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00:00:00 – 00:10:23
The video critiques recent adjustments to brand sets in a game, focusing on their limited effectiveness and the need for reforms to promote build diversity. The speaker highlights specific changes, such as the introduction of 3% armor regeneration and inefficacious alterations to incoming repairs values. They discuss various brand sets, including tweaks to Badger Tough, Bellstone, Brazos, Gilig Guard, Golan, Habsburg, Rowdy, Langmo, Usen, Alps, and Empress International, suggesting enhancements and adjustments to improve gameplay balance and effectiveness in both PvP and PvE settings. Emphasis is placed on optimizing gear through attributes like skill haste, crit chance, rate of fire, and weapon handling. The speaker also delves into gear sets that balance tankiness with performance, notably recommending the use of three-piece Empress or Hanu sets and named backpacks. In optimizing SMG builds, they advocate focusing on critical hit damage and weapon damage over additional crit chance. The overall goal is to create diverse, powerful builds while addressing the impracticalities in current gear mechanics.
00:00:00
In this part of the video, the speaker critiques recent changes to brand sets in a game, emphasizing their ineffectiveness. They argue that altering health values from 10% to 20% does not add meaningful benefit due to existing limitations and past nerfs. They commend the introduction of a 3% armor regen for a specific set but criticize changes to another set’s incoming repairs value as pointless. The speaker foresees issues in PVP with potential combinations of armor regen and bonuses making it extremely difficult to defeat well-equipped players. They propose that removing certain stats and increasing values will not benefit the current game state, and stress the need for reforms to promote build diversity.
00:03:00
In this segment of the video, the speaker discusses various adjustments to brand sets and their attributes in a game. They suggest a 20% threat value for tank builds to effectively generate aggro and protect allies. Adjustments to Badger Tough increase shotgun damage and improve reload efficiency. Bellstone’s armor values are modified but not finalized. Brazos is deemed ineffective, and Gilig Guard’s alterations aim to improve shield health and armor regeneration. The Golan brand gets reworked for better armor and PF, while Habsburg and Rowdy brands receive balancing tweaks to headshot and armor damage. Langmo remains focused on explosives, while Usen and Alps Habsburg are adjusted for armor and core values. Empress International is recommended to remain unchanged due to its dominance in skill builds.
00:06:00
In this part of the video, the speaker discusses the benefits and reasoning behind various gear sets and their stats for optimal performance. Key points include the merits of a three-piece Empress or Hanu set with a named backpack (Force Multiplier), the advantages of the Murakami set including Emperor’s Guard and armor regeneration, and the specific boosts from other sets like Fenris, Cheska, Douglas & Harding, and Petrov. The speaker emphasizes the need for careful investment in gear attributes such as skill haste, crit chance, rate of fire, and weapon handling, and suggests some changes to improve gameplay balance, especially in terms of shield scaling and armor regeneration. The overall goal is to create diverse and powerful builds while addressing potential issues with the current gear mechanics.
00:09:00
In this segment, the speaker discusses the nuances of creating an optimized SMG build for a game. They emphasize that SMGs already have high critical hit chances, which makes additional crit chance less useful. Instead, they suggest focusing on SMG damage, critical hit damage, and threat. The speaker also mentions experimenting with a tanky SMG build using the Walker and Harris brand set, enhancing weapon damage to 10%. They criticize the current brand set bonus tree, pointing out its impracticalities like incoming repairs and health stats, which they find irrelevant compared to the improved damage stats. The segment concludes with a lighthearted remark about the suboptimal setup and a reminder to stay alive in the game.