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Thoughts and prayers
Thoughts and prayers
Yes the base model change is enough for me but i would like to see newer models with different animations in the future. Also i’m really really glad that the riot personnel are so interested to hear community opinion. I know not everything the community wants will/ can be implemented but i’m happy that you guys actually listen
Thanks! I know it probably doesn’t seem like it but we honestly do read and listen to a lot of what we hear. Changes just take time and Reddit isn’t always representative of all players around the world.
I can weigh in a bit here. For context, I'm the tech lead and project manager for our Gameplay Integrity team which focuses on game client and server performance. I am Plat1 and primarily play on a 144hz 2k monitor. So I'm not a top tier player. I can't give firsthand advice on how to get to that next level; cause if I knew I'd do it.
So first off I want to address the "do I need X hardware to reach Y skill level". I would say hard NO. I believe that pros and high level players typically having great hardware is more correlation than causation. High level players are willing to dedicate an immense amount of time and effort to get to that level. It makes sense that they'd also be willing invest monetarily. The hardware isn't making them good it's the dedication, the dedication is the thing leading them towards getting the best hardware.
Does hardware/ping/etc matter all? Hard YES. I've seen plenty of research that shows the same player on better hardware will perform...
Read moreThis is amaziiing!
Instantly thought of Fallout's Alien Blaster, at least this time it looks like they have VFX?
they do!
Hi, in my opinion you guys should add the Phantom back. Look at it from this perspective the Elderflame vandal also dosent look like a vandal kind of but due to popular streamers using it and it's been a long time it's been in the game now everyone knows it's as Elderflame vandal. The same will go with the new phantom. Once it's in the game for sometime everyone will know this is a phantom skin gun because the skin is going to have huge popularity like Elderflame . Please reconsider adding the Phantom back. I hope I helped and I didn't disturb thanks!
Hehe well we've talked about before that if players like a skinline we can always revisit later with new weapons. You're right that the Elderflame Vandal caused a lot of that early on confusion and internally we always said that was as far as we wanted to go in terms of something feeling different. When we were in the early phases of the G.U.N development, we had lots of comments and concerns that the Phantom we were making was just way too far out of the expectation. The classic also got a lot of this feedback but was salvageable.
A huge part of it was us not catching it early enough to make the change, so if we do revisit its definitely something we know to look out for now.
I think for melee’s in particular, they have to be different from the default knife for them to sell well. There are so many default skin recolours that people just dont find it worth it to consider purchasing them anymore. I guess a new animation on a default knife might be a bit more interesting than a normal default knife but i’m sure a completely new knife like the prime, elderflame, sovereign or glitchpop is way more preferred because of how unique and disctinct they are in comparison to the default knife and in relation to each other.
so when you think about those examples, particularly prime and sovereign, do those having the same equip and attack animations bother you? or is their model change enough to still be appealing?
Oooh i’m hype now lol
Im curious to hear your thoughts on how different of an animation you'd want to see for something like this? we get this feedback a lot and in a hopes to understand a bit more, im going to pick you to begin helping us with that. Say you had a regular knife, similar to the Ego or Smite ones. Would a new equip animation on that be exciting? or for you is it more of the animations with a new type of weapon?
We always try to find opportunities to add to melee weapons where we can without completely reinventing the wheel, so id love to hear from your perspective what amount of change would be exciting for you?
Mad respect for keeping competetive integrity! I just hope it doesn't put this set in a negative light.
Same! I hope people still love the other skins, especially the Classic and Operator.
Massive respect for making the hard decision.
Thank you! It's sad to cut stuff, but it's worse if we make it and it's bad for the game.
if there’s a different animation to this knife instead of a flip or boring default pull out (I’m not calling current animation uncreative just want something different) I would probably buy this bundle twice lol, other than that this is a really cool bundle will fs get the classic and operator, but hopefully a new pullout animation 😫
Damn! I hope we meet your expectations then!
It looks awesome! I wish they included Phantom or Vandal though.
We talked a bit about the Phantom skin that existed at one point for this skin line and how we had to cut it from the lineup due to gameplay readability concerns in this article: https://as.com/meristation/2020/09/24/noticias/1600965049_885744.html
Basically, the skinned Phantom was hard to recognize from a silhouette perspective, so we made the hard decision to kill it. We thought you'd all love a Phantom in this set (we wanted it too), but we didn't want to compromise competitive integrity just to get a Phantom in there.
WE'RE DOIN IT FOR FUN DON'T READ TOO MUCH INTO IT
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WE'RE DOIN IT FOR FUN DON'T READ TOO MUCH INTO IT
I really hope they add effects to the Spline skins and variants for all the existing upgradable melees. I dont really know how we are meant to communicate that though since any post i make on skins gets instantly deleted plus there aren't really many other ways to give feedback.
i see u
