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Apex Legends New Dome Shield Changes For Gibraltar Are Coming
It looks like respawn wants to change gibraltar’s dome shield within the next few seasons, but not in the typical way you expect which is buffs and nerfs to gibraltar. It seems like they are going for a more indirect approach as direct changes to gibraltar are extremely hard to make considering he is super important in high level play but also not fun in casual. Hope you enjoy 🙂
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I don't think Gibby needs a nerf. You said most players don't play him because he's not "fun" but no most people don't play him because it's very hard to be effective with him. Him being so large that nobody missed a shot. A brand new player who never played apex legends before can normally hit an entire clip without missing a single shot on Gibby. Gibby only good thing about Gibby is his dome.
What if they make it so when Gibby activates his arm shield it DEACTIVATES his DOME shield, but will activate back when the arm Shield is DEACTIVATED. ( all cool downs are the same)
If you push a gibby and he chooses to take advantage of his arm shield, the dome "opens" until the arm shield goes back.
I hope that makes sense.
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Yep some interesting indirect nerfs I've seen for pathfinder and me is if I use the graple and kill someone I will have SBMM for 1 hour, ultil I find most of the lobby masters and die 3 games in a row.. then its back to normal but if i show my skills again to the game I get nerfed again…. I really hope they don't start banning good skilled players and noobs get aimbot wall hack to balance
Nothing should be changed.
The problem with going this route is your gonna get to the point where legends are no longer legends with abilities that are unique but are just counters to other legends. This happens in gatcha pvp games. Take for example Epic 7 when it first came out all the characters had unique powers. But then some were so broken that instead of finding creative ways to bring them in line they just release a new character that counters the last broken character. It became a vicious cycle and now every character gets a counter released and are no longer unique.
I like Maggie a lot I played her up to masters her tact is just underwhelming when it comes to using it against a gibby player even if you catch them lacking inside and hit the drill you just have to side step out the stream coming out or walk out the other side of the bubble I think her tact should stick on you a bit like a thermite does
make gibby's dome a longer cooldown or make it so he has to use cells or batteries to drop his dome…idk
At this point, please nerf the dome. it’s the most op ability in the game
Jesus why are the first 8 characters even getting touched anymore. Leave them alone. Beside lifeline.
I know this clip is about Gibby, but I have this idea for a Wattson rework. What if placing just one node (pole?) made it an electric land mine instead. They would be harder to spot and would be as effective as caustic traps. Quick placement would make them a viable skill to use outside buildings and during close quarter gun fights
maybe a survival slot as a barricade would slightly reduce a need for gibby but maybe gibby could get increased movement or they could bring back faster healing in the dome
They could give Gibraltar the ability to have a modified version of his shield dome that creates a wall your able to shoot through, however the barrier will have a health bar or a limited rightly limited range
Gibby's Ult can pierce bubbles. I think if you give the bubble a health bar, it'll either remain unchanged or just not used anymore. I'd say allow the faster heals back, but make Thermites and Gibby Ults be able to pierce the bubble, not only does that buff Thermites, which are kinda underpowered compared to Arcs and Nades, but it keeps Gibby useful and other Gibbys can directly impact a fight to another Gibby.
make it so you can shoot the little pod thing that gibby throws to make the shield. you can do it to wattson's tac, why not gibby's
Make gibbs shield a full sphere so we dont get shot from the crack when the edge goes over a ledge or slope.
I think a deployable wall ground loot would be nice. Giving other characters access to situational deployable cover (even if inferior to the dome) would mean it’s less of a necessity for every serious team to have to pick Gibraltar.
In terms of physics he should slide faster down the hill due to his massive Body 😅
“Adding a health bar to the dome will be to much of a nerf” “nerfs caustics traps” caustic is basically useless in the open. Also compare caustics skills to gibby what a joke 😂😂 these idiots don’t play their own game
Nah Gibbs is fine the way he is,
What world are you living in? I barely see gibby in ranked.
Take him out the game can’t stand playing against him his arm shield needs to be taken off first of all
They should have it so that bigger characters have some sort of exo suit on that will make them run at an average speed. Slower characters will ALWAYS be boring
mmm "Respawn Indirect nerfs" Caustic mains intensify ….
Me and my brother got hella stoned and where playing and he was gibby.
I was fuse. We where goofing off at estates dropping hot and He downed a revenant. And threw his domeshield down and did a finisher. He literally at full top of his voice “I’m gonna shove this dome shield in ya ass bruddahs”
And I fuckin died of laughing. 😂
I was like wtf he throws it into your ass and then it just explodes you?
i've been maining gibby in ranked this season and I can honestly say that he is so incredibly fun to play once you realize that his bubble is just as good offensively as it is defensively, having the ability to throw your bubble down ahead of you when you push and have it to peek from is incredible, and his ultimate is so satisfying when you learn how to use it right. IMO gibby just takes time to learn, but I IGL with him and play aggro and I got to masters, so its just about how you want to play with him, as he is probably the most versatile legend in the game
if anything though an indirect nerf to gibby by adding another defensive legend that plays similar to gibby but has his own unique advantage would be really nice, the only other true defensive legends are caustic/wattson (who are either nerfed to hell or incredibly annoying) or rampart, who's shields just dont fit apex's playstyle. there needs to be another defensive legend that can deploy a strong and multiuse tactical very quickly, but also has some sort of offensive aspect. as far as making gibby more fun in pubs, there isn't much you can do with him, he's not a pubs legend, he's a ranked legend all the way
i like the destroyable idea. make it have 2-3k life and take extra damage from grenades and ultimate's. As well as making it cover more of the bottom of the shield. This will make pro play gibby worse as team can focus the shield, while making it slightly better in completive play since people cant shoot your feet's and teams might not be fully committed to destroying the shield.
