Skadi is one of my fave weapons in the game and removing ballistics plus shortening the range is gonna ruin it in my opinion. Yes the skadi is not very effective at range but that does not mean it is completely useless. One hidden perk of the skadi is being able to kind of blind your opponent so if your running a fast build you can really close the distance on all kinds of builds such as scorpion hovers because they can’t see what they are shooting at plus they have a 25% damage reduction on top.
Ballistics also grant a few other hidden bonuses such as being able to armour the skadi to the teeth on certain builds and weed out cloakers over hilly terrain etc, so there is all kinds of little hidden perks by having ballistics.
What they should do is just give the skadi a little buff in some other area such as damage or improve the freezing mechanic but with the new changes it is now just essentially a poor mans firebug with like half the damage and ever so slightly increased range, I’m rotted lol.
That is the way I see the skadi! If they shorten the range to 70m then there is not much reason to pick it over the firebug, draco. 200m down to 70m is quite the nerf and that drastic range reduction is not worth it for a ballistics removal, If they are gonna do this then they should at least give it 100m at the minimum. Skadi if not bad enough before will now be most definitely limited to dogs now due to the drastic range nerf and if your gonna be limited to dogs then why would pick the inferior dog weapon? when you got remedy, draco and firebug that does like twice the amount of damage!!!
This is the wrong way to go about it. The retcher for example performs in a function similar to skadi. In fact, skadi is probably one of the only other weapons you can pair with a retcher, so why can’t the devs get creative and find ways to make ballistics work in the same way that the retcher functions? You don’t see people complaining about the ballistics on the retcher!. Devs can always compensate in some other area to make it work but they are such simpletons and lack creativity and this is what we get as a result.
i think they are just doing it to test other things with the guns. i dont think they are removing ballistics from it completely. but if they do then it would make sense to shorten it. i mean refrigerant doesnt last all that long in air so i imagine they shorten the distance because of that. i could be wrong though.
Refrigerant doesn’t blow up cars either!! the game is loosely bounded in realism so I don’t care that much about realism, they can stretch the laws of physics a little bit if they want, if I wanted realism I just take a walk outside.
They released a weapon which I grew to like mainly because it stands out from everything else but they are taking one of the only things that makes skadi unique. If they go ahead with the change well it is back to firebugs for me because there is not much reason to use skadi anymore at that point besides cost.
I also think the ballistics and range made Skadi unique, and that it should be buffed in a different way.
Even just increasing the damage and the effects of the perk could make it more relevant.
Although what I really think they should do is make the perk the same as Jotun, and let it slow down your victims.
Maybe not as creative, but does every perk need to be unique?
i havent used the skadi myself (as i only have 1) but i used them i events and yeah they do have an interesting playstyle and i seen first hand how far the… uhh… ice… beam??? can travel. so i get why you would be upset by it.
hopefully its something they are testing in the test server and not something they will actually be doing. try not to get to heated over it though bud.
I put a ton of work in this build!!!. Soo much soo I even took the time to load it up with stickers, mixing paints and decor(other version got more decor). I will only take the time to do tedious stuff like this if I really like it which is not very often and now devs are gonna frig with it like always. Hard not to get emotional lol!
I already got flash on mine so no need of that for me. I think current perk is fine but if they had to change the perk i think it should be more in line with a distance perk like the retcher.
The ballistics is why i like the skadi. You know just because something got ballistics doesn’t mean it got to suck, they can just simply buff it in some other area. I wouldn’t mind if they removed the damage debuff perk and replaced with a increased damage at range perk or something along those lines.
yeah i know how ya feel. alot of my builds were ruined in the past to, ones i liked when they made changes that werent necessary. maybe i shouldve said “chill out” instead as a pun… oh well
also nice build. think you could fit an odin on that?
Yes you can but I don’t bother. After you get over 16k ps on pc I find it very hard to get matches so I try to keep my builds around or below that. If the population keeps dropping off I might have to lower that threshold yet again lol. I use to be able to play over 18k but those day’s are long gone unless you want 5-10 minute queue times depending on the time of day.
Tested the new skadi changes on the test server and I can honestly say that the changes are absolute bs. You are basically sacrificing 130m range for peanuts. Removing the ballistics prob makes hitting targets 10% easier at best for 65 percent drop in range which is definitely not worth the trade off and there is a whole list of bonuses to having ballistics in and of itself so you will be sacrificing those hidden perks as well.
What makes enemies soo tough to hit to begin with is the projectile speed of the skadi itself not the projectile drop. The projectile speed is still the same, so lets say they doubled the projectile speed along with the removal of ballistics then you can begin to make an argument for the change but this is definitely a big no no from me.
Sidenote: When I said 10% easier that is only on flat terrain, the ballistics removal actually increases the difficulty when you are on sloped terrain so even if they didn’t nerf the range at all I think I would still consider this change a nerf.
Also does anyone know how to submit your feedback to the devs about the changes on the test server?
Well that will be the last test server I ever do cause all it is a absolute complete waste of time, I don’t know why they even bother to do test servers if they never listen to the feedback anyways, will at least I got my answer now, thanks for wasting my time devs
