General Hux changes
December 17, 2019 2:44PM
edited December 2019
The General Hux changes are like what the Darth Malak changes were, to nerf a free-to-play counter to a recent pay wall/pay-to-play character. Also, CG made it sound like it was closer to what they originally intended, but that's a lie.
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Disagree, but because to me this is worse than Malak. Atleast Malak was a buff to the new "meta" character, where Hux is nerfing the all-around utility of a newly released marquee. Both kill a counter character, but only one hurts that character in other matches.
Inception.
Ok, this makes sense.
With respect I'm not sure I fully agree here. Didn't they say he was designed to be similar to Thrawn and a plug-and-play/theory crafter? Thrawn's facture and TM swap works regardless of team setup. Additionally, from the Q&As they seem to want to diversify things?
I know right? The whole “we can’t test everything” excuse falls flat. So often when they nerf something it’s because they miss interactions that should literally be the first thing that anyone who plays the game would test.
Whoa, whoa, WHOA, let's take it easy with that logic there, buddy. That's dangerous stuff.
I haven't memorised the forums but if you're right then fair enough, it's just pretty poor design/testing on their part and another thing to frustrate some of the players unfortunately.
Here is a short list of toons that have abilities which help all toons not only their factions:
AA- Tactical Genius
B2 - Relentless Barrage
Bastila Shan - Rally
Darth Traya - Isolate (CD reduction and Prot Up)
I am not even half way on the list. Let's not assume that CG has nerfed it because it doesn't make sense to use it outside of his faction. They nerfed it because it was affecting GA$
Edit: I am perfectly fine with him being a FO focused character but they should either release him with FO focused kit or refund zeta material when making such changes
Edit #2: Seems like they are refunding the zeta. It's my bad
They nerfed it because it was too powerful in their opinion (in hindsight). Why else nerf something?
They will be refunding the zeta mats.
"We understand that this may change your calculation around investing in this character. Accordingly, we will be setting Hux’s Unique and Leader to level 1 for all players and returning any materials you applied in the same update."
Because people like theory crafting teams that aren't just the cookie cutter faction teams the CG makes for us.
That being said, I think they should've made it so that Hux's stuff required at least one other living FO ally, similar to the way that NS zombie unique is applied. She can't die as long as there is one other living NS ally, but she can get bricked by killing her a couple times and giving her -100% speed. Hux can still lose the ability by being crit or dispelled so that he no longer has advantage. It's not like theres no way around his ability, and it would make sense for him to be controlling as long as he had at least one other FO ally around, not just if there are only FO allies.
No complaints
You have to admit that a large portion of the playerbase wouldn't have come up with the strategy to use Hux in a DRevan team to beat GAS, atleast not on their own.
Then do some testing before hand. Problem solved. Go figure that it's that easy
Tooling?