1:25 best team combo 1:42 rip defib/changes section 5:25 best Heavy build 6:49 best Medium build 9:28 best Light build 13:10 heal Medium build 13:24 hook Heavy build yep
It's easy when you have a 3 stack of good players. I found out the hard way it's extremely difficult to get diamond with randoms no matter how good you are.
Guide to #1 diamond day 1 Step 1 - Forget everything else this is your life Step 2 - 3 Stack with people who also don’t have anything else to do Step 3 - Don’t Stop
this season seems REALLY good so far for loadout diversity! a lot of things are good and i hope we keep seeing a lot of different playstyles and loadouts, especially in high levels
i think cloak is mostly a high end meta thing. most lights in my games run dash or grapple. embark gave all classes a way to counter cloak so if people really have an issue with it they just need to bring motion sensor or sonar. gravity vortex is fucking amazing. already had a massive win with it. the thing i like most is that it stays stuck when it deploys so you can drop the objective from a moving platform and of course you can abort steals without line of sight. 93r being good for the first time is so fun. i hope embark doesn't nerf it any time soon. i think you still need good aim and solid hits to make it work but it is just nice to have a weapon that is pretty good at most ranges (besides the lh1)
Yeah, invis 100% getting a nerfed, its kinda insane ya can stand still invis for like 2+mins straight XDDDD. I like it as a invis light, but I know long term that this likely wouldnt be fun to really play against nor watch. Oh and the defib changes was MASSSSSIVE I'm so happy defib doesnt feel like "necessity" anymore for peeps! It's still good for the fact ya can get someone back up into the fight instantly, but its not obnoxious being able to do that 3x XDDD. I dig it I do agree, I think currently LMH actually might be the "strongest" right now, and I love that! Light finally got to a place where it's like, not "useless." Grats on first diamond btw! ^0^
One lil thing I like to do with gravity vortex is pair with gateway and tm8 has a gas nade, put grav vor next to your cash out and gateway above it when the steal trigger both and throw nades through gateway while they r stuck and can’t run away
Seeing a non-SA12+non-charge loadout is crazy. No fib or heal beam is crazy. Light is crazy, and 93r is crazier. i wouldve taken out a mortgage to bet against a 93r meta. Cant wait to play S5 and the new map.
I'm a brand new player that just downloaded the game last week. I don't know anything about what is and isn't really good so I really appreciate this fast and easy to follow video
@@AiloSzn my load out since s1 has been Mine gas mine defib and turret. Its absurd how much utility I get from those things, and with defibs getting so toned down, sensor or glitch mine need to be on the reserves. I still run defibs because my main partner runs dual blades and even with these changes, he can get great value and survivability even with the 8s cooldown.
FYI gravity vortex and goo grenade is huge. Pull the cashout high and then goo against the wall so it’s suspended. Very strong and easy to setup with low cooldowns. Also have done some fun plays with winch, jump pad, and gravity vortex. Winch pull the cashout over a jump pad. Once it reaches max height, detonate the gravity vortex on it and it stays in the air and no one can get it for 7 seconds.
Do you have a video on the kiting meta? I've heard it multiple times now but I have not seen a video talk about it, and it seems more complex than your average strategy.
I went from silver to near diamond mostly casual playing. I never saw anyone run cloak, or at least very rarely. So idk where you saw it being meta apart from maybe scrims. Played regularly against rubys and whenever there was a light it was always dash. I do like the idea of light cloak being more sneaky. I do like the change but Im definitely bias. I think the change to defib is great. Overall i think this season will be great but rank is over for me ive burnt out last season trying to make diamond solo que. Just gonna have fun in world tour with some creative loadouts. This is how I have the most fun in the finals and in the end its all that matters. It was hard to let go of ranked cause im very competitive in general. Happy season 5 everyone❤
@@mr.nihilistic hahahaha I'm no noob and dash is factually speaking the worst light spec. Badly designed. Badly implemented. Makes players play the same boring play style and is annoying to play against.
