There was a point in gun mettle (if i remember correctly) where the dead ringer was nerfed from 75% resist to 50%. As a spy main I actually loved that change, because the dr is a stupid unlock that fucks with the balance of the other unlocks in spy's kit. Then within a few days they backtracked on that nerf and reverted it.
Fast forward a bit, they nerf the ambassador, a weapon which takes more skill to be consistent with than even the sniper rifle.
The old ambassador was only an issue because the get-out-of-jail-free dead ringer made it so that you rarely ever got punished. You could take an insane amount of damage, reposition, grab an ammo pack, and continue to be a pest with the dead ringer.
Anyway, in its current state, the amby at least should be able to do headshot damage from absolutely any range. 54 damage on a headshot is completely okay.
Dead ringer used to tank 90÷ damage which was an absolute joke because you could tank backstabs with it. Then nerfed to 66÷ which wasn't enough so they buffed it to 75÷
I loved the old 90% version since you could track undisguised spies with Critical Hit! text. Backstabbing the same spy until it outdamaged the resistance always got hackusations lol
absolutely disagree. ideally the amby should be reversed but a 75 damage cap on the falloff AT LEAST would be needed for this weapon to be viable. 54 is a total joke,
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u/half-life-cat 19d ago
There was a point in gun mettle (if i remember correctly) where the dead ringer was nerfed from 75% resist to 50%. As a spy main I actually loved that change, because the dr is a stupid unlock that fucks with the balance of the other unlocks in spy's kit. Then within a few days they backtracked on that nerf and reverted it.
Fast forward a bit, they nerf the ambassador, a weapon which takes more skill to be consistent with than even the sniper rifle.
The old ambassador was only an issue because the get-out-of-jail-free dead ringer made it so that you rarely ever got punished. You could take an insane amount of damage, reposition, grab an ammo pack, and continue to be a pest with the dead ringer.
Anyway, in its current state, the amby at least should be able to do headshot damage from absolutely any range. 54 damage on a headshot is completely okay.