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tweet my meat
Oct 2, 2013

yospos

bushisms.txt posted:

Good news forlorn crypto goon, respawn heard your cries and made sure every anniversary skin was trash except his.

My problem was mostly with the battlepass which leaves all the good skins stuck at a $20 price tag which I am never going to pay for again after I purchase that skin immediately because yeah it's really loving cool

Caustic's skin is really good too.

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tweet my meat
Oct 2, 2013

yospos
Finally checked out the battlepass to confirm my suspicions and yep, literally nothing but the trackers for crypto. They even gave up trying to pretend with a throwaway voice clip like they usually do.

tweet my meat
Oct 2, 2013

yospos

Hackan Slash posted:

They could also realize people want to press w, and stop trying to prevent it.

I prefer to actually have fun and shoot at people in the late game so I'll pass on this. Nothing worse than a chaotic coin flip early game and a dead victory lap late game.

tweet my meat
Oct 2, 2013

yospos
It took the 30-30 being released to make me realize that I actually really loving like the wingman. I had a weird arc where I realized that the repeater was a more spammable version of the longbow which I preferred after testing it and that led into the revelation that the wingman is a more consistent repeater with lower peaks, but better handling and it can take a digital threat sight and a skullpiercer. The lack of a decent long range sight isn't even a huge issue since that only really matters at ranges where you can't effectively capitalize on the damage.

I've been playing a ton of bangalore this season and I'm head over heels in love with the combo of smoke grenades and a digital threat wingman. Just launch a smoke on the enemy's position and plink away with impunity.

tweet my meat
Oct 2, 2013

yospos
This season is my first time actually playing Olympus and I think it might be my favorite map. It really rewards my quiet drop rotation focused playstyle and you can see third parties coming from about a mile away.

My skills had really atrophied over my long break, but after a few days of playing to shake off the rust I'm back in it. It's rough trying to play when you aren't comfortable in a hectic fight.

tweet my meat
Oct 2, 2013

yospos
It's big enough in Japan that it has its own distinct ranked meta centering around aggressive gameplay backed by revenant totem pushes.

tweet my meat
Oct 2, 2013

yospos
"whoops I grabbed a Hammerpoint hopup before you got your pants on, have fun requeuing"

That being said I think this mode should be the norm for unranked, it's so nice skipping the very early looting and having everywhere filled with good rare minimum loot.

tweet my meat
Oct 2, 2013

yospos
Loba's ult will be able to kill people by stealing their organs before they even touch her tactical.

tweet my meat
Oct 2, 2013

yospos
God they loving gutted caustic in this patch. Nerfed the base tick damage of the gas and then made it not increase in damage as it keeps ticking, and then they nerfed the ult cooldown by a full minute. The gas was already pretty heavily nerfed by being able to shoot it before it deploys and by removing the visial disorientation, and now it barely does damage. They may as well just make it a smoke mine at this point.

Wouldn't want anyone thinking of playing caustic during the caustic event i guess.

tweet my meat
Oct 2, 2013

yospos
God i hope heat shields are still craftable at the next algs event. I wanna see the absolute peak of degenerate gameplay.

tweet my meat
Oct 2, 2013

yospos
I'd love ring flares becoming a permanent feature as a potential uncommon random event in pubs along with some other events too, kinda like the events in warzone with the shop sale, jailbreak, or the supply helicopters.

tweet my meat
Oct 2, 2013

yospos

xtal posted:

Now seems like a good time to say that I despise the crafting system. Mostly when the backpack or digital threat are on rotation. But even when it's a purple mag, the fact that you won't find that on the ground means you should pick up a different kind of weapon to start with.

Why would you need to pick up a different weapon when the attachment is way easier and 100% consistent to acquire?

tweet my meat
Oct 2, 2013

yospos
Turbocharger day is a good day.

tweet my meat
Oct 2, 2013

yospos
Ok turns out caustic is still decent. He's not great but he's definitely viable still. There's apparently a fix in the pipeline for smoke/gas visibility and some long term talk about some potential reworks to his gas (caustic healing in gas and gas blocking enemy heals were a couple of ideas tossed around but nothing set in stone, they may not do anything fancy though)

With just a small buff and a fix to the gas visibility bug I think he'd be in a pretty solid spot.

