Yup , Even trying to get to miko results in death because Montana has some great ways of forcing you to disengage with mansformation and lumberjack dash.
I mean in a pub montana is not really great but in a premade? ■■■■.
It’s jarring to see some of the experiences others are having with this game. As a casual player, this game has taken up all of my playing time since launch. I can get an hour or two in during the week, and 6-8 hours over the weekend, and I haven’t really run into any of the issues that have been raised here.
I’ve won almost every Incursion game I’ve played, and I’ve never seen this Marquis sniping issue from either team. If anything, Benedict is a bigger killer, since I’ve discovered that he can fly directly into the enemy base and take pot shots at the forward sentry.
But in general, Incursion and Meltdown are heavily objective based, focused about controlling the flow of minions and enemies. If you’re smart about it, you can destroy the enemy minions without having to directly engage enemy Battleborm, and you can generally take down any player or tandem of players with a properly coordinated strike then the time is right. Shards, Thrall Mercenaries, and turrets are all there to help turn the tide of battle. This is not a Death Match.
In a given match, there characters who seem to dominate me, and there are definitely characters that I avoid because I suck with them, but I don’t necessarily feel like it’s a balance issue so much as an “I suck with this character” or “that guy’s really good with that character” issue.
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In a given match, there characters who seem to dominate me, and there are definitely characters that I avoid because I suck with them, but I don’t necessarily feel like it’s a balance issue so much as an “I suck with this character” or “that guy’s really good with that character” issue.
I agree completely. But many gamers seem unwilling or unable to do that, refusing to take a step back and look at how they might approach a situation differently, how they might play better. I get stomped all the time, but the vast majority of the time it was because I was out of position or tried to take on a fight I shouldn’t have, or the other player was really good, or I used an ability at the wrong time, not because the other character is op.
Are there things that need balance tweaks? Sure. but overall, balance is pretty good. Team composition, coordination, and tactics matter, which is what separates this from a lot of other games, IMO. If people play this like just another shooter, against a coordinated team, it isn’t going to end well.
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Exactly. Players need to learn that there’s no shame in retreating from a PvP battle if you’re outmatched. Luring an enemy damage dealer like Rath or Oscar Mike around a corner an into an ambush of two or three teammates is one of my favorite things. I’ll take the assist, and avoid feeding the enemy XP, then turn around and take out the minions to give us the score advantage.
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I would agree that overall balance is pretty good, it definitely shows that they’ve been working to get balance changes out for a while.
That said, it makes it glaringly obvious when a character is out of line with the rest of the characters.
ISIC for instance, he was a free-win most of the time for me prior to the nerf. Now, he is a little squishier than he probably needs to be, but he’s mostly back in line with where he should be.
Galilea for instance having the plethora of abilities that other characters don’t have makes it glaringly obvious that she was out of line. Now, she’s falling in where she needs to be.
We’re getting to the point where a few tweaks here and there are all that’s needed on some characters, which is where you want to be before new characters get thrown in the mix.
Overall, I’m really excited by how well they’ve been doing with balancing characters, and now that it’s calming down a bit, I’m looking forward to them putting some more effort into ironing out the map design and UI issues like the buggy sentry announcements and the fact that you can’t see your stacks on gear/abilities.
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Yeah, I’m really trying to get better at map awareness. I do dumb things like get locked in on attacking someone without realizing my teammates have fallen back, leaving me as easy prey. That and things like noticing enemies on sniper perches.
It’s kind of like learning to drive. At first, you are so nervous, you tend to keep your eyes locked straight ahead or darting all over the place like dragonflies on crack. Eventually, though, you develop the ability to keep half an eye on what’s in front of you, in mirrors, and to the sides.
There are so many noob things that will get you wrecked, that are avoidable if you don’t panic. Sometimes I need to just mutter “use your quick melee” over and over like some kind of mantra.
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PVP will always suck unless we get back to the old days when everyone had full equal access to everything from the start.
Every PVP game has these issues today, that’s why I mostly stopped playing PVP. In coop it doesn’t matter if the other guy has better stuff than me, because he’s on my team so I still benefit by proxy.
I heard Overwatch is facing similar problems, which is no surprise to me. But hey go play some other PVP game and find out it’s inherent unfairness.
Lol, well, there’s a fine line between you over-committing on someone, and your teammates abandoning you.
As a front-line tank, I walk this line every day.
If people are on a mic with me or in a party, I expect them to notify me if we’re backing up, as I can’t see behind me, if I’m in trouble, I expect my teammates to commit to the fight with me, unless it’s hopeless, and if it’s hopeless, they’d better tell me so I can run too! And I give them the same courtesy.
The problem is that a lot of randoms will run to protect themselves long before they’d stay to help a teammate out, so I play a lot more cautious when I’m not with people I can trust.
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No joke. Playing incursion a few days ago. I suddenly realized I was alone and getting mauled. I’m all offended like:
"Where’d everybody go?"
The reply: "We’re all dead."
Me: “oh…”
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lol, my friends: “We’re all dead.”
Me: “Yeah, why couldn’t you tell me? It’s not like you’re busy…”
Half my friends are retired pros in some game or another though, so I give them crap for forgetting how communication works once they got old haha
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Then I must applaud you. It;s heartening and a breath of fresh air round here to see a player actually working on getting better instead of blaming character balance or servers or surrenders, whatever.
But yeah, all of us I think had that opening nervous attack, I know I did day one, but I settled down and let my psychotic tactical mind take over. Now I just sit back and go
" Evil me?"
" yes Crucible? whats up?"
" Battleborns on, wanna take over?"
" Oh most certainly am I allowed to reck noobs?"
" Maybe but don’t act like a ass ok?"
" Oh my pleasure please sit and have a glass of fine red whilst I go on a epic rampage of tactical dominance and nightmarish godlike skill"
" yeah whatever I need a nap wake me when we need to walk the dog"
" MUWAH HA HA HA"
What? Doesn’t everyone have a slightly evil psychotic alter ego that takes over during tactical situations? Stop staring at me. 
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I’ll take three.
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I appreciate your opinion and respectfully disagree, I think the game has very good balance and the nerfs to Gali have put her in line with the other heroes. I despise Marquis and he is super annoying but he is not out of balance, he’s just playing his role as a sniper. There are plenty of ways to play around him. Matchmaking also seems fine IMO, you win some, you lose some, that’s the nature of pvp. I’ve been on winning streaks where I’ve won like 7 matches in a row and I’ve had nights where my team doesn’t win a single match. That’s life.
So, you feels like a traitor that sided with the enemy only for power, victory and money ?
A guy that asked more for his defection because he thought that he was important but he only received threats instead ?
I don’t understand your comparison…
It’s quite simple,
Gearbox reminds me of the Western Army: Unique, Talented, but tragic.
Other companies that like to eat your wallet remind me of The Eastern Army: Crafty, Numerous, and ordained by Fate ( the gamers).
Annnnd when it comes down to it side with Tadakatsu Honda… Dudes scary as hell 
Got nothing on Lu Bu… they should add Lu Bu and Darth vader as DLC