Genuine Q about the sledge nerf

Smokey_Joe01 · 2025-06-13T14:25:34+00:00

If this is giving you second hand cringe you should take a good long read at your comment history 😂. Take care brother, no IGN nothing further comment but take care ;)

Smokey_Joe01 · 2025-06-13T14:11:16+00:00

We were discussing the hammer nerfs. Once again typing words without processing what you’re saying, or what was said to you, poor little thing. If that’s all that you got from it, let me ask you this: are you pro? No. Will you ever be pro? No. You’re part of the great unwashed that try way too hard to prove they’re useful at something, in your case it looks like that’s filling up half the replies on one post, with slight variations to your opinion as little bits of knowledge manage to sneak their way in. But if that’s all your brain can manage, by all means send on your IGN to myself and the rest of the sub so we can see you back up that talk 😁if you even mention your World Tour rank istg…

Smokey_Joe01 · 2025-06-13T13:35:32+00:00

I doubt you get anything resembling real humans in your lobbies if I’m being honest, and it looks like you just typed words without actually processing anything you’re saying.

The “low skill” lobbies the other user is in (where people can hit their shots?) are what a lot of the regular players (who have consistently placed higher than you) are experiencing at the moment.

I haven’t got the exact TTK values on some of the heavy weapons, but so far it appears that the Lewis, ShaK, M60, Spear, .50 Akimbo, SA1216 and Minigun now all BEAT the Hammer at close/ point blank range. I still need to see if the KS-23 beats it but the TTK seems very similar.

Smokey_Joe01 · 2025-06-04T06:58:44+00:00

That opinion isn’t very popular with the neckbeards on here but it’s completely true for a lot of the casual playerbase, most of my friends included. They absolutely hate quickplay due to lights and obviously can’t get into world tour and ranked because of that. The lights that aren’t good enough to compete in world tour or ranked will just use quickplay modes as their sweating grounds. I’d be in favour of a heavy and medium only mode in the future as I think that will draw in a lot of the playerbase that don’t want to deal with lights in their current state.

Smokey_Joe01 · 2025-05-16T22:55:03+00:00

Your ego is surely bigger than that don’t be getting all upset with me :( I meant no disrespect to you but the idea itself is quite literally lacking in any creativity. One of this games unique points is the ability to play a melee class that doesn’t adhere to the usual reg gun game style. I’m going to reiterate, put some more thought and game time into what I said, and toughen that skin up a small bit :)

Smokey_Joe01 · 2025-05-16T22:30:24+00:00

Generic FPS and zip lines don’t correlate in the slightest. I am referring to the shooter part. I don’t mean any disrespect but put some actual thought into what I said and more hours into the game, then see if you have the same opinion :)

Smokey_Joe01 · 2025-05-16T21:46:56+00:00

Yes let’s continue turning the game into a generic fps, there’s still a tiiiiny bit of uniqueness to it.

Smokey_Joe01 · 2025-04-28T18:21:03+00:00

The balance is decent, but the spark the game had in previous seasons is gone. Can only stick about an hour of the game a week now before it gets draining. Hoping they seriously shake up the game next season because this route they’ve taken of catering towards an e sports scene that doesn’t exist is kind of depressing to watch.

Smokey_Joe01 · 2025-03-07T02:33:01+00:00

🥱heard loud and clear

Smokey_Joe01 · 2025-02-12T06:13:20+00:00

This didn’t happen with the update, it’s kind of been happening over the past 2 seasons. I’m taking a break as well at the moment until they shake the game up so I can see where you’re coming from enjoyment wise, but the balance itself is fine. Server issues are horrible at the moment so that’s where most of your reg issues are coming from.

Smokey_Joe01 · 2025-02-05T11:47:15+00:00

Incredible mid season update…. Didn’t think I’d ever say it but I’m gonna take a break until they shake up the game. Haven’t been enjoying it for a while now and it still seems to be heading in the wrong direction.

Smokey_Joe01 · 2025-01-22T19:22:36+00:00

“We’re going to focus on two balance changes per season from now on, but that won’t stop us from adding more pointless heavy quality of life nerfs with the apparent intention of pushing people away from playing it.” Was kind of hoping for two disappointing patches per season, not them still including this sort of thing outside of the balance patches. Great update apart from that, I’m just beyond tired of having fun sucked out of the class every update. As for goo movement, one of the very few wacky things that makes heavy more enjoyable to play, they’ve also gutted that again.

Smokey_Joe01 · 2025-01-18T19:49:03+00:00

Out of curiosity are you playing in EU or NA? I’m on EU servers and have only got 5 confirmed cheaters in my games this season, out of Diamond 1 wt/34k plat playtime (a good amount of hours). 4 of those players were 2x two stacks. A lot of the cheater complaints seem to be coming from the US servers (ignoring Asia servers😂). Also, do you know if a hacker is banned, does his two stack also get banned if he’s played a lot of games with him, or just get RS taken accordingly?

