Bubble-Melee Specs are the worst
January 8, 2019 7:44PM
edited January 8
Dregs of the gaming community. There's more and more them lately, infecting other minimal-talent players like a plague, ruining entire matches. It's very close to being an exploit, if not actually an exploit. Cheap and unbalanced and lame.
I wouldn't mind as much if the people doing the Shield/Stealth Melee crud were also using other tactics and helping their team out. But no, they're just running around like toddlers on methamphetamines, one-shotting troopers and two-shotting Enforcers. I've never seen one running Scramble, though they're almost always using Infiltration. Cheap and lazy and minimally-talented at best.
Either Stealth needs a bit of a nerf, or basic Melee does, or get rid of the bubble. Flash Pistol would be better anyway.
I wouldn't mind as much if the people doing the Shield/Stealth Melee crud were also using other tactics and helping their team out. But no, they're just running around like toddlers on methamphetamines, one-shotting troopers and two-shotting Enforcers. I've never seen one running Scramble, though they're almost always using Infiltration. Cheap and lazy and minimally-talented at best.
Either Stealth needs a bit of a nerf, or basic Melee does, or get rid of the bubble. Flash Pistol would be better anyway.
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My games of Extraction and Blast have literally turned into stopping these exploiters, I don't even care for the game as it's pointless, I just hunt the scrubs using this setup.
Pirate of the Knights of Gareth
i only do it when my team is being landslided cause by then that is the only way to have fun
What I have a problem with is the stealth assassin getting turned into a manic toddler on speed, zipping wildly around the map in a bubble and just generally making the game annoying to play. Especially when it's their ONLY tactic, they spend the whole game doing nothing but careening around meleeing from their bubbles.
But even that I could handle when it was just one derp per match, you just ion up and burst his bubble until he learns to actually try and play the game. Minor inconvenience. Now, though, it's two or three people per match, taking advantage of the glitch and the Stealth / Brawl / Bubble cheese-build, turning every match into Keystone Cops. And that's ALL THEY EVER DO.
Well, they absolutely need to give the Specialist a side arm -- I've long advocated replacing the bubble with the Flash Pistol. But the A280cfe is more than enough to wreck at close range, the Specialist is far from screwed at this point.
There are counters, and there are balanced counters. Between the glitch and the bubble, and there being at least 2-3 of them in almost every match, the existing counters are not balanced. You have to give up on the objective and spend the whole match ion-equipped and hunting bubble-bois, and if one or two of your teammates don't do the same, then you're going to lose every match due to sheep disruption and attrition.
In its current form, it's a cheap, lazy, exploitative tactic. The devs need to fix the glitch, swap the bubble for the Flash Pistol, and let stealth assassins go back to being respected worthy foes instead of frenetic goofball exploiters like they are now.
It's cheap, lazy, and at least a little bit scummy. If I get so annoyed that being cheap and lazy and scummy starts to seem like an option, I'll just stop playing the game.
Agreed. Anybody who abuses this loadout due to to the melee glitch needs to have their gaming setup smashed into a million pieces. Games like this are only fun if everyone plays fair.
They aren't exploiting anything, you have the choice of whether or not to carry a counter.
Is it annoying, sure, so is the officer flash grenade, assault vanguard, the heavy shield....
Can every one of them be countered? Yes. Can I carry a counter for every annoying thing? No.
Pick your poison, or carry a load out for which ever kills you the most. Don't expect other people to change their load out because it is annoying you.
Pirate of the Knights of Gareth
There is a glitch with the melee mechanic in general, not the Stealth card. Each hit registers as landing multiple times in the same animation.
I think once they fix the glitch we will see fewer melee build specs
I think once they fix the glitch these bubble boys will not be so exploitative.
I agree it is annoying and effective and that's why I use it to take down Wookies and Death Troopers. To be fair, I don't always kill them, and I always die after only one or two kills. I see it as a sort of kamikazi of sorts.
The thing is, this is a game design flaw, not a player flaw. Can you really blame a player for using it when it yields better results than playing the game "as intended"
Star card combos have always been a problem, and I don't think it will ever get fixed.
On a side note, the bubble melee rush is pretty effective against heroes in GA. Gosh do I love taking out a fully healthed Vader or Luke Skywalker doing this. I can practically feel the rage through the tv.