Spike passive rework - Big Bullets 2.0

[charred arch]

I think, right now at least, Spike might be one of the weaker characters in the game. A lot of the time he has to try a lot harder than the majority of the cast. Which is a shame because we all love the funny cat fella. My proposal is that we give him a buff, but have it be a double edged sword.

+13% to his weapon damage, but at the cost of -13% damage at range. This would allow him to be really powerful! But outside of obvious picks like the Albatross and Laika, he'd be a dominantly medium to short range character.

[regal shadow]

more damage and less range. i could see this work.

[ember crag]

Pretty sure a lot of people feel spike is strong. He's weird because his passive doesn't feel super impactful, especially early, but once you get higher level cards, his passive allows him to hit damage threshholds to do nasty stuff.

That said, maybe something like this could improve how he feels early on without really adding any new crazy threshholds later

[robust flint]

What about playing on the word big bullets? Let his dmg buff stay lower,make his range smaller and making his bullet hitbox bigger so it may be a good pick for people who don't have that good of an aim?

Or just get rid of the dmg boost

[ember crag]

I think having a character with different damage threshholds is fun, so I personally wouldn't want the damage boost to go.

[robust flint]

I just thought that it could be broken with the bigger hitbox for people who already have good aim

To have more dmg aswell

[ember crag]

Maybe add an additional +1 flat damage to all weapons, so his damage bonus can be better felt on lower damage/lower level weapons, on top of the 8%.

Most weapon level ups already increase damage by at least 1, so it shouldn't be too ridiculous, unless it reaches some unacceptable damage threshhold

And it wouldn't affect stuff like the grenade launcher, laika, and especially the albatross enough to really meaningfully buff what he can already do with them

[regal shadow]

flat damage probably wouldn't work. +1 damage to the sniper would be bad

[ember crag]

I mean, that's fine? His 8% bonus still is good with the sniper

[robust flint]

And what about the shotgun

[ember crag]

Infact, I'd argue that's where it's the best

[robust flint]

Ofc it is,the bigger the dmg the higher % bonus

[ember crag]

Yeah, so the additional +1 flat being bad on the sniper doesn't matter

[robust flint]

But it would be a good buff for the golden gun for him

Making it a better pick

[ember crag]

Shotgun already gains 3 damage per pellet going from level 1 to level 2, an extra +1 flat wouldn't be that crazy. (That said shotgun probably needs to do a little less by default anyways)

[robust flint]

Could you look at my golden gun improvement? I would like to know what people think about it

[void fable]

Spike is the most played character out of all of them, I think they released that statistic in a recent update

[regal shadow]

that was the case even in the pre-release beta.