Sidewinder unannounced nerf

Way UNFAIR for those who invested

That's quite a savage nerf. They could have introduced either the 400% match damage limitation or the drain 2ap and either would have been sufficient in my opinion.
This just utterly crushes the character into oblivion.

It seemed pretty obvious he would be destroyed. The gentle little nudge to slow him down slightly they gave him whilst boosted was obviously to appease the early adopters who probably spent $$$ and wanted to go full rampage but after that, he was always going down hard.

@lbiajante said:
What a load of ****! I invested in this character, and they nerfed it way too fast. The character changed the gameplay style, but they nerfed it just because the "elite" was offended by getting beaten by a noob.

I don't think that has anything to do with it. I am pretty sure that the "elites" had Sidewinder and whatever else they needed too and PvP for most of them is collusion anyway and they already had ways to win Turn whatever in PvE.

They actually waited too long to nerf him exactly because of reactions on this thread of players feeling cheated and thinking he was their meal ticket moving forward when it was obvious they got the maths on his boost very very wrong.

I'm not an "elite" by the way, unless you count my ability to create versions of Daredevil with different fists in paint.

I think it was because of his potential to be a "Gambatt" style problem - partially built or with only a maxed yellow is not how they want or intend us to build characters (the old Devs at least said so). It is still the Devs fault for thinking that yellow was OK TOGETHER with the teleport shenanigans and also to wait to nerf but this one was flashing all the warning lights from the very beginning.

I think a nerf is fine. But this went way beyond a nerf. Biggest nerf the new devs have made and he is basically worthless at this point. Whether or not one wants to deflect blame to people who went "all in" it really isn't a great business practice to allow it to happen without any restitution. They can obviously do what they want. It's their game. But I don't think anybody expecting a nerf thought it would be THAT drastic as this dev group had not done anything like that since taking over the game.

Chasm is probably the biggest nerf and he is still definitely playable. Sidewinder is now DOA. There is a nice middle ground that could have occurred but they chose not to do that, for whatever reason.

@LavaManLee said:
I think a nerf is fine. But this went way beyond a nerf. Biggest nerf the new devs have made and he is basically worthless at this point. Whether or not one wants to deflect blame to people who went "all in" it really isn't a great business practice to allow it to happen without any restitution. They can obviously do what they want. It's their game. But I don't think anybody expecting a nerf thought it would be THAT drastic as this dev group had not done anything like that since taking over the game.

Chasm is probably the biggest nerf and he is still definitely playable. Sidewinder is now DOA. There is a nice middle ground that could have occurred but they chose not to do that, for whatever reason.

I suspect they saw something in the data they really didn't like. Chasm was a 5* problem but I think Sidewinder had potential to be far worse than that and without the need to even champ him.

Pour one out for OG Sidewinder. He was super fun to play with, but totally broken. A few TU boots and Fasticar could wipe out entire teams on one turn. I normally hate nerfs, but this guy needed one. Will have to play with him now to see how he is, but I understand why the Devs did what they did. We all knew it was coming too.

Okoye with RTF Mephisto with Omni City. Turn 2 10+ AP.

Everything is still dying on the second turn. Okoye match 3 ap 45k.

By himself he is bad, but he was always bad by himself.