January 2020
As much as I appreciate Crypto getting the attention he deserves, he has a lot of potential and I enjoy playing as him, but this most recent “buff” makes home even less usable.
Let me explain, one of crypto’s biggest downfalls is that you are often lagging behind your squad mates. Most of his abilities are built to support your teammates. I try to be an aggressive Crypto, but this new “buff” makes it so that my teammates can rush right in while I’m using the emp and typically finish the fight before I can even get further involved because I’m stuck waiting outside of the emp range. Why? How does it make any sense that crypto’s emp would hurt himself but not his teammates? If this was just done the other way around, having crypto himself being immune to the emp then he would become a balanced character. His abilities could be used both to help his team and for him to be able to play aggressively, as well as having an option to use his emp to help him get away from bad situations. I can see this current change being great for ranked or in tournaments when placement far out weighs personal kills, but in pub games and the for the enjoyment of playing the game, it’s really not a buff. This is a nerf. Keeping Crypto further out of range of the action. At least when everyone had to hold back from the emp, I could be running in beside or, at least, slightly behind my teammates, now my squad jumps into the fight before my emp has even gone off, which just leaves me basically out of the fight all together. I really like using crypto, but I really question whether I’m going to keep playing him if it means I either don’t get to be a part of the fight, or simply don’t even use his abilities in order to allow me to enter into the fight alongside my teammates, which if I’m choosing the later, I may as well switch characters and gain an ability that I’ll actually use.
Please consider changing how this “buff” effects crypto. I truly believe he would be a far more balanced character if this was just switched around.
January 2020 - last edited January 2020
You know, I have been using Crypto because he really is a fun Legend to use but I realized this exact debacle. There was something that would not make him competitive in the slightest and you kind of nailed it. EMP tech wise, is suppose to disable every single electronic but if you had the shield around our own players just as how our drone has ITS' shield around it, well, this solves the issue.
They could even highlight our teamates in green just as how the drone is highlighted when the EMP goes off. That would be perfectly acceptable because the drone does not explode... so our teamate's Body Armor should not explode in this way too.
February 2020
I think it would be to OP if his EMP didn’t damage anyone in his squad, but it makes no sense to me at all that it should damage him and not his teammates. I understand this is a game built around teamwork, but at this point all Crypto is capable of is benefiting others and not himself. Crypto is completely missing any of the ingredients needed to be aggressive, and this so-called-buff is just another way to help his teammates while pushing him almost completely out of the fight.
I tried to let it go and kept trying to play as Crypto after the “buff” but in two weeks my k/d dropped from 1.46 to 1.36 for season3, which may not seem like a lot, but before this the most my k/d ever fluctuated was about 0.01-0.02, over the previous month, and with nearly 3K kills with Crypto, there needs to be a steep downturn in the number of kills per game, to decrease my k/d that much.
Now with the new season, it has just highlighted this issue. I have more assists with Crypto than kills. Merely because my teammates are finishing those I hit with the EMP before I can physically get into the fight, and in the rare chance that they don’t, it’s usually because they got downed and I’m left to try and clean up.
the fact is, Crypto is just no longer an option for me to play as. I spent the entirety of season 3 as a Crypto main. His abilities fit my play style perfectly, but now I feel he’s become unreliable and unusable for me. Which saddens me, but unless something changes I don’t see any other option.
Please take away this “buff” or better yet allow Crypto to be the only one immune to his and other Crypto Emp!
February 2020
February 2020
It’s an interesting idea, but I don’t think there is anyone else that receives such types of bonuses to set precedence for this to happen. If it were, they would also need to give these kinds of bonuses to other legends when the meet certain criteria to, like wraith when she calls out that she’s been seen or for blood hound when he scans, etc. However, I can’t see them going to that much trouble.
I could agree with it making less noise while it’s standing still, but it’s only fair that it shouldn’t be completely undetectable. All legends abilities make noises or give off some way for other teams to know they are being used, so it would be unfair to change that for crypto and not for other legends too. However, it would be nice as a Crypto to have that working in your favour, but it would just be too OP, I think.
I feel like the suggestions I’m making though are not really OP. Personally, I think they would make Crypto more balanced, but of course that’s just my opinion.