The new Kensei

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So, how are you all feeling about the new Kensei cabin? (slower duration of speed boost, faster reload of speed boost)

Honestly, I don’t like it. On paper it’s nothing but good, but in practice I find that running a Kensei means you are spamming the perk button constantly because a singular burst of the perk is not really good enough, and with the faster reload of it you kinda have to keep spamming it to activate it again and again and it gets really tiring when most high speed builds already use a lot of buttons.

I found the longer burst + longer reload be way more user friendly than faster reload but slower duration of burst. Usually when using the Kensei cabin I was using it as a booster substitute, so to travel in a singular direction faster, to get to an enemy or get away. Current day Kensei feels more like spamming the perk button and having 4 seconds of nimble movement, 2 seconds of normal, 4 fast again, 2 normal again, 4 fast again…

Doing that while dogfightign an enemy is kind of a pain, and now if you want to move in a straight line, you pretty much have to activate the boost twice with a slow downtime in between so it’s kind of jerky.

It’s still usable, but I would not say it has made the cabin any amounts better than the original perk was

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I really like the slower perk recharge time.
I really hope Yokozuna gets the same treatment, faster perk. Takes waaay too long and the perk is honestly useless.

i’m the opposite really, on paper it seems trash but i find Kensei perk really useful in actual pvp.
But was the buff enough? I still wouldn’t mind extra buffs. I don’t see Kensei ever being OP tho regardless of what they do.

I like fast cabs but i hate glass cannon light cabs

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It seems we have two completely opposite opinions. So how about combining the two? Let’s change the perk to be based on charges.
One charge could be short but with a quick reload (so it still could be used the same way as it operates now). But if someone prefer to have a longer boost, he could wait longer for more charges.

So something similar to Morgan and its ability to reload shots one by one. And perhaps activating the perk could use all of the accumulated charges (instead of having to click multiple times for longer boost) as this would be simpler and (in my eyes) better match Kensei’s identity of “uncontrollable burst of power”.