Caustic is so bad and useless now
i had like four traps down the elevator right next to each other, and i used the caustic alt that landed right on a team getting gassed by literally four traps, and i shot at them who landed right o...
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@hayhor As a Caustic main I share his sentiment.
It's not the deterrent it used to be. I've engaged against people/squads who are quite happy to stand in the gas and get on with it. There is no sense of urgency to get out of it like there used to be. It's frustrating as that's the whole point of Caustic... to discourage people from entering a zone or engaging with you or force them to relocate/panic to even the odds (gas grenade can turn a 1 v 3 into a 1 v 1 very quickly, or at least it used to).
The traps should have consequences. They don't anymore. As a Caustic main with 2800 kills I can say from first hand experience I have noticed the difference. It's discouraging.
There seems to be a move to "dumb down" the game and hamper any sort of ability/playstyle other than the shoot-shoot-shoot meta.
- DR
They could’ve at least increased the damage to 7 this Genesis event but they didn’t even touch him. The same goes with Wattson. They even had the audacity to make a “funny” joke in the patch notes.
- @Cheese9Man Yeah, that joke was ill-advised really. They should know that the current state of legends like Wattson and Caustic are a sore point with a lot of us and poking us with a stick isn't a good idea. They didn't learn from watching that Blizzard guy on stage with his "Do you guys not have phones?" thing from a few years back.
They clearly don't know what to do with Caustic and are too scared of the minority of people who complain about anything that messes with their meta playstyle. Its at the point now where I had always thought grabbing Caustics heirloom would be a no brainer if the mythical shards ever drop for me but these days I would probably just hold on to them and wait because I have little faith that they will fix him, or that whatever changes they make would last longer than a month or two before getting nerfed again. - @Cheese9Man The wattson buff thing was really bad. Devs shouldnt really talk to the public and that was the perfect example.
Caustic is so bad, I don't main him anymore. I won't touch him unless they make him reliable again.
I play mostly Bloodhound, Loba, and Bangelore these days.
@hayhor wrote:
The wattson buff thing was really bad. Devs shouldnt really talk to the public and that was the perfect example.These patch notes were pretty questionable in this way. I'm only vaguely familiar with who Reptar is, but making a joke of calling him/her out by name is also a bit of a bad look. I suggest they drop the folksy, familiar manner and stick to the facts.
- @pandareno1999 Lmao what 🤣
you are confusing two different things with each other or misunderstanding something. Reptar is a pro who found a direct sightline from his spawn on Phase runner to enemies and got a knock, so they patched that by adding some extra trees. Hence his name in the patch notes as friendly banter. You are taking this way out of context
https://twitter.com/ReptarRB/status/1408101674233729026?s=19
- @Cheese9Man Increasing the damage isn't the solution. Its how we ended in this mess in the first place. They should have never removed the blind.
Right now the way to fix him is to add a status effect. Thats atleast equivalent or even worse than the blind (considering how much hes been nerfed since then).- @BigBlackCaustic Amen brother. Give me blinding and small barrel toss over damage any day.
Its kinda funny how Caustic developed. Back when i started to main him in S2 he was able to push buildings aggressively, was without a doubt the best anti-camper, with even the new Legends being unable to compete with him in that aspect, and back then he was memed for being weak. Now imagine the outcry that'd happen if Caustic was released today in his S2 form.
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