I'll disagree. Her healing is so slow that it is only ever viable as a post-fight pick me up, at which point you should already be able to loot healing items of your vanquished foes. In the same vein, her drone is incredibly slow, so you are also committing to remaining essentially stationary to heal up. And while her drop pod is good, it occurs maybe twice per game (maaaaaybe three times if you get lucky with ultimate accelerants and reach the final 3) and isn't an immediate better pick when compared to Bangalore, Gibraltar or even Pathfinder.TopazFusion said:Lifeline is basically a must-pick. Any squad without her is immediately at a disadvantage. Free healing and free loot, on cooldown.
Not really sure how they can balance that. (Overwatch has juggled with the same problem, on-and-off, for the last ~3 years)
Their ultimate gets them a wallhack for the duration, letting them track enemies in close proximity in real time. It is very, very powerful. Their signature gives them a snap shot of where enemies in proximity are right when it triggers and his tracking is a passive. It is quite useful for early and mid-game aggressive hunting, as you can track enemies down if you just cross their path.Seth Carter said:Bloodhound is one I think is a little weird. His abilities seem like they should be flipped around, where his real-time wall hack thing is his regular, but seeing delayed traces of where people were is somehow his ultimate? The trace thing is questionable in usefulness at best to begin with itself. The pace of the game doesn't really suit that sort of deliberate tracking.
It is not quite that bad. Head, lower abdomen and legs are still exposed when Gibraltar aims and his shield can take maybe 100 points of damage, if that. So while it provides him a few more moments of aiming, it doesn't make him invulnerable and I've taken down several Gibraltars simply by getting the drop on them and breaking their ADS shield.Seth Carter said:Gibraltar was the other one I played, who seems significantly powerful. I dunno what all they balance different between console and PC and such. But ADSing making you basically headshot only is pretty potent on PS4 (add on some minor latency issues to that as well).
The danger of his gas is not the damage, but the fact that he gets vision on you while you remain there. I lost to a really good Caustic, who used that to full effect and wiped our team after triggering his ultimate due to knowing exactly where we were.Seth Carter said:Of people I've faced, poison dude seems like a joke. Literally stood in his gas bomb zone just kind of being tickled.