October 2019
This event needs some work.....
Just won a game before the rescue ship even arrived, 'cos all the shadows quit.
October 2019
Woah. I was thinking about what would happen if all the shadows quit. It's legit because there's nothing for the shadows to do but try and stop the Legends. No rewards, no challenges, nothing.
Shadows job is to do what a normally salty person would do if they could respawn. Revenge, and stop them from winning a game.
October 2019
October 2019
Here's the thing though, the shadows can 1-2 shot you weather you have white to gold armor. The idea was to have 20+ shadows swarm 10 legends, even though shadows only have 30 health points. 30 * 20 = 600 Health in total, which means if you're playing a legend and you got over 3 shadows on you, you're pretty much dead unless you can hit your shots quick enough.
The problem is that shadows are only good in a bunch, or a swarm if you will (like bees attacking a grizzly bear for example.) If there aren't enough bees then the grizzly bear might get stung a little, but not enough to deter it from getting honey.
The same situation for shadows, if there are only a few shadows attacking a legend, like 2 for example, then they might get hit once (or die if they don't have armor) but can easily defend off against them and make it to the Evac ship.
20+ shadows vs. 10 legends = 70 percent chance of shadow victory
15 to 10 shadows vs 10 legends = 45 percent chance of shadow victory
10 to 8 shadows vs. 10 legends = 15 percent chance of shadow victory
You get the idea.
October 2019
They must make shadows healthier. The game is already hard, with having to pay attention to BOTH Legends and Shadows. But when you become a shadow....
It's frustrating to say the least. Even more so with all the quitters. If shadows got more health, I think people would find it more rewarding to stay in a game.
Or, they could just add that time out they give to quitters in ranked, to those who leave before the end of the game.
October 2019
Right. I can fully agree. But there are a few other problems with being a shadow. Like early game you respawn way too far from anything majority of the time. You should be jetting from probably the center.
Jetting down as a shadow feels like its a lot slower than normal.
You're not able to melee immediately upon landing.
The melee hit registration is still bad. Sometimes you have to melee a door 2-3 times before it reads as a hit. Sometimes when you melee someone it does the full animation but zero damage is done.
Respawning as a shadow takes too long. Spamming tab 30 or so times before you actually respawn. Plus another thing some people accidentally rapid fire on the spacebar, attempting to respawn faster but end up leaving the game. You shouldn't be able to that until the end of the game; if people really wanted to leave they'd press esc and then leave match. I know I've accidentally left 15 or so matches.
October 2019
October 2019
October 2019 - last edited October 2019
They really need to add shadow rewards though because rn 15 legends left and only 3 shadows XD its sad this event was poorly planned either add some badges for kills as shadow or a couple event loot boxes or maybe bs together another char or weapon skin as a reward something because its fun getting your revenge and attempting to kill everyone but most of the time it hard having no health, by yourself, and multiple legends teaming up together with no shadow backup