I for one am very angry about what SK has done with LD. Like SERIOUSLY!? You are practically forcing us to buy the new Penta-Trinkets. Now Skolver strikers with PIERCE def die in 2 hits from a FF or BTB. THATS RIDICULOUS!!! Recons and Gaurds barely last any longer because of their slow speed and on top of that Gaurds' shields break in 1 freaking DA or GF swing. So what purpose do they serve at all now? You nerfed one of the best parts about SK to make some quick bucks. Great well guess what? Change it back to the way it was or you are gonna lose interest in your game. If people can't actually stay alive in LD for more than 20secs then they aren't gonna play and for you information your clockwork boxes get very boring after a while. Learn to keep the players you have and stop trying to draw all the money out of them that you can. We play to have fun not to be abused. Fix it or I'll sell my stuff and buy other games that can actually be enjoyed.
What the Hell Did You Do to Lockdown?
thanks for the info, but i still think its lame that they nerfed the health and are pretty much requiring strikers to get heart trinkets or else they just die in a snap
Aside from a fix to trap damage being dealt (it was dealing damage too frequently) and some Frostbite-specific map iterations, there have been no Lockdown gameplay rebalances. This is a bug that is being looked into.
I haven't played lockdown in a while, but the HP loss DID need to be increased. A smidge at least. Strikers just increase the death rate in general, cause the damage bonus they have overcompensates for the lost HP. It made battles faster becuase there was less hp/more damage. Plus they have ASI on it, further shortening the fight. This allowed for cheap tricks like coming up from the bottom/abusing latency. I'd vote for guardian and recon to be the same, and put striker down to a -4 hp, and change the sword damage to gun ASI. Just a personal thought.
Also, on a side note, the guardian sheild needs less defense and more health to be more general-purpose. Pure-damage weapons (well, flourishes and troikas...) break it easialy since it only has 25% of each defense set against them. A brandish, on the other hand, is better defended against since the sheild makes use of both it's normal and elemental defense at once. That's twice as much defense, to my knowlage. Correct me if that's not how defenses work though.
Anyhow, I'd be a little more subtle next time you rant Mr. OP. Saying "You nerfed one of the best parts about SK to make some quick bucks." and "Change it back to the way it was or you are gonna lose interest in your game." probabaly dosen't realy make OOO wanna listen to you. Telling someone that "they" did something tends to piss them off, as does making a somewhat empty threat. When arguing use statments such as "I ___", not "you ___". Example, say "I felt offended" as opposed to "You offended me". And don't "threaten to leave the game". Sorry, but I think that that's just not gonna happen, I've seen allot of so-called "quitters".
I don't see why people play Lockdown... it's just plain stupid.
Just my two cents, anyways.
I still like the idea of banning health trinkets in LD, or making a vanilla LD(No trinkets or uvs)
First off I would like to apologize for the rant haha. Second id like to thank you crazy for clearing up the situation. i like how you are taking an active role in the forums about your game. overall i hope you finish fixing it, and for everyone else, LD is played because its a fun competition against friends and it usually is pretty funny if you have a good sense of humor about you deaths and about just having fun with your friends... just as long as the game is somewhat fair hahaha.
Umm...
You don't need trinkets if you're really good and avoid getting hit.
I still play after I lose 5 matches in a row.
If you are getting 1 shotted then counter with their weapons (If its DA, BTB/FF, GF you should have at least one of those anyway if you're gonna play LD.)
Also
"We play to have fun not to be abused. Fix it or I'll sell my stuff and buy other games that can actually be enjoyed."
Yeah but we aren't being abused. If you have played lockdown before you should know you get 1 shotted easily.
Also have fun selling your stuff. See you on a different account in a few months
/wave
If your post just before mine is serious, then yeah, don't rant and then try to take it back on the forums. It doesn't work very well.
Hop off my nuts "pal". and btw i happen to win LD games a lot. Im sorta actually good at it considering i win pretty often and happen to average like 9-10k damage. also you don't get ones hotted a lot unless you're slow as balls and can't keep track of other players. Lastly i only took back what i said cause an Admin (in case you didn't notice) explained everything.
"ones hotted" hah.
also just a slight attitude tweak would be a good idea.
I'm not telling you what to do. I'm saying that you shouldn't go and rage like this on the forums and then instantly take it back just because an admin explained it. And I admit I have been a bit harsh on the forums recently, however it is annoying to see a rant every time I open my web browser. Just saying.
I still agree with Melisan though.
I THINK it's a bug, not a intended change to guardian, as you can 1-hit guardian shield with a gun too. I hope they're going to fix it soon.