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5 years ago

People not scared of gas is getting really problematic

Each day I face more and more people running into my gas without any fear, I used to use gas to hold enemies for a few seconds to revive teammates or heal, now they run in the gas, spot me and game o...

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DarthValtrex

Hero (Retired)

5 years ago

@Alphabets Try playing as bangalore and having people beam you through smoke that they are not supposed to see through.. And they do it with LMG that have no digital threats...

I'm mostly playing Wattson right now. I won't make another in game purchase because of this change. Spent nearly $100 on Bangalores heirloom and I can't even enjoy it because they nerf her without even announcing it. When I try and play her, I eventually bump into people who just destroy me through the smoke.

This is the kind of thing that sends people to other games.

DoYaSeeMe

5 years ago

@DarthValtrex Honestly I didn't notice any difference, I'm having a hard time shooting people through bangalore smoke, like always. But I am trying to poke enemies hiding inside smoke more often. Maybe the change you speak of is console only, but then I don't understand why it's not Sswitch only, if that's the reason they made it for.

@Alphabets I have played Caustic extensively since the nerf. I killed people with the gas, wiped out squads, won a few, including one or two on my own. I like people pushing me inside my gas, they're easy kills. Overall, I don't feel Caustic being weaker, at all. As for Octane, Horizon, Revenant and Wraith, they were great counters to Caustic since before the nerf, but that's normal.

DarthValtrex
Hero (Retired)
5 years ago
@DoYaSeeMe Areas int he sun light it's fairly bad.
- BaldWraithSimp
  5 years ago
  @DarthValtrex It was an unintended change, they are looking into it. That's what the devs said at least.
hayhor
Hero
5 years ago
@DoYaSeeMeOn console the smoke and gas reduced visibility is bad in certain scenarios now.

Like you I havent noticed much change in the situation with cautic and the gas damage. Good players have always pushed into the gas and killed me.
KarvaRausku
Seasoned Adventurer
5 years ago
@DoYaSeeMeThey have reduced the banga and caustic smoke particles since nintendo switch launched so it can run the game.
- DoYaSeeMe
  5 years ago
  @KarvaRausku I've heard of that and makes sense to a point, particle systems are performance killers all the times. But I don't get why that isn't a thing for Switch only, as it's pretty easy to make settings per device type. They either didn't see much of a difference, didn't want Switch players to have an advantage or didn't want to make the setting exploitable by exposing parameters of it.