely wouldn't be moaning that he is broke as fk unless I believed it.
He needs a ground up rework WITHOUT health penalties in his tact/ult. Anyone who disagrees with this just hasn't spent enough time playing him in a range of different scenarios and situations... It's clear the Devs just haven't played him enough to realise "ok wow this isn't fair".
I hope to god they read this thread and start a mirage style reboot... NO ONE is saying he needs to lose his speed, it's WHO HE IS - but you don't have to cut your arms and legs and entire battle capacity and ability to wage war as a price to run fast.
Even making jump pad team only is a good start so if you're using it as an escape mechanism people can't just follow you on it deeming it pointless.
My personal thoughts are:
- Passive health replaced with faster strafe left/right like revenant fast crawl.
- Jump pad becomes tact, 25 sec reuse.
- Ultimate gives health tick like current passive and fast speed like current tact for 60 seconds, 2 min 30 sec reuse.
This would put him comparative to other top 3 legends in terms of cool down Vs power. Which is fair, he's been bottom barrel for SO LONG so put him on the podium for a while.
Oh, and stop buffing wraith and saying it's a nerf. Jeez.
- @S1mmOJ When you say that it seems as though the "devs haven't realized he was fair"; Do you mean it's not fair, like, it's too much of a penalty to lose health on ability use? Or it's too "radical"/wild perhaps?
And if if jump pads were a Tactical ability, how many jump pads would be able to exist (for one player) at a time?
Forum bug duplicated post.
- @S1mmOJ You made the same post twice...
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