Noticed a little stealth buff to Ascendants

I guess I can't say it's impossible that some stealth change was implemented, just that it seems to me far more likely than not that it's something that was simply background noise until your attention was called to it. I also can't know if I've experienced exactly what you're describing without seeing it myself, but it doesn't sound outside of the range of sync behaviors I've seen, or the range of hilariously wonky animations from Ascendants.

I fully agree that I'm no more privy to Bioware's intentions with regard to what remains of support than anyone else, but to me the most relevant question is: what would this change accomplish?

The only thing I can imagine is that it would be part of an effort to rebalance kett to be more difficult. I haven't heard anyone strongly voice an opinion that they stand out among the three as the weakest faction, and (admittedly anecdotally) I certainly haven't seen a tendency among PUG lobbies toward choosing kett.

Further, syncs are generally among players' most-hated enemy behaviors - particularly when they are unpredictable and/or unavoidable. Any rebalancing effort would more likely manifest as a change to enemies' damage or hitpoint values.

So, unless I'm overlooking some significant factor or mistaken about the rationale, for this change to make sense we'd have to assume both that:


- Use data indicates that kett are imbalanced to such a degree that they required a correction; and

- An adjustment to the Ascendant's sync range was the only (or one of few, and the least undesirable) corrections that could be made through a server-side value change.


To me, neither of those seem more likely than the possibility that you simply hadn't noticed this before, let alone both.

Haha! I completely hadn't thought of why a newly perceived tech bug should apply to one particular unit only. But then I'm no techy.

I wasn't on the track of a stealth update, btw, sorry if I was unclear about that. I was more along the lines of erratic behaviour due to latency.

You make a good point, though. Hmm, I wonder if I could get JR to ask could this in the twitch...