I hope someone reads this because I think this is a really gud idea. What I think they should do is turn giby bubble into a survival item and remove giby from the game entirely (there’s still a way to keep him in the lore, just say he’s retiring or something) here’s why: the reason why giby has been so gud in competitive is because he gives his whole team 360 cover that is often used to force fights against other teams (mostly during end game) so that your team can take a fair 3v3 where no third party team can shoot you in the back while fighting in the bubble. The bubble is also highly useful for end game or early game when your in a rough spot and u just need to block off the explosions around u and get the lobbies attention off of u while u heal and have time to make the next play. Now with that said it is clear that giby bubble just makes the game more fair and less up to randomness the outcome of what happens to your team during or after fights and during rotation. So this means giby bubble helps u survive in apex. And that’s why it should be a survival item. People might say but what if u just throw 3 bubbles at once because each one of ur teammates can hold one bubble… well then u wouldn’t have anymore for next fight or rotation. It’s that simple. Now that I’m done explaining the bubble here’s why they should remove giby: it is impossible to balance giby to the point the game is fair. This character has a arm shield and fortified and still has a low win rate in casual due to his hit box. No one likes a character in apex that can win gunfights just because they have more hp ( I think like that about caustic btw but that’s a different story) and he already has a low pick rate in casuals and high level players don’t really care who they play as long as it involves winning so giby could be an easy remove from the game. All u would have to do is refund everyone an heirloom if they have it and all the skins and items they have on giby. It would be like an early Christmas apex gift in so many different ways. I’m gonna end on this note, not every character in apex legends is really good for the health of the game wraith might be but definitely not giby (and caustic but that’s another story).
A crazy change would be to give snipers wall penetration
So they can do something like 35% dmg when they penetrat, and they would be able to shoot through Gibby arm shield and dome, doors and maybe window
Rampart should be able to toss her walls like a caustic trap and her walls should deploy faster almost like a gibby dome.
This isnt really related to his dome but rather his passive, but hb we make his arm shield require cells to charge? It basically serves as extra health and its bs that it comes back so quickly to bail Gibby out. I think its a very fair, small nerf imo. He keeps the arm shield, but now its an extension of his shield health.
Hot take: but giving the bubble a health bar to remove some of his power is fair. What's not fair is Gibby having an indestructable dome from all angles, while Rampart only has a wall that protects from a 90° angle.
That thing in the middle of the dome could be destroyed but not the shield
Indirect nerfs are stupid and respawn should look at how that effected overwatch. I think this is worse though since you can't change characters mid game. There is going yo be a clear meta and must pick characters making fun characters like path finder and ecy harder to play
ok so dumb idea that might work, passive: when sliding gibby starts rolling like a ball and if he hits someone they faster you were going the longer they would be stunned and damaged, tactical: instead of a dome he may cover 1 teammate or himself in a dome with 600 hp however they cannot shoot anything except their abilities or heal, ultimate can stay the same cause i feel like its fun enough for casual and competetive enough for comp
Add a delay to bubble deployment – wraith q, ramaprt walls, pathfinder grapple,horizon q, loba q all have a delay/slow/window to deal damage. Why does gibby bubble have to be instant? Since it provides life or death advantage it should be used strategically not as a get out of jail free card.
Also bit unpopular opinion here, i think it shouldn't have hp but be indestructible, allowing it to take damage, will just indirectly lead to teams becoming economy conscious with their inventory, carry x number of grenades all the time,ammo etc. This may lead to people in comp having win/lose advantage over backpack size. Why Nerf it in such a way that creates more problems? Granted they may be adding survival/independent items like ammo box or aoe heal in the future but this is not the right path.
What could be the solution for the this? Ok I know this sounds INSANE, but hear me out. What if instead of just disappearing when the duration of bubble is up, it actually expands when it's deployed from its (reduced from original) size to a little wider then wider, till a certain max size then disappear. How will this help you ask?
This incentivises play making in the form of using pushes/cover just outside the bubble and skilled grenades, you could throw a nade outside an (originally) small bubble but it expands and now covers the grenade within it before detonation, forcing the team inside to make hard choices.
I think quick fixes like dome having hp just create more problems than solutions. The solution should be elegant and simple. Heck, you could add a holo visual que to indicate max expansion radius of the bubble as well or something of the sort to give other players an idea of how to play around this as well.
On another note they need to make loba able to use her black market to get teammates banners 👍👍👍
Gibbi without weaponshield would be the simplest and most perfect nerf…. thats all it needs.
(Caustic has no weaponshield too)
More gibbies in lobbies , especially in ranked would be unhealthy for the game even if he is more fun for me too . Honestly he is too powerful ( maybe the only legend which every single ability is very good ) and the only thing that balances it is the fact that a lot of people don't want to play him because he feels slow . Can you imagine if Gibby had wraiths pick rate . The final fight would be a nightmare , 3-4 Gibby's ult going off at a small zone at the same time
The reason people play give is not just the dome its the ult aswell the only way the Counter gibby ult is gibby dome cause the ult is just way to strong and i say this as a gibby main
Why they waited so long for this
Give Gibby something no other legend has. In my opinion the only reason people choose him is the meta factor. He doesn't bring much that's purely unique. He just needs a full on re work. Either something defensive and supportive or something that helps you move.
Another character that can compete with gibby