Is Boba Fett in a good place right now?
December 23, 2018 6:22PM
edited December 2018
I think he needs some changes to make him handle better. I enjoyed playing him in bf1 but he feels a bit ‘off’ in this game. Do you think he’s fine where he is, or does he need tweaks. I’m not just talking about balancing, I’m talking about him being a well rounded hero in general.
Changes:
JETPACK
EE-3 BLASTER
CONCUSSION ROCKET
FOR THE HUNT
HEALTH
Changes:
JETPACK
-Revert jetpack to how it worked originally, more focused on horizontal movement than vertical movement.
-As well as making it work how it used to reduce the speed of it to roughly 60% of what it usually would be.
-Make it take about 0.5 seconds longer for boba to properly start his ascent when holding the jetpack button.
These changes are to make the jetpack more of a strategic tool for getting to vantage points, rather than a way of escaping lightsaber spamming. For those who say this would make boba too weak against saber spammers, remember he has the arguably the best evade in the game.
-As well as making it work how it used to reduce the speed of it to roughly 60% of what it usually would be.
-Make it take about 0.5 seconds longer for boba to properly start his ascent when holding the jetpack button.
These changes are to make the jetpack more of a strategic tool for getting to vantage points, rather than a way of escaping lightsaber spamming. For those who say this would make boba too weak against saber spammers, remember he has the arguably the best evade in the game.
EE-3 BLASTER
-Increase the start damage of each blaster bolt 35 to 45 and the end damage from 20 to 30.
-Increase the damage drop of from 20m to 30m
-Change the reticle to the one from battlefront 2015
-Move the melee to the y/triangle button on console and allow for toggle zoom when pressing the right stick (same as bf 2015)
This should make bobas gun feel more like a tactical rifle than a close range shotgun, and make it on par with the other hero guns (since it’s worse than the blurrg at the moment)
-Increase the damage drop of from 20m to 30m
-Change the reticle to the one from battlefront 2015
-Move the melee to the y/triangle button on console and allow for toggle zoom when pressing the right stick (same as bf 2015)
This should make bobas gun feel more like a tactical rifle than a close range shotgun, and make it on par with the other hero guns (since it’s worse than the blurrg at the moment)
CONCUSSION ROCKET
-No delay between activating ability and firing the rocket (same should apply to rocket barrage)
-Rocket should actually blind enemies or at least increase the blur effect to make it harder to see what’s going on
-Enemies should be affected 2 seconds longer than they currently are
-Slightly bigger area of effect
-Rocket should actually blind enemies or at least increase the blur effect to make it harder to see what’s going on
-Enemies should be affected 2 seconds longer than they currently are
-Slightly bigger area of effect
FOR THE HUNT
-Enemies killed during for the hunt restore 20 base health without his hok card
-For the hunt has a 4 second longer cooldown
-For the hunt has a 4 second longer cooldown
HEALTH
-Increase health to 600
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If you’re going to say that at least point out why
I wouldn't say that. Han/vader/iden are just as good if not better. Also a all jedi lineup renders him useless & shows you he's just a 1 trick pony
We must be playing different games, none of those are at Boba level in HvV lol. Suggesting any saber user quite frankly is ridiculous, and even Han who I main as LS is not at Boba level. FYI 4 Jedi vs Boba, I would 1v4 that lineup no issues as would anyone who is decent with Boba.
Nah bobas a beast in HvV but he's not the best character to be imo. Iden to me is the best blaster for the dark side atm. Secondary fire, high rate of fire, stun & if she has a dedicated kylo she's even more unstoppable. Idk about that all it takes is 1 push from luke a double mind trick & a repulse and he's melted
Boba is not in need of any kind of buffs (specially his rocket barrage, there is a huge reason this delay exist on such a deadly ability).
He's in a good spot, he's made to be played dynamically, if people can't fly and fire at the same time there are other heroes to play, the days of the Boba sitting on a hill shooting at people with a zoom are over.
At least Boba requires skill to kill heroes.
In this game he is a real one trick pony. In BF 2015 he had 3 abilities that worked well, none of which were OP. He also had 1000hp, which was exactly the same as all the other default blaster heroes.
In this game he is reduced to a poorly designed hit and run character, with no long range capabilities and heavy reliance on his rocket barrage. So I agree with pretty much all your suggestions
Concepts for potential maps:
https://battlefront-forums.ea.com/discussion/126706/a-list-of-maps-they-could-add-to-this-game-spoiler-alert-its-a-long-list#latest
You mean purple rocket cards instead of skill right? Boba is easy to kill people with, plus his melee is op as hell. I actually finished 2nd on the podium in HvV just using melee as Boba in one game on Yavin IV. Granted the enemy were not exactly brilliant and it finished 0-8, but the ridiculous speed at which Boba can melee makes it really strong.
