Incoming controversial changes to Rao!
Just learned through a video from one of the EA Creator Network content creators that with season 6 a change is coming to Rao 's hacking ability. It won't disable the vehicles weapon systems anymore but deals damage instead. How dumb is this? I already barely used this specialist but now there's nothing left anymore that will make me pick him.
In addition they return his feature of hacked enemy soldiers who get killed briefly revealing other enemies nearby. For the love of god, who thought that was a good idea?
For completeness, this is the description in the patch notes:
- Added visual and audio feedback to vehicles that have been hacked by Rao's Cyberwarfare Suite.
- Rao no longer reveals players around an enemy he has recently hacked and killed, instead Rao will now reveal enemies in the target's area when he hacks a target. This will reveal all information in that area, such as all enemy soldiers, vehicles and gadgets within 10m of the hacked target for a very brief period of time.
- Sparks VFX appear when a vehicle is hacked to give improved player feedback.
- Vehicles will now be able to shoot while they are hacked. Vehicles will instead become “damaged” when hacked. Wheel, turret, engine damage states will trigger.
- To provide further emphasis on electronic warfare, the EMP Grenade will now behave similar to Rao’s new hacking behaviour.
And on Caspar drone this:
- Fixed an issue that allowed the Recon Drone's thermal sight to see enemies through smoke.
- Increased the cooldown for the Recon Drone's EMP by 5 seconds.
Dev Comment: This change comes as part of the EMP / Hacking gameplay behaviour improvements mentioned within Rao’s section to ensure healthy gameplay balance.
