Phantom has received yet another un-needed nerf in the fine tuning patch.

(handyHeirloom) #1

Before fine tuning, phantom was able to cancel his cloak with no animation by simply pressing f. This has since been removed. Now you need to press e, which leaves you open, interrupts sprinting, and slows you for roughly a second. This may have seemed like a good change, but his gameplay is a lot more clunky now, as before, cloaking and uncloaking was a fluid process.

(Mister__Wiggles) #2

Melee got a buff so no, he hasn’t been nerfed.

(Fleshpound) #3

But turn speed for slashes has been deleted.

(Jostabeere) #4

Since he is more than melee-only according to SD, he has been nerfed.

(Mister__Wiggles) #5

Since he is more than melee-only according to SD, he has been nerfed.
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We all know that everyone that plays phantom do so for one reason. The Katana or melee kills. I’ve only ever seen one person use him any different and he would hide in a corner by the objective and wait for someone to walk past and shoot them in the back. SD said they are working on making him more viable though so maybe he will have some specialist ability in the future.

(Faraleth) #6

Since he is more than melee-only according to SD, he has been nerfed.
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We all know that everyone that plays phantom do so for one reason. The Katana or melee kills. I’ve only ever seen one person use him any different and he would hide in a corner by the objective and wait for someone to walk past and shoot them in the back. SD said they are working on making him more viable though so maybe he will have some specialist ability in the future.[/quote]

@Mister__Wiggles I play Phantom with Kek-10 mainly xD I use his katana on occasions to take out Aura’s or Vassili’s, but other than that, I pretty much stick to cloak + kek-10 for being a sneaky bitch and guarding the objectives c:

(Jostabeere) #7

Edit: Since I play Phantom I just played a round. And I had no problems disabling the cloak by pressing Q. No slowdowns, no anything, just plain cloak-disabling.
And I play Phantom same as @Faraleth mostly to flank people and kill them with KEK from behind and I use the katana rarely.

(Rjsto) #8

Your avatar looks like a buttplug with a fedora

(Mister__Wiggles) #9

@Faraleth
One of very few my friend lol.

(Ethalin) #10

Been seeing a large amount of phantoms wrecking since the update. The melee buff really helped him out but he’s not as overpowered as he was before so I feel he’s pretty balanced now.

(cornJester) #11

@Rjsto Your avatar looks like it’s having fun with his avatar.

(Rjsto) #12

@Rjsto Your avatar looks like it’s having fun with his avatar.[/quote]

Well your avatar looks like she would one shot me from a mile away with a gun made for healing, just to make me mad

(PurpleNurple) #13

@Rjsto It Is ironic paradox.

(Lautréamont) #14

All the good Phantoms are Big Bosses, not Raidens.

(Killerbee) #15

I have not noticed anything change regarding his cloak. This patch did introduce a very fun bug with his cloak and planting c4’s tho.

(Olipops) #16

GIVE ME LIFE, liberty, and buffs!!!

(K1X455) #17

Phantom used to gain XP when cloaked… now, nothing.

(Szakalot) #18

fire a bullet to cancel cloak

(Fap Fap Master) #19

Phantom is bad, any merc is bwtter than him.

(handyHeirloom) #20

fire a bullet to cancel cloak[/quote]

You waste a bullet, slow yourself down, and give yourself away.