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Aballister1987
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7 months ago

Caustic Rework

I have noticed, for the past year, that other players don't seem to be bothered by walking through my gas traps as a Caustic main. Not to mention that as soon as I lay down a trap, whether it be for 3 seconds or 3 minutes, the trap is getting one tapped, even if I am in the midst of fighting and it has time to inflate and stay standing, it is immediately despawned by a single shot. Not to mention if one of my traps does activate, I hardly see my enemies through my own gas. I mean, as a Caustic shouldn't I have the innate ability to see through my own gas as opposed to my enemies not being able to see through it?

I have run across many other Caustic mains that have the same issues that I have and are wondering if we are going to get a rework soon? Here are some of the things I would like to see:

1)Indestructible gas traps

2)Gas damage quadrupled (considering Sparrow's Ult can hit for 20 damage, or more, per tick.

3)Make our gas slow our enemies again (while in the gas and at least 3 seconds after moving out of it) so it gives the gas more of an effect than just doing 4 damage per tick.

4)Give us a damage increase in our own gas and any enemies caught up in our gas a damage debuff on top of the slow AND 16 damage per tick being asked for.

I feel that these suggestions aren't asking a lot considering you have these skirmisher Legends flying around like Sonic on **bleep** and downing players faster than they can react, or even blink.

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  • The fired creators loved Caustic, and the ones who stayed hate him. Basically they took everything he needed. Currently if you don't have good movement and aim then this character is useless.

  • As a Caustic main with nearly 8000 kills... this.

    I would not agree with the quadruple... remember Sparrows ultimate is only a few seconds... gas lasts much longer but double at least is not unreasonable given the ridiculous power difference between them.

    His NOX vision should be really good as default, not a shield upgrade.  He's supposed to already have that.  It just cheapens what you are already supposed to have.  I don't understand that choice.

    The healing in the gas option should be at least on par with lifelines drone, it's way too slow to be useful.

    Enemies vision blurred and slow is a must.  The original poster isn't wrong, I have come across many squads that just don't care, they'll run through it and still beam you.  It doesn't matter.

    I hardly play him anymore; he is so weak compared to other legends now.  Given the money and time I've spent on this guy I feel pretty let down.

    It feels like the meta is just to walk into wherever and shoot shoot shoot.  If anything impedes that it must be nerfed into the ground immediately (streamers, pros and other crybabies about Caustic's abilities in the past).  If it makes you pause to think then is that a bad thing?  If people don't care and charge into it anyway, does that suggest it's a bit underpowered?

    Please fix this.  This has been a huge issue for ages.

    I've been playing sparrow.  We had a squad we were dualing with at range (150m+).  Did some damage to them, used my Sparrow ultimate and got 220 damage from that pushed and cleaned up.  Caustic cant' throw his ultimate that far and it would do, what?  30-50 damage absolute best case?  Ridiculous.

     

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