Have won a string of games now with Shayne.
Some characters really stand out in this mode. A good Kleese makes it so much easier - rifts around the dispenser is a huge advantage. Pendles is excellent with sneak and speed, Deande’s life steal keeps her alive on the Varelsi and her decoy is great for handing in, and Shayne is just incredible now. That improved slow, that damage reduction… She can just brawl all over the map, crush gross things, and stealth in for the deposit.
Also saw promising plays from Boldur and Attikus. We had a Benedict who did very well too, but the strong team composition would have helped protect them.
Bring a capture loadout or go home. No legendaries. I used three zero cost gears, including wrench and shard gen, and never regretted it. You can just farm Varelsi over and over, getting xp and masks. Hunter bot stun is absolutely vile and they’re dirt cheap, but I never saw them decide the match. Always worth building though.
All in all, it feels kinda gimmicky. I hope it doesn’t take too much traffic away from Meltdown. It feels much more limited in the team comp you can use and the gear you can bring, and I can tell that a mic’d team will dominate a group of solo queuers nine times out of ten. someone going rogue and forfeiting masks will cost the game.
I need to figure out how to have fun as Mellka in this. Dedicated assassin, maybe, but she lacks sustain, stealth, or tankiness. It seems like she’d be strictly inferior to a Pendles, Deande, or Shayne. Early days. I’ll make it work.
