Please allow Adaptive Shield to able to use while in ball form.
Some of you guys may don’t know, Adaptive shield will auto-swap you back to Mech form if you use it in ball form.
This is very critical when you’re on the run with low HP and need shield to keep you alive a little bit longer. but when you do, you will lose all of your speed and also have to swap back to ball form before you can start gaining speed again which is most of the time it’s too late… hell , sometime I can’t even swap back for unknow reason.
Allow Grappling Claw to able to use with the floor.
There is only one rule about Grappling Claw is you can’t hook it to the floor, which is very complicated for some floating object like payload because you don’t know which part of the payload is count as floor and also some platform have the “Floor” part of it extend to covered the entire edge of the platform cause you to have to stand directly under it to use Grappling Claw.
I can get behind these. Something I’ve discovered (which is more like a bug) is he can hook through walls and then gets stuck on the other side. I was playing in Lijiang Gardens the other night, and as I had just rounded the corner off the right-side bridge, I went to grapple the center of the column of the point. My claw landed, but then for some reason (I think I was hit by a Junk mine?) I ended up on the other side of the wall still hooked to the point and dangling above the water, but I couldn’t move to get myself out so I had to let go and fall to my doom.
Frankly, he also needs a buff to his Ammo Capacity - 80 shots for a weapon that has a big spray and basically tickles people per-shot is pretty lame.
100-120 is more in line with what he probably needs.
No major issue with the adaptive shield buff, but apparently it is intended for it to work that way to create a weakness
being able to grapple the floor I disagree with, it would lower the skill involved in playing him if potatoes can just latch onto the floor instead of having good knowledge of using the environment.
Activating Adaptive Shield without leaving Ball Mode: How it works right now would’ve taken extra work to implement. That means they tested Wrecking Ball not coming out of Ball Mode and they thought it was too strong.
You just have to learn when to use the shield and not use it in ball form unless you absolutely must.
Grappling to the floor would be nice, but not needed.
Ammo count is okay imo, it’s just the reload that needs tweaking, especially when switching between combat and ball forms. Too many times I would switch out of ball with .0001 seconds left on the reload, only to have the reload duration reset.
I 100% agree with the floor grapple idea. I highly doubt I’m ever accidentally going to do that, but on the other hand the number oftimes the game has denied me a grapple for some arcane reason is absurd.
It might allow you to roll around some points without pillars in the middle but… well, so what? It’s a bad strat in the first place that only bronzies complain about, and you wouldn’t even have a pillar for partial cover if you spun around on the floor.
I always find Hammond runs out of ammo before I can kill someone, even using my flame ball to hit them first, he needs a bit more. I’d say 100 would be good.
