April 2019
With the new sniper buffs a problem starts to occur almost every game now..
Sniper buffs where a must and should stay! the guns sucked before.
BUT:
People picking pathfinder just get on real hard or even impossible to reach high ground places.
make sure people don't get up using their zip lines. ( people are real easy to shoot off zip lines )
And if they have a decent shot they just shoot everybody down from there.
and there is nothing you can do about it.
-You can't flank them.
-you can't shoot em down.
-Even if you manage to shoot em they just res/heal up.
-you can't nade em.
-If you attack them frontal you die on the zip line
-Even if you have a pathfinder in your squad and he makes a zip line they pay attention and shoot you off that zip line as well.
-Can't smoke yourself up there.
-Even if your pathfinder and you grapple up there you are solo vs 3 people.
So the only thing you can do is walk away.
Witch is ridiculous.
That is if it isn't the final combat zone in the ring!
Even if the final zone pushes them out,
Sometimes you have to wait several minutes before it does, fun game play!!
This was a problem before in some matches,
But now its a problem every match where you survive the drop.
I understand holding high ground or a better position is a thing and a advantage.
But it should always be reachable and push able somehow.
But right now its:
If we are here we can't die and if it happens to be in the final circle we win.
with the new caustic buffs and the new sniper buffs
This game is getting more and more a camper fest and this game is losing the charm it had over other battle royals.
So please make those only zip line places punishable.
the 30 sec and reset is more than enough for anyone to abuse the crap out of it.
You should not reset the 30 sec every time.
When the timer starts you have to get away from there.
You should have a total of 30 sec on those places.
But some ridiculous places don't have a timer at all.
So pathfinder is ruining this game with both his hit box and his ult now.
And grapple being the most powerful Q in the game at the moment.
Good job on the legend development department!
One legend to rule them all.
April 2019
The ability to grapple up to higher points is one of Pathfinder's abilities. He is a scout Legend. Under these situations it might be best to avoid engaging unless you have a sniper rifle to counter. Unless it's the final ring, Pathfinder will have to eventually move so you can always try engaging this enemy player again when you're in a better spot.
Even if Pathfinder is healing up from the elevated spot that does burn away shields and health kits from their inventory (unless a Lifeline is up there with a heal bot), so at some point they will run out of ammo or ways to heal up. You're also drawing attention to them with all the gunshots, which can attract other squads to eventually flank or wait for Pathfinder at the bottom.
If it's down to the final couple rings you'll need to consider all these factors:
How often do you feel this situation comes up? #3 on that list above is the biggest factors that will lead to this. We'll keep an eye on player feedback if this develops into a late game balance issue, but from personal experience it seems like a rare outcome out of all the amount of games I've played.
What are your thoughts?
April 2019
Its exactly my point that with a pathfinder you can camp places your not supposed to camp.
A timer gets activated because people are not supposed to be there, I can hardly imagine the developers wanting people to keep resetting the timer somehow to count as advanced and good game play.
My squad being forced to retreat because people are abusing it somehow doesn't seem right to me.
And agroing another team with the gunshots sounds like a bad plan here.
Because they are safe up there and i will most likely get to fight the 3rd party while those abusers are sniping up there.
I doubt you are talking about teaming vs the abusers somehow.
This was rare to me but they seem to be up there enjoying themselves up those places a lot more since the new longbow buffs.
Dropping a caustic trap is another way of ensuring no one gets up there.
And you don't have to consider if there is a pathfinder alive.
There is always a pathfinder alive.
its the most broken legends out there at the moment and i think its hard to find a squad that does not have one in it.
But there are a lot of topics going on about that one out there.
So ill leave that alone.
In the end.
Maybe its on purpose.
But as i sayd before:
A big + in this game was that camping wasn't a thing.
it was the only BR game where camping just din't work most of the time.
But its getting a thing more and more and it pains me to see its getting rewarded.
April 2019 - last edited April 2019
Be the Pathfinder then. I use(d) him the most, but stopped because sniper rifles were basically S H I T. Now they are nerfed and much better. The problem I encounter is that newbies insist on being Pathfinder, but they are totally unable to use his skills. God knows how many times I've pinged high places to get our m o r o n Pathfinder to throw a line, but no...… The * will rather run around and test shoot new guns.
I'm tired of this game now. Stopped playing. Typical for commerce devs, make a game that is a mockup of other similar games like Fortnite, etc, release it before it is properly bug-fixed, and don't give a * when users start complaining about things not working. That's pretty much where we are now. They made a good game and they threw it down the drain.
Now, if there is an email service I can register to, that will tell me if/when the game is fixed, I'd like to know. Because as of now = not worth playing.
April 2019
April 2019 - last edited April 2019
Your absolutely right.
you can reach them all with the balloon.
and im also 100% sure you never used iT to counter a team on one of Those places with it.
because using a balloon when landing takes you About 1 second to get your wep. And then because of a bug you always have to do a reload animation with both your guns before you can shoot after using a balloon.
imagine not beïng able to shoot for 2 seconds point blanc vs a Squad that had a semi decent shot.
i rather take my chances with the zipline up there At least i can shoot while going in a sure death.
and its not About being reachable.
its About being abused....
April 2019