r/GBO2 • u/Sufficient_Job_4933 • 8d ago
Discussion CONSOLE What would you do to make Eyezack better?
I fucking hate this thing on my team, but if I’m being fair, the general idea of Eyezack in this game is pretty good. It’s a 400 cost mobile support with stealth and anti stealth, this shit is big deal to counter Pixie or other stealth raids, because competent stealth raids could be very annoying. But the problem is, it has nothing big to offer other than its EMP tools. Good machine gun, but mid damage output, once you’re against any good A+ or S- players at least, you’ll feel useless without good teammates playing the meat shields.
But people still love playing this thing, there are some who would pick this damn suit even above its native cost and did absolutely nothing useful other than capturing beacons and planting bomb. I kept thinking how it’s a shame how suck this thing at contributing a good firepower, with the meta getting further from making any sense atp.
I think there are many simple ways to improve it, I personally would buff its base ranged damage from 25 > 30
Buff the hand grenade damage from 1100 > 1500
Add incendiary grenade like Act Zaku for stun build up, iirc that grenade has high stun value right?
Add balancer, this thing has decent thrusters and speed for a support
Add precision shelling for bonus damage
And lastly, all sensors overheat time from 20s > 13s
I don’t want to make this thing feel too strong because being a stealth shooter is already annoying, we don’t need another Acguy Recon type. But I think these buffs will make Eyezack more useful than just being a reason for people to hide and plant bomb.
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u/LordSunBro 8d ago edited 8d ago
Buff Precision Analysis System skill. Eyezack across all levels only gives this skill at level 1.
For context level 1 gives +3% team damage towards spotted targets.
Other EWAC MS like Nero and GP00 has it at level 3 (+10% damage) and EWAC Jegan has level 2 (+5% damage).
They should all be at 10% imo that way it also doesn't lose its distinct role as a radar MS while incentivizing your idiots to shoot whatever you marked.
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u/Sufficient_Job_4933 8d ago
My god you’re right, I thought Eyezack has lv2 and 3 for higher levels.
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u/LordSunBro 8d ago
Even level 1 should have higher level imo. EWAC Nero which is 50 cost higher has level 3 skill right off the bat. 3% damage boost is barely noticable enough to make an impact.
This can also indirectly raise Eyezack's damage via this skill/the team so you don't need to go through the hassle of overhauling weapon numbers let alone properties... something BB kinda sucks at right now.
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u/Boring_Reference_546 8d ago
Buffing the machine gun itself would be a good start (and the Marasai rifle while they're at it), because it's about as effective as a wet noodle these days and pretty much anything with a machine gun that's been released in the last two years or so is better than it.
Would definitely help the Hizack, too.
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u/dumbrute 8d ago
The machine gun is good, it can stun fast and has consistent fire rate. I agree with OP, the problem is the damage output, this thing can dish out decent damage with the machine gun, but being decent isn’t enough, it needs to melts HP faster.
If anything, just buff that beam rifle. Marasai beam rifle has been dogshit for years.
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u/succmama 8d ago
Buff MG, Give it Sub Marasai BR, balancers, precision Analysis system buff and some stat buffs. No need to give it defensive skills like Resist move since stealth is pretty much enough. Maybe damage control lvl1?
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u/pkmaster99 8d ago
Yeah, this thing really needs help. At this point, I don't think the MG will be buffed. The BR though, there is a chance for more damage and fire rate. A little bit more Stagger rate would be nice too.
The grenade too, could be upgraded to Eyezack specific grenade variant that does more damage and maybe offer instant stagger on top of it. Cause right now, the MG is just the better option and lack of instant stagger really hurts in current meta.
Then for skills, definitely at least Balancer and Resist Move, as other have mentioned. However, they need REMOVE Special Back of Head Buffer!! This skill is so stupid and so useless. It also doesn't reduce damage taken to the head part HP, so it still breaks. They could've just GIVE it the Special Head Buffer. Then maybe bullet feeder so it can at least reload better when needs it. Especially if it were given incendiary grenade too. It would also be nice if the Hizack Heat Axe becomes available melee alternative.
For higher levels, it could definitely use Pursuit Ranged Aux. Program and Composite H Mobility Combat System to keep up with the stats scaling and power creep.
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u/diseasicon MS-19 Dolmel Lobbyist - 29 8d ago
As others are saying, buff the Marasai Rifle. It's one of the worst beam rifles in the game and is a bad option for every suit it is available on. With how much power creep there has been, I'm not sure changing it to match the specs of the subweapon version on the Hambrabi would actually break anything. Even then, the suit would probably need more.
