What was the point of nerfing Legion and Deep Wounds?
So during the PTB, Legion got these changes:
- Mend times for Deep Wound reduced: 12 seconds while mending yourself, 8 seconds while being mended by someone else.
- Attacking while in Feral Frenzy will no longer be a basic attack. This means that perks that trigger with a basic attack will no longer trigger under this circumstance.
While extremely annoying as some of Legion's best perks, Sloppy Butcher and Save The Best For Last were tied to basic attacks, it made sense why they would tone down their kit when they would be getting Nemesis, an honestly strong af perk.
However, the new chapter comes out and we Legion mains get greeted by this in the patch notes:
- Deep Wound: Deep Wound timer will no longer go down when Sprinting or Mending. Deep Wound is no longer connected with the Killers terror radius.
Meaning it doesn't matter if you're undetectable or the survivor is oblivious, their timer isn't ticking down. If this is the case, what's even the point of nerfing Legion then? Why are mend times still decreased if the timer won't tick down while sprinting or mending, why did Legion lose their basic attacks on Feral Frenzy when they weren't a strong killer to begin with? It legitimately makes zero sense to keep the nerfs to Legion when what seemingly was the reason for the nerfs is no longer a factor.
Why are the devs so afraid to give even a sliver of strength to Legion, the "buffs" are a good QoL but they don't fix the actual issue because how trash Feral Frenzy is as an ability.
- Increased Feral Frenzy speed from 5 m/s to 5.2 m/s.
- Decreased Feral Frenzy window vault duration from 1.1 seconds to 0.9 seconds.
- Decreased Feral Frenzy pallet vault duration from 1.35 seconds to 0.9 seconds.
Can you guys please actually buff the aspects of Legion that actually matter or just rework the character already? I'm glad the devs didn't buff Legion in the worst way possible by forcing players to use a perk from a DLC, but this is getting ridiculous now. I'd rather have Nemesis be what makes Legion relevant than literally taking perks away from them and buffing a trash ability that isn't relevant in red ranks
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shrug no one knows.
BHVR devs are an enigma.
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I'd like to inform those unaware that, pre-nerf, combined Filthy Blade and Nasty Blade addons increased Mend time by 5 seconds.
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Fix the Legion frustration problems
Jesus christ, they trying really hard to avoid a rework. They just need to accept the fact that Legion is not a good killer fundamentally by design. If they buff them they create a toxic unfun game for survivors, if they nerf them then the killer is not relevant.
That doesn't make them relevant though, like the devs said that just makes them annoying to play against. Annoying /=/ Strength. Fact of the matter is it is still a nerf to a killer that is almost consistently at the bottom of any tier list in the game and the buffs they provided are not relevant to getting kills.
Again, JUST REWORK LEGION. Their power is bad and fundamentally terrible game design, just rework the teens, or make Feral Frenzy do something else because as someone who genuinely wants to main them, these irrelevant changes are a consistent frustration.
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"ridiculous"
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Indeed, but not in the way Almo seemed to be saying...
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I give up on BHVR
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Hey that's my screenshot (bottom one), very happy to see it getting good use because man that sentence made me feel like the devs are clowns.
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5 whole seconds was deemed too much I guess, considering you're completely safe mending against Legion. Mending is hard I guess
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Imagine being frustrated when playing against legion in 2019, almost 2020 lol.
If you arent holding M1 to mend, you are holding M1 to repair a generator. Either way its just more M1 so i dont see a problem here.
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Heaven forbid a stall Killer slow Survivors down.
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What about the frustrations of the individual piloting the killer, they seem to not take that into account anymore.
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Did you expect BHVR to make smart decisions? They have know idea what they are doing. People thought Activision was bad but BHVR is king right now.
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Deep wound has always been the one and only problem legion has. The original legion nerf turned him into an M1 killer, which just breaks legion even more.
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