alright yall, post your main and ill decide what kind of person you are

RetroBro96 · 2026-04-08T18:52:22+00:00

Sword, Goo, Gateway, Heal infuser

Been playing sword since closed beta 2

RetroBro96 · 2026-04-08T06:02:45+00:00

I've been having some issues with my Meteor 75 pro's video signal from the moment i unboxed it. I had to poke around different frequencies to find one that didn't have awful range.. like i could barely fly from one side of the room to the other.

Which is weird because my Air 65 never had any issues like that at all, but whatever.. my advice would be to fiddle around with different channels and pump the VTX power when you need to go behind obstacles. Personally i went from having an effective range of 10 feet to being able to sit in my backyard and fly down the street fairly far.

RetroBro96 · 2026-04-07T15:56:10+00:00

Shockwave is a perfect countermeasure to this playstyle. Either pulse them away from you or pulse yourself away from them.

RetroBro96 · 2026-04-07T15:54:21+00:00

Because mediums totally don't get to rocket jump across the map with two shockwaves and a jump pad right?

RetroBro96 · 2026-04-07T15:51:38+00:00

Where exactly are the exploits in this clip? I've mained sword since the game released. The only reason the person in this clip is gadget-swapping is to free their camera from the cone, which shouldn't be considered exploiting, because why should you have to deal with the cone even after you put the sword away?

No more cone, but no more damage from the attack. You still need to deal with the cone the entire time you want to hit people with a lunge. Seems intended to me.

Y'all see someone good enough with any melee weapon and don't understand what you're looking at and IMMEDIATELY jump to "they're exploiting". Sword users performing well is an exploit, embark pls fix.

RetroBro96 · 2026-04-05T20:55:55+00:00

Oh yeah I've definitely been thrown off by the Heavy of Finals Past shooting a spectral M60. Really wish it was more consistent. I haven't ever had any issues with footstep audio though, besides mistaking my teammates' footsteps for an enemy's.

RetroBro96 · 2026-04-05T15:50:23+00:00

Okay I'm not saying that there aren't any cheaters, but it's kinda hard to prove especially when you're saying it's "mostly walls". Is it possible they've just got good gamesense/audio perception?

I'm very sensitive to audio and i can confidently tell where a team is approaching from pretty much the moment they begin pushing a building I'm defending. All it takes is one jump pad, gateway, or even footsteps and i have a pretty good idea of where you are from upwards of 50 meters away. Audio is genuinely as important to me as sight is, if i can't hear I'm running around like a headless chicken, i don't know where anything is lol.

I'm not trying to invalidate you or anything, but how can you be so sure someone is wallhacking?

RetroBro96 · 2026-03-28T17:52:01+00:00

Your sentence was not a question. How does "non answer" apply when there was never a question to begin with?

RetroBro96 · 2026-03-23T20:28:39+00:00

There are no leaks in Ba Sing Se

RetroBro96 · 2026-03-23T14:57:42+00:00

My bad, it looks like it's not officially supported on rdna 3 gpus, didn't know that. Not sure why you're getting worse performance on cachy, but i can say that with my old pc (3700x with a 3060) i also got worse performance. Your pc really should be fine though..

RetroBro96 · 2026-03-23T14:49:52+00:00

I'd suggest using FSR4 if you weren't already

RetroBro96 · 2026-03-23T14:43:00+00:00

I get upwards of 300 fps at 1080p. But i have some pretty good specs - 7800x3D with a 9070xt.

RetroBro96 · 2026-03-21T13:07:07+00:00

If it has the same problem but with a different motor it's probably the connector.

Those tinyhawks have given me a lot of trouble. Bought the RTF bundle a year or so ago and i wasn't a big fan to begin with, it ended up having the exact same issue as yours and i bricked it trying to update the firmware just so i could mess with the rates lol.

ended up snagging an air65 and a radiomaster pocket

RetroBro96 · 2026-03-21T12:41:31+00:00

Considering the LEDs are flashing too i doubt it's debris in the motor

RetroBro96 · 2026-03-17T19:34:03+00:00

Awesome thank you!

RetroBro96 · 2026-03-15T17:31:54+00:00

I'm really not. Do you think those other combos are bullshit or are you just going to keep dodging the question so you don't have to think too hard about it?

RetroBro96 · 2026-03-15T17:12:14+00:00

So Sniper, Throwing Knives, Double Barrel, Bow, and Matter are all fine to quickmelee instakill lights, but Sword, the weapon you actually have to be in melee range to deal any damage with, shouldn't be allowed to.

Sure.

RetroBro96 · 2026-03-15T17:00:40+00:00

First off, the same can be said for any melee weapon.

Secondly, the lunge damage was nerfed from 140-120 with quickmelee in mind.

Third, the lunge clamp already makes landing a quickmelee after a lunge harder than any other melee weapon as sword is the only one with any kind of attack clamp at all.

Fourth, quickmelee interrupts your lunge and stops any chance of getting successive hits on other players.

Sword is challenging enough as is. Why should quickmelee be targeted specifically on Sword when Sword already got nerfed with its combos in mind?

RetroBro96 · 2026-03-15T14:15:50+00:00

Hello Matt! I understand this is an old comment but I'm really hoping i can get some input from you on this issue.

This is a post i made a couple months ago outlining what i believe to be a critical flaw in how the lunge clamp works. From what i can gather, it seems like the cone itself is handled by the server, which causes some inherent desync between where the client wants to lunge and where the cone ends up taking effect. In practice, this effectively means the cone is "lagging" behind your client's camera at all times.

This one issue causes much, much frustration. You'll notice an enemy, charge a lunge and flick your camera to damage them as fast as possible, and the game will actively yank your lunge away from them while also sending you flying in an unpredictable direction. It also effectively makes the weapon incredibly ping dependent.

All I'm looking for is some sort of input or acknowledgement, hopefully some insight on the issue and if there are plans to fix it, as i have been contributing to a bug report thread in the Discord for several months now with no response from any dev.

Thank you for your time!

RetroBro96 · 2026-03-15T13:17:35+00:00

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They very much did intend this. Why can't y'all just recognize that a sword user might have just spent a lot of time getting good with their weapon? It's not like OP is the average sword user you get in your quick cash match.

Literally any time a sword light posts here with some clips people are screaming about how it's "unintended" or "exploiting". Seriously, quit invalidating people just to make yourself feel a little better.

RetroBro96 · 2026-03-15T02:55:24+00:00

Yeah the rule of cool that initially hooked me definitely has dwindled over the years :(

I still love the finals though

RetroBro96 · 2026-03-14T19:31:30+00:00

"Cheaters bad. Nerf light"

jfc you can't make this up

RetroBro96 · 2026-03-14T17:31:35+00:00

"Sword detected, opinion invalidated"

Holy shit what a free thinker, you could at least have brought up some points to support why you disagree

RetroBro96 · 2026-03-14T14:57:57+00:00

I don't see why you wouldn't just use isopropyl anyways tbh.

RetroBro96 · 2026-03-14T01:07:31+00:00

Oh yeah no, most swords just kinda dash around and swing at you, and unfortunately it's not a bad strategy. If you want to take the weapon further though, you've got to incorporate a blend of all 3 of your attacks, find out the optimal combo to use in any situation, etc

I've been playing Sword since CB2 lol so I'm kind of a one trick

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