>!​!<My ass, did not realize that I was perma losing HP to the Tremors, as the game went on. At least everything felt cinematic as shit when I did both endings and their bosses.>!​!<
I... used to play back when Horizon released, and stopped playing around when Vantage released. I was a diamond player (but I was a flithy controller player), and was pretty good at the game at the time. Movement wasn't crazy, unless you were playing Meta Horizon or Octane.
I return now, seeing what has happened, since then. Holy crap.
The game back then was well-paced, you could almost always try and work for 'positioning' and try and at least hold down a position and most likely pull off a win if you did that right (with some good aim and good game sense, of course). But nowadays, I think the general metas and pacing has shifted into a breakneck 'rushdown' style of gameplay, where movement is king. Of course, it has been always this way (with the good old horizon meta), but holy shit I think it has shifted into the most unhealthy way possible.
Axle for example (who had just recently released), is a legend, in my eyes, has insane mobility with no downsides. It's as if they gave the woman the speed of Titanfall 2's Stim while wallrunning, and gave her the tiniest hitbox known to god, when she uses her nitro gate. I'm pretty sure she gonna get hit with a nerf, but I think it highlights how... things have shifted in a way where it's just getting bad.
Almost every legend has some type of built in movement boost (gibby gets a sprint buff lol), and every weapon in the game does a lot more damage. I dislike all of this, because I feel like the game is breaking the limits of what it was based upon, where most legends have distinct areas where they can thrive in, and the player is able to get into situations where they can get into those 'areas' where they can thrive. But nowadays, the game is all about mindlessly rushing down the nearest team, and knowing when you should be doing that.
Sure, I might have the wrong ideas in this post, I'm just trying to navigate the current day metas and playstyle, but I swear this game is getting too fast for it's own good.