I don't really agree. Technically there is nothing wrong with any weapon kit in the game except that there are other weapon kits that are better than it. Custom kits doesn't change any of this. There will still be certain combinations of mains, subs and specials that will be better than the others. There will still be high and low tiers. There will still be a meta.
Yeah but the issue is that kits are good because of how well it's components synergize with each other. Sure if a main, sub or special is generally too strong (or weak) they can adjust it but there will still be some combinations that will be better than the others. And balancing those cases are hard without affecting all the other combinations. It's already difficult with the current system but imo it would be incalculably harder if every combination is possible.
I can kinda see where you’re going with that, but a meta is not necessarily a bad thing if the meta is going to be significantly more fresh than it is now. And no, there are more problems than just weak and strong weapon kits. Some kits are flat out antisynergetic and even for fun value, many of the weapons do not feel good to play. I don’t think you know how many main weapons have incredible potential shackled by terrible/boring kits. Dread instantly becomes an awesome enabler for so many weapons if it can have cooler, Ballpoint has its unique playstyle with beakons back, Tetras can throw away the sprinkler and be an absolute menace, E-Liter can have its burst bomb back (which would be pretty funny ngl), honestly the only thing I’d be concerned of is slosher burst combo with a good special
See...I think it would be fresh at first, but quickly get boring as soon people find out what the meta combinations are and then that would be pretty much all you would see. Some weapons might get bumped up or down but I think it would get stale pretty quickly. Especially because, outside of really high level you would probably see a lot of lazy builds. I'm suspecting you would see a lot of shooters with missiles and splat or burst bombs in solo queue for instance.
Tetras have tanked hard since cooler meta, which killed its qr niche, Liter is stuck with a mid kit and while the main is strong enough to have some uses, it’s practically impossible to justify over pencil 99.9% of the time. Ballpoint while definitely usable also tanked miserably because of Pencil. And Dread is stuck as being niche because it’s a slider weapon. While these weapons aren’t that kit dependent in terms of usage and therefore not in a terrible spot, those are the exact weapons that should be BETTER than they currently are. Ballpoint and Dread especially are forced to being niche picks in their current state while if they had a strong synergistic kit (BP’s kinda strong (or would be if not for Zooka) but not very synergistic, Dread’s very synergistic but not that strong) they’d have the ability to create new playstyles for compositions to give more potential options for weapons that are currently difficult to fit, even with a good kit (Gloogas, Squiffer, Dualie Squelchers, Blob, Bow, Dynamo, Brella, and to an extent even Carbon and S’Blast). We have a ton of weapons that while can work, are forced to be built around to make work. That would be fine if we had a lot of weapons that could be used as enablers for those niche picks but we don’t, leading to team comps feeling very samey despite different weapons, and even that bit of diversity is being threatened by Pencil and Zooka since we don’t have good enough options for other specials (ESPECIALLY inkjet and inkstorm). Those problems won’t be completely fixed with custom kits but it would be much more bearable because there would be so many more options.
This is all true...at the very top level of the competitive scene. This is not what 99.99% of the player base experiences. You if you go a little lower and you see a lot more weapon diversity. Genesis X was won by cooler-less comp with Tri-Stringer as the backline. I'm not saying that Tri-Stringer is secretly top tier, Genesis X was not a major or anything. But I'm saying you have to go extremely high up before the meta becomes absolutely constricting. At the very top, when people are going up against the best in the region or even the world, it makes sense that you would want to give yourself every millimeter of advantage you can get and so it makes sense that something like Tetras or E-liter might not quite make that cut. But that's not what the vast majority of people are dealing with.
Not sure why these weapons are the ones that should be better than any other given weapon to be honest.
I think the issue here is that for some weapons it's easy to see how it could be better with this or that sub or special and how it might be better for the game. However I think it's pretty much impossible to predict what the result will be if every possible combination was allowed. Can we really be sure that will make the game better? What if the new meta is a cooler and 3 missiles? That doesn't sound fun. I'm not saying that it would definitely be worse but I am saying that no one could really know either way.
I’ll admit, I didn’t see Genesis X and I really want to analyze it because a coolerless bow composition getting first is crazy considering the competition and gives me a lot of hope for theorycrafting. As for why weapons in a decent spot should be better, it’s because most weapons in a “decent” spot are usually incredibly difficult to play without enough of a payoff to be worth it imo. In that regard though, it’s usually less that the kits aren’t strong, rather the main weapons are not strong enough to be reliable. I do like the compromise concept of having it be somewhere cool within game like challenges. While I personally don’t like the time constraint for it, I like the thought of having it at least somewhere. Another compromise in mind (if they ever give third kits) is maybe being able to swap between three given subs and specials that are different for each weapon. I feel like then, broken combinations are much less worrisome and if the dev team gives decent subs and specials for each. Because thinking about it now, it would be terrifying if something like torpedo missiles was available for Squeezer. MAYBE we leave that kit on goo.
