No. Absolutely no buffs to Thunder. If anything, he should be nerfed.
Thunder’s utter bullshitness already makes him one of the least fun mercs to encounter. 160 HP and AR’s means he automatically walks out of nearly any 1v1 just because. Then, for some unfathomable reason, SD decided to give him a full blind + slow? In a “fast, skill-based” FPS game? Where a headshot string will rip apart nearly any merc in less than 700 ms? Who even comes up with this hot garbage? Look, concs can work in the right game. Games like CS:GO and R6:Siej right. Tactical shooters. In DB, movement is what stands between you and a good curbstomping. Thunder, on command, negates movement. Thunder, on command, buttfucks skill and kills any semblance of “having fun” by preventing victims from doing the fun things they thought they would be doing when they started up DB. Fun things like, you know, not standing in place while drilled. He is already the complete anti-Christ to DB’s core gameplay, and you want to extend conc duration to five whole seconds.
Just… why.
If anything, concs should be returned to just being EMP in addition to being nerfed to partial blind.
Thunder easily cracks top five worst additions to the game, and honestly, is a shoe-in for top three, putting him in good company with Phantom. Remember the merc who permanently crashed DB’s population? Phantom? Yeah? I don’t know why SD insists on trying to make garbage concepts “viable,” but idiocy like this is why DB continues to tank in popularity.