Blaston

Please consider nerfing this Nova Nade Attachment. It truly stands out from the rest of even other Nades. The issue? It’s burst of SPEED. If this Nade is detonated near me, it’s nearly impossible to dodge. Once you get the timing down, you’ll be almost guaranteed to hit your opponent with it. Maybe consider making the Nova stationary like a Majestic for a few seconds instead? Anyway, it’s just really really fast with high damage. Consider nerfing.

5 seconds, the amount of time it takes to wait for a hammer nade with incredible power, a super fast nova nade. A powerful trap setup. And the time you could be waiting for a useless cord that not only makes you one handed, but increases the speed of your bullets so much, you couldn’t notice the difference if you had 20/20 vision. Why would i not run this overpowered demon of a weapon. Let’s start by eliminating the god awful back spawn by making it only spawn in the middle or front row, or by making it placeable like bunker. This makes it consistent which is what we like in SKILLED games. Then, make it actually speed up weapons so i’m not sitting there chained like prometheus waiting for the birds to peck my flesh away. A high risk high reward weapon is what we want. Not a All risk No reward.

With things like stock luma, tundra 1, and Nova nade 1 now being able to hit people within milliseconds (not to mention latency makes these projectiles teleport inside your podium as well) the game has clearly taken a turn from it's original direction of "slow motion bullet hell". for the sake of safety and skill I would heavily advise that the game goes back to it's original advertised direction, you can still make the game faster by lowering the cooldown of tools without actually making projectiles themselves break neck speeds. my suggestion is to take something that is already fast yet fair, like the viper ellipse or curved luma and use it as a speed cap threshold for other fast projectiles that currently exist or that you may introduce later down the road.

Nova nade 1 and tundra 1 are over tuned and make the base versions and others attachments of these weapons irrelevant, please try to make it to where one attachment is not better than everything else a weapon may offer.

too much HP, consider reducing the amount of novas or reducing the HP per nova, or make them like bunker shield where they are stagnant defense tools and not traps as well

first off I appreciate the nerf to reload speed on the luma. but that does not change much about the current state of the game being a tired stale stock luma meta where the goal is to either distract and then hit with luma or do a bullet hell setup and then hit with luma, needless to say the game revolves around hitting with stock lumas and I think it is not the direction the game should be going. used to be slow mo bullet hell. but now it's who is better spam archer with straight luma shots. I think precision burst weapons like vipers and luma should be treated with much more care and balance. the goal should never be to spam but to make a calculated powerful hit that is rewarding when you land it but punishing when you miss. in reality there is no punishment for missing you just keep spamming shots until something lands for big damage. new movement makes it even harder to deal with this kind of stuff as well

I think the current Meta and its iterations have remained largely the same for too long. Although a bullet hell game, the hammer e, raptor e, hammer nade, etc loadout is very repeatable. Individual nuisances to timing, cycling, execution, counter pressure, dodging can be unique to each player with vastly different levels of success. However, I feel it forces the game to remain largely stagnant in terms of the variety of loadouts seen when rank or rewards are on the line. Attachments create some different flavors, but once an attachment seems to strengthen the current Meta, other attachments are largely abandoned (in my experience playing a range of players). Overwhelming the opposing player with a swarm of pellets, lasers, novas to the point of having no room to move is pretty common. It can be really effective, so much that is takes multiple shields just to clear novas. At this point, I feel many players try to settle into the same loadout just to out-chip their opponent. Many players may be ok with that, but imagine everyone (or most) running similar loadouts. In the long run, I’m concerned the game will lose some skilled players due to lack of interest. With that said, it can be very deflating to go toe-to-toe with a player and almost win only to take a bounce viper, luma, or nova to the back. The implementation of bounce weapons like these, closed the gap between lower overlords and upper overlords. Although, placement of bounce weapons does take practice and skill, I’m not convinced it is comparable to the level of skill needed to develop a well-placed viper e. I’m certainly not the gate-keeper of the overlord rank (and it is not my intention to try to be), but I remember my climb to the upper ranks of overlord to be arduous, and it required some dedicated skill acquisition to really push the top players. I know we all come to the game at different levels of readiness, but I think recent updates have done more to help close skill gap between good players and elite players in general.

Please strongly consider nerfing Luma. What stands out to me is it’s SPEED. And for the damage it deals, it’s really REALLY good. It’s recognizably easier to land hits with it than other precision weapons, and because of this I personally choose not to use it often. Sometimes it seems that Luma arrows are spawning at the front of my podium they are moving so fast. I like dodging viper shots, they are fast, it’s fun, but I can see them coming more clearly than I can Luma shots. I understand that this topic has been raised once before, I’m just voicing my experience.

I understand bounce attachments add more dimensions to the game. But now it bounces twice with 20 damage!? If you are going to do this collision should be the same as the Vector or lower. Remove back bounce or nerf this attachment. At least most other bounce attachments pay a relatively fair price for it, this is just making players lazy as most of the ones who use this attachment rely on so much on back bounce that they don't even aim at the opponent anymore just shoot the center and wait for double bounce to do the work which is exactly what the Vector is made for.

not sure why this weapon got a bounce attachment, its supposed to be a high damage precision sniper like weapon, giving it a bounce attachment just makes people shoot it straight in hopes they can get an additional hit off the back wall, it's super lazy and makes for bad gameplay.