From being on both sides of it, yeah it's possible. But only if you're like...close to a ledge is all. I haven't seen any major knockback from the burst bombs honestly. And I use them a great deal. I mean I guess a bubbler is the only time I've seen decent knockback on when using the bombs against.
Short of removing it from the game entirely, I don't see how the bamboozler could possibly get nerfed. ;)
gets a free pass while gets chopped in half literally, but I do understand, they were OP and heavily abused, I wont even try to deny it, but I'ma still be upset over this. Pretty much all my mains just got wrecked, and they didn't do anything to compensate my main man the , infact they nerfed it more with that special reduction. Meh, I know there's no use complaining about it, and I should be happy with the Slosher and Jet Squelcher buffs, so instead I'll do the only thing I can, adapt! will be enough to allow for 3x to be thrown on a full tank. That's generally the amount I'd ever throw at once so it'd be like nothings changed in that regard atleast. To make space on my gear builds, I'm just gonna have to drop as I don't think it's gonna be effective anymore since getting a direct hit from a distance is unlikely so with only two bombs I wont be splatting anything from afar (well unless they're already damaged).
I know I don't know what to do with my gear, I'd finally settled on damage up, swim speed up, ink resistance and bomb range distributed across them and it was perfect... now... I guess I'll be re-rolling cause bomb range up seems like a bit of a waste =( Maybe I'll use ink saver to try and help my poor burst bombs. Ugh.I'm praying to all the gods that two mains of
If you can't aim with the Hydra, you're not going to hit anything. If you can't hit anything.... Well the damage buff doesn't really matter, don't you think? ;) The Hydra is a weapon that requires aim in every match and it can be hard for many players to consistently have good aim. If you can't aim, you're going to be dead very quickly. The buff isn't going to change that. x) The buff essentially compensates for the speed of the Hydra. Have you noticed how slow we are? We're slower than a snail. :p The damage buff will help Hydras from afar. Players can easily escape a Hydra before the fourth shot hits. So having the Hydra become a three shot weapon helps it extremely. It doesn't really help up close since you cannot fully charge a Hydra in close range combat - but you theoretically shouldn't be finding yourself in that many close ranged situations. x)
will allow for 3 consecutive burst bombs which is fair I suppose. I should also take into account the increased ink spread, increased damage on far hits, and increased range on near hits, making the herp derp burst bomb swim spam more effective, well asside from less knockback and having one less bomb of course, but atleast now I see that this isn't the end of the world!
What I meant (and wrote down with a huge hyperbole) is that I don't have the aim for four shot, as I mostly only hit three shots.
Not really. It still has more range and kraken, so this nerf won't change things all that much. Only thing it's really gonna change is .96 gal users using as much damage up as the .52 gal now. It's still basically the same weapon as before.
Then we'll just add swim speed, problem fixed.
There's no way the vanilla Jet will be used in favour of the Custom, and that is simply down to Splash Walls and Inkstrike vs Burst Bombs and Kraken. Burst Bombs, even with the nerf next week, are more flexible and better fitted to the Jet than the Splash Wall, since the Burst Bombs shorten the TTK. I suggest a build that has some Damage, Ink Recovery and Swim Speed. Cold Blooded wouldn't hurt either, since the weapon relies on range, and being marked for 9 seconds (as of 2.7.0) will enable the enemy team to get close, and the Jet suffers in CRC. Splash Walls are on their way out as it is, since they are weak and are easy to counter. The Kraken saves you in those CRC situations, and is still a Get Out of Jail card, whereas the Inkstrike will not save you. Even with the 50% increase in your strafe movement, Swim Speed is more useful than Run Speed as slow strafe weapons benefit from swimming between shots and the Swim Speed perks greatly benefit the Kraken special.
