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Yeah it's really not my department but I can't imagine a human being looked at "I f*cked up" and smashed the big HARASSMENT button, but what do I know

Aaah, algorithms: the fastest way to be wrong at scale.

You're literally the first person to've made this observation! (You're also wrong ;P)

Nope! Removing the blur wasn't about "get everyone's win rate to 5%" balance, it was about removing something that was clearly excessively frustrating compared to the actual impact on the game it had. There was nothing in the game that felt as frustrating and bad as fighting a Caustic when the gas blurred your vision to the point that you couldn't even clearly see your gun's sights anymore. That's not coming back.

We don't have a super clean breakdown; I'm looking at data before and after WE re-entered the rotation. Her win rate's pretty flat across that change; if anything she went up a little bit? But that's probably noise.

We get these questions whenever we show anything from our data! In short, assume that most "but did you control for XYZ" questions will be answered in the affirmative; we have a very smart data science team. There was some amount of pick rate decline, but surely not enough to where we'd see meaningful survivor bias I don't think. But anyway we can control for that by looking at Caustic players with X previous games on Caustic.

Rampart isn't on this chart because she's so far below everyone else :( (alongside our edgy boy Revenant; they're the basement squad in our win rate data). That brown jumpy line you see is Loba. The ammo buff was REALLY impactful until it wasn't. Fun! I guess that's the game as a whole adjusting to the new reality that Loba squads just don't run out of ammo? f*cked if I know!

Okay but you gotta understand that we can't balance for anecdotes, right? Like even if I spent 12 hours a day playing the game and mained all characters equally, I couldn't make good or healthy balancing decisions based on that. If you're trying to make a game that is fair and balanced for millions of players, you have to use data.

Yup we do! Intuitively what you say makes sense, but we don't see a huge difference in data between maps. He seems to perform roughly the same on both WE and Olympus with the Season 7 changes.

Our data would disagree with you on that! Overall, Caustics win more games and more engagements now than they did before. I absolutely agree that the removal of blurred vision in isolation is a nerf, but the damage increase more than made up for it.

https://imgur.com/1ap5X7T

It was a ~0.1% buff (which is meaningful if you remember we're talking about a spread of +/- 0.7% from mean in TOTAL). Put another way, Caustic went from 4th lowest to 6th lowest. It's not a HUGE buff, but it's very clearly a buff.

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That's an old clip from before the Caustic buff (you can tell because damage ticks start at 4, not 6)

Poor Caustic didn't even get to watch you die.

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