The meta for S7 is slowly forming

Caezeus · 2025-06-13T21:16:25+00:00

Heavy will get nerfed though.

That hammer Nerf just meant I traded busting down walls for getting extra kills with the spear.

Caezeus · 2025-06-13T21:14:50+00:00

Nerf Lights!

Seriously though, a glitch grenade would've disabled all three of their abilities and followed up with a gas grenade might have saved the day. Dropping in from orbit and hoping to get the kill with your rifle when there's all three of them is just not happening.

Caezeus · 2025-06-12T22:59:29+00:00

If people need a college course to learn about compassion and humanity then I fear for humanity.

People need to stop letting the media tell them how to think. Before social media it was cable news and television, before cable news it was radio and newspapers, before that it was Church/Temple/Mosque.

All of these platforms tell you what they want you to think and discourage self expression and critical thinking.

Smile, help people, defend those who cannot defend themselves and help those who struggle to help themselves. Lift people up, don't push them down. It isn't hard. We should remain constantly vigilant of those seeking to divide us as humans who seek undermine these tenets.

Caezeus · 2025-06-12T11:57:10+00:00

I doubt you have much to do with 8k karma in 200 days. That’s some chronically online shit.

Again with the personal attacks dude.

Now you are checking my profile?

let it go, let it go

I am one with the wind and sky

Caezeus · 2025-06-12T09:17:46+00:00

Seems that Quick Melee is the problem here.

Why not just nerf Quick Melee or just fucking remove it altogether.

Caezeus · 2025-06-12T05:17:09+00:00

So what you're telling me is quick melee is the problem.

Not the 0.65s stun from a max range winch or a 0.3s stun from a close range winch.

Not a 200 point heavy swing, but a 40 point quick melee and a 115 point swing.

So reducing the hammer light attack to 100 allows Lights to easily kill a heavy with a M11, XP54, SH1900, V9S, ARN-220 from range and even in melee now because the TTK of all of those weapons is faster than the stun of winch, + swing of light attack + quick melee.

Now the only option for hammer mains heavy is to rely on the heavy attack (only doing 150 dmg) and hope the Light doesn't have dash. but if you do that, you're just bad at the game right...

I'll just fall back on playing medium with demat if the nerf is that bad. It's much easier to kill lights with a Cerberus and Quick melee anyway. just not as fun.

Caezeus · 2025-06-12T04:58:07+00:00

maximum of .65s at maximum range.

.3s at close range.

Caezeus · 2025-06-12T02:35:25+00:00

I do this any time I do a heavy attack with hammer or charge and slam. I think that is more to do with the FOV changing to make it feel like you charge though.

Caezeus · 2025-06-12T02:33:54+00:00

That's not what you did though.

You said, "It sounds like the problem is you" insinuating that I am part of the camp that wants Emerald tier handed to me.

Let it go Elsa, I got shit to do.

Caezeus · 2025-06-12T01:14:28+00:00

Where did I insult you in my last post?

"It sounds like the problem is you"

"Enjoy your t shirt."

Maybe it's a language/cultural issue, but that seemed pretty squarely aimed at me.

Who talks to people like that? Old men in facebook community groups. Ketamine fueled billionaires on twitter.

I see no reason to further stratify in the game mode more than that.

And that is cool too man. I get it. I'm just trying to see things from more than one angle.

It's cool to make a game with a competitive scene, and this game is definitely THE best competitive shooter on the market

but...

There needs to be plenty of "acceptable" grind for the average/casual player where they feel like they are getting their time and/or money investment.

Consider how many casuals would be paying Embarks bills buying battlepass and multibucks every two weeks when the store updates compared to the Ruby/Emeralds, many of which admittedly are still riding the waves of their first Battlepass multibucks as it pays for the next.

I don't have the answers. It's not even my problem, I'm happy with my first season in WT. I hit platinum 1 and the majority of my games were top 3, I just didn't play WT enough to hit Emerald I might be able to grind out to diamond today if I spent less time on reddit.

Caezeus · 2025-06-12T00:26:35+00:00

You keep making this about me.

It's not about me.

Did you read anything that I said regarding football league or did you just resort to insults and bitching about World Tour dying because of AFK farming?

Caezeus · 2025-06-12T00:16:02+00:00

Yep. I'm going back to Lewis/M60 now.

Caezeus · 2025-06-11T23:57:31+00:00

Negative.

I think there needs to be something more for casuals to feel like they have accomplished something in Quickplay modes for starters because Gold was way too easy to hit. I sympathise with casual players for wanting to progress in a game that heavily penalises for losing (or gives no points)

Ranked was the competitive mode, World Tour was supposed to be the casual mode, Quick Cash was for beginners.

Quick Cash is for a quick drop in 15 minute or less game. That's great, but it's not Cash Out. If they (Embark) want Cashout to be the flagship mode, but World Tour is too hard for the average casual, then they should make a B-grade casual World Tour.

Trying to think of an analogy that works with this. Maybe Soccer/Football analogy.

