Hey folks,
Came here to bring up some issues with Sparks & the Reviving mechanic. Firstly I’ll bring up the Reviving issue that Sparks can abuse. There seems to be an invincibility period between killing someone and them hitting the ground. Not being able to deal damage makes it incredibly hard to gib players with Sparks being used on the opposing team. With sparks being the revive sniper she’ll bring up said player within that invincibility period, and you’ll need to down them again. Of course you can say, kill the medic to solve the problem, but lets be honest, a good sparks is nowhere close to where the player just died. It should be slightly easier to gib, my suggestion is removing the invincibility period so you can continuously do damage. Sparks invokes the dreaded Revive chain as seen here… https://youtu.be/rc6z7qYCMIU
Next up, the Revivr… firstly, the damage done to secondary objectives as well as EV’s is broken as its dealing massive amounts of damage, but I believe that’s been talked about to death. How much damage the Revivr does to enemy players is also laughable as a headshot will kill & gib enemy players. With only 3 seconds to a full charge people are using the Revivr as a primary gun, with 2 other guns in reserve. Even just tapping enemies with the Revivr will do what seems like too much damage for something that is supposed to rez your teammates.
Personally when I see sparks on my team I’m not going to be medic as sparks will be doing the majority of the reviving, leaving me to spam health instead… woohoo? I don’t understand how the Revivr can bring someone up to 100% health in 3 seconds from range when a regular medic has to run to your location, charge & hit you with paddles. It doesn’t make sense to me that the Revivr rezzes faster than paddles would (since you have to run to downed players with paddles and not get killed in the process)
Sparks is a good Merc, but desperately needs balancing, nothing drastic, just tweaks slightly here and there would be nice to see. 128 Hours logged since Open Beta, but lately haven’t played much because of the issues mentioned above. Its been real hard finding an enjoyable match recently. Not to mention the influx of hackers, considering its a Free 2 Play game that’s bounding in popularity there should be a good way to easily report hackers such as viewing steam profile from in-game scoreboard or a better Anti-Cheat. Effectively using the community + a good anti cheat would be nice, but utilizing the community to assist is a cheap and effective start, wouldn’t it be nice to open up the scoreboard, right click on someones name and ‘Report Player’ was there? Great game, have been having fun with it, just needs a bit of attention here and there. More frequent updates would be nice, but I understand you can only push out builds so often. Thanks for your time and such.
Buckem