Remove Recon Senses Wallhack from the game!
Wallhacks together with Aimhacks have been the iconic bane of FPS games for more than 2 decades now. Although some games have this feature like Apex or Overwatch, the way they implemented made it way less impactful and more of a situational approach to fights.
Safe to say, everyone who is playing Ranked by now knows that the meta is absolutely dominated by this ability. Every game you see teams of MMM or MMH abusing recon to no end.
Personally, I have over 300h in the game and everyone I have spoken to, including people who use the ability, agree it gives them PTSD. All of us know that annoying sound it makes, while getting chased no matter where you go, trying to revive that team mate.
This petition does not ask for a rework for recon, but for it's entire removal. My personal suggestion is to replace it with Defib as an ability, and the game will be instantly more balanced. FCAR will not dominate the game anymore since you cannot know the exact position of everyone at all times. This will also resolve the defib issue that everyone is talking about. Although it is an optional gadget, everyone knows that this is not the case. It just gives the illusion of an option. That is not healthy for the game in my opinion. Player agency should reign supreme and if the devs want people to use fun loadouts and experiment, then I think defib being an ability will actually do the job. No more triple rezes, and if a team actually goes for that, they have no healing, no turrets etc I digress.
Anyway, back to recon. The ability having infinite range plus constant reactivation seems to be a large oversight in the game's development. But again, rework is not the point of this petition, but the removal of the ability.
The game gives the players amazing opportunities to be creative and smart, engaging in weird angles, demolishing floors, ganking another team etc. All of this is nullified by Recon senses. Entirely. There is no such thing as surprising a team anymore.
Melee players suffer the most because the weapons are already off meta, but trying to go and flank a team is basically impossible.
This ability goes against the very foundation of the game with it's multi level buildings and terrain destruction. It goes against the very essence of FPS games. I made this Petition because Discord is messy and there are thousands of messages everyday, and although the devs heard our problems with C4, Recon + Fcar medium meta is by far the worst problem of the game right now.
Please sign this petition and let's hope they remove it entirely!
Thank you.
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