fuckall nerf to sblast, l3 with the most bizarre change I've ever seen, yet another explosion radius buff, some degenerate snowballing mechanic, yet another change to the core game that favours shooters, and health bars that look like they just enabled a dev command. "spicy" is one word for it.

like I know it's just a translation but why the fuck are we saying that L3 should "proactively approach its opponents"?

are we actually fucking serious? have you played this fucking game? god forbid a weapon moves laterally in this game. hold forwards you miserable fucks or your gun gets nerfed

In other words, if you picked machine, you'd fight either other machines, or terrible guns that made it a 4v3. If you picked splash, you'd fight something competent like a splattershot, keeping win rates more even. It's also, I suspect, why we had those random buffs and nerfs to mini splatling.

It's conjecture, but I'm convinced that they rely mostly on X Rank data. And I'm not sure that they account for their own matchmaking algorithm. That's why shooters don't get nerfed; their matchmaking pools are too large. Meanwhile Machine died because its matchmaking pool was all shit weapons.

I'm not sure they know what these changes do. Do they think about what it means for a weapon to need 10 more special points? Do they think about extra shots, extra time spent painting, how much longer you need to live to get special? Or is it just a knob they turn when the X Rank data tells them to?

meanwhile their insistence on leaving burst bomb alone has led to pretty much every kit that has one (except l3, because that's how shit that gun is) massively overperforming at one point or another.

but by all means, slap sblast with 10 special and an aoe nerf. I'm sure that fixes the problem.

every single patch, right back to the start of the game where machine and splash were picked because they were the only competent kits on release. machine got fucking butchered because they gave it fizzy booyah and then injected all the maps with ozempic. splash didn't, because it's a shooter.

you're welcome

also thank you for respecting my wishes

other? I haven't played games like that in years

you're on thin ice right now, champ

now that's an idea I could get behind

well it's not plan A, but it's not far into the alphabet

god forbid

not since spending $900 to drop mkworld after like two weeks lol

we'll see about that

nah I kinda fell off world. was already not vibing with it and then they screwed with the online and I haven't played it since

not likely to happen, no

just like the good old days

let's not get ahead of ourselves LMAO