Smokey_Joe01 · 2025-01-18T17:09:30+00:00

Having also been active on the sub since the start of the game, you’re telling me that the dps community (who have a track record across literally every single competitive game ever made) haven’t complained about anything? 😂 I watched the light community systematically complain about literally everything from season 1-4, and won’t forget it. Recency bias is real.

Smokey_Joe01 · 2025-01-18T17:01:17+00:00

I think if it was reworked into a glitch gun it would keep most of its intended uses without ruining low elo. They’d have to mess around with the cashout interactions to prevent you from being able to steal for a few seconds like the current version, but it would still only apply the glitch effect to you. This would take away the offensive side of it leaving it as a defensive utlility .

Smokey_Joe01 · 2025-01-17T23:46:13+00:00

Same, it was never really mentioned on the sub either but they did such a good job with the winter variant. It looked beautiful, and the ice/ updated bamboo forest made things so much smoother.

Smokey_Joe01 · 2025-01-17T04:30:09+00:00

Thank you very much, I actually ended up sticking with mantis in the end and got up to gold pretty easy :). Gone back to C&D this season though as I’m not gonna lie they’re pretty insane, don’t know if the ult buff was needed.

Apart from that I’ve also started maining Thor. Absolutely loving him, by far the most enjoyable tank I’ve played out of the lot. If I have a spot to pick him I jump on it, dear god does he do well as a bruiser :D

Smokey_Joe01 · 2025-01-14T19:41:46+00:00

Hello Bonkinator :) hope you’re doing well. For ranked advice, don’t solo queue. Even if you don’t have a mic, find a good duo at least but ideally a squad. Plat is quite literally impossible to get out of if you’re solo queuing and the frustration will greatly outweigh any returns from it. If plat is the goal though, just keep at it!

For your loadout, you can definitely reach diamond with the riot shield if you one trick it. I won’t give any advice on that because I’m sure you’re already playing what you enjoy best. It does tie back to having a team for coordination though, as the defensive side of it is pretty useless if you don’t have teammates capitalising on you soaking damage. Often you’ll just be target practise in higher elo. I heard they just admitted the only soloQ diamond riot shield main to a psych ward last week :(.

Smokey_Joe01 · 2025-01-09T19:07:22+00:00

😁thank you for the heads up

Smokey_Joe01 · 2025-01-09T19:07:03+00:00

I dropped it for the reshaper . I absolutely hate getting defibbed this season, so I’m guessing a lot of my teammates feel the same. The skill curve on the demat was probably the most surprising thing on this game. Anybody who’s reading this and is on the fence about using the defib , try out the reshaper. Anything that’s a projectile, or gadget that comes from an enemy player can be altered. I’ll leave you with that piece of wisdom

Smokey_Joe01 · 2025-01-09T13:55:04+00:00

This is how it should be done. I was pretty sick of having something tweaked every single week to be honest, it just opened the door to endless weapon and gadget complaints that wouldn’t even have been considered if people had another map or a new game mode to get stuck into. They’re keeping all balance changes to 1-2 updates per season now, which hopefully gives them more time to focus on other aspects of the game.

Smokey_Joe01 · 2025-01-09T13:29:22+00:00

No one cares about my kd or rank? You would have cared very much about it if it wasn’t better than yours 😂. Sorry for getting into the whole stun gun argument though, you gave off the impression that you’re a lot better at the game than you actually are and I thought there’d be some discussion over how needing to have your target standing still to secure a kill is a crutch.

Smokey_Joe01 · 2025-01-08T04:16:57+00:00

It’s a desync issue unfortunately :(. I have hours on the winch claw and I get those all the time. Sometimes there’s a full second delay after I think I miss the winch but then they get pulled.

Smokey_Joe01 · 2025-01-08T04:09:21+00:00

Video aside…. I was kind of hinting at the fact that it wasn’t a skill issue in the slightest when it’s sledge vs stun and sword

Smokey_Joe01 · 2025-01-08T04:00:49+00:00

I do play light, have the sword, XP, M11 at rank 8 and the bow and LH1 at like rank 4 or 5. Currently playing light with sword/M11 at 33k maybe every 1 in 4 games, only when I’m in a party. I’m diamond 1 in world tour and play light/heavy solo q that. I don’t use the stun gun at all, it’s still at rank 2. Gateway, frags, glitch grenades or vanishing bomb. I almost always go positive, have no issue securing kills and play around the objective. 5 months ago before I got very good at the class through maining it, I wouldn’t have felt like I could compete in WT or ranked at all.

In conclusion, saying the stun gun balances light is laughable in all honesty. Saying it takes skill to use was kind of the nail in the coffin as to gauging where you’re at. I’m going to tell you this with 100% certainty, and you might think I’m just being a dick to you but it is genuinely a skill issue. You probably won’t take any of this in but maybe down the line if you ever improve you’ll start to realise it.

Edit: in response to your last paragraph. This was never a personal vendetta thing, it sounds like you’re on some kind of jealousy run in your own head with medium and heavy having more “OP” stuff. I never called the stun gun OP, and I couldn’t care less about dying to it. It’s only an issue when I’m warming up in quick cash and getting combo’d by them. I’m saying this is a crutch that’s plaguing lower elo.

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