They unironically ruined flamingoes

[Peanut |Pan Cult|]

Do no damage against SCPs, cant revive teammates anymore, they have made flamingoes genuine ♥♥♥♥

[APOSTATE]

Sounds like they've been balanced. Hated how OP they were, even if the occasion was rare.

Now we have a real fighting chance that doesn't consist of divine intervention!

[derpasorus-rex]

ahh yes a hard to hit target that has a half second cooldown on the attacks that deal 70 damage needed to be delt with fairly and the revival i dk about too much honestly

[Auto cone]

Originally posted by APOSTATE:

Sounds like they've been balanced. Hated how OP they were, even if the occasion was rare.

Now we have a real fighting chance that doesn't consist of divine intervention!

You could almost say that the flamingos could stay as permenant addition to the game.

[Sammadily]

Flamingos never needed a damage debuff oriented towards SCPs, if SCPs just fought together then they'd beat the flamingos every time. 173 and ironically 106 are the best to fight against them. Now humans on the other hand, it is fair for the damage to be decreased because a human can take a few more hits. Though I'd suggest NW for next Flamingo implementation, whether it be the RA console or Christmas Event, keep the damage they do now - but give them 20% or 30% more damage dealt to SCPs. They'll be more effective against SCPs but less against humans.

[Unstable WiFI/No Mic/English]

Is there an AoE weapon that humans use...oh a shotgun. But close up and deals no damage if you miss your target who moves too quickly. And is skinny. A flamethrower could be nice, for the modded ones. Should there be an update for a wider range of weapons or no?

[Pulowski]

if they aint staying, it was a pointless nerf. very high IQ of the devs to focus on balancing temporary content instead of the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ going on rn with spawn wave spam

[Roberto Musso]

We're increasing damage done to SCPs by Flamingos in an update coming either today or tomorrow. We are also decreasing the base chance of them spawning but making them more likely to appear for every round where they don't spawn.

The goal is to make it so if you play a "regular" amount of rounds, you are pretty much guaranteed to see them at least once.

This patch will also be fixing some issues brought by the Xmas update, such as SCP-2536 not teleporting to Chaos Insurgents, Flamingos granting objective rewards, or them getting stuck on Surface after Warhead.

[Arcelay]

They really overdid the damage reduction on SCPs, it even takes a bit for 10 flamingos to kill 1 zombie. Peanut can actually solo a whole flamingo wave if it has more than 1/4 of their HP (assuming 15+ flamingos attacking at the same time), especially if the peanut is regaining HS from killing them on tantrum.

Right now, flamingos are more like a human cleanup wave than a global threat.

Edit: Just saw the dev reply. Looks like they're good changes, we'll have to see if they're tuned better.

[Roberto Musso]

Originally posted by Worst TF2 Player EVER:

Originally posted by Roberto Musso:

We're increasing damage done to SCPs by Flamingos in an update coming either today or tomorrow.

By how much?

Peck Ability's damage multiplier against SCPs is at x0.9 at the moment, we are increasing it to x2.0. Which is still A LOT lower than last year's (which was at x3.0).

We'll be monitoring the changes very closely, but given that this is the middle-ground between this and last year's flamingos, we hope this feels a lot better on both ends.

[HECU Soldier]

Originally posted by Roberto Musso:

Originally posted by Worst TF2 Player EVER:

By how much?

Peck Ability's damage multiplier against SCPs is at x0.9 at the moment, we are increasing it to x2.0. Which is still A LOT lower than last year's (which was at x3.0).

We'll be monitoring the changes very closely, but given that this is the middle-ground between this and last year's flamingos, we hope this feels a lot better on both ends.

Thank god it isn't last year's amount. Ty for the communication

[Roberto Musso]

Originally posted by Worst TF2 Player EVER:

Thank god it isn't last year's amount. Ty for the communication

My pleasure! Do keep in mind that the update will be rolling out today/tomorrow but it will be backwards compatible. This means that even if the client is updated, community hosted servers may take some time to update or may simply stay on the old build if that's what they want.

Clarifying this because while the update may roll out, it'll be up to the community to update their servers.

Happy Holidays!

[derpasorus-rex]

i do wish that the flamingos stay around year round as a server option for spawning in or having a flat chance of spawning

[gordon freeman]

Originally posted by Roberto Musso:

the audacity to give a DEVELOPER free points

[Sammadily]

I hope with the Christmas patch they fix the sometimes terrible Flying Chaos Van hitbox. Where it might kill you from across surface map when it takes off. Mostly when you just spawn in as a chaos...

[АстероидBuggs ☂]

Still can't get a match with flamingos.