Declined [VSH] replace vagineer's haste with agility

[Whurr]

haste is hilariously broken on high ping players (getting hit from incredibly far away because the knockback you took from getting hit hasn't been processed on their end) to the point that it benefits high ping players more than it does low ping players. agility will still increase his move speed and slightly increase his jump height, it's what he should've been given in the first place. because while it might not be as bad as haste, it's at least not giving high ping players an advantage over other players who actually live close to the servers that they choose to play on.

so what does agility give you (that's actually relevant to VSH) compared to haste?
+50% move speed bonus and +80% jump height
haste gives you:
+30% movement speed and 2x firing speed (so a 100% attack rate bonus in other words)

TL;DR: replace powerup that benefits high ping players more with powerup that doesn't benefit high ping players, but generally serves the same purpose; increasing vagineer's movement speed.

 

[Glazzy]

Because we already tested it for many months.

We switched vagineer to agility and people said it was good because it made vagineer very weak and easy to beat, having a ~35% win rate. So we increased the uber to compensate for it and then people whined about uber.

People here have no idea how much time and effort we spent balancing this game mode already.

If I remember correctly, when agility was added to vagineer, he still had 8 seconds of uber. Then that was increased to 12 seconds, which was complained about, and then changed to how he currently is. (May not be 100% accurate this is based off of memory) I think it would be worth testing vagineer with agility and keeping the current duration of uber so he doesn't get the extended laugh, though can still block all attacks for a split second

 

[Bottiger]

If I remember correctly, when agility was added to vagineer, he still had 8 seconds of uber. Then that was increased to 12 seconds, which was complained about, and then changed to how he currently is. (May not be 100% accurate this is based off of memory) I think it would be worth testing vagineer with agility and keeping the current duration of uber so he doesn't get the extended laugh, though can still block all attacks for a split second

Yes as I just said, which you didn't read at all, changing it to agility did nothing but drop the win rate of vagineer to the lowest out of all the bosses. That's why people loved it, because it made vagineer a weak and easy to kill boss, so we had to increase the uber length to compensate for that.