I think they really shouldn't nerf weapons until all or most of the initial planned weapons are out personally. Due to the fact that they release weapons at such a fast pace, I think the meta game needs to settle first on them since 1 weapon could easily change a huge deal of how people play.
I could see why they'd nerf the Ninja Squid swim speed for the same reason you just stated. Another thing to note is that with Ninja Squid in its current form, people can still make the center gap jump in Urchin Underpass just fine, but the nerf will make it much harder to jump across. So common jumps that people can make might be harder for those with Ninja Squid. Also, I don't know if the comparison between Ninja Squid and Cold Blooded is a proper comparison. Although Cold Blooded may be better, it's the most situational ability out of all the others. Every ability in the game can activate almost all the time in battle, but Cold Blooded is not like that since it needs a couple requirements.
In public lobbies, you can't guarantee that someone with an Echolocator/Point Sensor/Haunt won't just suddenly appear in your lobby. The only way you can currently get around this is if you filled up a whole room with friends who you know won't use those tracking abilities. Cold-Blooded is indeed useless when no one on the enemy team can track you, that much is obvious, and when we get private lobbies and more dedicated teams and squads form, we may be better able to judge when and when not to use Cold-Blooded. Then again, I don't see the meta evolving specifically around making sure the enemy team won't gain anything from running Cold-Blooded either. Being able to track people in a game where you can easily hide in your own territory (read: ink), even without Ninja Squid, is just too useful. Also, one could argue that Ninja Squid does nothing but hurt you when there are no enemies around to hide from anyway, such as going from your spawn to a Splat Zone. Swim Speed Up is one of the most useful sub abilities in the game anyway imo, so it's not like there's no incentive to run a couple of those in your sub slots if you choose not to run Ninja Squid.
Definitely agree. By the way, if a piece of gear has three Swim Speed Up's (Sub Slots), would it be enough to negate the slower swim speed Ninja Squid has? It probably does but since its swim speed is getting nerfed, people will have to have Swim Speed Up as a main ability and not rely on the Sub Slots. It's just a prediction, assuming they don't nerf Ninja Squid really hard though.
Right but the Cold Blooded metagame in high rank right now exists largely to counter the current plethora of echolocator weapons. Echolocator is great (in part) at beating Ninja Squid. Echolocator is obviously still stellar w/o it but Ninja Squid losing viability gives us one less reason to value Echolocator. If Echolocator phases out of the metagame (even marginally), Cold Blooded loses a lot of utility as well.
I disagree with the bolded. Ink Resist gave you an actual fighting chance in enemy ink, the 12% or whatever movement speed you have in enemy ink is far too low. There's already next to no way to dodge enemy shots in this game, and removing the one thing that allows you to maneuver in a firefight will only harm the game. If the enemy misses a shot or two on you, you are ultimately punished for their inaccuracy because you are basically forced to stand still in their ink.
Well, there a couple things you can do though. Spray at your feet, spray towards an area to give you a better vantage point, and so on.
The "problem" is killing people is probably the most effective way to secure the objective.
Spraying ink at your feet mid-fight is not a good idea.
It's even more difficult to escape without Ink Resist than it is to just stay and fight.
I'll concede somewhat on this. We don't know how much the ability is getting nerfed. I don't think it's bad that the ability is so powerful, as it makes the game as a whole better with it. Maybe the other shoe abilities could deal with a little bit of a buff instead.
That's not so much of a problem. Killing is meaningful in every shooter, in an objective mode or not.
Gotta give them credit. 6/1 on 1v4 is admirable.I now see why Splatfest took so long to fix:
http://botanicsage.tumblr.com/post/122625782092/hardman5509-thelordcommander
- "Apparently there wasn’t enough Team Bread support early on Splatfest JP. This was the result."
- "She tried"
- "She died a warriors death. She deserves honor."
- "DUDE
LOOK AT HER SCORE
6 SPLATS AND ONE DEATH
SHE GOT KILLED ONLY ONCE"
I'm sorry but I can't help but laugh at this LOLI now see why Splatfest took so long to fix:
http://botanicsage.tumblr.com/post/122625782092/hardman5509-thelordcommander
- "Apparently there wasn’t enough Team Bread support early on Splatfest JP. This was the result."
- "She tried"
- "She died a warriors death. She deserves honor."
- "DUDE
LOOK AT HER SCORE
6 SPLATS AND ONE DEATH
SHE GOT KILLED ONLY ONCE"
