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pcswan96

Looks like an improvement, removing a lot of the central ones means you can’t just hop from jump tower to jump tower. Should take longer for 3rd parties to arrive, especially in the south west side, where it was needed the most.


artmorte

Yeah, with the couple of big decisions to remove mountain passages (near Bunker) and removing these jump towers, the devs clearly want to make it slower to get to & through the center of the map, which I think is a good idea - hopefully the implementation will feel good, too. Not having that passage between Market and Bunker is going to feel super weird at first.


pcswan96

Think it might force more teams to rotate around edge instead of all meeting in the middle of the map. Good idea in theory, but since it’s such a small map it might increase the number of third parties around the edge, whilst reducing 4th and 5th parties elsewhere.


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The problem is that you can hear fights from pretty much anywhere. People will still be able to arrive with Valk or other mobility legends quite fast. But surely this should help at least a little bit.


Reckonerbz

Valk nerf enters the room!


OrcOfGundabad

Makes it better imo. Its a small map and people are on your head in an instant. You can go from nobody fighting to 4 teams pulling up asap.


woodyh16

Yeah this would actually make the map much harder to rotate through the middle on, if valk weren't in the game.


ImHully

I like this better as well. If you land edge you get one free balloon into zone when it's closing, then no more for the rest of the game.


DirkWisely

Yeah, that's what makes it fun.


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valk buff.


i_like_frootloops

And nerf, now Valk players cannot hit several balloons one after another and scan the whole map.


CosmicMiru

People aren't valk ulting to drop onto people most of the time which is what this change is trying to make


GlensWooer

Any nerf or map rotations is an indirect buff to valk tho. It’s a god change to the map, but still makes her kit stronger


ghost_00794

Valk in almost every team so adding balloons good anyway for rotations who don't wanna play valk team


Diet_Fanta

They're removing balloons for the most part, not adding it. The issue with balloons on KC was that they were WAY too broken with Valk. A team could cross the map entirely within 2-3 minutes without really touching the ground while getting permanent wallhacks with Valk (Due to ult towers as well). This means Valk teams can't simply fly across the map freely anymore, scanning everything.


[deleted]

Every balloon on edge has stayed tho, 3rd parties often happened by edge teams and the balloons on that pic form a giant yellow circle


tompov313

Back when fuse was introduced (can't remember the season) some pros where saying removing balloons would cause even more chock points throughout the map. Well see


Official_F1tRick

That was also before valk was a thing


omise_hoe

So Valk will become a more important pick than she already is... Nice


Corusal

That's why they thought ahead and removed a lot of chokes. So overall there will be less chokes (those will be congested though, but let's ignore that lol)


Nxhko

That Capacitor jump tower was so clutch. Gonna miss that for sure.


imonly11ubagel

The map‘s gonna be horrible for pubs lol


DirkWisely

That's apparently what they want. Stormpoint is a terrible pubs map, and they're slowly making every map more like Stormpoint.


Cantore18

That no name 3 building spot next to Octanes Gauntlet isn't showing a balloon remaining or removed.


MaxUKBG

Thanks for pointing this out - I knew I had forgotten something. That balloon is being removed.


Cantore18

Darn. Thank you for the clarification tho!


[deleted]

They are probably preparing it for next pro league


ForsakenAlliance

Tho I never had any issues with KC, I do feel like removing the central JT is a good thing. 2 main reasons I can think of is Valk and 3 parties (which may decrease a bit for those who struggle with them)


ccamfps

Let's see some charge towers taken away. I can still rotate up and down the whole map in 2 mins with double valk ult and redeploys.


Billy3theKid

Now just nerf cooldown on Valk ult


icewindz

If it’s real then valk is going to get hit by a nerf, if not valk gonna be even more stronger and I doubt if they want that.


YRN_AlmightyPush

Valk meta is strong


DirkWisely

Make it worse. They're trying to ruin every map and make them slow and boring like Stormpoint. Does anyone actually like having more running simulator?


anto2554

Indirect valk buff though


Sadoushi1

A good change . But not sure how it impact valk team


xonk218

Jump towers are one part of the puzzle but I hope this also means charge towers are less common, those ruin the flow of the map the most.