@BaldWraithSimp wrote:
@hayhorSame reason why Lifeline drone doesn't heal you anymore in storm so you can't just sit inside the ring deliberately and call it a 'tactic'. Gold knockdown wasn't removed due to one guy complaining, a lot of people were asking for it.
You could kill one team and turns out one guy has a gold knockdown shield so you miss out on your kills, plus he gets higher positioning if you get attacked while trying to finish that guy. It's a lot different when money is involved, you were referring to algs when you said the rule is dumb. But whaaa, stop whining! I don't see the issue when I play pubs!
The gold knockdown is fun in pubs, it can be really useful at times but in ranked in honestly it's pointless. In ranked regardless of whatever knockdown shield you have you get finished instantly because of KP and it is very very rare that you even get the chance to crawl away to safety let alone self revive yourself.
Also, on the flip side when you do kill an enemy with one, it's well annoying at times that you have to go back out your way to find a kill that person on the floor.
There is no aspect of a gold knockdown that requires any level of skill, it is purely down to luck and luck only.
I don't mind if gold knockdowns go away. Sure, it's really cool and all when you can pull it off. But at its heart it's really a cheese mechanic and, while I don't mind if they stay, I also don't object to its removal.
If I remember correctly, heat shields were causing all sorts of late game issues in high level play.
