So Octane nerf huh?
Watched one video about it and was reading an article about it, so now he got buffed, and people are enjoying it (I am not talking about the random randos who stim every second) that the boy got a bu...
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Hot take: a 200m catapult and 40% permanent speed increase (yes it's functionally permanent, no the damage you take doesn't matter) is bad design in a game based around tight movement and tactics.
It turns it into Titanfall. Everyone is flying around on the stupid pad and the space chick has an instant, silent elevator that allows her to scale the highest heights in the game. There is a reason Titanfall is dead. It's fun, it's beloved by many. And it's spammy chaos. Spammy chaos doesn't make for a long lived game. Octane is the ultimate mindless W key legend. He drags the skill ceiling of the entire lobby down like an anchor.
This game was designed with a lack of mobility and a lack of spam in mind. Pathfinder was the only high mobility (wraith isn't mobility as much as she is aggression) hero in the game at launch. His mobility came at a huge drawback.
Then came Octane. Then Horizon. Now look at it. Isn't it exciting? That every team in ranked from plat to masters is either a revtane+blood team (immortal, high mobility, AND has wallhacks!) or a mix of Horizon/Octane/Wraith/Path. Mobility is a bad idea for this game without some serious drawbacks.
- @1234smile4321 As someone who is maining Octane now that damage you take does matter. Spamming your stim is the dumbest thing you can do when you play him and his catapult is really easy to predict apart from the 2nd jump. What they should do to balance him out and should have been added to Octane's kit in the first place is that his stim should not work if his health is too low.
- @Daze623 Nah, the stim damage heals back instantly, and is easily ignored. I played a lot of Octane. He's OP as it gets, right next to Horizon. He's one of the strongest solo fraggers. His pad is too strong of an engagement tool.
Again, movement speed is everything. In every game. Ever. People like to sleep on that, but joke heroes like Wattson, Bangalore, etc., being on the same cast as Octane and Horizon shows that the dude in charge of balancing this game is sniffing the Overwatch glue.- @1234smile4321 I understand Wattson but Bangalore really? Bangalore has one of the best escape mechanics in the game and is a solid legend without being too oppressive. She is far from a joke legend, you're probably thinking of Rampart and Fuse.
I'm not surprised that there are mobility based legends in this game after all this game was marketed as a hero shooter BR.
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