@@necromax13 If you’re playing solo, double mobility and util/nades are the way for sure. If you’re in a stack and your team mates are worth defibbing, defib is still worth
93R is definitely better than it was, but it's held back by the buff being bugged. At 28 DMG it should be able to 3 burst mediums, but in reality it takes 3 bursts + 1 extra bullet (so being burst fire with a delay it's realistically a 4 burst TTK). Its damage is bugged to somewhere in the 25-27 range.
@@kami3449 it looks like they've stealth changed the patch notes. Checking wayback machine indicates that it was not a hallucination, it indeed started out as 24->28 DMG, but now the patch notes say 24->26 DMG. Disappointed that Embark didn't add a note highlighting the edit or explaining which was the actual intended value.
I think light finally has a leg up with the new cloak. It could make some noise when standing still but definitely not nerf worthy considering what other things have been allowed prior.
I'm a bit curious why FCAR is considered the pick for high elo players as akm just feels like the better option between the 2 for multiple reasons. AKM has a bigger mag, similar dps and it even got a red dot in S4, the recoil is a bit easier on FCAR but it doesn't make a whole lot of difference. Everything just points to akm being objectively better than FCAR imo. If anybody has the answer feel free to enlighten me and even correct me if I said something wrong here.
FCAR has a lower rate of fire, higher damage per bullet. FCAR has higher range. FCAR has a stickier hip fire. FCAR has the highest TTK on light/heavy out of every AR. fcar my baby
The scar is right now better than the AK based on versatility and ttk. If the AK had the 36 round mag again it would be 50-50 but the pitiful ttk on the aks end is boring. For most ranges you should be engaging, the 25 round fixed visual recoil scar is better. The FAMAS is good too, but I don't like it.
I’m glad people are hitting diamond. Last season there were NO people that were in diamond 2/1. Glad to see they made some changes to the RP and people filling D2/1 is possible.
Another weapon of fun choice in my opinion is using bow while using dash with gateway. If I ever wanna use cloak I can use the vanish bomb for alternative. Been seeing more players using motion sensors to track invisible L’s down quicker.
Lockbolt definitely doesn't feel like it has enough of a short leash on tethered targets, but, I will say the way chains remain even through terrain has made chasing people down with flamer a very brutally fun time
I swear I land a lock bolt right at a guy's feet and it'll despawn before he reaches the edge of it. This game doesn't have nearly enough open space for how lenient it is. The new light gadget fills the same role much better.
Grats on diamond overachiever. 😂 Oh man...I've been enjoying the new invis, but I didn't even think about invis/stun plug stealing. Yeah that is gonna catch a nerf. And yeah HML feels nice, seen a huge uptick in heavy. It's good.
I actually like that cloak is OP bc it almost neccessitates having a light with motion sensors or thermals to counter. Take the OP cloak away and we're back to season 1-4 where you're just better served by having a 2nd medium or heavy.
????? Glitch, firethrower, fire nades, gas, and aoe of any kind already countered cloak. All classes have motion sensors now. What are you even saying????
