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[guor6800]

Dear Devs I have some questions. Roman last warriors den said clearly that you cannot fix Cent till the start of season 3.
-Why is it taking so long?
-How is it that you gathered so much info about shinobi to nerf him hard for example but you are unable to do so with Cent?
-You will leave a game-breaking champion (especially in team-modes) run berserk for a whole season?

I think the community deserves a better response than Roman's "Sorry we cannot do it sooner ,it's not possible".

Thanks in advance.

[Draghmar]

I'm starting to believe in theory that it is because there too many people playing with this broken character so it would be very upsetting for them and by that it could mean loosing yet another bunch of players. So devs wait until S3 to introduce another broken character (aka 'we knew it would cause problems') and then safely nefr Cent when all will move into the new one.

[Gray360UK]

I'm starting to believe in theory that it is because there too many people playing with this broken character so it would be very upsetting for them and by that it could mean loosing yet another bunch of players. So devs wait until S3 to introduce another broken character (aka 'we knew it would cause problems') and then safely nefr Cent when all will move into the new one.

Highly likely. As much as people complain about the Centurion on here, many many people play him. Just last night I was in a Dominion with a Rep 27 one, and in another Dominion with 1 Centurion on my team and 3 on the enemy team. He is hugely popular and hugely fun if you like the sort of thing he does, which a lot of people do apparently.

[Arekonator]

People always flock to character that is relatively strong and easy to use.

[A4einboy]

I was actually a raider main even before the buffs. I got him to rep 30 (raider) and thought all other classes just didnt look like heros to me and when i saw cent i thought he has very short range so it would be hard to get close to lets say a valk or nobushi because they have long sticks to pook you with . With raider people kept staying in my face and spamming lights now that i main cent people run from him and yet he is not viable in 1v1 but you better not make a mistake . I had no problem with them in any game modes because 2,3,4 of any hero is trouble. You guys called for nerfs to revenge not only did we lose great vids on youtube of people trying to gank now you have to worry about cent . The people in this fourm whine to much unlike the people in reddits that acctully are grown ups trying to make the game better with fixing the connection first and for most

[brashtralas]

I was actually a raider main even before the buffs. I got him to rep 30 (raider) and thought all other classes just didnt look like heros to me and when i saw cent i thought he has very short range so it would be hard to get close to lets say a valk or nobushi because they have long sticks to pook you with . With raider people kept staying in my face and spamming lights now that i main cent people run from him and yet he is not viable in 1v1 but you better not make a mistake . I had no problem with them in any game modes because 2,3,4 of any hero is trouble. You guys called for nerfs to revenge not only did we lose great vids on youtube of people trying to gank now you have to worry about cent . The people in this fourm whine to much unlike the people in reddits that acctully are grown ups trying to make the game better with fixing the connection first and for most

"Reddit that are actually grown ups."


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Hahaha

Credibility, lost.

[UbiNoty]

Dear Devs I have some questions. Roman last warriors den said clearly that you cannot fix Cent till the start of season 3.
-Why is it taking so long?
-How is it that you gathered so much info about shinobi to nerf him hard for example but you are unable to do so with Cent?
-You will leave a game-breaking champion (especially in team-modes) run berserk for a whole season?

I think the community deserves a better response than Roman's "Sorry we cannot do it sooner ,it's not possible".

Thanks in advance.

I can't speak entirely for the reasons as to why it will happen at the start of S3, but I'll try to offer some insight.

1. We needed time to gather data. Community feedback is important to us, but we like to have numbers and evidence to back up the witness testimony. With Shinobi's kick we could see that it was a general problem, unlike centurion which is much more circumstance/environment specific. Which is why we needed more time for centurion. So given that he isn't as strong in 1v1, but problematic in 4v4, it makes the problem even more difficult, which takes more time.

2. We need to plan updates around scheduled patches/maintenance times. Even the last Live Update, 1.08.02, the community and Eric had to push really hard to make that happen when it did. Maybe you all think it didn't help with much, but it took a lot of effort even for something you all consider to be trivial. As a team, we work together around the team schedule - which means there actually isn't as much freedom for us to do whatever, whenever.

3. Defense meta update. So we said that this will be released during PT at the end of the month. It's likely to be a big game-changer and so if we made the decision to nerf centurion before the defense meta update, what happens when we discover he's turned into a useless, warped old rusty penny after the defense changes. It's kind of along the same lines of thought we're using with conqueror - so we're reluctant to make hasty changes that may need to be undone later again anyways.

Hopefully you got a bit of understanding as to why it's taking so long. I wish just as much as you all do that we could be faster, but not everything runs on the schedule we wish it did. All I can do is ask for your understanding and patience, and hope you'll try to bear with us for the next little while.

[Titanodragon]

I can't speak entirely for the reasons as to why it will happen at the start of S3, but I'll try to offer some insight.

1. We needed time to gather data. Community feedback is important to us, but we like to have numbers and evidence to back up the witness testimony. With Shinobi's kick we could see that it was a general problem, unlike centurion which is much more circumstance/environment specific. Which is why we needed more time for centurion. So given that he isn't as strong in 1v1, but problematic in 4v4, it makes the problem even more difficult, which takes more time.

2. We need to plan updates around scheduled patches/maintenance times. Even the last Live Update, 1.08.02, the community and Eric had to push really hard to make that happen when it did. Maybe you all think it didn't help with much, but it took a lot of effort even for something you all consider to be trivial. As a team, we work together around the team schedule - which means there actually isn't as much freedom for us to do whatever, whenever.

3. Defense meta update. So we said that this will be released during PT at the end of the month. It's likely to be a big game-changer and so if we made the decision to nerf centurion before the defense meta update, what happens when we discover he's turned into a useless, warped old rusty penny after the defense changes. It's kind of along the same lines of thought we're using with conqueror - so we're reluctant to make hasty changes that may need to be undone later again anyways.

Hopefully you got a bit of understanding as to why it's taking so long. I wish just as much as you all do that we could be faster, but not everything runs on the schedule we wish it did. All I can do is ask for your understanding and patience, and hope you'll try to bear with us for the next little while.

Shinobi kick you saw as a big problem.... Which it was. But centurions ganking ability and his ability to to perform a full combo off one mistake is not a mistake you can see is pretty messed up....

[SlapO_xFight]

HA I LOVE how you guys think this way about the Cent and Conq but you nerf the Orochi to hell and don't do a damn thing to even fix him besides ask us what we think needs to be done and then do nothing with the feedback even though i my self submitted 2-3 vids on broken mechanics for this class that still haven't even been addressed, oh but you guys probably need more data on a class thats been out since alpha roflolmao.... gtfo....