So for starters: No and it’s adorable that you can predict what I’m going to retort to you, especially the uncertain stammers. Really spot on.
Ohhhh wait no, sorry. Wrong train of thought, it just makes you sound like a patronizing a**.
Now point for point…
1.) I want him easier to see while he’s moving, ever play HALO Reach? As far as I’m concerned, only FPS game that’s done stealth mechanics right. You move, you become more visible, sit still, you’re less so. The more you move the faster the stealth drains, forcing one to choose their movements and plan their attacks. A mechanic like this I can respect because it takes time and patience to execute.
2.) Have you ever played any stealth game like… ever? And I don’t mean those scripted Call of Duty Quick Time scenes where you press contextual button to make the guard want to pick his nose so you can sneak by him. I mean a -real- stealth game where the central mechanic of it is if you get seen, you LOSE. Yes I do think he should be severely punished for being spotted, he’s a f***ing stealth merc you t***.
3.) Really? I’m getting wrecked by Katana and that’s my fault entirely? I could sift through this very thread and find at least three or four posts containing “Katana’s reach is too much” or something to that effect. Either you’re calling everyone who agrees with this point a noob or you didn’t think this point through very carefully. Either way, bully for you.
4.) I refer you to my earlier comment about him being a “f***ing stealth merc” and where I also called you a “t***”. All I have to say on that point.
I imagine if we followed my opinion to the letter, yes he’d be rather difficult to play. Useless? Not necessarily, I never recommended nerfing the amount of damage his Katana actually does so… again you either didn’t think this point through very clearly or you fail at reading comprehension. He still wastes light mercs in one good shot, medium mercs in two or three. I think even scaling back my opinion on the matter from “OP” to “Minor tweaks”, you would have to play him rather intelligently as opposed to the “roflcloakcharge” Phantoms I see just about every bloody game they’re in.
Now for the fun parts… what you think I am going to say…
Prediction A retort: Uhhh, no I never complained about him “katana’ing me in the face” ( Good job on that dips***, I use real words when I talk ). I complained about how I can do a mag dump as he barrels at me in a straight line, hit with most of the mag and -still- get a sword to the face despite giving a generous amount of ammunition to the point where his a** could be picked up with a magnet.
Prediction B retort: … Did you even finish reading what I said? There was -literally- no mention of the KEK or any gun for that matter -anywhere- in my commentary, as colourful as it was. So either you’re again failing at reading comprehension or you’re confusing me with someone else.
Prediction C retort: You know I’ll actually give you credit where it’s due here. Yes, I am unhappy with the fact that I see him from several feet off, mag-dump him and he still just strolls up to me like it’s no big deal and shivs me for my trouble. Not sure if you actually read part of my post or if this is just the law of averages at work, either way golf-clap.
Prediction D retort: Just gonna plop this right here…
… The amount of damage he can take needs to get a serious kick in the n**s too … Don’t care if it’s his stealth buff or the amount of health he has, something’s gotta change on this front.
Glad we agree, moving along.
… Where did Overwatch come in to this? Good lord man are we even having the same discussion? That’s almost a full (guessed) 70% of my post you either missed, didn’t read correctly or didn’t internalize. I will admit my attitude towards Phantom is pretty bitter but that’s more or less how I feel about stealth in any first person shooter done wrong, it’s something that needs to be done very carefully. Not thrown together and pitched in to the game like some sort of tanky-ninja-mutant hybrid.
To the “getting the drop on me” business… Yeah, if the player catches him before he pulls it off though I don’t think he should just get it for free. Which is essentially what he gets now because he can just blindly swing and hop around dodging bullets until he hits a home run.
Addressing the “Aura stiletto chopper” business… I can -see- that b**** before she gets to me, don’t even try to pull that buster-brown. I have plenty of time to shoot her and can usually down her in less than a magazine, depending on my aim that day.
You can stow the “meta-changer” paragraph completely by the way, you’re acting like I said in my post I get the s*** kicked out of me every time there’s a Phantom in the room. It makes you not only sound but look like a condescending a**. My whole gripe with Phantom isn’t the fact that I don’t know how to play against him, I know full well how to play against him and there are people who are better at it than I am countering it; then there are people whom I am better at countering than they are playing.
My gripe is primarily based around “He’s not fun to play against”, see because I graduated from the gaming school of “video games are supposed to be fun for everyone involved” I have little fun, if any when there is a Phantom in the room. When they’re on the other team because I play Dirty Bomb for cathartic violence and getting stabbed when I walk around a corner by some schmuck I couldn’t even see isn’t fun, when they’re on my team because I know the other team is in the aforementioned shoes of getting stabbed around corners by the before-mentioned schmuck.
I don’t need to win a game in Dirty Bomb to have fun much in the same way that I don’t need to win any game to have fun. You know what’s not fun though? A curb-stomp battle when there’s three phantoms on the opposing team and every death of mine is getting my head cleaved in by Phantom.
As a minor note, a small part of my gripe is when I complain about aforementioned circumstance and am immediately bombarded with… pretty much the exact commentary you’re giving me but lacking any semblance of proper grammar or thought.
TL;DR
You completely misread my post in massive quantifiable chunks, until you’ve read it again or passed middle school English: Shut up or F*** off, preferably both in either order.
