3.16 Hot Lead Update - Official discussion thread

find2046

Great, Great & Great !
1st for new heroes
2nd for Negan new hero rait
3rd for GW improvement, esp for kick parasites out.

MudMoccasin

Yumiko's leader Trait looks🔥🔥🔥🔥

find2046

Negan will be the GW leader.
Yumiko will be the PVP leader.

Burmeliinis

Once again an update with lots of candy, but nothing about fixing GW. Ok, two small fixes but I hope that is not all!

ladre5

Dont miss beth, she can stand behind 2 bruisers with a spear and constantly heal them, all 3 heroes look fricking awesome👍

Shezza10

Beth’s leader trait doesn’t mention anything about healing @ladre5

m4s

but... GW still Beta... 

Angelspit

Time to bring Negan back to a decent level... It's going to take a while.

WellyLuga

Burmeliinis said:

Once again an update with lots of candy, but nothing about fixing GW. Ok, two small fixes but I hope that is not all!

Agreed, lots of shiny new things for people to chase/burn radios for. Hopefully there are more fixes to address the many, many bugs that riddled last season. It doesn't matter to me, I think I am set for a more chilled out season of GW

That being said, the new leader traits sound really strong. Yumiko's in particular looks insane.

ShadowWalker

Big shout out to @JordanYuki I always thought it was suspicious @Fluxxx closed this thread so suddenly.

https://forums.nextgames.com/walkingdead/discussion/43219/new-leader-trait-idea-for-negan

Also, I'm happy for all the Beth fans but wouldn't it have made more sense at this point for Magna? Either way all the LT look awesome.

Hopefully there are more fixes to GW.

Paste

I wouldn't expect @Fluxxx to include bug fixes in the sneak peaks since the point of these videos are to highlight improvements, rather than making people aware of current bugs. Bugfixes tend to be listed down in the footer of the full announcement, and usually not even all of them.

However I also wouldn't expect NG to have patched up a significant share of the critical GW bugs, and I hope we get a clarification on this very soon. My guild hasn't suffered from the worst bugs, but it's extremely demoralizing to see what happened to TLOU in particular.

Billbam

As is their normal the full note will be out soon so lets see what they have, as noted above bug fixes are usually no on the video.

ladre5

Shezza10 said:

Beth’s leader trait doesn’t mention anything about healing @ladre5

Ups, my bad, i misread that, sry was in a hurry on phone. But i would have been great😆

IcePeter

Didn’t it say it’s fixing 3 of the biggest GW complaints? I think the GW hate regarding this update is unwarranted. That’s a horrible likeness of Yumiko, who looks about 60 as a toon. 

New characters are the most likely way to get us to open their wallets. If nothing else, it’s 2 new free character slots and 12 new badges, and more Distance options. Time to start saving radios again.

ShadowWalker

IcePeter said:

 That’s a horrible likeness of Yumiko, who looks about 60 as a toon. 

I agree, and I take back everything bad I ever said about Jerry. Well almost everything...

ATLAS-Z

I'm a little curious how @MudMoccasin feels about the name and functionality of the bulldozer 

FuriousMoldovan

@Fluxxx many thanks for pinned "sticky" message in guild chat! 😉

https://forums.nextgames.com/walkingdead/discussion/46856/guild-chat-sticky-message

ghost_pepper

I'm most excited about the gw map icon for which islands have been started.

I really hope they touch up Yumiko's card art before it goes live and make her look a little younger. She's just a slack jaw and loose eyeball away from walker status.

WhereisHeath

- I love the new traits, they are very unique. It's nice to see that now NG makes efforts to create useful heroes.

- Finally a Magna's group hero, Yumiko is one of the best new characters. 

- I'm not a big fan of Beth, but is great to see old characters. I think at some point and now that the show ends we will have others like Tyresse, Hershel, Andrea or Dale.

- When Fluxxx talks about a complete hero rework I thought it would be Carol  .. some day. 