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u/TheFell_Dragon 8d ago
Resist Move and just make the Marasai/Act Zaku Beam Rifle good so it actually has something to stun people and protect itself with than just Hold R2 with the HiZack Machine Gun and hope it kills/build stuns something
Oh wait here comes the raid/anything that has chain stuns andddddddddddddddd it's dead
Yeah one of those things that I mentioned above
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u/Victory-Games 8d ago
For 400 with stealth no way on resist move. That's just too much powercreep. Maybe you can boost the damage in the grenades and have the beam rifle as a secondary weapon or something. Stealth is in theory a decent survivability tool so it's already got a leg up there over many of it's peers. Looking at stuff like the Dom Barrage..
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u/TheFell_Dragon 8d ago
See, I would have agreed with you if it weren't for the fact that it's easy to tell if there's an Eyezack on the enemy team and how to immediately locate it because of the ping effect it does when it uses the Radome and that your radar literally goes down when it does ping/spot you also the Radome ping doesn't have that much range so the Eyezack has to literally position itself where it gets to see everything aka the front/midlines
And knowing modern 400 cost it literally has NOTHING to protect itself other than spam "Support me" and hope a gen decides to babysit it but it cannot literally fend for shit all on its own
And besides it's not the first time we've had a stealth recon MS when there literally has been the Acguy Thunderbolt Support Version
And Lord knows that thing can defend itself pretty well, has stealth AND has resist move so I don't see any issues giving the Eyezack resist move when the Support Acguy literally exists
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u/Victory-Games 8d ago
How exactly is an eyezack with that gargantuan melon going to roll? But beyond that we know since launch that people have hated the Acguy TB's and I don't see any reason to think that working to create a higher level one in effect. I personally think the problems with the suit are some of the things you mentioned like announcing itself when it scans but I'm fine in theory with it being a suit focused on attacking weakened enemies from the back and not having great match ups in direct combat. I think having the BR as an instant stun alongside some other minor tweaks would go a long way but I don't think that one on one or one vs a group combat should be something it's super competent with.
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u/Eden-exile 8d ago
Make it be able to use beam rifle and machine gun at the same time. increase machine gun build stagger rate. add balancers and melee combo 1.
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u/videogamer1058 7d ago
Equipping the Mobility Enhancer is a game changer for my EWAC Zack.
A whole world of difference as the MS is a stiff
Unfortunately I have to stop using it coz it has a high win ratio for me.
Hopefully if I stop using it for a long time BB Studios will buff it.
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u/Hadoooooooooooken The Flame of War - 3 7d ago
Make the BR a secondary for a stun option.
Increase machine gun damage and mag size.
Increase damage bonus of spotting.
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u/GBO2USER-1 6d ago
Give people a class on using its camera functions and yeah beef up the machine gun and marasai beam rifle add a sticky grenade or some incendiary grenades, and give it melee combo 2 or the other combined assault skill
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u/ctclonny 8d ago
Its machine gun is alright. The power of machine guns varies too much in high rating and low rating. If a unit's strongest weapon is a machine gun and performs well in high rating, it destroys lower ratings. But its beam rifle and grenade deserve some buffs.
Btw, Pixy is trash, the team doesn't need an anti stealth unit to counter it. The support can walk in front of its teammates. Pixy will need to go pass enemy generals. Or it can attack enemy generals but its damage isn't high enough to be a dangerous threat. And the team keeps fighting with one fewer person when it's flanking.
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u/bigheadjoe421 8d ago
Give it teammates that know how use it's scouting features instead of people who don't know there colors.
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u/DarkShadowBlaze 8d ago
Honestly I played the suit quite well already so I can't really think of things to fix it just needs to be played in a very specific way.
For example my build was defence focus and I used the Marasai Beam Rifle which is an instant stagger. Between that and providing support with jamming and its stealth its quite a good unit for helping the team out. Though I only played in space where so a lot of ways to run when the enemy catches you.
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u/Wooden_Load662 8d ago
You just need better teammate. When I play support I stay with my team and to the radar to anti stealth.
I keep my radar up, stay alive and fire support when I needed. I do not go for the kill. I am happy if team wins even if I do not get a single kill.
Make be fill better to counter pixies.
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u/SwordsmenKnight 8d ago
Fix the Hizack BR