Lmao
Iden is too restricted by being ground only. Boba is the only character who can 1v4 with ease, mobility is what makes him unstoppable. Firing at max speed and with high accuracy is enough to wipe most teams. Iden simply doesn’t have the ability to routinely deal with multiple hero’s at the same time. Once her abilities are on cooldown her lack of mobility makes her an easy target. Boba rains fire from a fair distance, and is faster than any hero. He doesn’t need others to make him OP, just skill.
Re Luke being an issue, if any saber is even coming close to using an ability on you as Boba then a strategy rework is needed. No melee user should stand a chance on Boba. Until LS gets a jet pack user Boba will always be the best.
-To free up the bumper for the jetpack and trigger for the aim, I've been wanting to do something about Boba's hilariously bad Concussion Rocket. I originally thought about getting rid of the ability entirely or moving it or For the Hunt to Triangle/Y, but I have a different idea now. What about merging the Concussion Rocket with the Rocket Barrage? The first rocket fired is the Concussion Rocket, which will distort enemy vision for all characters and will slow down infantry and reinforcements, ala the old Officer Flash Bang. They could give that rocket a good base damage to start with (150-200 or so), and then the other rockets deal less damage, or it could function as it normally does. I wonder whether or not they should leave the Disruption effect off of it or if they could have the Concussion Rocket do that normally, I'm not sure.
-Doing that will leave two open cards for the hunter as Concussion Rocket is no longer a separate ability, so I recommend making one a "Mandalorian Armor" card that increases his base health to 700-750 at max level, BUT it has the side-effect of progressively slowing him down until at max level his Jetpack is what it was pre-patch. The other card could either be a generic increase to his regen (something that should happen normally in my opinion) OR it could be a change to his flamethrower, like...
-Sad to say I liked his Flamethrower better in the last game, but I think it'd be a cool fourth ability for him on the Triangle/Y/2 key. It could function more like the First Order flametrooper's awesome weapon but with less distance. I know the melee is one of the best in the game, so this could just be a Card to change it to acting like the
2015/Flametrooper version. If it's changed, however, imagine another feature as his melee...
These are just my opinions of course, but I would at least love to see the guy with the burst-fire sniper rifle be able to aim normally.
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We don't need two jet backers playing at once!
Kamino Map needs to be played with JANGO Fett.
Whattttttttttttttt
A cowards character to play.
He poops on all characters
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Yeah, they still haven’t fixed it. Infiltration and reveal skills are always spotty.
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That Specialist rework was disappointing.
Being a player who uses boba a lot, he needs a way to parry light sabers. Boba always carried a vibroblade. That should be an option for malee to block saber spam,
Was it cortosis-Weaved?
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That Specialist rework was disappointing.
Yes, Bob is in a good place right now and here's why. When people think about Bob what do they think? They think bountyhunter, they think jetpack, they think rockets. So for as long as Bob can stay in the air for a reasonable amount of time and he can use his rockets while he is up there then he is fine. That's all he really has going for him anyway, his jetpack and his rockets. But that's just my opinion my hypothesis.
So yeah do not worry about bob.
The key is to use his dodge more frequently and to fly very low over/past your targets, not flying to high ledges. It was laughable when a Han or a saber user couldnt land a single hit on me.
Lol mindtrick against Boba, any Boba being hit by that junk needs to relinquish him to better players. Saber v Boba, 100% of the time will be Boba. It’s a joke even comparing it
Yeah, Boba will not be touched unless he wants to be.
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That Specialist rework was disappointing.
Yea one saber boba will likely. But more than 2, boba is dead unlike the heroes dont know what theyre doing.
Yea he will if the hero is a good player.
That statement is actually ridiculous. I’ll 1v4 as boba all saber Heros, if I lost I would literally uninstall the game. You would literally have to be beyond terrible as boba to lose to sabers, reasons are obvious
im an extremely good player but if the Boba player has mastered Boba then your not going to do anything vs him with a saber hero the Boba player will simply stay out of range and slowly whittle down your health.
Nope .
Secondly, Boba is so easy to play successfully in HvV. He’s untouchable by almost half the Light Side. Getting kills with him, as target or not, is no great accomplishment.
Idk about that seen a lot of bad players use boba unsuccessfully in HvV. You could say getting kills with most of the darkside is no great accomplishment lol
I’d pay money to watch you 1v4 sabers with boba.
Your joking right? You would rate the chances of 4 saber users higher than Boba? I would even rate a moderately able Boba over 4x saber users. Add me on PC, I’ll gladly 1v4 saber users as Boba. Most Boba mains would since a flying character who has the highest movement speed and is ranged must be terrible to lose against people who can’t hit him
Have you played against viciousxiv or Carlos they're amazing boba players & can definitely do that.