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ENHANCEMENTS TO SOUNDWAVE & GRIMLOCK
Kabam Boo
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Commanders,
Tomorrow, July 30th, we’ll be rolling out some updates to two of our Community teams favourite Bots! Miike’s favourite, the chatterbox Soundwave, and Vydious’s favourite, the venerable Grimlock!
These changes will go live around the same time as the new Spotlight Mission, but that time may vary.
Soundwave
Soundwave has one of the most unique playstyles, requiring him to land Heavy Attacks and Special Attacks to generate Power. The usefulness and damage of his SP2 meant that many players ignored his SP1 and even SP3.
These changes make his SP1 a more reliable tool to Stun the opponent and drain their Power. Meanwhile, SP3 gets a damage increase, making it more likely to finish off the opponent. It also has a higher chance to Stun.
Grimlock
Grimlock is a strong Brawler who can stack Melee bonuses like no other, but he lacks a way to gain those bonuses outside of being hit or being affected by damaging Debuffs.
The change to SP1 will allow Grimlock to generate his own Melee Buff with only one bar of Power.
Don’t forget Grimlock refreshes his Melee Buffs when he switches to Dinobot form. In addition to being Invulnerable in Dinobot form, he is now Unstoppable. This gives him a new defensive option if used with the correct timing.
Tomorrow, July 30th, we’ll be rolling out some updates to two of our Community teams favourite Bots! Miike’s favourite, the chatterbox Soundwave, and Vydious’s favourite, the venerable Grimlock!
These changes will go live around the same time as the new Spotlight Mission, but that time may vary.
Soundwave
Soundwave has one of the most unique playstyles, requiring him to land Heavy Attacks and Special Attacks to generate Power. The usefulness and damage of his SP2 meant that many players ignored his SP1 and even SP3.
These changes make his SP1 a more reliable tool to Stun the opponent and drain their Power. Meanwhile, SP3 gets a damage increase, making it more likely to finish off the opponent. It also has a higher chance to Stun.
- Increased chance for SP1 to Power Drain from 75% to 85%.
- Increased chance for SP1 to Stun from 50% to 60%.
- Increased Shock Damage on SP3 from 60% to 80%.
- Increased chance for SP3 to Stun from 40% to 65%.
Grimlock
Grimlock is a strong Brawler who can stack Melee bonuses like no other, but he lacks a way to gain those bonuses outside of being hit or being affected by damaging Debuffs.
The change to SP1 will allow Grimlock to generate his own Melee Buff with only one bar of Power.
Don’t forget Grimlock refreshes his Melee Buffs when he switches to Dinobot form. In addition to being Invulnerable in Dinobot form, he is now Unstoppable. This gives him a new defensive option if used with the correct timing.
- Improved Signature curve. Goes from 8.7% to 30%.
- 100% chance to gain a Melee Buff for 5 seconds when performing SP1.
- Become Unstoppable (in addition to already being Invulnerable) when in dinobot form.
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This post solved it!
Primal is great as well, but I drive grimlock better
Ah yes, my favourite Boo name from Luigis Mansion on the Nintendo Gamecube is Kabam Boo!
Shouldn't you be saying this in the other thread?
Pointless update to Soundwave, still looks like he is terrible.
Grimlock seems powerful and interesting now
game is still drab
This IS his first post, i know cus i checked before commenting
Tc is still considered special and top tier because of abilities such as you described, so lets not make every bot a top tier by giving everyone same sort of abilities, if you get my point?
Really good buff on Soundwave too.. and totally understandable
Good job 👍
Just one thing:
Grimlock need some adjustment in the synergy section
For players' GL, yes you're less likely to be interrupted when you play a heavy-weaving style but that's about all of it. You don't get benefit of that Unstoppable when performing specials because your specials are always connected.
For AI's GL, he is unstoppable during sp1 and sp2. If we baited those specials, we can no longer double-tap and dash, because the two shots won't knock him back.
Yes!
I was waiting for Grimlock to become unstoppable. Makes sense.
Why? Are you planning on throwing out random specials where you could miss? For most people, they’ll be connecting on special attacks and Grimlock changes back to robot form by the time the AI gets back up.
As previously mentioned, this mainly benefits the AI when we dodge a Grim special attack.
Well, I guess there’s the Grimlock heavy. Haha. Forgot about that.
Heavies can break through Blocks anyway, so there's no point in making them Unstoppable. He's invincible whilst using a Heavy, so you can't even use the excuse that he could take damage. He's also got a Ranged Heavy, so it's not like he's rushing at the enemy and can be stopped in his tracks. Besides, Ranged Heavies are significantly easier to dodge, so it's not even something that definitely deals some sort of damage; it's just another projectile to sidestep. The Unstoppable isn't bad by any means, it's just useless.
Now, giving an Unstoppable Heavy to a Bot like OG Prime would make sense, considering how much he depends on his truck mode attacks.
I couldn’t agree more with this comment. The changes will not bare out in actual gameplay from the player side. I guess you could launch a heavy in the middle of an attack where you want to keep your combo meter up knowing you are about to take a hit? I dunno.
My guess is that Kabam has one vision of those changes should work and players have another. Considering there are 2 Grimlocks on the AM map, I think players will encounter some funky behavior especially at the higher D lvls.
Considering that I will likely encounter either one or both of these AM Grimlocks in my BG (one has a Melee Bleed, the other has the Cycle Resist), I am intrigued (& a little terrified) by what is going to happen.
Grimlock’s “buffs” are just plain useless. Sure he gets unstoppable when he heavies, but it goes away before it does anything useful. Well, there was one time I was just spamming his heavy and the AI dashed in before I got it off. Grimlock got hit, but brushed it off, and shot his heavy. That’s a pretty rare case (from the user side) as most times the ranged heavy will get the AI before they hit you. One other time I heavied and the AI launched a special. Grim went unstoppable, but the cooldown from the heavy was too long and I couldn’t dodge the rest of the special attack.
The updates sound good on paper, but not really in application. If the devs played the game, maybe they’d have a better understanding on what changes to make when they choose to balance the bots in the game.