Can we revert Caustic's canister nerf, it's stupid I can't win fights.... why would you nerf a character that has the lowest play and win rate this season?I play this game cause of abilities, you're forcing caustic to be a defensive character and cant do anything else....Can no longer win fights running into bunker cause people shoot out the traps so God damn quick. It's not fun.

@TorridestJet568 Agreed, the canisters are basically useless now aside from camping a building in which you can set up in... Even in those situations they have limited value IMO.I quit playing him. The last time I did I tossed a trap down next to a player who was picking up loot.He proceeds to pick up gun 2 stacks of ammo and then shoots down the trap. I start trying to box him and during that process tossed down 2 more traps. Not one was activated and I was dead.It was really bad, to the point I have not played caustic again. He has some of the worst abilities in the game combined with the second worst hit box in the game. You then have the legends who have the best hit boxes in the game combined with the best abilities in the game.

@DarthValtrex Gotta have to disagree here, while i think the Caustix nerf was bad design and unwarranted, Caustic had one of the best universal abilities in the game. My win rate and K&D significantly improved since i picked him up as my main back in S2. But nerfing him into a niche role while completely ignoring his downsides into a pure camper is a bad move imo.

Yeaah it's just annoyance frankly, I hardly play him since they implemented this change, it's screwed my whole caustic play style.If I wanted to camp for 20 minutes I'd play warzone.

@matzesingtI think you're missing the point that so many of us have tried to make. Caustic is at a huge disadvantage from the start having the second largest hit box. Toss in that he has some of the weakest abilities in the game. It is turned him into a legend who's just remotely close to being competitive outside of a very few and rare circumstances. It's not about his gas winning fights, it's about him having abilities that help him. Every legend has abilities that help, whether it's Wraith, Gibi, LL or the like.. All legends have viable abilities that help them win or at the very least prevent them from losing one by allowing them to make an exit. Caustic does not, his traps don't even slow down teams who are chasing you.Fortify a building? I can throw nades into it and set off the traps or just flat out shoot them down, until the caustic is out of traps.Consider that it's now so easy to shoot down gas traps, that the few caustic mains I know avoid Bunker.. That used to be one of the rare areas caustic shined.I like caustic being big and powerful legend. But his abilities should really shine and compensate for the huge target that he is. I have no issue 1 clipping a caustic with a 99, but it typically takes 2 clips for me to drop a wraith.

That's EXACTLY problem, you don't need to aim to win the battle with Caustic anymore.Everything is SO HUGE, his trap is HUGE, Caustic is HUGE, you can close your eyes, you can kill him easily.

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MandatoryIDtag
6 years ago
@matzesingt Throwing traps in peoples faces has nothing to do with the issue at hand, that's stupidity and I'm really not sure why you would think that's the issue....unless of course you don't actually play caustic and are failing to see the point lol.
matzesingt
6 years ago
@MandatoryIDtag you can play him open field as most other agents aswell... its a shooter not a mmo
hayhor
Hero
6 years ago
@matzesingt None of us in this thread that play caustic throw traps in people faces as grenades when in a fight.
BigBlackCaustic
6 years ago
@matzesingtThere is nothing about your argument that isn't stupid.

You can justify any decision with it, no matter how it affects balance.
"You just can't aim" is a fallacy and does not consider anything that affects the outcome of a fight that isn't aim itself, which is only one factor by itself among a dozen.
But if you wanna repeat your one and only easily dismissible point over and over again hoping it'd make it valid somehow then be my guest.
matzesingt
6 years ago
@BigBlackCaustic Imagine most agents have tacticals that are not that strong in the mid of a fight..and caustic is clearly not one of the worst when it comes to that, so asking for reverting a necessary nerf is insane,Fighting against a good caustic in the last rings was more then cancer and it still can be. There was barely any counterplay to it when he threw the barrels basicly in your face.
I even started to main BH to * up caustics thats how depressing it is to play against caustic, and the moment i see a damn barrel somewhere i sure as hell hunt that guy down even if i have to chase him all over the map... and so far ive been lucky to not find a single caustic in plat(currently) that can actually aim without his gas giving him the big boy adv.
asukojo
6 years ago
@matzesingt
We don't ask much, we only ask to KEEP the original way to disable the trap, shoot the bottom of the barrel, that's it.
Is that too much to ask ??
What is your excuse ? you can't aim the bottom now ??
matzesingt
6 years ago
@asukojono i want it to stay as it is...
Now its actually a trap and not a grenade
asukojo
6 years ago
You can AIM the bottom right, it's not that hard !
matzesingt
6 years ago
@asukojo not needed anymore right ?😉
asukojo
6 years ago
That's EXACTLY problem, you don't need to aim to win the battle with Caustic anymore.
Everything is SO HUGE, his trap is HUGE, Caustic is HUGE, you can close your eyes, you can kill him easily.

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