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Motive_Mario
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6 years ago

March Balance Patch Details

While you are waiting for the servers to kick back up tomorrow, feel free to read through all the juicy details below. Get ready for Ranked Battle Arena. I'll try to respond to questions throughout t...
Fork_x_Spoon's avatar
Fork_x_Spoon
6 years ago
To summarize most of it, they made the game faster (decreasing most ability refresh timers) & accurate (trajectory adjustments). However, one change that may be underlooked is the speed blending; it'll feel much smoother when you switch from regular speed to spriting. Not to mention the fact that Electric Slide & Scientist are no longer semi-auto; gone are the days of mashing the RT button!
  • belpita's avatar
    belpita
    6 years ago

    Thank [Someone] for automatic fire! It was really tiring having to do it manually, especially during a longer playing session. 

    • Shinobicap's avatar
      Shinobicap
      6 years ago

      Chomper still gonna be the worst character in the game. Simply because it takes WAY too long to swallow an opponent, even with mastication (and that's an essential talent).. His hit box is massive and his health is sub par for a melee character. He's slow and clunky. He's just all around bad. Which is a shame because chomper was my favorite in gw1//2 

      Also why can't you regen health underground? that's silly.

      • shurikeninja's avatar
        shurikeninja
        6 years ago
        @Shinobicap I think Chomper is great in BFN, much better designed than in the GW games. He's not top tier, but he can work well, especially in Battle Arena.
  • Ifriend2006's avatar
    Ifriend2006
    6 years ago
    @Fork_x_Spoon I just played the new slide (my main) and I just don’t see why they changed her, I think that the update is unfair to slide, no one played slide because of chain danger people played her for her semi-atumatic And extremely accurate boogie bolt. Now that it’s gone she is a bad copy of night cap because her slow projectile speed stops her from being accurate and the damage reduction is un necessary. No one complained about slide being op in fact more people are complaining about peashooter, space station, acorn and engineer. Overall I hope they change her back to how she used to be as she was the only character I had fun playing as not because of her abilities but just because of her primary.

    TL;DR * whoever nerfed slide. She was perfectly balanced and they should bring back her old boogie bolt
    • mikepal19's avatar
      mikepal19
      6 years ago
      @Ifriend2006 I think there was a post specifically for e slide counters. And people replied about how broken she was. Which is true because you couldn't really 1on1 her, get primary did so much damage and she had an ability to just win any 1on1 she wants (that tornado ability)
      • Ifriend2006's avatar
        Ifriend2006
        6 years ago
        @mikepal19 Yea but I dont care that her abilities refresh faster I don’t care for the damage reduction as much as I care for the projectile speed. You see to be good at slide u has to be accurate with her and that’s what made her powerful now that her projectiles are slower she is a worse rip off of nightcap reason for her being worse then nightcap is simple: nightcap’s projectiles are giant whilst slides are not, so no I end up landing only half my clip on enemies whilst before the outage I only missed one out fifty headshots (because it was easier to hit headshots the body shots) now if someone decides to lean to the left you will miss them because of the horribly bad projectiles speed. Oh how I wish this update never existed or was released on April fools

        TL;DR: e slides projectile speed is to slow making her worse the nightcap
        E.g: if someone takes a step to the side u miss half ur shoots
    • Pheesley's avatar
      Pheesley
      6 years ago

      @Ifriend2006There were many reasons to complain about slide. Before this patch, she was one of the best Zombies for Sniping. Even at mid range, she was very strong.
      Plus, her survivability was way to strong. On top of her Strong range, Tornado made her harder to approach, she can push people away with Funk Bouncer, and worst of all, Outta Fight activates instantly.
      Good e slides knew how to take advantage of her long range, and could run away to the safety of their teammates pretty easily.

      I dont really agree with the Boogia Bolt changes, but I do like the automatic fire, there really isnt a problem because they haven't changed her rate of fire.
      The real problem with E slide, is her Survivability and that the game has no damage Fall-off. Without it, Slide may never be balanced.

      Edit: I feel the same way about All-Star. Even if All-Star was a little OP, I miss when he could do 10 damage. But his class design is really messed up right now.

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