Face Off: Discussion, Thoughts, and Stories

Battleborn Battleborn Competitive Multiplayer Discussion
#46

It’s fresh, it’s new, it’s chaotic. I think it’s going to become a lot less popular in the coming weeks.

Like, right down there with capture in popularity.

People have been complaining forever about maps not allowing options or focusing too much on single lanes. This mode does have things all over the place, but only one depository. I’ve only played a few game so far, but unless it was a stomp every game turned into a skill/ultimate cluster around the depository when 1 team was close to winning, ’

Maybe that’ll change when people get more used to the game type and develop better tactics, but right now it’s worse than overgrowth for forcing team fights.

#47

@HobbitWarrior

Yes, there DEFINITELY needs to be multiple depositories.

Why even bother to hunt Barelsi when you can just hard defend the turn in point and Rob enemies of THEIR masks when they go to turn them in?

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#48

Maybe if she still had her stealth…

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#49

I love it. It’s a huge improvement on Capture, retains the importance of team movement and team fights, and makes leveling fun. It’s a fantastic mode.

I think Kleese is easily countered by team fights, from what I’ve experienced.

Edit: just played a team with a Boldur, Isaac, and Kleese, and I played S+A, specced for shields and geared with an edge of Arcvynorr, zero shard, and Vibro-core. They fell easily to my shield stealing hands!

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#50

So…It is a mode where you kill monsters to get points to put into a thing to get ACTUAL points. Players can kill you to get your points to put into the thing to get actual points. You can also put money into things to bring more monsters to kill to get points to get POINTS. And buy minions to help kill players to make them get points slower, and help kill them to get thier points. Does the game describe what the boss fight is for? I cant remember.

Anyways, yeah it’s a very confusing mode with a lot of explanation needed. Especially for newer players. There is a bigger pool of experienced players who will crush them right now. And newer players may hold back the team, not on purpose, but because they don’t know whats going on yet. You gotta do all those things while also keeping yourself from getting wrecked from a Pendles. Pendles is quite powerful in this mode.

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#51

I think this mode MIGHT work well if everyone on the team is in a group and is able to speak to each other. If they aren’t all cordinated then it can become a downhill clusterfuck. Of course every game is like that but a team needs to be together when killing monsters, killing characters, building things, attacking the boss…Yeah.

#52

@GattlingCombo

How did you get that last word to come out uncensored?

#53

?!! I can’t use clusterfuck? Is it bad? Seriously lol.

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#54

Clusterfuck.

#55

Holy forums censor loophole Batman!

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#56

I have bypassed the censor in some of my Battleborn debate topics before. Mellka insisted. :stuck_out_tongue:

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#57

@EdenSophia

Naughty!

#58

It seems that team coordination is much more impactful in face-off than in the other game modes

#59

Found a use for pendles with some of my group, I was just a mask depository when they teleported. I avoided engagements and simply ran through when they were dying. Ended up with a few hundred masks at one point

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#60

This sounds like a game changing idea. Perhaps the ideal team comp is formed of Kleese and two couples, one PVE wrecker and one who can safely drop of points

#61

Had a great late night encounter with @Ginger_greninja and @EdenSophia last night.

Eden was being Galilea, which blew me away!

They killed us, but it was fun!

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#62

Yes. In an unprecedented turn of events, Gali is my temporary main until people resume playing Meltdown and I can go back to fulltime Mellka again.

Not coincidentally, I got my first quad kill today. :confused:

I’m not even sure I’m going to try to make Mell work in Face Off. It just exacerbates her weaknesses and makes her plain frustrating to play. There’s so much CC and turtling, so little cover. You could in theory rush to 8, through Varelsi and buildables, and then play assassin with venom bullets. But assassinating single targets isn’t nearly as important as I expected, because the respawn time is so low, and the spawn points are so close. It is all about the massive squad wipe.

Apologies to anyone who met us tonight on our depthless winning streak (and kudos to the two teams that actually beat us - the close games are pretty tense!)

Meltdown please come home.

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#63

Interesting. I thought I’d like Gally a lot but found her… I felt like you couldn’t be that creative with her. Meanwhile, with Mellka you can fly-snipe, with Orendi, different builds are useful and you can plague the field with precise aoes, with Ernest you can find the perfect spots and carefully manage cooldown and positioning, etc. With Galilea you run up to people, Desecrate or stun, then stun or Desecrate as you crit them. It felt lackluster and uninnovative. That’s a word right? Even Pendles can have careful Ambravoidance that feels like a stealth game and allows you to get that perfect hit. Galilea is what I don’t like about games. Basic helix tree everyone uses the same, not a system that allows for many different kinds of success.
:heart:

#64

Face Off isn’t about the dazzling personal play. It’s about playing what works until people are tired of this insane mode and the other queues work again.

Gali isn’t any more or less repetitive than anyone else when we’re all just doing the same thing over and over anyway. We’ve won some of these matches at the six minute mark (you can easily be ready to win after the first boss.) Accepting the death match is the only way I’ve been able to make it fun.

Also, Galilea allows for more far creative helix decisions and alternative builds than Mellka, to be honest. Especially now Last Light is very viable

#65

you sound as if it’s terrible, but imo, this and incursion are the two best modes in the game, lol.

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