Corn is Now Crud!

The developers majorly missed the mark with this game.  There is so much wrong with the characters it's not even funny.  And like you said, with the characters that are carry overs from GW2, such as Kernel Corn, the old saying "If it ain't broke, don't fix it!" could not be any more appropriate.  There was NOTHING wrong with Corn or Rose, why did they feel the need to change anything about them???  And I'm with you, Butter Barrage was much more useful than butter beacon, shuck shot sucks, and husk hop is so broken its useless.

It kills me that they wasted time developing things like the ridiculously stupid and lame sprinting motions, the emotes, and the god awful choke filled maps, and ruined what should have been great characters, when all they had to do was copy the characters and abilities over!

And don't even get me started on this ridiculous reward map thing.  What person, with a job, responsibilities and basically a LIFE has the time to grind as much as is required to even come close to getting most of the stuff???  I sure don't.  I guess if all a person basically has to do is sit around and play video games all day, congrats to them.  But those of us that have lives don't have time to or even want to grind for some cosmetics.  

This is a major disappointment, when it could have and should have been an awesome game.  It just seems like they tried too hard, and went way overboard.

I remember a time when rose ruined the game.  I remember a time when toxic pea ruined the game.  There was also a time detos ruined the game.  We are early in this game.  The first day I played it I hated it.  It’s different, yes.  Bugs are still being worked out and even so I’m having a ton of fun at this point.  Voice your opinion on exactly what you dislike about the characters or gameplay.  They’re listening.  And at the end of the day if it’s just not for you then so be it.  I didn’t like fortnite even though I had no problem playing it.  To each is own.  Be loud, be specific, and be accurate.  This game is vast.  It’s not the pick up and play the first two were.

Oh my goodness the butter beacon lol... don't even get me started. First time i threw it i was like "WHAAAAAAAAAAA?!1!11?" talk about nerfing a characters BEST ability. Imo that was his bread and butter (pun intended) he could clear the garden out like peashooter or All-Star... now he can throw a very limited, and very weak ability out that can maybe sometimes spot an enemy for a few seconds lol. 

USELESS in PvE, and pretty much the same in PvP where you don't have time to scout out areas, the game is very breakneck and having a scout like ability is USELESS with this pace. The time spent going through the animation is more than enough to get killed, and you'll just wonder why you didn't Husk Hob or Shuck Shot instead as you sit in the character defeated screen. 

I mean, its a different game. Things are gonna be different.

But I do agree Corn needs buffs. The enemy reveal should last longer imo, and the shuck shot is worthless. 

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@XxImPachoBluexX wrote:

I mean, its a different game. Things are gonna be different.

But I do agree Corn needs buffs. The enemy reveal should last longer imo, and the shuck shot is worthless. 

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True enough, but i think a certain level of familiarity was in order here, and i don't just mean aesthetics. They should have known changing characters would have a negative impact on series veterans. Some of the changes just don't make any sense, they seem like changes, for changes sake lol.

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@EQOAnostalgia wrote:

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@XxImPachoBluexX wrote:

I mean, its a different game. Things are gonna be different.

But I do agree Corn needs buffs. The enemy reveal should last longer imo, and the shuck shot is worthless. 

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True enough, but i think a certain level of familiarity was in order here, and i don't just mean aesthetics. They should have known changing characters would have a negative impact on series veterans. Some of the changes just don't make any sense, they seem like changes, for changes sake lol.

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Butter Beacon was a weird change to me at first but it's actually quite good, especially in PvP. Not only do you get a damage bonus against zombies in the AoE of the beacon, but you get to see where they are, even behind obstacles, and you get xp when your teammates vanquish them inside the AoE (highlight xp or something like that). The time it revealed a space station, 80s Action Hero, and Super Brainz behind a wall was a time I avoided getting vanquished, and that was just an extreme example. It is less useful in PvE but you still get a damage bonus with it and your main weapon, and it reveals enemies in that area.

As for husk hop, it's much better here than in GW2, I haven't had it bug out in BfN once but in GW2 it wasn't a rare event. Not only does it bug out in GW2 a lot, 2 weeks ago I was playing on Kernel Corn in GW2 and it failed twice in a row, but they've made it so you can jump even further in BfN than prior to the patch! In GW2 it's a common issue for husk hop to not work at all, you just jump really high, drop no kernels at all, and don't even flip over, or you do flip but if an enemy is judged 'too close' by the game, you do flip over and drop kernels but you get no lateral movement at all and simply drop the whole payload where you were just standing and you land at that spot too!

They may need to adjust corn vs. the solider as corn got no damage buff but he's far from crud.

Edit: The Beacon should indeed last longer. I need to use shuck shot more after this patch to judge that better, but it was annoying before the patch for sure.

I'm probably from the minority that think that Butter Beacon is better than Butter Barrage. I assume they had to remove it because it made no sense in most objectives/maps... How would it all fall from the sky to enclosed structures?

Butter Beacon is an OP ability that provides wall-hack for a generous period of time. You and your allies would know how many zombies are contesting, where they are and what classes they are playing. You would also gain a damage buff as long as the enemies are within its radius.

Having 2 Kernel Corn with 2 Butter Beacon can break the game. The zombies would be exposed almost all the time especially in a game where there are many choke points.

It's not only Husk Hop, most abilities feel like... you're using a sticky controller or mouse and it's just not that responsive.