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bosourd's avatar
4 years ago

Mirage's dive decoy is utterly useless

Love playing him from time to time especially when there are challenges, but his dive decoy is just...

  1. Decoy's dive trails (vanilla trails) are not as bright as the real one, therefore it's so easy to detect them
  2. Even more useless when there's Valkyrie, she doesn't scan the decoy
  3. It takes too long to deploy the decoy after you jump, enemies can see you deploy your decoy then, you should be able to deploy them immediately after you jump
  4. At least make those decoy moves following the real one just like his ultimate instead of just flying straight into god knows what, another giveaway

Bamboozling is his only strong suit, it can't harm anyone, literally, his decoy should be more useful, especially his dive decoy. Now, players can point which one is the real one even far from landing, players should keep wondering if the closer one to them is the real one or not sometime after landing.

6 Replies

  • pandareno1999's avatar
    pandareno1999
    Hero+
    4 years ago

    Hey I was watching iTemp's YT video for the day, and I immediately thought of this thread. I think that I actually found one situation where they seem pretty passable - dropping hot straight down from the drop ship.  Check out the beginning of the game at about the 35 second mark.  I mean, I'm kinda being silly here but they look pretty convincing!

  • Cheese9Man's avatar
    Cheese9Man
    4 years ago
    @pandareno1999 Him and sooxfar are my favorite apex content creators. Just casual fun with the banter without the usual toxicity of your average streamer who blames everyone but themselves.
  • pandareno1999's avatar
    pandareno1999
    Hero+
    4 years ago

    @NickBeam27

    You make a good point. Not every legend's abilities have the same relative strengths. Mirage has what amounts to a slew of passives.

    If effort were to be made (not holding my breath there) I'd rather it went into de-bugging the tactical on the ground rather than working on the dive decoys. The number of times the decoys poof into thin air after sending them out on wold's edge is staggering.

    At least they fixed the gold bag bug for Mirage after a while!