There are many players under the impression that snapshotting hasn’t been removed because it could cause performance issues or it is somehow “hard”.
As a software engineer and unity developer…This is complete and utter nonsense.
Of course all code changes can have complexity, and have to be appropriately prioritized… however, if fixing snapshotting has a performance issue someone should hire better devs.
The game knows when gear is swapped. When this happens, recalc stats for all pets. Gear is not swapped often, so there is zero reason this would affect performance or framerate…
Not only that, but this is not likely to be a big change… The fact that it wasn’t fixed due season 2 suggests that EHG isn’t sure they want to or are ready to fix it.
The question is … why?!
i suspect EHG cares more about fun than balance… and they might be worried that removing the power from snapshotting would make those classes feel worse… Or they might just think snapshotting is fine for those players that want to enjoy the arpg power fun of “breaking the game”
I would like to see snapshotting either removed, or made more explicit (pet gear), as i think it’s existence just makes the game feel buggy and unprofessional
Right now its probably an issue of doing it in the middle of a season.
The snap shotting manifest armor guy isnt bug abusing. its not a bug, its a feature. Removing said feature means he gets to have no one beat his spot even with snapshotting, maybe someone has better snapshot gear and can beat him, etc.
They said bug fixes during patches are okay, but again this isnt a bug, currently it is a feature, even if unintended, some people might be at corruption levels they cant run if you just brick snapshotting mid season.
its existed since the start of the game, they probably just dont have too much reason to fix it because most people just dont care. However now that there is alot more content, and harder content and more and more eyes on the game, it becomes a vocal issue that they will fix come season 3 thats all.
Snapshotting was an issue in this game since it existed. I don’t even know if they ever realy tried to get rid of it. Then again snapshotting is a thing in bigger games like D4 as well so I guess it’s here to stay.
They could fix 90% of this issue without fixing anything, by just moving minion flat damage bonuses to the amulet or rings, instead of them competing with primary weapon flat danage affixes.
Well, they’re suffixes so compete with defensive affixes rather than the player damage modifiers that are prefixes & I’m not sure which gear slot the flat damage being on would change anything, they’d just swap that particular gear slot as well/instead, surely?
Its only becoming a hot topic because there is more eyes on the game and thus more people are snapshotting so its entered the public eye more.
And there is arguably more content now where snap shotting might be needed. a few years ago snap shotting didnt matter, because who cared what some bad minion build did at 300c, there was no end game chase.
I would actually say that it’s only because now you have a build that can actually take advantage of snapshotting in a successful (and more importantly, competitive) way.
Whereas before you could still snapshot, but you still couldn’t compete with the better builds.
So in reality it’s because that one player with that one build managed to reach #1 spot in SC arena by a lot (even though there is no other snapshotting build in the top or even in HC). And because that one player with that one build managed to kill Uby (even though no other was able to).
Even though you barely see any consequences of snapshotting anywhere else.
Content creators are talking about it now too, the decaying abom build is now snap shotting multiple skills, like summoning things, respecing skills and summoning more stuff etc, its kinda messed up.
its just one of those things, like Erasing strike too, it was good last patch, its buffs are good, but its also just tons of people are playing and optimizing it, that alone does wonders for the power of a build/skill.
So as more people play and tinker with it, the more eyes see it, and the more “wait a minute, this is cringe!” that happens.
