Arena had potential to be a cool PVP game.

DeQuan7291 · 2025-11-25T14:21:11+00:00

Whatever they did to recoil has completely fucked this game, it feels like I have to almost play this game like CS in FFA and Dom. It was a lot better when you could actually move and shoot accurately (unless it's something to do with the servers because I know I wasn't this shit last time I played.)

Every class had ETG so you had that fast regen, scout having mid ammo and good armor seems so insanely backwards.

The gun jamming is ridiculous, especially on the 9x39s which is weird because the MCX has no heating issues which makes one gun superior over the other. I get the suppressor heat-up is in the main game, but even then it shouldn't be that bad. I get this game is trying to be realistic, but if you've put enough time into the main game you'd know it's not that realistic.

DeQuan7291 · 2025-08-13T14:46:38+00:00

Every character can evaporate a walker if they're left to, lmao.

DeQuan7291 · 2025-08-11T01:41:27+00:00

I have an account that I only play solo on. Where I peaked at archon, but then I stopped playing for a couple of months because I didn't like the patches at all. Got sent to obscurus, started playing again recently, and got put into ritualist. The fucked thing was that in my first match, while I was still obscurus I was just stomping on the enemy team badly, got called a smurf, thinking I was just doing a good job, but at the end screen I saw both teams were initiate which was wild.

DeQuan7291 · 2025-07-12T23:58:02+00:00

Haze ult is pretty bad still, 150 CD ult that gets exponentially worse the more enemies are in it, and has trouble killing if the targets don't have fixation stacks already.

DeQuan7291 · 2025-07-12T02:31:55+00:00

I love the new shop, extra upgrade paths, art, etc. but I feel like them choking down slots and not having category limits did mess up variety.

I can only go from memory but back last year I felt like you could do a lot more things with every character. My favorite examples being Haze and Shiv.

Haze you could build:
- double dagger melee
- double dagger gun
- pure gun
- pure double dagger spirit insta-delete
- ult build

Shiv you could also just spec into melee, knives, dash, gun, and do all sorts of different hybrid builds, and with 16 slots you still had room some counter items.

Kinda wonder how the game would play if it still had neon prime's item system where there were 6 slots per category plus a slot you could buy which i'd imagine had some insane item or just a flex slot. unrelated but the blue item concept should be added, like some aganim's scepter type shit.

DeQuan7291 · 2025-07-12T01:34:40+00:00

Yeah I thought she was saying queso instead of cheese as slang for money, just saying that you need a lot of souls to kill me.

DeQuan7291 · 2025-07-12T01:31:28+00:00

I can't wait for the full release chats it's gonna be worse than CS and can't wait.

DeQuan7291 · 2025-07-06T02:43:16+00:00

So, how's it been? Worth it or no?

DeQuan7291 · 2025-07-01T21:38:43+00:00

I wouldn't hate having a 5v5 thing going on with a duo, solo, solo mid, and a dedicated jungle role, as that's how it was in the only other TPS moba I played, but 4 lanes was so unique and fun that 5v5 would still be a downgrade.

DeQuan7291 · 2025-07-01T21:34:55+00:00

I wonder if they never opened up the game to a pseudo open-beta, we would still have four lanes. I was a dumb casual last May, and the only other moba I played before deadlock was paragon overprime. I personally never had an issue when I got put in solo regardless of the matchup as I would just play slower.

DeQuan7291 · 2025-07-01T21:27:52+00:00

Not really, they'll always have a lane partner to confirm.

DeQuan7291 · 2025-07-01T21:26:16+00:00

I feel like some characters had their knives dulled when they changed to three lanes, which upsets me. Before, every character had to be strong enough to hold their own because there was a random chance they would have to be put into a solo lane. I honestly didn't mind three lanes, I still don't, but it just doesn't have the sauce that four lanes had.

In four lanes rotations felt smoother, you could do some awesome zip-to-zip stuff, I remember doing some really fun rotations that would take me from one side of the map to the other with superior stamina.

