(Feb. 13, 2017 3:27 AM)Beylon Wrote: I feel stupid enough that I did not know this to actually post specifically to admit it. I had thought that half the point of giving a left-spin bey extra weight was to reduce its ability to spin-steal from its lighter opponents... But if it really is outclassing everything, I guess I just gave it too much credit.
My impression as a non-competitive player (ha!) is that the Burst meta is balanced much better than MFB and from what I understand, it is also more balanced than PLA. I mean, having an extra win-condition makes it more balanced be default, not to mention any actual effort the designers put into nerfing teeth on otherwise overpowered layers. So if L2 upsets that balance, then I'd say it's basically confirmed the new series will be metalicious. I had thought there might be some gimmicks - but I guess they've already quenched their gimmick-thurst with the existing driver range.
Metal burst. And so, I ready my wallet.
Not sure I would qualify the Burst metagame as balanced at all, especially if I am to top this statement with my most sincere personal view hah. Plus, KOs are rather rare, probably because the parts are so light and rounded since they are meant to burst and fly out, so they need to cause as little damage as possible.
Anyway, as I posted in my Lost Longinus testing topic, I would never say that that Dual Layer is good at spin stealing, as I would never use it stationary, but it does do it well enough through hits and it is so awesome when weak-launched, either bursting, knocking out or even eventually outspinning the opponent almost all the time. And I posted a video recently of a Japanese YouTuber who tried removing the metal parts from Lost Longinus and from the few non-extensive battles he conducted, lightweight Lost Longinus was really bad.