His event legendary skin sucks but the epic skin is my favorite one since the hazmat recolor. Pairs well with the peacekiller pose and gas powered banner frame.

tweet my meat
Oct 2, 2013

yospos

Cretin90 posted:

Unfortunately, I’m not sure I’ll ever use anything other than Necrosis on Caustic, or a Necrosis recolor. I do wish I had gotten the Waste Management recolor though- that would be in the rotation IF it comes back.

Yeah i was dead broke when waste management dropped so I couldn't actually get it despite it being my favorite skin, so I'm patiently waiting for the day in comes back to the shop, should only be a few years at this pace.

tweet my meat
Oct 2, 2013

yospos
According to Daniel Klein, the gas nerf hardly affected Caustic's winrate. I kinda feel the same way after playing him for a while. I do still hope they give him some kind of small buff based on pickrate/fun factor.

tweet my meat
Oct 2, 2013

yospos
The damage is still important as a deterrent but 5 a tick seems decent enough. I could see him getting worse long term if people unlearn some habits and get more comfortable pushing gas, but we'll see.

tweet my meat
Oct 2, 2013

yospos
Are the twitch drops for algs 4 consecutive hours or 4 total hours?

tweet my meat
Oct 2, 2013

yospos
Awesome that's easy enough to do. Happy to see Caustic represented pretty heavily in the NA tournament despite the nerfs.

tweet my meat
Oct 2, 2013

yospos
God drat, 3 teams left at algs, all 3 are match point so whoever wins the game wins the tournament, final circle starts closing, and then the stream skips forward and the game is already over, what a disappointment.

tweet my meat
Oct 2, 2013

yospos
You know I'm not that surprised that Caustic is still more or less as good as he was once it actually clicked in my mind how the math works out post nerf. With 1 tick of gas (someone triggers a mine and pulls back immediately) you lose 1 point of damage, barely even worth mentioning. With 2 ticks (someone full speed sprints through his gas) you lose 3 points of damage, almost nothing. With 3 ticks (someone pushes through at normal speed) you lose 6 points of damage, not nothing, but still incredibly minor. With 4 ticks (someone pushes through very slowly) you only lose 10 points of damage, definitely a notable loss, but even then it's not that crazy. Even at 5 ticks you're missing out on a grand total of 15 damage, and that certainly could decide a fight, but people rarely stay in gas that long. That's 15 damage you're missing out on total if they're in the gas way too long.

It only really affects his damage appreciably when you're getting to the higher tick amounts, which only really applies in final circles, really sloppy scrambles in buildings, and bunker style trap rooms. It does open up the option to sit and heal through gas which I see a lot as a complaint, but only if the Caustic isn't paying attention to the gas at all, and at that point you don't really deserve the kill just for pressing the gas button.

Honestly it was a pretty well thought out nerf that barely touches the lower end of damage and only really affects it when you're keeping them in for the full duration which is where his playstyle started to get pretty degenerate. I started off super pissed about the nerf, eventually realized that he was still really good after playing him for a while, and now I'm actually super hyped because they basically halved his pickrate so I don't have to play against other Caustics and nobody can complain that he's op now despite him possibly still being a high tier legend. Seeing him still represented as the top dog of the off meta picks at ALGS Winter Playoffs kinda locked in my opinion.

tweet my meat
Oct 2, 2013

yospos
Looks like the upcoming lifeline changes have been revealed, no more shield on the drone revive, 60% faster drone healing, care packages now guarantee upgrades in loot quality. I like it, just get rid of low profile and we're golden.

tweet my meat
Oct 2, 2013

yospos

Chard posted:

i love the voice lines. i have created whole scripts for a couple of legends. i will never stop doing this during drops no matter how they beg or threaten me, and the more i can use them during a round the happier i am.

I love Bang and Rev's voice lines that start with them sniffing and I just spam the sniff part over and over on the dropship.

tweet my meat
Oct 2, 2013

yospos
Haven't purchased a legend since i got rampart, breaking the streak for valk, she looks so fun.

tweet my meat
Oct 2, 2013

yospos
That Rampart skin is awesome, and all the banner frames are cool as hell, Caustic's especially. Pretty good weapon skins too. Solid enough pass this time around.

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Oct 2, 2013

yospos
God drat, the mozam is actually pretty good now.

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Oct 2, 2013

yospos
The bow is absolutely insane, and the sentinel is actually really good with deadeyes tempo now. Definitely gonna be a sniper meta this time around, especially with the current state of the Bocek.

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Oct 2, 2013

yospos

Songbearer posted:

Sounds like people are just gonna macro the poo poo out of the bow/sentinel if there's no variance in the sweet spot

Why not just do it normally without a macro?

