r/JetpackCatMainsOW

Rant but valid, it's been three patches of this tether bug. First season was 5% of all tether usage where it would start lagging your tether target behind and above you, rapidly shaking them and then dropping them automatically. It's been 3 solid patches, and it only got worse. 15% of all my tethers have been bugged out, removing both teammates and catnap'd targets. I'm level 100 cat main, and I assure you; whenever I get this bug on an ult target, they get away. Another one would be if this bug happens on a rollout over a death barrier, my teammate drops and shoots straight down before I can do anything about it!

I play a lot, like 2-5 hours a day. This bug happens every day. I can't get away from it, not in stadium, not in quick play, not in competitive. The lifeline bug is driving me up the walls, when I get it, I immediately call it out to the match chat. "Tether bug three seasons" and everyone's like "huh?", "what bug?", or my favorite, "you deserve it".

If this bug effected anyone else, it would be patched out already! Examples being rein's shatter bug where if you were on stairs, the ult would be blocked. Guess how fast they fixed it? A week. This bug would be as if mercy's GA would fail 5% of the time, as if nano would cancel itself, as if mauga cage breaks if it's on uneven terrain.

I'm in gm-T500 games, you real can't have a single mistake on any of these moments, yet the game punishes me for playing cat in the first place. I'm going insane dealing with this bug, I'm crying and screaming because the bug they added with 5 other characters is being left alone where YES, it will effect the win rate! JPC could be up a whole .5% WR because this bug is so damaging to my plays!

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145 days, blizzard. It's been 20 weeks and 5 days. It's been 3 WHOLE PATCHES! They acknowledged the bug a patch and a half ago, yet there's been no changes!

https://reddit.com/link/1ulty3h/video/ev4gly3aovah1/player

Battle Kitty 4K on the comm crafted mode!

Zoomies

An actually useful ultimate not map/hero/pixel dependent

Its just so fun Its going to be sad going back to "normal" modes

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I honestly think the Zoomies Perk should just be baseline how the Hero works. Extremely mobile but fragile, Tracer-style. With such a small healthbar, I don't wanna hear anyone whine about how hard she is to shoot. A single CC and she's dead.
I could see an argument for keeping it as a Perk, but it shifts the Hero's playstyle and viability so hard, it'd be like having a Perk to chose between 2017 and 2026 Doomfist 4mins into a match.

I love the 10s Lifeline duration, to be honest. Because, while it removes some niche plays and sneaky ideas, it's a small price to pay if it means it's actually viable to transport someone back from spawn, once coupled with the Zoomies speed. It still enables things like DVA/Cass/Soldier/Ashe Ult combos, it just gets us rid of all the Cat-Bastion BS.

I'm not 100% convinced on the 'new ult.' I feel like losing Catnapper would be a shame since it's so unique and cool to pull off... but it's so incredibly janky, map-dependant and unreliable that, as uninspired as this "heal/DPS rockets" idea is, it feels 1000x better to press 99% of the time.

I could easily do without the turret stuff. It's a fun gimmick for the game-mode but I don't see it realistically being part of her actual kit.

So I'm wondering, fellow Meow-Meows, if you could pick between baseline Zoomies + Rockets Ult or Cargo-Boat Cat with unlimited Lifeline as she is now, which would you rather have in QP and Ranked?

PS: To be clear, I'm talking PURELY in terms of playstyle, pretending that they balanced either choice to be equally strong, which would you prefer as the definitive Jetpack Cat?