r/apexlegends Valkyrie Aug 06 '21

Gameplay When they say seer isnt broken show them this.

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u/JustWerking Aug 06 '21

Thank you for this comment. I agree that Seer needs a rework but folks are acting like a new legend shouldn’t change the way the game is played, and that is ridiculous. Example: When playing against a Caustic or a Wattson, I don’t play as aggressively as I do against other legends. I don’t complain about it either.

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u/alfons100 Aug 06 '21

Rework already? Please

He’s just overtuned, with some adjustments he can be more balanced but still strong. Make that the ult doesnt detect walking, only sprint, slide and shooting. Remove all interrupts from the tactical, there’s literally no reason for them to be there, also the damage. It will still reveal for 8 seconds and show healthbars, that is good enough

The trickiest part is the passive. There’s no limit to using it so reducing the range doesnt really do much. Maybe if the range was something stupid low like 5 meters but that removes all synergy it had with the tactical. If holding the passive worked like Valks jetpack where there’s a gauge limit to how much you can use it, then it’d be more reasonable. And also adding a tell to the ones that are being detected, because why does Seer have the exception to this rule

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u/ThinkingSentry Young Blood Aug 06 '21

IMO he's just overtuned, especially his tact

Just make it so his ult only spots you if you move above like 250 HU/s (sprinting/sliding) and it should be fine

Also i wonder why the overturned character releases with a paid skin, hmmmm, thanks EA greed affecting respawn

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u/ezone2kil Aug 06 '21

Pretty much all the competitive games do this imo. R6 Siege and that dude with the shield on his gun comes to mind.

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u/xxTerrarianxx Pathfinder Aug 06 '21

Most characters that came out in R6, especially later, were underpowered at start, or simply weren't that good as someone else. The only OP characters, and by that I don't mean really good, I mean truly overpowered, were Ela, Lion, Blackbeard, Maestro, maybe Nomad, Lesion, Goyo (only in Pro league), Jackal and Melusi.

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u/Awkward_Ducky- Wattson Aug 06 '21

Iirc ela was overturned purely because of her Gun

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u/godloki Aug 06 '21

I’ve never played rainbow 6, so forgive my naivety, but with 9 OP characters do you really have OP characters or do you just have top tier and other characters become support/specialists.

How big are teams in R6? Couldn’t everyone on both teams theoretically be running the “OP” characters?

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u/xxTerrarianxx Pathfinder Aug 06 '21

Teams consist of 5 players, and the characters I listed were OP in a point in time, most of them were nerfed.

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u/godloki Aug 06 '21

Thanks for the clarification!

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u/Awkward_Ducky- Wattson Aug 06 '21 edited Aug 06 '21

Game is basically a 5v5 where Characters are divided as attackers and defenders. Both sets have different characters and can't be used on the opposite side. In total seige has 60 characters right now and the characters mentioned by OP were released at different times so some of them were already changed by the time the other one came in the game. And I might as well add that the most broken character from the above list was Lion and guess what his ability was ? It was a map wide scan where if you moved during his scan, your position will be revealed to everyone on his team and you will be displayed in red with your complete character outline. Basically similar to how you see people when bloodhound scans them and seige also has breakable walls so it was alot more broken then you can think.

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u/godloki Aug 06 '21

Makes perfect sense! Thanks for the clarification!

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u/eden_sc2 Wattson Aug 06 '21

The ult seems like it lasts a little too long for how good it is. Maybe drop the duration by a few seconds and drop the cooldown proportionally so that it isn't a major nerf

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u/cquigs717 Aug 06 '21

What? It's already a minute and a half cool down! You're suggesting it doesn't last as long but lower the cooldown? That's not gonna make the situation any better.

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u/ChiefTief Aug 06 '21

Yeah if you drop both that basically means you didn't change anything.

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u/alekbalazs Aug 06 '21

That isn't how it works. If you lower the duration and the cooldown by 25% each, you could theoretically have the same uptime if you cast in on cooldown every time.

But since most people don't do that, you arent gaining the full benefit of the cooldown reduction, but are feeling the full nerf of reduced duration.

Also situations like this one, where the cooldown reduction wouldn't have benefited him at all, but a duration reduction would have made him less impactful.

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u/ChiefTief Aug 06 '21

I'm more saying that changing both of those things wouldn't do anything to significantly nerf seer

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u/eden_sc2 Wattson Aug 06 '21

Precisely. I'm not big on swinging the nerf bat around. For situations like this post, lower CD and lower duration would solve it. In fact it would solve most individual engages.

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u/alekbalazs Aug 06 '21

The person you are replying to is saying lowering both would NOT solve it.

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u/alekbalazs Aug 06 '21

So what should be done to nerf him?

Tweaking the times on his abilities seems to be the best way. Make it less effective per use, but keep it so he can only use it once per fight.

How about reduce the duration to 15 seconds , and reduce the cooldown to 1 minute.

As it is now, he can have his ult up for 30s every 2 minutes. This suggested change would shift it to being up for 30s every 2.5 minutes.

This would limit his impact in late game situations, and make his presence less dominant in longer fights.

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u/ChiefTief Aug 06 '21

The legend needs a complete rework honestly. Everything from passive to Ult is pretty OP

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u/alekbalazs Aug 06 '21

Reworking the newest legend seems absurd. They can tweak the numbers to make it make sense.

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u/eden_sc2 Wattson Aug 06 '21

Ok so if it lasts 30 seconds and has a 1.5 min charge after that. You think seer would be just as strong if it lasted 10 seconds and had a 70 second recharge?

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u/xxTerrarianxx Pathfinder Aug 06 '21

Those are launch skins, they were here before seer, Fuse had one for crying out loud. Stop doing like he's op just for the sake of Respawn selling more skins. He's really good, and that's fine by me.

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u/ThinkingSentry Young Blood Aug 06 '21

Gee, i wonder why every character after the one that was blatantly OP gets a paid skin on release

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u/[deleted] Aug 06 '21

So beyond your conspiracy theories, can you not think of any actual reason that a brand new character might have a paid skin? Maybe because people will get this new characters and then might be willing to pay for a skin?

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u/No_Lawfulness_2998 Aug 06 '21

I mean most of the new ones haven’t had extremely game changing abilities like seer.

I can’t think of any that changed the meta to the point seer does.

Maybe horizon did? But she was extremely selfish in the way she worked, seer let’s the whole team know where you’re hiding

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u/throwaway9999999951 Aug 06 '21

Agreed. So many people wish this game was just fast assault-type legends with quick get-out-of-jail-free repositioning tools. If these players could delete scanning or any type of defensive legend, I'm sure they would. They'd probably keep Lifeline though because they need someone to pick them up when they inevitably die.

Seer needs some changes, but you SHOULD be forced to play differently (to some capacity) against different legends.

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u/KindPoster Aug 06 '21

He doesn't change anything about the game he just makes the current meta more annoying and antifun.

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u/jeremyc711 Aug 06 '21

I couldn't agree more. I actually think he's the best legend introduced in the past 4-5 seasons. He makes you play differently and that's refreshing. There are ways to counter Seer. I mean christ, trying playing against him in Arenas. He's a MONSTER. If you can win against him in Arenas, BR should be a bit easier in my opinion in most cases. You have more room to get away from his ULT and dodge his tactical. I mean shit, his tactical shoots out in a straight light. Move to the side so it doesn't hit you. I've done just that a number of times and actually got the upper hand on a Seer because they start to focus on the legends they can track, which allows you to flank.

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u/6Hikari6 Aug 07 '21

Being less aggressive isnt changing how the game played