- Beth and Yumiko's cards looks so much bigger than old heroes. I hope they can fix that.

- I'm still waiting for some visual updates or skins for outdated characters that I suggested. Especially for Aaron, Carol or Eugene.

Forgotten

I called the new LT name march 12th. Name it: "Eeny, meeny, miny, moe", "Stay down" or "On your knees" https://forums.nextgames.com/walkingdead/discussion/comment/434854/#Comment_434854
 I feel like you could have given me a shout-out for that @Fluxxx
 No? Half a shout out?
Maybe just mention that you have forgotten something... forgotten?
Puns are ok. I get that a lot. ...

Pain Walker

Pit your enemies against unmatched firepower with Yumiko

   

 Increase damage output with Beth Greene 

 

Push your enemies with the Bulldozer Shotgun 

 

MudMoccasin

Pain Walker said:

Push your enemies with the Bulldozer Shotgun 

 

Why does the sound remind me so much of this scene?:

MudMoccasin

ATLAS-Z said:

I'm a little curious how @MudMoccasin feels about the name and functionality of the bulldozer 

LOVE IT!!!!!!!🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯😃😃😃😃
Even though an AA12 would probably be a little more fitting. With the advent of shotguns that push targets like the Spiked Kingdom Shield,  hopefully we will see this become a reality eventually:

Especially since Shane is holding one:

Pain Walker

MudMoccasin said:

Pain Walker said:

Push your enemies with the Bulldozer Shotgun 

 

Why does the sound remind me so much of this scene?:

The Sound is from Our World as the bulldozer has been out there for the last 3 years. So I just used the shotgun sound from there. I haven't heard how this one sounds but most likely a normal assault weapon since NG hasn't been using new sounds for weapons. 

Spiked

Has it been determined if there is a council upgrade or not?

MudMoccasin

Pain Walker said:

Pain Walker said:
The Sound is from Our World as the bulldozer has been out there for the last 3 years. So I just used the shotgun sound from there. I haven't heard how this one sounds but most likely a normal assault weapon since NG hasn't been using new sounds for weapons. 

Sweet!!! Now if NG can only get the Decimator to sound like a real Grenade Launcher with a classic, "Thoomp."
Even better if the Light Machine Gun could sound like this: 

Scotticus

Beth and Yumiko will be great additions.

But the elephant in the room MUST be addressed. All this time, and we STILL don't have Lori Grimes? That's a Lori Crime...s

Her leadership trait could be a two-fer. One aspect could be 'Worst. Character. Ever.' When she dies, the zombies take twice as long to eat her corpse because its an experience worth savouring.
 She also has 'Ghost phone': Every critical hit after her death has a chance to make a non-existant phone ring, distracting all Human enemies as they ask 'Uh, what the hell is this? What's going on? Where is this plot line going?'

IcePeter

Ok, how does Negan’s new trait interact with Damage Reduction? Does it contribute to the existing 80% max, let you exceed 80%, or reduce the base damage prior to DR being applied? If option 1, that won’t be useful at all since everyone we expect to get hit will already have 80% DR, and we can only reduce Negan’s badging if only the marked enemy is in range, which would rarely be the case outside of BBQ

ShadowWalker

Ok, after reading the update notes I am impressed. Some pretty annoying bugs are apparently fixed now. The LT and survivor traits that increase weapon damage now apply to total damage, hopefully the percentages haven't been "rebalanced" though. Infused and Special Functionality weapons have  markers on them now. New challenge sets and challenge bonus, all regular survivors starting charged.

Yumiko is going to be a beast, I wasn't expecting her percentages to be that high. Beth's is a little lower than I expected, but even a small % of total health is significant on higher levels.

Kudos to the team @Fluxxx

Just one tiny request, can we get the poncho on Hunter Daryl as well? Hunstman Daryl already has the better LT and now he is going to look cooler too, poor OG Daryl getting no love lol

Firekid

It reduces the amount of damage taken after DR is applied apparently.