Any tips for playing as Chomper?
Still recovering from a horrendous match wherein I ran into two ZPGs, got swatted aside by All-Stars and Super Brainz, and ended up stunned into oblivion by Engineers. I'm a fairly aggressive playe...
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@chogath_player and there goes another frustrating match. I'm not understanding this character at all.
Here's a tip, don't!
Or go back to gw2 if you can get a lobby and play chomp there, so much better.
- @FarQM8 Honestly! Hahahaha, blunt, but this is extremely true. Chomper feels absolutely miserable to play. Seriously. I hate playing this character so much. Just horrible bitter feelings always after playing him, just ... don't.
The TTK update and sprinting update have just..... further demolished the chomper. In my experience and opinion I guess, he is just utter garbage. People say to play him as a mid range bully now, but that's not even viable anymore as just about every single character in the game out damages him AT EVERY SINGLE RANGE, not to mention aiming with him feels very ... very not good. And as a cherry on top.... his basic chomp has such absolutely horrible hit detection to the point that I'm shocked it made it past play testing! If they even do that anymore!
Burrow is... oh wow huh this one might surprise you, oh wait no it won't, ITS STILL USELESS! A horrible ability probably the worst in the game actually. More than often it just ends up getting you killed. The digestion times are unacceptably long, and honestly shouldn't exist at all. Not sure why after all these months.... years even, the chomper still becomes stationary shooting practice for 5 seconds after getting just 1 vanquish. Also those sound changes to make burrow more "audible" from a while ago are still... just dreadful. It feels so unnatural and even broken in a lot of ways, I swear I can hear a chomper burrowing from half way across the map! Why! Good luck chomping a sprinting zombie too! That still hasn't been fixed.
Goop is... fine I guess... but its really all he has and can be funky aiming, but with the terrible hit detection you still will probably end up just dying to a zombie you just "gooped" and are trying to bite.
And spike weed... is bad. I understand GW 2 spikeweed was... annoying, but wow its just useless now. If they didn't want instant activation/close range spikeweeding to happen, they should have just replaced it with a new ability. That was the entire point of the ability... I just don't understand why the chomper would still have a trap like that, when it just ends up being a worse potato mine. It fails as a trap still even, because it is very easy to notice...
Gaah... I don't know, reading this over I realize how... salty I sound, but I am just not having any fun with the chomper! Which I could say the same about the majority of BFN's plant classes!- @brady3176 It really does often feel like people who mained zombies complained so much about chomper actually killing them (despite having plenty of capabilities of their own) that he was reduced to a shadow of his former self.
Also seems like no one's quite sure what his primary attack & range is anymore. Goop is probably the most useful, but it's an ability & has limitations, often earning assists more than kills.
I'm finding him ok in PvE but definitely not great in PvP ☹I think I'm one of the only ones that likes the new chomper. I love that goop is now an area denial weapon that can damage a bunch of zombies and even though the 1 point tick it causes after they leave the goop is minor, it keeps them from regenerating and while in it they can't use their abilities. You could hit more than 1 zombie with goop in GW 1 and 2 but it was a single target focused weapon.
I also like that when trying to bite someone I don't accidentally swallow them, leaving me vulnerable and becoming an involuntary 'suicide chomper'. The increased bite damage with the ttk patch helps with this. The ability to spit is useful too. All too often, especially in GW1 and with zombie foot soldiers, zombies would just go to high ground and be virtually immune to you. I would occasionally switch to chomp cannon in GW2 to mess with expectations, but in GW you were largely a melee/assassin character. In BfN, you can help support from a distance.
Before the TTK patch I even got vanquish master on chomper in BfN and while I have been there and seen that in GW1 and 2, it was pretty rare. Most chompers I saw either got constant 1:1 vanquish streaks, or hung back at the point with their spikeweeds.
Not saying Chomper is perfect in BfN but I've found them pretty useful. I do wish spikeweed was more precise with placement though.
