So Legendary Flutes dropped, and after testing them out in exhibition I can safely say that they’re a perfect example of just how bad/out of touch the modern gun planning and creation is in crossout.
First of all, damage is bad. This sadly has not much to do with the gun itself but the same problem that has been plaguing Crossout for MULTIPLE years and has lead to huge buffs to specific guns without ever addressing the core problem. Explosive damage/effect just does not work. It does not deliver damage, it’s tanked and absorbed by everything, twice as much so after they fumbled around with damage resistances of parts for no good reason, it plainly sucks. Just tossing bullets does more devastation than huge explosions, shotgun blasts blow bigger holes into builds than grenades and missiles/rockets.
Second, while trying to be an upgrade to the Flute, it’s a serious downgrade as it takes away the MAIN THING the Flutes offer. Maneuverable rockets. This is done in many ways, but the biggest offender is the launching angle. While Flutes launch straight forward, these launch straight up. So already it’s had countered by maps just as all shoots directly up guns like artillery and Nests and Trombone etc, from which the Flutes do not suffer. Then, for them to actually hit the enemy like this, they’ve basically taken away rocket turn speed/flight speed so you can’t really maneuver or guide the missiles almost at all. No chasing enemies, no hitting them behind covers, not really hitting moving targets and especially being unable to even hit helis. In fact the true “guiding” does not even start the minute you launch these things, like on the Flute, but only after they’ve launched up and then turned to start going downwards. Same with how they will only break into smaller projectiles only after doing that, even if you just tap the firing button.
All in all this gun is as much of a “legendary flute” as parser is a “legendary nailgun”
It is an entirely different gun all together. They’ve changed too much, tried to reinvent the wheel and it does not work because it’s fundamentally flawed and on top of that suffers from something so fundamentally buggy like a damage type made not function as intended, completely ignored and curbstomped by rampant changes just for the sake of being able to say you did something.
I dunno, your description sounds like it could be fine if you weren’t trying to make them behave exactly like Flutes.
I’m going to wait to see how they perform in matches when wielded by skilled players before I pass judgement. I’ve seen a lot of BP weapons get dismissed early because of how they perform on the test range, and then later they turn out to be strong when used in combat.
Also, your entire forum personality is about hating everything the devs do, so I can’t really take your assessments seriously.
Now, if you actually read forum posts rather than just aiming at disagreeing with people who have different opinions about things than you in your somewhat plain quest to be le epic forum troll and arguing about people over having opinions, or most likely just maybe reading 4-7 words per post before just dictating an opinion of the entire post and living in your own imaginary world, you’d actually be able to see that while very critical of the game and rightfully so, I also have not hated things such as, “recently”:
-Sea battle being still ok
-gaze into the abyss not being screwed over by arbitary changes
-adding the 2 extra wheels to last battle pass to give players 4
-For the emperor brawl still being fun enough to play multiple matches per sitting
-Short Circuit not being outright bad
-blackout and the rest ravager brawls still being fun rather than having been ruined
-evolution was upgraded the second time it came around and now was actually better to play than the original
-cat and mouse was not blatantly awful
-Fire and ice still being ok
To name a few, you could possibly, maybe, see that it’s not just “hating everything the devs do” like you like to decide, possibly to every person who ever has a negative opinion about anything in the game instead of blindly hyping and shilling and liking everything the game does.
But your entire forum personality is just hating everything other people think when it’s something different to what you think, so I can’t see you really seeing past that.
and what about you?
how many times have i seen you never criticizing what the devs put out even if its bad?
you always try to justify everything, and yes i mean everything.
im not hating on you for this poony but not everything can be looked at in a positive light. i get your trying to stay positive for the game but some of the stuff that the devs put out just isnt good.
I know that’s how I get typecast here, but I don’t think that’s actually what you’d find if you look at my profile and read through all my posts from the last few weeks.
I might not complain constantly or claim the devs are evil and greedy, but I’m also not exactly a cheerleader. I just have much lower expectations, so I don’t get upset when things aren’t perfect.
Edit: I do speak out when I see criticisms that I think are either grossly exaggerated or simply inaccurate. But I also recently posted that the game is essentially doomed by its business model.