best light setup is sword dash, sonar, invis nade, gravity c4. got top 100 in TA and already hit diamond. The potential to 1v3 the enemy team is high and to finish off or get initial dmg is insane with sword. if your using sword worried about other cloaks use thermal vison instead of c4
I feel like the cloak buff is slighty overtuned but let me explain....taking burning (I E. whether its from a pyro grenade, mine, flamethrower etc....) should break you out of cloak if you walk into it but reactivating cloak can remove the burning ticks/DoTs/damage (kind of like cloak of shadows in WoW) allowing you to re-cloak but gas should remove it when walking into it for sure since its like an environmental DoT that doesnt follow you
There’s a glitch currently with heavy(easier to pull off) with Granate launcher, after you empty your weapon pick something up and throw it, it will skip the reloading animation, I’ve seen it with throwing dome instead and this will also skip the animation
Definitely make a video on the gravity vortex ASAP. Make a Part 1 video so you can be the first one to make a video about the new gadget. Maybe make a part 2 or compilation of what else you can do with it if you find new stuff out
i dont like rushing guides too much, i much rather wait and make sure the content i put out is informed, so i dunno if i wanna do this but a guide or a video about it will definitely come out hopefully soon
Yo Appoh, I've known you for a while but I've started watching you more actively on yt and twitch and I gotta say you are one of the best things that happened to this game! Quick question abt your videos: where do you get your music from and can you link it? Very chill but fire background music
honestly all the names are like lofi hiphop435456452434532 i just find random copyright free music online and call it a day, i dont know any names sorry
I was finding cloak real good s4, which is a shame cos i think movement Light is far more interesting and fun on both sides of the fight. Same reason I dont think CC or stuns should be meta, they are not fun to play against. But overall HML is a very healthy spot to be in!
Question for LH; Thoughts on the zoom scope vs red dot LH1 for a light that'd rather use grapple? (For why grapple? Avoid relying on something bound to be nerfed. And to have tons more vertical burst on demand than dash.)
Last season I would use the m11, stun, vanish bomb, and gateway, with throwing knives, lh1, flashbang and v9s in reserve, any tips on how I can improve my current loadout? I still enjoy rocking the m11 because it has personally brought me lots of success and I would really like to keep it as a primary :) I occasionally use the throwing knives because of the fun factor
Short answer: Three stack with the other best players in the game 🤣 All jokes aside congrats man you stay pushing this community forward appreciate you and strafez a bunch!!!
Besides the obvious blocking chokepoints, you can use it to block line of sight on cashouts both when you're trying to steal and defend. If you butt it up against the cashout, enemies are forced to either break through it or go around into your LoS, it's useful to cover your escape if you're losing a fight, and if you're not running defib it buys time to rez. Then there's the tricky stuff like slant pads, which you can set up really fast with practice, making impromptu bridges can be helpful when your movement stuff is on CD. It's quite possibly the most useful gadget.
Last week I’ve lost like 25 matches in a row back to back even when carried and was top killing the most enemies usually… lost every single match. Because a full team of lights or defib mediums would always win vs my team. I kept dying to invisible rushing lights or team couldn’t push cuz heavy kept popping their shields on point… I’m glad they fixed some of those
Dang that cloak change was completely unnecessary, I hate having to run thermal every game because of season 1 cloak abusers. Its just not fun to fight agains for any class.
How is no one talking about dual blades - dual + frag/or zip + smoke + goo! I’m consistently clearing trios and winning games plus it’s SOOO MUCH FUN! I have never given em a run before this season - given they are weak on Kyoto and the new Bernal map but just about everywhere else is a total blast
I'm not sure if I like the way The Finals is going. The game is great on paper. Its honestly great in practice. But thru continuous practice the game becomes repetitive. The same guns, Same gadgets. In my personal opinion and the corroboration of nearly 50 people i have talked to. The game needs to release more content per season. I really enjoy the Finals but trying to squeeze out another hundred days with 2 gadgets and 2 guns. Is quite.... tiring. Maybe 1 specialization, 3 guns, 3 gadgets, make them a bit stronger, then bring them back down to a more reasonable balance. Sorry for the rant. I just needed to express some opinion somewhere.
I wanted to add some information. I don't believe that changing the meta through balance changes, such as the mesh shield is sufficient to keep the game engaging. I also want to point out the fact of how hard it is to maintain such releases for guns per season and how hectic that could become. But. what other choice do they have? Stats and charts point out the obvious. The game is in fact dying. This saddens me. But waiting 100 days for two guns that seem okay.... and 2 gadgets that are good and a solid map is... disappointing. Please reply to my comment with questions, concerns, feedback, criticism
I can see your point, but i feel that right now, there are a lot of specializations already, so balance should be focused on them first. As for weapons this season, I actually prefer them to be OK rather than overpowered since these two weapons have gimmicks on them that haven't existed in previous weapons, which will allow Embark to explore them more and tuning them in the future. I would love 3 gadgets per season, though.
