

Giving him a Nitro Cell makes him a more attractive roamer and a more valuable pick on highly destructible maps like Oregon and Villa. Warden is in a much better spot since his move to a 2-speed 2-armor, but he still lacks a clear role beyond occasionally nabbing a kill through smoke. Ubi says this change is to increase Warden’s potential as a “denial defender” against defuser plants.

As long as the M12 doesn’t share this property, its use rate probably won’t budge. This allows Caveira to interrogate them and score a huge advantage for her team. It’s less the damage output, and more that the Luison always downs enemies instead of killing them outright. A small bump in damage could encourage more use, but the patch notes seem to overlook why players stick to her pistol. Ubi wants to give players a reason to use Caveira’s M-12 SMG instead of just sticking to her Luison pistol.

Nobody was asking for the slug shotgun to be ACOG-compatible until Youtuber BikiniBodhi launched the “ #BOSGACOG” hashtag campaign on Twitter in September. This change has an unconventional lineage. That said, I anticipate most of what’s listed here will. As with every test period, there’s no guarantee that this stuff will make it into the live game.
