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3 years ago

Valk / Flight

Ok so we had a new character come out some time ago with capabilities that no one asked for Who new that the character would be game-breaking? Yes game breaking, I said it. Shoot at you? fly away. ...

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XHelperZ

Hero+

3 years ago

@Daze623 It does help my point though.

Gibby has been getting nerfs, they haven't worked.

Why? Because the nerfs simply were just small changes, targeted to make him fall out of the meta long term without dumpstering him.

Currently, it seems like we instantly want to take everything away and change it all.

Is it more acceptable just because Valk isn't one of the base legends the game started with?

No of course not, so I'm trying to point out that taking the long term route is for the best, as we obviously don't want to dumpster them.

It hasn't worked out yet for Gibby, though of course there are plenty of other pressure points they're working on.

Once a game has a meta then it becomes impossible to not have a single time without a meta without it feeling like garbage.

There will always be legends that stand out on the top, resulting in handicaps here and there.

And whilst I do understand the frustration, it's much better to adjust values rather than completely remove a design element.

"There's a reason why they're spread around"

Yes, because the developers decided that, you think they just randomly decided to add in the Valk ult without second thought?

We're dealing with devs here, not machines that produce random results.

Let's first change it so the ultimate isn't as strong, that's easy to do.

Daze623

3 years ago

@XHelperZ If you've spent 4 patches now trying to nerf a character to get them out of the meta and still failed maybe just maybe you're looking at it from a wrong perspective? Slowly nerfing a character often leads to the characters demise depending on the characters kit. Sometimes you just have to accept that the design is flawed and just rework them.
Yes they probably didn't think it through with her ult. That's not new with game devs. A lot of them add mechanics to their game that they think would be cool without thinking of the repercussions.