Shorter matches without the ridiculous ring timings & damage from the Vantage season (S14?) look OK.
The evo shield changes of needing 50 more damage to evo up to blue (200 from 150) and the blue & purple shield spawn rates being reduced by 30% looks not so OK. Landing on a crafter will be almost required for trashcans like me.
We'll find out tomorrow, but what do you all think?
Oh no, I'm already not liking this. For someone like me that can't get kills it seems disastrous. I already have trouble finding blue or red armor and making it that much harder will put players like me out of the game. I don't know what a "crafter" is (this is only my third month), but it sounds like I will have to learn if it's another way to get gear since I've only gotten 3 kills in the 3 months I've been playing. I hope they rethink this eventually.
Anyone know the original drop rate for the armors? I mean, if the 30% means going from 3% to 2% chance of appearing in a loot bin then this may not be so bad, but if it's a huge percentage, or like 30% to 20% (it seems more rare, like single digit to me) then it could be bad.
@HappyHourSumwurRing 2 is very damaging. I saw it tested in scrims and teams that normally played ring were getting caught off guard and dying. The last time they made ring two stronger people hated it so this will be interesting.
The shield spawns do not bother me. The attachment spawns are pretty odd and do bother me. I've never heard anyone say "Boy I wish there was less good loot!"
Dumb. All the ring nonsense. They already killed off edge POI's from the last set of changes. "We want faster pace early game"... bruh, faster pace, the game is already over before ring 3, these changes do absolutely nothing to alleviate the issue of this.
Anyway, decrease amour spawn rate = good. Feels like an indirect Lifeline buff, so that's good.
And did we finally get a Gibby nerf? No. He got buffed, you say? 🤡
Honestly this whole thing sounds disastrous. While I agree no one should be able to rat their way to masters, I don't think changing the ring should have been the option to fix this.
The problem came from their overly generous ranked system. The devs need to stop messing with the damn ring and fix the mess of a rank system they made.
As for the Evo shield changes? I don't like it one bit. Better shields were already hard to find without taking them off of someone's body and not being the best player, upgrading mine through combat had been difficult to say the least.
I see this making replicators more sought after in game, leading to not only being rolled up on by another team while crafting, but third partied, and even subjected to having the replicators being camped by other players waiting to get a jump on armorless victims.
I have no hope for this season 18. The more I hear, the less I intend to play.
Overall I like the patch notes. The armour and loot changes should help weed out rats or make them easy kills if they don't participate in fights for ranked. However those same changes won't be of any help to new players playing pubs so thats a bit sad.
Hopefully the weapon mix up will even out the playing field between mnk and controller on PC and we can stop seeing so many aim assist posts on this page lol
And I'm looking forward to the frag buff and checking out the new charge rifle and Rev
