3.16 Hot Lead Update - Official discussion thread

#2 is yes:

@Fluxxx will any consideration be made to increasing the amount of walkers that get marked?

As noted above, it can be tricky trying to use Negan if he can only mark one enemy.  Perhaps Negan can mark the two enemies closest to him? As a leader the two closest to him, and the one closest to each other survivor for a total of four?

I also mentioned the manual marking option, when @Fluxxx first discussed with us they were going to Rework Negan.

If I recall, he implied that it would be a lot more tricky to implement, as well as tricky for players to learn.

I can't speak to coding challenges, but from player standpoint, manual marking would be a whole lot less confusing than what we have now.

I was very excited for Negan, but I'm starting to think this revamp was a "Swing and a miss"

#TeamManualMarking

ATLAS-Z said:

I also mentioned the manual marking option, when @Fluxxx first discussed with us they were going to Rework Negan.

If I recall, he implied that it would be a lot more tricky to implement, as well as tricky for players to learn.

I can't speak to coding challenges, but from player standpoint, manual marking would be a whole lot less confusing than what we have now.

I was very excited for Negan, but I'm starting to think this revamp was a "Swing and a miss"

#TeamManualMarking

He is doing so well in Outpost now tho .

Joke aside, marking 3 enemies manually at every start of your turn seems complicated to me. It also takes time to do it yourself 3 times each turn (or less but still, doing it manually takes time). Some of us may say it does not matter how long it takes as long as I can choose which walkers I want to mark. But if you somehow mark the wrong walker because of slipping fingers then what, you want NG to give you the confirm box says: Are you sure those are the walkers you want to mark? Or what if there is only 1 walker left and it is next to you but you can't mark it because it's hidden behind the wall, what now? Can you end the turn without marking any walker manually? 
 
At early level, Negan's LT is very powerful, but at high level when you are swarmed by oceans of walkers, it's not working anymore. The value of the trait is at its best when you take hits from the one you want to be marked and most often, it is a special walker. One simple tweak is to prioritize special walkers with order: spiked, tank, goo, fast, armored and so on. But still, it doesn't really help when surrounded by normal walkers. Maybe, just maybe, besides marking the nearest one, automatically mark special walkers within 2-tile space

Default could be random, with manual override IF you want to (priority for specials would be nice). Then if you don't care who is marked, do nothing. Heck as leader, you may not even see 3 walkers at the start, so you'd need some sort of auto-marking to occur, or be OK with < 3 marked.
I'd settle for manually marking 1 priority walker, which would be as leader or support. If in lead, the other 2 could be automatic following "nearest" and "priority" assignment. And again, the manual marking is optional, you never have to do anything if you are cool with random. Long press on the walker to mark/unmark? 

Anybody else think Negan's LT would be better if instead of increasing total damage it gave a chance of gaining a charge point when attacking a marked enemy? 

Just throwing it out there since we are discussing improvements @Fluxxx

@Fluxxx
Together with increase in damage of melee heroes, we also observe increase in attack of zombies. 
Bodyshot damage by zombies has increased by 57%, normal damage- by 10-15%, critical - by 10%. 

Overall, that seriously nerfs bruisers class. My Eugene usually survives the attack of 50lvl zombie, now he goes to the dance from one-hit of 46 lvl zomby. 
Don't you think that such changes are too global?

@Fluxxx

Can’t say i’ve noticed, my bruisers are on form this week. Which is a shame as I’m hardly using them 😂

That photo looks mostly normal until you look at the bottom right corner.

GENERALR20BR said:

please i would like to a suggestion of idea of a character 6 season jessie anderson as a scout q one of my favorite characters q unfortunately died 4 seasons ago would like to q fulfill my dream of having her as playable thank you

Her leader trait is there is a 50% chance that some little kid wanders onto the map to attract walkers

@ATLAS-Zhave any chance of making her playable in THE WALKING DEAD NO MANS LAND?

FuriousMoldovan said:

fragcandance said:

@Fluxxx
Together with increase in damage of melee heroes, we also observe increase in attack of zombies. 
Bodyshot damage by zombies has increased by 57%, normal damage- by 10-15%, critical - by 10%. 

Overall, that seriously nerfs bruisers class. My Eugene usually survives the attack of 50lvl zombie, now he goes to the dance from one-hit of 46 lvl zomby. 
Don't you think that such changes are too global?

@Fluxxx @zbot Same here.
My first GW battle of this week today - Eugene is getting mauled with 15k-25k crits from lvl 45 reg walkers every other hit. Even with the same HS, max DR, optimized dodge, luck... see screenshots. Bodyshots around 5-6k instead of usual 2-3k. I have to pop medkits like m&m's where I don't usually use them at all. Pretty unpleasant experience I tell you.

What has changed and why???

I have been getting crushed at level 42 where skin past this was a breeze.  Bruisers struggling after a couple hits.  Lots similar reports in our higher level guilds.