Maestro nerf is horrible

[DrWalrus]

I'm a casual maestro main, and this nerf makes me want to never play him again. all the fun that I have playing maestro is in coming up cool and interesting spots to place my cameras. I see a lot of people saying that people should just place their cams where the enemy can't melee them, but that limits the potential cam spots to like 1 or 2 per site. the 2 most fun strategies I liked to play as maestro were placing cams in the bomb site to stop the plant, and running out at the beginning of the match and placing a cam outside. these changes also make it impossible to distract the attackers while your teammates kill them. I think I'm going to quit siege.

[R E B O R N]

+1

[Fridrex]

Miras nerf is horrible too. How can her mirror tank everything every bullet every granade every lunch and broke from melee hit? Insane. Developers don't play this game I think and live in another Universe.

[beatmeat]

i approve of the mira nerf because the mira can just defend her miras, but the maestro one seems a be excessive

[Arash The Great]

Also giving Bullet Proof cameras EMP zappings?

[Amogus]

Originally posted by beatmeat:

i approve of the mira nerf because the mira can just defend her miras, but the maestro one seems a be excessive

That's not entirely true.

Not every Mira strat revolves around having the ability to kill around the edge. Even if that were the case, not every spot makes it easy to defend the opposite side of the window. There are already plenty of ways to deal with a mira as is, from attacking at a different angle/through floors, hard breachers like Hibana/Ace, smoke grenades (to block line of sight), and many other strategies. Now all it's going to take is 1 smoke grenade to completely invalidate Mira strats in a large majority of locations, and being able to use them to assist with Bandit/Kaid tricking is going to be impossible.

On top of that, their recoil nerfs are only going to affect lower ranked players. Professional players or high ranking players who play this game all the time can handle any recoil, no matter how bad it is. If people can handle the SMg-11 recoil at range (which they can), then no amount of recoil increase is going to affect skilled players. Increasing recoil (as well as a large majority of the changes made this patch) is only going to make it even more difficult for casual players and/or people who don't have a lot of time to play to get anywhere.

This game just keeps making the casual experience worse and worse, and it will continue to get worse and worse as long as they keep up this pace.

[Dread]

Yep my favorite thing with Maestro is just running out the time zapping the guy planting and doing 10-40 damage and maybe sometimes a kill. This makes him way less fun. One bullet was often just enough to limit my utility and often times attackers would use a nade or something to destroy my cams before I got to use em. This just makes less useful.

[Burgundy_β]

I think this mechanic will be better if...

1. Freezing bullet proof camera

Or

2. self healing glass from tech buzzfeed video

[Amogus]

Originally posted by Deimos:

Yep my favorite thing with Maestro is just running out the time zapping the guy planting and doing 10-40 damage and maybe sometimes a kill. This makes him way less fun. One bullet was often just enough to limit my utility and often times attackers would use a nade or something to destroy my cams before I got to use em. This just makes less useful.

It literally just makes Maestro's camera a bulletproof camera with a laser. Since they're making bulletproof cameras able to rotate, it makes his gadget even less useful as it is. Combining that with being able to blind it with one melee punch and you've got yourself a gadget nerfed into the ground.