I love bleedind edge it is Defiently one of the most enjoyable team based games I've played but i can say that the have a few imbalances and problems with certain characters and classes that need to be addressed
Healers
The community finds the healers in the game annoying and after playing since alpha i can openly agree with that statement but i dont belive it's for the reasons that most people think i belive the main contribution to the healers being "o.p" argument is the TTK (Time To Kill) of the healers is too long and i think that problem stems from 2 sources the healers individual health pools and some of their abilities
- Zero cool is honestly in my opinion in the middle of the balanced spectrum he has basically no offensive capabilities but a particularly high mobility and verticality his health beam is powerful but since melee stops the beam it's not that big of a problem the issue i have with zero cool is that he has the highest health pool out of all the healers sitting at 800 health
That coupled with his high mobility and the fact that he has the highest healing rate in the game makes him a pain to deal with in games unlesa you get half of your team on him
Solution i don't think zero cool should loose his mobility or have anything about his abilitys changed i simply believe that zero cools health pool should be lowered considerably maybe to around 600 as a zero cool you should be smart about your positioning and play style as a back-line supportbut most zero cools can get close to the action without really fearing anything since they take a good amount of damage to put down and can even escape those engagements i belive this change will allow zero to stay in his role better as a back-line support while also allowing more tactical offensive play from the enemy team like flanking rather then just dog pile onto the zero and hope to kill him before he escapes
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Kulev is my main healer and i love him he's honesty the most balanced healer in my eyes i do however believe that kulev should lose thw ability to parry while his shield is active since having the ability the parry an attacker without flinching is just too easy and it farms stamina
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Miku is the most problematic healer in the game for several reasons even tho she has the lowest health pool of all the healers she is still the hardest and most annoying to deal with miku is almost impossible to kill solo if you manage to catch a miku on her own it will usually end in your death her abilities and attributes are just not handled well and make her way to much of a pain
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chain heal is an ability that is good in concept but it was complemented poorly giving miku a self heal was truly a big mistake the bigger mistake was giving her a self heal with only a 6 secound cooldown even shorter with the use of mods the chain heal can even bounce back to her to heal her and an ally
Solution i have thought of 3 ways to possibly balance this obviously problematic healing ability
- Increase the cooldown time of the ability in general making miku be more strategic in its use make it's use bumping it up to 10 secounds
2.double the cooldown time if self cast 6 seconds of used as intended and 12 of used on self making it so miku can't spam heal herself to full health
3.change the heal to a charge heal making it so you have to hold the cast button and depending how long you hold it depends on the level of healing you receive/give and like zero cool getting hit will knock you out of the animation resulting in the cooldown being halved so if used normally a 6 secound cooldown if knocked out of it from flinching via melee attack 3 secounds
- Stasis my biggest and really only gripe with this ability is that the cast time of it is too quick and impossible to dodge on reaction
Solution change stasis to charge cast as well with similar aspects as i said about chaging the heal to a charge if just tapping the button you freeze your target but for barely any time at all maybe just enough to give you the uper hand in a 1 on 1 fight if fully charged you get the freeze as it is the game now a good amount of time to capitalize and get good damage off on your target if your knocked out of it the cooldown time is 6 secounds if cast correctly it stays 13 secounds
Solution
at the very least if the other changes are not implemented she should have her evades reduced from 3 to 2 as being a healer with both good offensive and defensive capabilities with a high mobility and a stun is a bit too much
- miku also has a few problematic mods that should be worked on
1.battle footing this mod should not be allowed on miku spacificlly because of her already low cooldown on her healing ability if the healing ability is changed this mod may be a welcome addition to her kit but as she is now this needs to go
2.Adrenalin this mod is just a mess giving miku a get out of jail free card when taking any damage allowing her to exploit her self heals and tbh this mod also screws with mikus character model making her seemingly teleport all over place when activated now i know the game is no stranger to lag but all games with a miku using the adrenalin mod are seemingly laggy but it's never the whole team it is exclusively miku teleporting im maybe it's simply because i play on concole and not pc but it's still a grave issue if you are reading this as a player if you see a miku just constantly teleporting around a fight check the see if the person playing her is running this mod
General character issues
Certain characters i feel like were not thought of to much in terms of balance so i thought of ways to maybe level them out