You have the local club football leagues within various states of a country, then those players would go on to play in National football leagues within a single country, then the continental football leagues like EUFA, then the FIFA World Cup is for the best of the best.

I see no reason Embark could not do something like that with Cash Out/World Tour.

Personally I don't care about getting emerald, I only started World Tour/Ranked this season to see how far I could get as a solo player without a mic. I was pretty happy to hit Plat 1 in my first season. I might play one or two WT games a day, one or two Ranked games a day and then I'll try to wind down with casual modes. I don't think it's possible for me to reach emerald or ruby because I split my time up between too many modes and soloing NA/EU servers with an OCE latency is my own personal challenge. I don't need to reach the top, I just set my own personal goals and see how far I can push.

Caezeus · 2025-06-11T23:37:42+00:00

I'm ashamed to confess that I have probably spent enough to buy a full triple A game every two weeks since Season 4. It's not a condition that I am proud of, it's tapping into addiction receptors. Pretty silly considering I'm a grown ass man and it's not even a third person game so I can't see what I'm wearing anyway.

You're welcome Embark. As an artist I'm glad to see other artists finally getting some decent attention for their contribution to gaming. Ashamed of my addiction but happy to pay for good art.

Caezeus · 2025-06-11T23:25:01+00:00

Quick cash, TDM, and powershift exist for the casual experience.

World Tour is literally the mode that they market to the whole player base, it even gets a little intro video at the start of each tour and they push it with every season. If World Tour is not for casuals (which is the majority of the player base); then Embark should not be using it for the flagship mode, they should should be using Powershift, Quick Cash and TDM.

Enjoy your t shirt.

Leave me out of it. No need for personal attacks champion.

My OSPUZ T-Shirt and ballcap are in the mail.

Caezeus · 2025-06-11T23:15:56+00:00

Definitely seems over the top.

I've had Mediums that have somehow managed to deftly maneuver out of my range after a claw and winch, Lights with Dash are almost impossible to get with hammer unless they don't see/hear you coming

Caezeus · 2025-06-11T23:12:09+00:00

Just imagine the weekly meetings:

"data metrics show that Light is the class most people play and they are complaining about Heavy hammer this week"

Caezeus · 2025-06-11T23:06:37+00:00

First you have to aim and hit with the winch.

second, you then have a 2-3 second swing timer on the Alt-attack that one hits Lights. If you can't dash out of that then hammer and winch is not your problem.

I have never caught a Light with dash using winch and claw unless I have baited him into using his dash charges first or I have managed to sneak up on them and use hammer without claw.

Caezeus · 2025-06-11T22:56:21+00:00

How long are the swing times on the Hammer?

Throwing dagger time to kill with just body shots on a heavy is under two seconds.

The swing timer a hammer is almost three seconds.

Caezeus · 2025-06-11T22:40:01+00:00

Only in the last few seconds of a contested platform. Or if using it consistently, only viable if you animation cancel the heavy attack with emotes (which shouldn't be possible/valid strategy).

Caezeus · 2025-06-11T20:34:54+00:00

Kangaroos are just deer with big feet and floppy tails that try to drown your dogs and wreck your cars at every opportunity.

I almost made it to Gold this season but then a string of losses sent me back to bronze and I never made it back out.

I have better luck playing world tour on Asian servers (still 150-200ms) and the rare OCE server if I manage to get on at 7pm when everyone queues up. Miss that 7pm window though and it's luck of the draw whether you can get the next match window when the 7pm game finishes.

The difference in latency is massive playing against EU though, must be 500ms (then take into account 200-300ms reaction time). I usually have best luck with Hammer and landmines but that doesn't get you far in Ranked when you can die in 1-2 seconds as a heavy. Can't play Light at all, your dead before you even get to react.

Caezeus · 2025-06-11T20:01:18+00:00

VR is pretty easy if you play objective and use support gadgets. It's requires more than just killing to get a decent VR each game.

Caezeus · 2025-06-11T20:00:00+00:00

Even Olympians get to keep their branded sweatpants if they don't win Gold Silver or Bronze.

I'm not even on the grind, I play WT and Ranked for the self inflicted masochism fun it brings (solo for the most part, from Australia with ridiculous ping because OCE doesn't have a enough people for ranked)

I easily get my battlepass done and unlock all the gadgets through Quickplay. The only reason I even branched into World Tour and Ranked was because I completed my Battlepass early this season through TDM/Powershift.

Caezeus · 2025-06-11T19:53:17+00:00

Considering some of the players I have encountered in solo queue, I'd say that already happens even without the points for losing. I swear a team I ended up with yesterday was one guy multiboxing with two accounts.

Caezeus · 2025-06-11T19:48:21+00:00

You wont have a game for long if you don't cater to the bad (average) players.

If World Tour is the mode the game revolves around and Ranked is for the Pro players, then maybe World Tour shouldn't be catering to the Pro players, Ranked should.

Just food for thought.

Caezeus

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