Thread: Patch 7.1 Notes: PvP

Originally Posted by Teno

Yup, feels terrible to be honest, not mentioning how phantom rush damage appears ages after the skill animation concludes, much like so many spells now.... The days of fun yoinking are over it seems. I expected hit detection to feel more responsive too, not more unresponsive...

Exactly this. It's really frustrating.

I am honestly curious if the PvP team even plays pvp. It is fascinating that they consistently get this stuff incorrect or done in the worst manner possible. What is the recruitment criteria? "Know what PvP means and you can be hired."
Just once I'd like to see a video of the team giving their thought process on changes they are doing. I am legit curious where their mind is at when making changes. Not even just for frontline since it's whatever it'll always be hard to balance but for CC mainly. I get pvp is an afterthought but are people in the studio just drawing straws and whoever gets the short straw has to balance pvp for the xpac?

Most importantly... Hire me SE... if I screwed up this much at my job I'd be fired... I'd love a job like this where I can mess up for years on end and still know my job is secured!

Also love how the "improved" hit detection somehow made the game feel more unresponsive.

Originally Posted by OnyxBlackheart

I am honestly curious if the PvP team even plays pvp. It is fascinating that they consistently get this stuff incorrect or done in the worst manner possible.

I'm going to say they do play PvP, because imagining the hit detection change was made without a detailed comparison of before and after via playtesting is too mind-bending to contemplate.

So how could they get this so wrong? Either they're completely incompetent, or this feels different when played with zero ping maybe?

Like others have said, despite the failure to address DRK, I was really excited to see how the changes had shaken things up. There are some kits that I find more interesting including my WAR main.

But after a few hours I was honestly distraught. There's an overall lack of responsiveness, along with the feeling that every time you press a button (skill or targeting), there's a little sadistic cyber-gnome rolling dice to modify the outcome.

Is Crystalline Conflict this bad, or does the smaller team size ameliorate the problem? Because I don't think I can suffer this iteration of FL.