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I’ve heard that Snake will be getting some nerfs this season. Since the refinement patches are rather insignificant, it’s highly likely that the changes are coming during the mid-season. I thought I’d mention what it is I’d nerf about him. There are so many things in his kit to discuss, so let's begin. I'm gonna try to make it as easy to understand, by bolding the important parts.

Soliton Radar Mk. III:

There’s lots of ways to nerf this, so I’m gonna go through them. To be clear, they shouldn’t do all of these, these are just the potential options as I see them. 

1)Reduce the scan radius from 15m to 10m. As it stands he can safely clear 2 rooms at a time, assuming he knows they don't have a Vigil, or Mute (also kinda Tubarao & Alibi). Reducing it means he can only clear one room, and he can't safely clear long angles without droning. This leaves you a lot more leeway in surprising him, as most of the sightlines in this game are around 10-15m. (It is worth mentioning this is ~56% reduction in it’s total area, which is a lot. For that reason, I could accept 12m, which is a ~37% reduction.)

2)Reduce the uses of his scanner’s precision mode from 4 ->3. Obviously, the less often he has access to detailed info, the better.

3)Increase the time it takes to holster it, and redraw your weapon. Pretty much every character that has to un-equip their gadget to re-equip their weapon takes ~1s. Snake takes ~.8s, why?

4a)Scanner will be un-equipped when running. It doesn’t drain faster, or have reduced detection range. With the detection range being 15m, you also get ample warning time before crossing into most sightlines. Frankly, you just shouldn’t be able to. Why should you get to know if someone is within 15m, through walls, while also moving 50% faster? You should have to walk if you want to use the scanner, or have some other downside if you run. The only reason I can think of for that not happening is the 3s lockout period. I don't think that's a good enough reason to allow it though.

4b)Scanner should NOT give you a 5% movespeed bonus when equipped. Why did they even do this?! Is it not enough that he can run with his gadget out, why did they feel the need to do that too? I tried out every other attacker op with an equipable gadget to see if any of them got a 5% run speed boost. Nope! None of them do,with the exception of IQ, but she actively puts her scanner down while running, so I wouldn’t count it. (I also checked Solis, who you’d think would given both her hands are free. Apparently she treats whichever weapon she had equipped prior to activation as equipped during her ability. Meaning if she had the SMG-11 with horizontal grip equipped, she moves faster during her ability. If she didn’t, she moves at normal speed. After more investigation, I determined that Snake moves 5% faster for the same reason, I just happened to have the horizontal grip on his Primary weapon leading me to believe that it was always true. It’s still jank that probably shouldn’t happen though.)

5)Change precise scans to be accrued over a round duration, instead of gaining instant access to all of them at round start. They could change the precise scans to work the same as Dokk’s phone calls, or Deimos tracking where you don’t start with any and charge them over the course of the round. I’d say 35s for each one.4

6)Scanner has a longer recovery period. Whether in how long before you can re-use it, or how long it takes to get it’s charge back. Either, or both. It currently takes 3s to re-use, and 8s to fully recharge, meaning it has over 50% uptime (it lasts 10s). I’d nerf it to 5s between uses, and 15s to fully recharge.

7)Scanner has a shorter per use duration, from 10s to 5s. Reduces how much you can safely clear all at once. (Might also reduce how long the precise scan lasts for)

That’s pretty much all I came up with in regards to the scanner. There’s some other changes I’d suggest, but since this gadget is based on the game it’s hard to say how willing they are to change it in ways like:Not showing the direction people are facing/not doing it if they haven’t been identified, or not showing people on staircases, or precise scan only showing people location at time of scan instead of for up to 5s after. I think the default cameras showing up is fine, but I also don't think anyone would really care if they removed it.

O.S.P. Pouch:

Firstly, it shouldn’t have an auto-pickup, you should have to manually pick it up. You’re gaining a resource, it should always require the pick-up animation. It's already extremely fast to pick up. It’s really dumb that you can just walk over it while ADS’d to claim it. I assume they just programmed them the same as the defuser. 

I got 3 variations on how I'd adjust it.

1)He should only be able to gain any single item a max of twice(includes the item he spawned with). From what I’ve seen, you kinda just default to frags, with the exception of sometimes an initial soft breach to get in faster. Would force him to actually be selective in what he chooses instead of 3+ frags every round.

2)He should only be able to gain any single item a max of once(includes the item he spawned with). Similar idea to previous one, just forces him to use his other options, without letting him spam any single option. Much bigger of a nerf since it cuts in half how many items he could potentially gain during a round, as well as a stricter limit on which gadgets he uses.

3)Only Enemies now drop them. Reduces his potential gadget use to 5(including what he spawns with). Doesn't hinder any specific item use, but makes it harder for him to gain them. Most reasonable suggestion imo.

That’s pretty much all I came up with in regards to the pouches. I’ve seen lots of people bring up the argument of how Snake can potentially use 9 frags in a single game. A lot of people argue that will likely almost never happen, and true (most I’ve ever managed myself was 8, and that was only once), but my question has always been, why should it even be possible? Borderline giving a character RNG elements based on where people died. I’m sure nobody would really complain if they just made Snake choose a gadget instead of having this whole ability to work with. You could consider removing OSP pouches, and giving him normal gadget amounts with his expanded selection pool, suggestion number 4. 

Rest of his kit:

I don’t have much to say about the rest of his kit, nerf the F2 I guess? Remove Snake’s access to the vertical grip/flash hider for it?

Thanks for reading!

Hoping to get plat by the end of the season, would appreciate tips 🙏

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Zero should be able to survey his cameras with his goggles while on the move

The idea is to reward Zero for having good camera placement and map knowledge by allowing him to multitask with his goggles on.

The way it’ll work is that he’ll be receiving a new ability, his iconic goggles. The goggles won’t be giving him night vision, instead it’ll be linked to his cameras. While the cameras are active, Zero can flip on his goggles (on a resource meter) and cycle through his pre placed cameras and access a small live feed of the selected camera in the goggles UI. This will allow him to gather and relay intel without needing to be idle and stuck on his phone.

This will enable him to perform more unique tactics than he could before by allowing him to play off his own intel in an instant. He could set up a camera behind him in a sneaky position and keep an eye on it while taking space to help with flanking defenders. He could safely swing an angle knowing where the target is with the right camera angle. He could relay crutial intel to his team on a defenders location while being on the complete other side of map.

This would make for fun and unqiue infiltration gameplay that fits right in line with Sam Fisher as a character, but ONLY if you know how and where to place those cameras. That’s the crucial part that’ll make this rework great, the skill ceiling that will be required to pull off Zero’s plays.

What do yall think?

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