Balancing Meeting: Caustic
CEO: Here you go again guys, time to wreck a legends, who gonna be ? Marketing: Guys, do you hear those pro players are crying so loud after dying to caustic in the final ring during competion ? CE...
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Although I use Caustic a Iot, I honestly don't care that much about this nerf. I just know it's not a final change, if it proves to be too much, they'll adjust it after a few days. Also, I'm not that certain that Caustic will be weak. Blocking paths, slowing down enemies and reducing their visiblitity are more relevant to me than tick damage, and these will be used more often as more enemies will dare to push through the gas. It will be more action, less waiting / camping. Also, the vast majority of enemies don't take more than 4-5 gas damage ticks before getting out of it, so a difference of 10-15 damage, which is an extra bullet's worth. Still an easy win for a Caustic with decent skills.
The flat rate of damage is a good change, because it allows other players to estimate the gas damage cost for pushing a Caustic much quicker.
Anyway, funniest thing I saw today was TSM Albralelie saying that this nerf is "making Caustic not a character anymore", and doing some quick math around the patch notes. Makes you wonder how much thought he actually put into proposing no damage gas for the legend. Good lesson for those who think pros know better 🙂
@DoYaSeeMe @hayhor Syringe heal 25 health in 3-4 seconds while the gas do 5 damage/second, that mean enemy gain 5-10 health per syringe.
They can pull medkit to get full health as well which was not possible before. That's HUGE disavantage.
If yes, enemy can simply camping inside the gas now, no need to worry to get out of it. He can simply use enemy gas to HIDE, Can you believe it ??
This show how inexperience the new engineer is, he simply doesn't know the game, don't mention the character.
I took my time and looked at my last 5 matches carefully. I encountered 18 squads in those 5 matches, with 7 of those having a Caustic in their team. 3 of my own teams also had a caustic, which obviously I didn't use because I main Rampart. So that brings up 10 Caustics in 23 squads, so an average percentage of 43%. I feel like that's an all-time high, considering how rarely I saw caustic prior to the last buff. Even funnier was the fact to see being third-partied by some other squad, and behold, all 3 of us had a caustic. The battle of toxic people. Both figuratively and literally.
Wanted to count it because I feel like the use of Caustic lately was very high. Almost every second match my team had a caustic. So it was kinda easy to guess that a big percentage of squads I encounter would have Caustics as well.
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