- Meave a bit too overpowered and easy to play as she is now even tho she's supposed to be an advanced character who utilises kills to reset her abilities i believe this stems from her drain and her cooldowns meave can effectively kill any other damage in the game with her drain if they are at about half health and that is too much damage the only possible character with the most efficient means of escape is gizmo since her suckka has decent range making meave have to evade or get stunned both of which would cancel her drain the problem is the other
damage characters dont have this luxury deamom would need to use either his stealth or his shift strike to escape the both of which are incredibly useful abilities that are a wasted due to the drain nidhogger needs to use his boomitar to possibly stun meave out of her drain but meave can just jump over it and be safe from the stun forcing nidd to use his powerslide and his evades to try and leave the AOE cass is probably in the worst situation not having a stun and leaves her at a major disadvantage against meave forcing her to use her swoop to leave the area the point here is that meaves drain basically forces you to use some kind of utility that can be used in other ways and while it can be said that it is tactical being able to force out those types of abilities i say not having another means of stopping meave if those abilities are available is a problem as the onlg other alternative is getting out of line of sight to cut off the beam like say around a corner but its not always an option
Solution
I believe a good solution to this is making it so that meave can be knocked out of her drain by ground slams this allows characters without stuns not have to waste abilitys on escapes and also good players will know how to do the wake up attack to recover from this also this makes meave players more clever in their approach instead of pushing an enemy while using a beam they back away while draining health and doing damage I also think it would be a good idea to make it so meave cannot interact with healing or pick-up while using vanish since she's completely immune and invisible there's no way to stop her from healing if she uses it or you can keep the vanish and the drain the way it is but increase the cooldowns as i don't think meaves cooldowns on her siphon life(8 sec) and her cage(12 sec) accurately reflect the way the character is ment to be played as an advance character who needs to "exploit her ability resets" the cooldowns on these two ability dont seem to be punishing enough if misused id say increase the cooldown of cage to 15 sec and increase siphon life to 11 sec making more advanced player's better time the siphon to get the best result and punish players for missed timing
- Cass is a good hybrid character but a little too strong with her only counters being meave buttercup and el bastardo since they are the only characters that can lock down her movement
Solution
I think the only change cass needs is the removal of her ability to use her ranged attack while her jump is charge as it makes it impossible to catch her with any melee attacks whatsoever this would make cass players better think about they're engagements as cass is now she can solo almost every melee based character on the roster by jumping over them and shooting them over and over
- Deamon has only one problem with his mods spacificlly the mod clippin the mod is supposed to reduce the cooldown of his stealth ability by 0.3% on basic attacks but instead the mod lowers all of deamons ability cooldowns making the mod broken
Solution
Change the description of thw mod to have it accurately say what it does currently or fix the mod so it only applies to the ability it is listed for
- Nidhogger the only problem nid faces is with his shredder ability it is an aoe but this ability can even go through walls and around corners if enemy's are within the range i cant help but feel like that is a design flaw
The new skins
I love the new designs and akins for the.characters on bleeding edge but locking them behind level 30 is an unnecessary grind since the only sure fire way to level a character to 30 is to non stop win games with a single character and the only way to ensure That is play with a team of 4 coordinated people and even then ot takes some time my point is the level 30 cap is not friendly to solo players or players with time constraint like jobs if you cannot dedicate it takes too long to level up past 21 im a nidd main and when the skins dropped i was level 20 with him as a solo player i obviously win and lose games it's a back and forth spiral if i had the chance to pick nidd i alwasy picked him and in all that time I've gone from level 20 to level 22 that is only 2 levels in 5 days of playing now i do have a job that is deemed essential so i still have to work during the covid-19 pandemic but even with that i still find time to play bleeding edge every day before and after work and I've honestly started to lose the urge to want to reach 30 cause it's becoming a grind and no i dont blame people playing in teams of 4 winning matches or people who dont have to go to work or school im saying that having that be the only 2 options to level up as fast as possible is not efficient and i know that quests are supposed to be implemented soon but to my knowledge that only applies to getting more coins to spend on the skins not xp to help you level up faster to get them
Solution
I believe that the xp rewords for matches should be raised as passed 21 you get breadcrumb amounts of xp even for won matches or the cap should be lowered down to 25
Those are what i believe are problems that the devs have yet to address as previously stated i love the game bleeding egde and in are in no way shape of form saying it's a bad game it just has things holding it back from it's full potential but as a community member i would love to know the thoughts of my fellow misfits do you believe these are good changes? Do you think the game is balanced or imbalanced? Im intrested in other players feedback