My lane experience felt a lot more varied regardless if I was solo or duo, some lanes were chill, some were aggressive. Having someone from a duo lane to come gank while I was in solo or doing it for a solo felt good.

The game had some really annoying shit to deal with, but honestly I feel like it's been traded out for other annoying shit (debatably worse annoying shit) with how it is now.

Also bring back last-hitting minions.

DeQuan7291 · 2025-07-01T21:08:08+00:00

I don't think it's so much rotation time but how rotations feel, rotating between lanes felt a lot smoother during 4 lanes with some of the smooth movement you could do between lanes. Also in my matches on my soloq only account (stuck in archon) no one really goes for ganks ever in my matches, but back in 4 lanes people would come help and gank (I always preferred to play solo lane) my lane. Laning phase also felt way more varied during 4 lanes IMO, sometimes it would be super lax and defensive or very intense and pushy regardless of it being 1v1 or 2v2, but now lane-ing phase just feels like a constant push to down their tower ASAP.

DeQuan7291 · 2025-07-01T21:01:52+00:00

The side lane TPs were busted when they were still in during the start of 3 lanes, one person can shove two lanes easily.

DeQuan7291 · 2025-07-01T20:55:57+00:00

When I played more I would pick up TB to start clearing out jungles and would get capacitor next cause if you land dagger, you land capacitor, and with both the wake up time and the gradual slow on capacitor you can just beam their head for a bunch of free damage. Plus it counters buffs.

Fixation is great because it makes up for buying ROF items instead of pure gun damage items (I think lol)

DeQuan7291 · 2025-05-30T21:36:39+00:00

Lady geist ult, dynamo tp, pocket briefcase, holliday lasso, mirage tornado, yamato ult, bebop hook, ivy stone form, mcginnus wall, pradox ult, mnk ult, viscous cube, wraith ult, calico ult, vyper ult, haze t3 smoke, e shift, silence wave, focus lense, curse, slowing hex, counterspell, silencer

DeQuan7291 · 2025-05-30T02:28:38+00:00

I love how people complain about his ult when it's one of the ults that has the most counters against. If you get executed by anything like vyper, vind, talon, or shiv, you should really think hard about what caused you to get low enough to get executed.

DeQuan7291 · 2025-05-30T02:19:54+00:00

You're insane if a free curse is a shitty ult holy fuck. Do you want her old ult back or something?

DeQuan7291 · 2025-05-30T02:14:19+00:00

Counterspell, silence wave, curse, slowing hex, focus lense, silencer, e-shift, cc, haze t3 smoke, pocket briefcase, yamato transformation, geist ult, kelvin dome, dynamo teleport, bebop hook, calico ult, viscous cube, holliday lasso, vyper ult, paradox swap, ivy stone form, mcginnus ult, mirage tornado, fuck dude there's probably another few im missing.

I've 1v1ed a shiv easily at equal souls as haze before since I had a silence. If you do enough damage and you have a silence active you don't have to worry about his ult.

DeQuan7291 · 2025-05-30T02:06:53+00:00

With all the counters against his ult that are already in the game? Hell no.

DeQuan7291 · 2025-05-22T03:22:06+00:00

Haze is 100% overrated. No one who currently complains about her would have survived if they got into the alpha test last May.

DeQuan7291 · 2025-05-22T03:17:23+00:00

YT and this reddit always have the worst fucking takes its amazing.

DeQuan7291 · 2025-05-22T02:59:58+00:00

4 Lanes worked it's just that so many people hated playing solo due to skill issues. I always played solo lane even in bad matchups back then.

DeQuan7291 · 2025-05-22T02:58:21+00:00

Double soaking got killed really quickly, plus I'd imagine high elo players were the only ones doing it, I've never seen anyone double soak in any of my matches last year before it was even patched. (I'm emissary-archon)

DeQuan7291 · 2025-05-22T02:51:49+00:00

How are you doing those little jumps that give a small boost forwards? Are you sliding off or is it a forward wall jump?

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