The Death of the Hovering Device

[Jazz Monkey]

omg they just killed this useful skill. heaven forbid you can escape a raider with this thing it just made it easier to get across gaps when its hard enough in the first place.
that's sad now i got to use another skill to replace it.

[Pixelator]

I miss that skill ;( the nerf is too much ;(

[InfernalD3mon]

Rest in piece, best bit of movement, you will be missed.

[Kurtino]

Originally posted by Mary:

Oh gosh what did they do to it? I'm totally way too tired to check right now... Can you please tell me what they did?

Made it so it no longer grants a movement speed increase, so it's as fast as walking now. Sometimes even slower actually I think.

[ZenithZX]

The patch notes called it a "bug fix" so apparently it wasn't intended.

[Jazz Monkey]

Originally posted by ZenithZX:

The patch notes called it a "bug fix" so apparently it wasn't intended.

i hope so because the only thing worth it's salt "air quotes" double jumping or jumping higher

[ZenithZX]

Originally posted by Jazz Monkey:

Originally posted by ZenithZX:

The patch notes called it a "bug fix" so apparently it wasn't intended.

i hope so because the only thing worth it's salt "air quotes" double jumping or jumping higher

Perhaps you misunderstand, I mean the hovering device giving speed was a bug to them in their eyes. So they changed it.

[Jazz Monkey]

Originally posted by ZenithZX:

Originally posted by Jazz Monkey:

i hope so because the only thing worth it's salt "air quotes" double jumping or jumping higher

Perhaps you misunderstand, I mean the hovering device giving speed was a bug to them in their eyes. So they changed it.

that's fine, but it doesn't change the fate of the skill sadly. now its like if you rode a vehicle with no speed passives when you can easily out run it.

[ZenithZX]

Originally posted by Jazz Monkey:

Originally posted by ZenithZX:

Perhaps you misunderstand, I mean the hovering device giving speed was a bug to them in their eyes. So they changed it.

that's fine, but it doesn't change the fate of the skill sadly. now its like if you rode a vehicle with no speed passives when you can easily out run it.

I find myself bringing Sprint a majority of the time anyway. It really sucks in crossing large horizontal gaps though since you'd be less inclined to bring the skill.

[Jazz Monkey]

i was thinking of using the jump skill or something similar since i don't have gotens double jump

[Sahxyel]

I used to use this combined with Flotation Device to get really good movement but the horizontal speed is ridiculously bad now, at best it’s good for breaking falls or cutting the Floatation jump midway but the benefits are severely less, to the point I replaced both with Wall Kick and Instant Transmission instead.

I miss my trampoline but Hovering Device is just so bad now.

[Jazz Monkey]

Originally posted by Sahxyel:

I used to use this combined with Flotation Device to get really good movement but the horizontal speed is ridiculously bad now, at best it’s good for breaking falls or cutting the Floatation jump midway but the benefits are severely less, to the point I replaced both with Wall Kick and Instant Transmission instead.

I miss my trampoline but Hovering Device is just so bad now.

did they nerf the trampoline?

[Sahxyel]

No, trampoline is still functional but Hover Device combined with it made for amazing movement and Hover can be used to cut your height or get that horizontal movement in addition to your vertical from trampoline. Now the horizontal movement is massively nerfed from Hover to the point I personally found it not very useful anymore.

[Usana]

Originally posted by ZenithZX:

The patch notes called it a "bug fix" so apparently it wasn't intended.

I can understand fixing the ground movement speed quirk, but when they did that they NERFED the heck out of its aerial speed as well making it nearly useless. Its like they can't actually fix things and can only beat them with a sledgehammer instead.

[Kurtino]

Originally posted by Usana:

Originally posted by ZenithZX:

The patch notes called it a "bug fix" so apparently it wasn't intended.

I can understand fixing the ground movement speed quirk, but when they did that they NERFED the heck out of its aerial speed as well making it nearly useless. Its like they can't actually fix things and can only beat them with a sledgehammer instead.

To be fair, virtually everyone ran hover machine and it probably was a bit too strong. I actually prefer that it's nerfed because it felt very cheesy to use (like dodge rolling in a game being faster than running).

[Usana]

Originally posted by Kurtino:

Originally posted by Usana:

I can understand fixing the ground movement speed quirk, but when they did that they NERFED the heck out of its aerial speed as well making it nearly useless. Its like they can't actually fix things and can only beat them with a sledgehammer instead.

To be fair, virtually everyone ran hover machine and it probably was a bit too strong. I actually prefer that it's nerfed because it felt very cheesy to use (like dodge rolling in a game being faster than running).

Yeah as said I can understand the ground speed nerf. It was needed cause it was negating a lot of movement passives, but the speed in the air was actually an important aspect of the skill. Basically typical of these devs, they sledgehammered it instead of nerfbatting it.