Is Psycho-Man Update Correct in the Update?

DrZola · March 2022

Looking at my Psycho…it’s hard to see what’s changed. Is this all?

Dr. Zola

DrZola · March 2022

From what I can tell, there is an additional 5 seconds added to his Sp2 fury buff and 2 seconds added to his Sp2 heal block.

Is the update program officially dead?

Dr. Zola

magnus_xix · March 2022

His furies last longer and his health block lasts longer. What a joke of a buff. Took 3 months to do this?!

Kappa2g · March 2022

I believe its only a few duration changes in his SP1 and SP2 effects.
If these 3 months have been the result of shifting resources for the new balancing programme, it is truly pathetic and disrespectful to the playerbase when 20+ old champions are still sitting in the limbo of uselessness.

Eb0ny-O-M4w · March 2022

Sp1 power drain last 2 seconds longer.
Sp2 fury lasts 5.5 seconds longer.
Sp2 heal block lasts 2 seconds longer.

That's pretty much it.

odishika123 · March 2022

They couldn't even increase the potency of his fury
This buff is worthless

Wicket329 · March 2022

The real Psycho Man buff is the friends we made along the way.

Unio77 · March 2022

This can't even be called a buff. He'll still hit softer then noodles 🗿

magnus_xix · March 2022

I'm actually stunned at Kabams incompetence...

DrZola · March 2022

He appears to have gotten a tiny bump (1827 to 1862 attack and 23730 to 24133 health for my R1) to his base. Or maybe that’s my masteries. Anyway…sheesh.

Dr. Zola

Eb0ny-O-M4w · March 2022

DrZola said:
He appears to have gotten a tiny bump (1827 to 1862 attack and 23730 to 24133 health for my R1) to his base. Or maybe that’s my masteries. Anyway…sheesh.

Dr. Zola

Just checked. It's the masteries, the base numbers haven't got changed

Shock29 · March 2022

@Darkraw346 I’m sorry for your loss. The buff was terrible

CosmicGuardian · March 2022

I’m really hoping this doesn’t speak to the quality of any upcoming buffs.

BitterSteel · March 2022

I really wish Kabam would open a dialogue with players and talk to them about what the real issues with champions are, and what should be addressed to make these champions usable and less disappointing to pull

I’ll reserve final judgement after I test out PM a bit, but it’s hard to express initial reaction as anything other than a huge disappointment. It doesn’t seem like it’s addressed his real issues.

Chovner · March 2022

Wow...... this value only buff is Dollarama value at best.... I'm glad we went 2 months without any old champ buffs to be wowed with this offering....

GrandOldKai · March 2022

Hold on, wait.

They "improved" Guillotine by... only improving her regen by one percent (ignoring her other problems)

and now people are saying that the Psycho-man update barely does anything

...Someone help me out here, I'm lost.

GrassKnuckles · March 2022

I guess i should have expected something like this to happen

Wozzle007 · March 2022

It would be really interesting to know how long this type of value only change actually takes to complete. I’d guess:

-A 20 minute team discussion to decide what what areas of the champion need to be changed.
-Another 20 minutes for the team to discuss how much the values need to be changed by.
-5 minutes to change the actual values in game.
-5 minutes testing the champion
-10 minutes debriefing to confirm the changes meet the the teams expectation.
-Done

I can’t imagine it takes much longer.

GrassKnuckles · March 2022

Wozzle007 said:
It would be really interesting to know how long this type of value only change actually takes to complete. I’d guess:

-A 20 minute team discussion to decide what what areas of the champion need to be changed.
-Another 20 minutes for the team to discuss how much the values need to be changed by.
-5 minutes to change the actual values in game.
-5 minutes testing the champion
-10 minutes debriefing to confirm the changes meet the the teams expectation.
-Done

I can’t imagine it takes much longer.

Maybe a bit more time than that to test

DrZola · March 2022

Yes—this is not an “update” in anything approaching what we have grown accustomed to over the past few years.

Apart from issues with the parsimonious increase to Psycho, I have a major issue with the way this nibbling change was communicated. Surely the team knew months ago how small this would be—and yet, nothing said. I never expected Psycho to be a top champ, but neither did I expect the first of the new “updates” to be so minimal.

Bad job—period. This represents yet another example of how to build player mistrust.

Dr. Zola

ThatGuyYouSaw235 · March 2022

You gotta be kidding me.

Aomine_Daiki10 · March 2022

So this is the shinny new psycho-man. Very funny

Aomine_Daiki10 · March 2022

No wonder he had no details because there were no changes in the first place, in summary no buff yet.

Superchampion_ · March 2022

This is actually embarrassing. No buffs in January or February. This is the one and only buff in March and the first of the year and THIS is what we get. They can’t be serious. In what world is this a good improvement. Kabam is so out of touch and tunnel visioned that they’re sticking with a balancing program no one wanted at the cost of a program everyone loved. Why should the players trust Kabam to not ruin newly-released champions if they can’t even pull this off. Disappointing and frustrating.

Magrailothos · March 2022

Wozzle007 said:
It would be really interesting to know how long this type of value only change actually takes to complete. I’d guess:

-A 20 minute team discussion to decide what what areas of the champion need to be changed.
-Another 20 minutes for the team to discuss how much the values need to be changed by.
-5 minutes to change the actual values in game.
-5 minutes testing the champion
-10 minutes debriefing to confirm the changes meet the the teams expectation.
-Done

I can’t imagine it takes much longer.

Plus thirty seconds to copy/paste the old spotlight directly into the 'What's New' section...

So little effort went into communicating this, they didn't even update the 'secret' "Coming Soon" synergy with Mangog:

Darkraw346 · March 2022

Shock29 said:
@Darkraw346 I’m sorry for your loss. The buff was terrible

WTH IS THAT 😭😭😭😭😭

Pseudouber · March 2022

So this is what we can look forward to...Amazing.

Darkraw346 · March 2022

Shock29 said:
@Darkraw346 I’m sorry for your loss. The buff was terrible

WTH IS THAT 😭😭😭😭😭

Aomine_Daiki10 said:
So this is the shinny new psycho-man. Very funny

Kabam Thel really made me think it's something good, just by the way he said it
Needless to say, my day is ruined and my disappointment is immeasurable
BIG TIME!!! 😭

Shaneomac_56 · March 2022

@Kabam Miike this psycho man buff is ridiculous after three months of waiting. The buff program was best monthly program summoners looked forward to each month, and now you guys took that from us too. SMFH

Mauled · March 2022

BitterSteel said:
I really wish Kabam would open a dialogue with players and talk to them about what the real issues with champions are, and what should be addressed to make these champions usable and less disappointing to pull

I’ll reserve final judgement after I test out PM a bit, but it’s hard to express initial reaction as anything other than a huge disappointment. It doesn’t seem like it’s addressed his real issues.

To me this is what the CCP should be for. Give them a custom UI where they can toggle durations of buffs/debuffs and you’d be able to see exactly how something performs in game.

Is Psycho-Man Update Correct in the Update?

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