Velma rework - Are you guys insane?

[TTsuyuki]

I have no idea what kind of Velma hater do you have at your company but this rework just completely killed the character.

Who thought that it was a great idea to force people into waiting between shooting the neutral projectiles? Not only did you make the entire game more sluggish and slower, but you also reworked characters to be more sluggish? Why? I can't even do any combos that I could do before, just because everything is slower.

Why does the special lazer have a size of a barely longer normal attack, why can't I aim it where I actually want it to hit, and when by some miracle it manages to connect, why does it barely do anything, both to teammates and enemies? Wasn't this game supposed to be about team synergies? The previous lazer was a great example of that, now it's just nothing.

Also the passive doesn't even seem to work properly since I don't see any clues spawning on the map.

[Havah]

velma boring anyway

[Cootsy]

Honestly yeah, Velma feels absolutely dead. She does no damage and her nerfs are unreal. The beam is useless and her projectiles immediately go on cooldown. Likely the worst character in the game right now.

[󠀡󠀡]

velma and jake were so hated in the beta that they were nerfed into being literally useless now. I actually hate how much of a waste of a character slot they are now.

Jake only does like 4 damage now with his combos lmao, good luck if you main him

[kaminaree]

i play her anyways because she got a fat ass

[󠀡󠀡]

Originally posted by ᴋᴀᴛᴜʜsᴛʀᴏғɪᴋ:

i play her anyways because she got a fat ass

she's also 15 years old in most of her character adaptations

[Catzilla01]

I was able to make Velma work for me despite the nerfs.

[Codester]

Classic broken character get's a little nerf and then the people who could only win using them now cry and pee their pants.

[Outcast]

Originally posted by 󠀡󠀡:

velma and jake were so hated in the beta that they were nerfed into being literally useless now. I actually hate how much of a waste of a character slot they are now.

Jake only does like 4 damage now with his combos lmao, good luck if you main him

It sucks so bad that they did this. They were my TWO ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ main characters and playing them now is just not fun at all. Every attack and movement is so slow and impossible to aim compared to beta gameplay. I'm not saying Velma wasn't a little OP, but compared to other characters, she didn't deserve this much of a rework. Not being able to aim her beam is criminal, and the lack of homing chat bubbles makes her effectively useless at any range.

Jake is just not the same. It's like seeing a friend go off the wagon and sink deep into a drug addiction. Depressing. Jake was so fun and had so many options. He never felt overpowered, and learning to play him effectively was a fun challenge in itself. As the game is now, he's ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ useless and his skateboard bounce is so hit-or-miss that I wouldn't recommend him to anyone. His horse ability is comically slow. It's a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ horse and it moves like a sloth going half-speed.

The whole game really feels like a chore to control now, and once you're up against someone who has a spinning attack that has hitbox priority (Finn, Taz) you just don't have to speed to escape from it. And when/if you DO escape from it, both characters are fast enough to catch up to you and do it again. This kind of spam wouldn't bother me if I could counter it like I could in the beta.

"But they had to rebuild the game from the ground up"
First off, no they didn't. They ported it from one version of Unreal to another. The codebase and blueprint system mostly carries over from one engine version to another. Sure, there are differences, but these differences wouldn't have effected things like move speed and gravity. Those are intentional variables set by the programmers. Second off, skill issue on the devs part. They had a year to get these variables for speed and damage (And camera zoom) back to where they were, assuming they actually DID start from scratch. (They didn't.) Unless this was done by a team of less than 5 people, I just don't see that as a valid excuse.

There is no solid reasoning behind the negative changes that have happened between last year and now. I'm hoping the devs see all the criticism and give some form of response on the matter. If they say "We hear you and we want to make the game the players want to play" I will happily keep supporting them. If they say "We have no intention of changing the game" then I'm uninstalling and removing from my account.

Just waiting for the inevitable Twitter post in one direction or the other so I can either enjoy this game again or get it the ♥♥♥♥ out of my life altogether.

[Rocky rickaby]

Honnestly you people want to complain but I feel like velma needed her nerf pretty bad. Considering during the beta she was horrible. And jake isn't that bad to play either. So maybe just get good instead of complaining because you can't manage to just do some cheap bs with them

[Aladim e a Lâmpada Maravilhosa]

I still main Jake, and i don't see all the nerfs you guys are saying. Yes, the skateboard is harder to hit, besides that, its 'kinda' the same.
But Velma...poor girl, its barely playable right now =/

[Gromit Gaming]

hate it when a bad ♥♥♥♥♥ gets ruined like this

[Sharkinbear]

Jake is still easily one of the strongest characters in the game.

[HighLanderPony]

She even lost the detective tag. rip

[Gamefreak]

Smash babies when a game is slowed down and you have to commit to moves.

[HighLanderPony]

Originally posted by Gamefreak:

Smash babies when a game is slowed down and you have to commit to moves.

You can have a fast game with high commitment moves.
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