It would be good if the speccie was the one marking option that needs the correct timing with your button press...making a successful speccy much more skillful.
I know the complaint that speccies are overpowered, and also that sometimes they don’t appropriately give away a free kick... (in known issues)...but I’d like to suggest how this could be made better without just reducing the ability to launch for a speccy.
Make the press of the button begin the speccie animation straight away...so if you’re too early you’ll clearly fall over and miss the ball (giving away the free kick).
also, your positioning would need to be correct as well... either missing the player you’re trying to launch on if you’re not near them.... or getting nowhere near the ball if the launchpad opponent isn’t positioned close enough to the landing position of the ball themselves.
With this, players can still attempt speccies as much as they can now...but they need to be more skillful to pull it off without giving away a free kick. (Assuming the free kick bug with speccies is also fixed up)
(Vary the difficulty of all this a little bit with the match difficulty, and the speccy player’s ‘marking‘ and ‘speccy’ ratings).
Hi @SaintSkeeta Just for reference: In our latest internal version we've fixed the issue with not giving away a free kick and have reduced speccies effectiveness in pack situations. Thanks for the suggestion, the team will discuss it. Something that we're trying to be careful of is that in the previous game we had feedback that speccies were too difficult to pull off. As they're a big exciting moment that adds to the game experience we don't want to make them too hard for casual players to pull off. But we also don't want them to be too frequent or too powerful (particularly in player vs player). We're continuing to monitor this and we'll see how it plays out in the next patch.
Thanks for the response @Adrian Harrison . Great to know the free kick issue is already fixed, and I really appreciate the insight about balancing something like this. It’s true, they are exciting... but they are fairly rare in real life...which makes them that special and exciting to see.
As for allowing casual gamers to pull it off... for single player that could possibly come into affect with the match difficulty setting.
For multiplayer...that’s a tough decision.... but I’d definitely like to see less of them when playing online....
Maybe it too could be scaled according to match difficulty...
Like a match difficulty setting for Online games...
I’d actually like this for playing on the same team as a mate online anyway... where we could play better AI Together.
But for Ranked Games, 1v1, maybe a fixed ‘difficulty’ for the speccies as well as NPC teammates...probably around the Veteran/All-Australian level.
just spitballing.... 😀