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CaptWrekAlyfe
5 years ago

Fuse is a dud

I have taken out Fuse into the firing range to get a feel for his playstyle. Little did I know I was gonna become one of Respawn's beta testers.

His tactical is decent. His Ultimate is interesting, but my issue is his grenade launcher feels like it never made it past initial development. It overshoots targets. There is no way to get an accurate drop on a frag or thermite but arc stars are deadly accurate. I wouldn't want to count on his grenade ability for the life of me. So for an ability boasting long range and increased precision, this is a long way from that.

I've got a whole host of issues, but if this along with other issues is what Respawn expects players to accept in season 8, my time in Apex is gonna be very VERY short lived

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  • EdwardDLuffy's avatar
    EdwardDLuffy
    5 years ago

    More Fusey fun yesterday. I had two players completely disrespect my ult. They were sniping from one of the more recent POIs on WE. I was hoping to do the same thing so had my Sentinel drawn but they spotted me. I dropped my ult inside and ran off, and they just ... ran through it - into it and out of it. And both got knocked. One quit and the other never revived as I got the kill a minute later.

    Also in turbine on Olympus I trapped a squad of two at the edge of the ring near a ledge so they were hiding behind a bin. It was KC and 'nade spamming time. The poor little dears were popping cells when I jumped on the bin and Spitfired them from above. I did feel a little like Rambo. I killed them both but a third party Wraith appeared and eliminated me but because she had dealt with me she got bitten by the ring and by the time she phased out she was easy pickings for my squaddie for the win 🙂

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    EdwardDLuffy
    5 years ago
    @Lord_Scorpion34 Yeah there was a discussion about this on Twitter yesterday. Fuse is king early game when everyone has low shields, but once people move beyond blue his abilities (aside from the nade launcher) are worthless. Several times I've had 3-4 kills early game and then have not added to them even if I play for another 10-15 minutes. When I was maining Rev my kills were much more consistent.

    He comes good again when it gets down to the final 2/3 squads and everyone starts taking cover. A double KC and a nade will send most enemies out from where they are hiding.

    I had a game on Olympus yday where my squad got stuck high close to a respawn point as multiple battles waged on around us. I did 1,100 damage without firing a single shot including - a real rarity - a motherload elimination (the enemy had a choice of staying where they were and dying or risk running through it, which they did ... and died).

    I'd still like his Ult to be less pants, but I think he's in a decent place.
  • hayhor's avatar
    hayhor
    Hero
    5 years ago
    @EdwardDLuffy Dont tell too many people you did that damage without shooting or soon Fuse will get the caustic treatment. That was what all the whiners complained about- damage without shooting.
  • Srksii's avatar
    Srksii
    5 years ago
    @hayhor Heh, there do are similarities with caustic. Like there are tryhards that enter in gas and shoot you anyway, there are also tryhards that push my fuse directly through my strategically places crackers to distract them!
  • Lord_Scorpion34's avatar
    Lord_Scorpion34
    Legend
    5 years ago
    @hayhor But that's the point of an explosives expert. To do damage lol. If anything he doesn't do enough damage lol.
  • EdwardDLuffy's avatar
    EdwardDLuffy
    5 years ago

    i had a good one yesterday. After reviving Octane in Fragment he was trailing me and lost a 1v1 on the railtrack. I dumped the motherload on the enemy (Mirage) and ... they just ran though it. Fortunately I had a Bocek and one-shot them. Is there really any point in an ult that no one is even mildly scared of?

    A little later I perfectly enclosed an enemy in the ult ... but they were Horizon and they just dropped a gravity lift and got out of there, zero effect.

    Ults (IMO) have to be balanced with other abilities, so I kind of think Fuse is okay where he is given my deadly-eyed prowess with the KC and nade launcher. I think there are worst Ults (LL, Valk, Wattson) but there are much better ones (BH, Mirage, Loba). It's tough - maybe increase the damage of the ML and increase the cooldown time?

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