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Oct 2, 2013

yospos

Rubellavator posted:

Some guy baited Tufi, a prolific cheater and pain in the rear end for streamers, into showing his personal identification. So now Tufi's getting sued by EA and may possibly be in jail.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZgIWRmAda4

https://www.reddit.com/r/CompetitiveApex/comments/n8v2v5/tufi_is_in_jail

End of a very unfortunate era right there. I think nearly every apex streamer I watch had been stream sniped by him regularly. Certainly won't solve the hacker problem, but he should certainly serve as a good cautionary tale for anyone who wants to build a reputation for stream sniping and hacking.

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Oct 2, 2013

yospos

prom candy posted:

I don't have Mirage. I'm not that interested in Caustic, is he good? Maybe I should just drop :10bux: and get a couple of them.

I recommend going for Octane, Valk, Mirage, or Loba (she's pretty good right now after the buffs, but she's eternally buggy) if you're looking to try something new. Mobility based legends are usually a safe bet and Mirage is just plain fun with solid abilities.

Caustic, Crypto, and Revenant are all quite good, but are more difficult to master, all requiring specific playstyles to do well with (Revenant isn't too hard, but requires a proper team composition and some basic coordination when pushing with your death totem to really shine, not the best for solo play)

Rampart, Fuse, and Wattson don't fit too well into the current meta, but you can make them work, especially in pubs. Rampart and Fuse are kinda bad, but both are both a blast to play and are also pretty easy to learn. Wattson can be fun too if bunkering down is your thing, but she's a difficult, inflexible, and overly passive defense oriented legend in a pretty aggressive game.

Honestly though just use whatever sounds fun to you personally. You probably don't need to be worrying about which characters are meta yet, and you can get the hang of playing just about anyone with some youtube guides and a week or two of good practice outside of Crypto and Wattson who I would classify as the most difficult to master legends.

tweet my meat
Oct 2, 2013

yospos

Megaman's Jockstrap posted:

Has anyone encountered any speed hackers on console? I had a very strange experience last night and I suppose it might have been two people with the exact same Legendary skin on Mirage; otherwise somebody appeared to go about 50m in 4 seconds. I didn't have eyes on them the whole time though and I stupidly didn't save a video clip.

Never seen em in a console lobby before, but speedhacks are definitely a thing.

tweet my meat
Oct 2, 2013

yospos
Just about every season I get one of my buddies with the old "They changed it so the beam doesn't kill you anymore" technique.

tweet my meat
Oct 2, 2013

yospos
NRG is just annihilating at ALGS, they're at 262 points and they're like 65 points ahead of TSM in 2nd.

tweet my meat
Oct 2, 2013

yospos
Congrats to bottom 20 for winning ALGS NA! I wasn't cheering for anyone in particular but holy hell what a wild ride the final few games at NA were. Super happy that a Caustic team won it, definitely an upset win.

That was some of the best competitive apex I've watched in a while.

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Oct 2, 2013

yospos
God I can't wait to have my disruptor alternator again. Such a perfect care package weapon.

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Oct 2, 2013

yospos
Daniel only really got hate from community because he was the main character design guy posting about the character balance changes on the apex subreddit which kinda made him the default target when people got angry about a balance update and wanted to harass a developer about it. Even the Riot firing thing was apparently about him calling the league reddit community toxic manchildren (correct) after they got enraged about the company having a series of panels and portfolio checks that prioritized women and non binary people.

He always seemed like a decent enough dude and his firing is really surprising news. I'm curious what kind of poo poo they actually found.

tweet my meat
Oct 2, 2013

yospos
drat yeah that's pretty bad. Long time ago but he was still old enough to know better sums it up pretty well.

tweet my meat
Oct 2, 2013

yospos
Just got my first 9 kill 3 round arenas win without being knocked. I think the matchmaking system shat the bed or something because I really should not have been in that match lmao, nobody but me got a full kill.

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Oct 2, 2013

yospos
Rampart is just so drat good in arenas. She's gonna be crazy after the mid season buff whatever it is.

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tweet my meat
Oct 2, 2013

yospos
God this progression bug on ps4 is making it very difficult to enjoy the game. Nothing you do sticks, xp disappears, challenges revert back to incomplete, battlepass levels and rewards disappear, even changes to your banner disappear. Really hope they don't wait until Tuesday for the hotfix because the progression system is literally nonfunctional right now.

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