Season 12 Patch notes

'Crypto has never been weak.'  LOL!

The changes for ranked scoring don't solve the problem in general, ranking up still being an abomination.

Having said that, rewarding top placement and kills rather than bottom placement and kills is the right idea.  It might, but probably won't, reduce dumb cluster drops like Fragment (though WE is not in rotation.  Still, all of King's Canyon is a Fragment, so...yeah, that won't matter either.  But it will for Olympus).

Hmmm. Weird patch notes for sure.

No word on tap strafing?

Next gen?

And I’m disappointed that this didn’t push through. A death should be counted to all quitters. This didn’t solve the auto-quitting problem in pubs. Or did I misunderstood the notes?

@Cheese9Man Wait what? Wraith's getting reworked? 

@Cheese9Man Oh ok good.

Anyway, i miss the time when we had huge meta variations, now we only get 1 or 2 legends changes. I think Caustic nerf is not as huge as we thought, but it'll need testing before a proper opinion.

The one thing i'm surprised the most is that they don't care at all about Arenas. They hyped them so much before launch and now they treat it like rubbish. I'd play it a bit if it was a decent mode. But no,  you'll still get +12 points for a win and -50 for a loss. GG Respawn.

RE-45 and Mozambique are op. I can see everyone using them at the start of the season lol.

Gonna stop being a negative Nancy. Things that I liked:

- Everything new to Crypto but increase the range you can throw the drone. From the early gameplay it’s only 20-25m

- The wildlife nerf in storm point

- The airship routes in SP to lessen Barometer hotdrops

- The filters are welcomed for reasons mentioned in the other thread.

Opinions on other stuff

- Poor arena players. Hammerpoint rounds might be their new meta. 

- Why the heck did we get World’s Edge updates? LOL!

- Flatty and Longbow only costs 30 crafting mats so that didn’t change things since it’s so cheap.

- Rank changes will not change how people play below diamond.

- They decreased Caustic’s tactical duration by 1.25 seconds! Which is actually a buff because the gas will linger for 2 seconds.

- Still neglecting LL. 

@Cro_PitttYeah the barrel having 150 health is alright I guess. Is that the HP of the Horizon ult too?

The game changing insane buffs/nerfs were DZK’s thing. A doubled edged sword for sure since it makes the game feel fresh with the changes per season but sometimes he’s just changing things for the sake of change. Right now, I was actually hoping for that huge DZK shake up when it comes to buffs and nerfs. Lol.

I might start using a Mic now, just because I can at least set voice/text to friends only (the few I have in game).

@Cro_Pittt I think Respawn threw a lot of work into Arenas.  But the crying over the mode was ridiculous, and completely dumb imo.

Third Party screaming was completely solved with this mode, but it shows you can do a whole game mode with only two teams, and people won't figure it out.

Also, frankly, Arenas solved a lot more problems than that.  

People don't like new things, so I get that on launch, people were complaining.  People have complained about every single new release no matter what it was.  I completely get Respawn linking awards to playing Arenas.  Now, why a ranked mode? I have no idea.  But whatever, people probably screamed about wanting that to, and then, you know, promptly didn't play it.  

If I were Respawn, and feeling toasty and mean, I'd just keep linking BP and event rewards to having play Arenas, because of pouring so much work into it.  Maybe not any more work, but that's fine, enough is really there.  Adding control to me shows the mode Respawn probably wants to give up on the most is Battle Royale :P.  And, I'm not going to lie, while I think that won't happen, I'd be fine with making BR the secondary role, given how many problems there are with it, if they can't figure out how to solve them (or just won't).

Back to notes:  I think it's okay to start adding weapons to the crafting station if we're getting one new weapon a season.  It'll get redundant at some point.  How many SMGs do we really need?  It's pretty clear not all guns are created equal in this game.

Maybe they'll roll out the rest of the anti-titan weapons :D  Go beyond the charge rifle. Do it.

Have a seminar or something in Respawn for the devs on how to be better at communication with the community. While the loot change in frag was a good change but  please be more transparent next time or Josh and John could’ve just ignored the tweet rather than lying. 😄

Also these patch notes should’ve have dropped a week ago rather than scattering them to 5 different news outlets.