I didn’t know, but the main problem still being the lost of a sentry after 2 mins with an oponent that was unable to leave their base… is ridiculous.
Noone is talking about flanking/Ganking, we are talking about sniping and using a glitch, something you can’t counter or is too hard to defend. Cheats are not always “god-mode”, they may be just something, not legit, that give you a big advantage over your opponent.
IMO thats still cheating (and pretty low ) and also is ruinning the fun. May sound strange but some of my lost games were also the funniest I’ve played: for me there are other things in life to compete and stress, im here for the fun, not the win, but I understand the “easy-win” is a big tempation for other kind of people. Anyway, you can keep justifying it, but I think it will hardly convince anyone other than cheaters.
Sadly, seems we will never agree on that, lets wait for devs fix, and see what they expect from the game.
Someone brought up backdooring (which I think was you as well) so I asked you about that too which you called cheating as well but that isn’t cheating. There’s multiple ways to get to the sentry that the other base to attack. Every MOBA or esque game allows this but as I said the sentry or Titan will mess you up if it sees you. That’s not cheating. That was what the conversation veered to.
But yes I already agreed that Marquis can snipe from his base to attack yours that IS a glitch. Same with head only poking out on the stair and sniping you while you cant attack him.
Also I said it once and I’ll say it again I NEVER SAID ONLY GOD MODE IS CHEATING. I NEVER SAID CHEATING IS OK EITHER. STOP SAYING I DID
Well, backdooring is busted as well. There’s a whole discussion about it. If you can focus on the sentry and not be at risk of return fire from it or fully built turrets around it, yeah, that’s an exploit.
Youre right, backdoors do exist in other MOBAs, but something tells me that you can’t just stand around a corner and snipe away at defense point, completely safe from any harm that isn’t another player, in a game like LoL or Smite. If you can do that right off the rip, from the beginning of the game in these other huge MOBAs, then fair enough, I concede to your argument, but even then, that’s still horrible balance.
I get shot quite a bit when I back Door but that being said I do think like in other MOBAs you must be within a certain area or at least on person in a certain area to tank it like a tower Phoenix or Titan in smite. That way it’s more consistent.
It’s confirmed going to be addressed in the next Patch. They couldn’t hotfix it since it requires a reworking of the map but they’re basically flipping the stairs perch to the opposite side so you can’t snipe the sentry on Overgrowth.
Definetly seems it wasn’t intended:
Overgrowth:
Modified the sniper nests to prevent players from engaging the first sentry from across the map.
Anyway, lets see what they have done with the glitch.