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...How can Revenant's buff be 3 months late when we released him 2 months ago?
Does it really take over a year to change caustic so that his abilities don't completely screw over teammates? I would also add that it's their duty as a strong team to communicate with their playerbase, were not 50 million people anymore, we are the dedicated players. Lack of communication certainly perpetuates a negative community.
It's not the difficulty of the individual change, it's that plus everything else. Changing Caustic Gas has knock-on effects that we're dealing with even now; previously, seeing the gas meant "bad; stay away". Now it's uncertain... and the "fix" for that is team colored gas. I personally dislike that idea because it makes it easy for a squad to abuse their immunity to their own squads gas, which I don't think is a healthy play pattern. But we might do it anyway, which of course has the knock-on effect needing to re-evaluate the damage/visual model of every other ability that affects squadmates, each of which may have their own new unhealthy play patterns.
TLDR; seemingly simple changes can have far reaching effects on balance, FX, audio, animation, etc... all of which can end up multiplied by the number of other legends. We don't take such changes lightly.