Ruairi
Country: United States
Registered: February 11, 2023
Last post: September 2, 2023 at 4:57 PM
Posts: 2

Been playing a lot of deadlock, and during one of my games ran into a slight problem when I threw down my barrier after the Gekko on my team had sent out Wingman to plant spike. To get to the plant spot that Gekko had sent him to, he had to go through my wall and was unable to, so he got stuck in a continuous walking animation until one of the corners of the barrier broke and he was able to get through. I wasn't paying complete attention, so I couldn't tell if that corner broke because of someone destroying it, or because of a safeguard to combat this, put in by the devs. I don't know if this has been thought about, or if there's anything that can be done, however, it felt like it might cause problems, especially since Wingman had the spike, and so we had no way of getting it until he either planted or died. In my mind, I wouldn't want these two abilities to actually make it worse for my team. I guess I could understand if my barrier blocked all paths to the site, and so he couldn't plant, however, not only could he have gone around (I had thrown wrong, and it didn't block the way to site), but he was already on site when he got stuck (In cases like this it might be good to just let Wingman plant where he is blocked off). Super minor suggestion, but ran into it and thought I might mention it because it's so small, and I didn't imagine anyone else had brought it up. Thanks.

posted 8 months ago

Maybe this is just my opinion, but I think that EDG would be a DRX/Loud/Liquid, possibly even Fnatic, level team if they weren't stuck in the Chinese region. They clearly have the raw skill to compete on that level, but being stuck in that region makes it incredibly hard to grow. Imagine almost every team is way below your skill level. How do you progress, the only time you are ever really challenged is in International events, three times a year. Growth comes out of struggle and periods of hardship, and when there is none of that it makes sense that they would stagnate. I think if EDG were able to play in the Pacific League, you would see their skill shoot up. I don't know the specifics of why China has its own league, and I'm sure it makes sense. Just a shame that this team will not be able to reach peak potential because of this system of organization. I could totally be tripping here, but that's my opinion. Do you guys think they are being held back by their region, or would they just get stomped by teams like PRX and DRX, and have no chance of going to Masters if they were put in Pacific. I've been thinking about this since their game against t1.

Also, I want to watch zmjjKK play more, rip.

posted 11 months ago