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Yup... I don't understand PlayStation's copying feature? I can download the update in no time but even with an external SSD it still takes forever to copy the patch file?

 

^^^This. Drives me nuts.

 

@RearViewMirror - Thoughts on new exotic updates? I'm kinda bummed about the One Eyed Mask nerf..

 

Eh... I'm not a fan of some of the nerfs. Mostly on the PvE side. They nerfed Orpheus Rigs into the ground for some reason? Nightstalker using Shadow Shot was always used to contain adds and create orbs for your fireteam. Orpheus Rigs allowed you to get your super back depending on the amount of adds tethered. So there was skill and timing involved in knowing when and where to throw your tether. They nerfed them once a little over a year ago. And that nerf was just about right. Before the nerf you would get your super back almost immediately which was OP. So I wasn't to upset with that first nerf. But the nerf to Orpheus Rigs this time? It sucks... No matter how many adds you tether you can only get a maximum of 50% of your super back. So I don't completely understand that nerf? It's not like it was OP after the first nerf? But now it's been nerfed into the fucking ground. So for PvE activities I can still make them work, but they didn't give a buff to a different part of them. That said... there were strictly a PvE exotic. If you used them in PvP you were gimping yourself because there are much more powerful exotics to run as a hunter.

As far as One Eyed Mask? I wish they would remove that exotic out of the game. It was so broken before the last adjustment that if you weren't running One Eyed Mask playing a Titan??? You were dumb not to (unless you didn't have it). They nerfed them once again but it's not really a nerf once you look at it in more detail.

• One-Eyed Mask
  • The target marking from this Exotic has been replaced with target highlighting, eliminating the ability to detect targets through walls.
  • No longer provides a damage bonus when defeating your marked target.
  • Restored the previous overshield granted by defeating your marked target, which now has a duration of 6 seconds, down from 8.

Target highlighting is more in line with what should take place. It's much like the target highlighting with FoeTracer for the hunter. Yes you can track them but you can't see through walls. FoeTracer is a bit different though. It activates when you aim down sights at an enemy and stays active until you aim down sights at another target. Then it tracks them instead. I don't use it because it has limited use IMO. If you understand how the map rotation works and how the match is playing out, you don't need FoeTracer. So it's a useless exotic to me personally. But passively getting a wall hack (which is what target highlighting is).

No longer provide a damage bonus after defeating a marked target? Thank fucking god. That is a no skill bonus and I'm not a fan of anything that requires no skill (I'm looking at you Jotun, Telesto, and The Colony ).

But.... they restored the previous overshield by defeating a marked target??? Fuck that. Again... a bonus you get because you were able to track a target and kill them. Then you get an overshield for having a wall hack that required little to no skill to get in the first place? Nah... fuck that. At least they lowered the overshield from 8 to 6 secs. But it allows you to run around for 6 secs with an overshield that no one else gets. I can overcome the overshield that the Titan gets because of this perk but it requires a little more work than every other class and gives a bonus that it shouldn't give over your opponent. It's still an OP exotic and if I were running a Titan I wouldn't use anything else because why would you?

Hunters are still dominate in PvP for one very specific reason. Agility. The ability to move around a map and dodge out of a sticky situation fits my playstyle. They have made top tree Dawnblade much more viable in PvP on the Warlock with double Icarus Dash so it's a lot of fun to play. Add in the unlimited tracking range melee? Yeah... I really like that change. I'm just not a fan of the Titan personally. It doesn't fit my personal playstyle. The only time I worry about playing against a Titan is when I know they are baiting me into a Titan Slam. If I see the blip on the radar I know exactly what they are doing. So I just don't fall into their trap. They are finally nerfing the 90 degree turn to shoulder charge which is needed. I never really concerned myself with it since I was rare caught off guard by a rushing Titan. StompEE's just let me jump over them before they were able to get it off. Only in sixes were they able to connect sometimes due to the chaotic nature of the game type.

 

To give you an idea of how much I play Nightstalker? I've got 367,159 kills as a Nightstalker alone. 70% of those kills are PvE kills. The other 30% are PvP.

 

i prefer buffing other things up to the level but oem was so dominate it needed to change one way or another, other classes still don't really have anything on the same level rn so we will have to see where the buffs bring other things to see if its BS or nah, but in my opinion most exotic armor is a little underwhelming rn

 

I don't disagree with that. But having to buff all exotics just because of one outlier doesn't make a lot of sense? One Eyed Mask has been broken since it was introduced. It's not a big deal to me since I can play around it. I'm more concerned about certain weapons that require absolutely zero skill to use. Anyone that uses those weapons I have zero use for. If you have to use Jotun as a crutch because you can't play otherwise? My only response is get good. If I get killed with a Jotun I will go out of my way to make that players life in that match miserable for the rest of the match. I will head hunt and burn them into the ground.

 

spoken like a true Hunter

I've mained Titan since D1. Titans have always been a little slower and I've thought this gave them a slight disadvantage in PvP in D2. Wearing OEM allowed them to be on par with the other two classes. I see where your coming from with the no-skill bonuses. But some of us just aren't gods at PVP play.

Agreed. D2 exotics are no where near what D1 exotics were.

 

hahahahahahah, titan skating my guy? and shoulder charge? the only one shot hunters have is a throwing knife that is getting nerfed despite being harder to use than both shoulder charge and dont even start about hand held

 

Lol.... You may be right

Actually the Titan is very fast at map movement (especially on PC with macros). But all classes move about the same speed depending on your mobility stat. The hunters advantage is agility at the cost of taking damage. Titan just never fit my personal playstyle. But that is a personal preference. I really like the changes they made to Warlocks and giving the Warlock class the ability to double dodge was a good move IMO. Warlock blink is always a pain when you have them down to almost zero health and they vanish lol. But the same could be said for Hunters dodging behind cover. So it's all in what you like to play and how you play it. One Eyed Mask is an OP exotic though. Very little in the game provides the bonus that exotic gives.

 

At least they are nerfing Hand Held Supernova. Especially with Contraverse Hold.

 

i think they all need a buff, most exoctics do so little i just run ST0MP-EE5 24/4

 

Sure if you wanna run around charging out of cover everywhere. Not my play style though.

 

Then why do u play titan?

 

Same here. That's the only exotic I run in Crucible because of the movement speed and ability to strafe jump. I don't care about any other exotics. One Eyed Mask kind of reminds me of when Hunters were "gifted" the Wormhusk. That was truly a broken exotic. Every time you dodged you got all your health back and an overshield. That was truly broken. If you weren't running Wormhusk at that time you were putting yourself at a huge disadvantage over the ones that were running Wormhusk. They nerfed so bad that it gets little to no use at all anymore.

 

Oldschool oem was like wormhusk on roids, and i still prefer jester over wormhusk for a dodge oriented exotic to fuck with the apes

 

It's not about running around like a lunatic charging at everyone in a match. You can run for a second directly into a wall if you know someone is coming your way to activate shoulder charge. As soon as they get close pop out of cover and your shoulder charge is active because you were running directly into a wall, remaining in cover, and you get a free shoulder charge.

 

True. I just don't run them that often. I can deal with aping shotgunners without much trouble. I'd much rather use my StompEE's. But you are correct. The Hunter class doesn't have a lot of exotics to chose from.

 

MOTHER FUCKERS!!!!!!! They are doing that to the Orpheus Rigs!!!!!! Cocksuckers!!!!! I just got those!!!!! FUUUUUCK!!!!!!!!

 

Get used to the nerfs.