I've said it before, and I'll say it again! GET RID OF LEVEL UNLOCKS! There is nothing more disturbingly annoying than restarting without all your skills, just to get trampled untill I get the right item for a build! Seriously, this is the worst balancing issue this game has, and after being Prestige 2 now, I understand why I hesitated for so long to prestige... it's really god damn annoyingly unbalanced when you can't have the same upgrades as high levels. -.-

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Kinda agree that restarting at lvl 1 when you prestige is kinda sad because yuri gets his bomb dmg boost at 44 and hes my favorite character but since i only get to play one more lvl with this upgrade before prestige i play mostly leon cause i can do my build with his basic after prestige skill

Few things that have been said already but seem to make sense to most people. Kind of a subjective summary.

1. Voltar:

No solar-gain from healing Leon-Clones and own drones.
Drones should not distract the enemy turret

2. Leon

Invisibility should be canceled once you get hit

3. Yuri

Don't cancel jetpack flight when hit.
Instant bubble. Maybe cast while moving and maybe make the the bubble just a little bigger from start.

4. Froggy G.

Hmmm.... I would do something with his splash invincibility. Maybe let splash only absorb 70%-80% of the damage. Couldn't find anything more people are agreening on.

5. Clunk

Fix the hitbox for explosion (I know they're working on it already)

6. Sheriff Lonestarr

Seems fine.


As far as I recall most of these changes seemed to be OK with the majority of players, though I will not reread all 20+ pages to check if everyone is OK.
These are also minor changes, since most people (including me) think that the game is fairly balanced as it is.

My final thoughts:

Clunk:
He's OK. Maybe a SD dmg upgrade should add more dmg to Clunk like 15 not 10. And SD reducers should be smaller with all maxed out he's turning in to walking explosion.

Lonestar:
Basic bull should be weaker. This ability is like buy it and forget about upgrades and still work perfectly. There should be limit to dynamites staying on field like 6 (when max upgraded).

Froggy G:
Around level 10 he's alright but at the beginning he's a bit underpowered. I'm not sure what would be good to change. First thoughts: stun at base should be longer (1 sec not 0,5) and tornado movement should be normal.

Yuri:
Bonuses form warp bubble should be higher not much but a bit would be nice. Limit to the mines staying on field like 6 small and 2 big.

Voltar:
Lower solar gain and lower drone dmg/drone reduce.

Leon:
He's OK at the beginning but around level 12 he gets really OP. Can kill most A-nauts with few hits and can easily go for 1vs2 and win. He can keep current dmg but his life form upgrades should be greatly reduced. With unlimited stealth he should be waiting for right moment not jump in to the middle of the action kill 2 A-nauts with 10 slashes and go for droids. He should be like "drop in, kill, drop out not" not "drop in kill everything and wait for another round". Also his dmg to turrets core should be greatly reduced.

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I agree with this post, especially the Leon change. I know you shouldn't always look at other games, but in most other multiplayer games your invisibility wears off once you get hit when you're in stealth mode. I've killed quite a lot of Leons by just randomly hitting in the air when he went into stealth mode on low health, but it seems weird he can escape that easily.

About Lonestar, you could say his dynamites are too powerfull once upgraded but they're not powerful enough to one-shot an enemy and easily avoidable.

They do time out. I think it's possible to have 9 out, but only for a few seconds.

I noticed, as fighting other Leons, that I kill stealthed Leons a lot, and I don't even have a ranged attack. I don't even pick stealth playing as Leon very often until either characters play really defensive on the opposing team, or I'm 5-7 levels below the opposition and can't take them on without some trickery.

Stealth is the only escape move Leon has, and it's not even a really good one if you are half-decent at tracking movements and anticipating, since most players tend to run in straight lines for the nearest turret wall to hide behind. If damage were to negate stealth, a Yuri would basically negate Leon's stealth in an instant by spiraling the laser in a circle quick. You'd basically make Leon's escape move worthless. It wouldn't even effect me very much, since I don't rely on stealth (teamwork tends to work better, including on people that use stealth/slow/life steal/all the OP stuff people complain about), but I guess I wouldn't mind fighting less Leons.

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