You are right on the money. If they don’t actually change the meta with meaningful large buffs and don’t start releasing more content, the game will continue to slowly die. The numbers online for the season 5 related content have been depressing
I’ve been only getting like 3 kills a game with most guns, started using Cerberus at the beginning of the season now I average 8-10 kills and we’ve been making finals every tournament, think I found my meta lol
@@thund3r94probably a DoT nerf. Anyhow if you were just averaging 3 kills a game you don't need the new gun, you need to find a better playstyle. I have extremely poor aim in this game yet i consistently drop 13 k/a.
@@necromax13 I’m a support medium so I was still getting like 7 assists from healing my heavy friend but now i just also help with kills and don’t lose 1v1s as much anymore I also haven’t seen anything about a nerf so unless you’ve seen this from embark I’m honestly calling bs
@@Red_Siddhartha shak50 is best at a close to close medium range where as lewis is more of a medium to long range weapon. Id say shak50 overall suits heavy better because they often want to be in someones face
My best teammate is a dual sword main (he's dumb), and i still have to autopick defibs because he dies a lot (hes dumb) but dualies have EXTREME utility when reviving during a teamfight, and with the new dual blades buffs???? Its going to be an extremely niche but extremely useful combo. Played on season release and i lost count on how many cashouts we got on him deflecting while i stole.
The 93R is good rn, but I’m confused abt its damage. I feel like it doesn’t actually do 28 dmg. Someone correct me if I’m wrong, but 28 dmg should 3 burst a medium to the body, but I’ve only gotten the kill in 4. Anyone else felt this?
lights gadgets are valuable, they also should position to not get picked, us houldnt need goo as cloak light, but goo helps the med and heavy together as they take front line
The worst part about this season is the fact they made heavy even more easy to play. Giving heavy an AR makes heavy just medium but with a larger health pool. They nerfed the XP-54 meaning the throwing knifes and M11 are the only viable weapons for light making the once glass cannon, simply glass. I’m sorry but playing heavy doesn’t take much skill. This is coming from a guy who hasn’t played a single match of heavy since the the beta cuz I knew it was an easy class from the get go. Maybe that means I’m out the loop but coming from a person who plays the other classes heavy is way to op and need to nerf it to the ground. This game just isn’t what it used to be.
I don't understand WHAT WERE THEY THINKING when they decided to buff cloak like this, this is just insane, like you can spend a full damn minute being TOTALLY invisible camping the cashout...so easy to abuse dude. Just wait until every light finds out about this cheesy tactic and we'll be forced to bring motion sensors in every team
I'm not a light main, but cloak was ass before this. This is easily counter-able with gagets that are regularly used. People complain anytime there's a change, crazy.
When I play heavy and I try to support my team by playing heavy meta build on solo que. we all get wrecked, but when I run deagle,Charge,frag,barricade, and rpg. We make it to the finals. Low ELO solo ques just ain't it for the heavy build lol
1:25 best team combo
1:42 rip defib/changes section
5:25 best Heavy build
6:49 best Medium build
9:28 best Light build
13:10 heal Medium build
13:24 hook Heavy build
yep
stealing this ty lol
Bro it’s been out for a DAY
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So what
Sweattttty 💦
These are just early predictions
@@slimjong-un5743i think hes talking about his rank, not his opinions on the META haha
Hitting Diamond on Day one is crazy. I think just being your teammate is meta
It's easy when you have a 3 stack of good players. I found out the hard way it's extremely difficult to get diamond with randoms no matter how good you are.
naw my teammates are the goats
@@Appoh so... best team of the Season?
Furries….😔
@@verrat3219nah fr. mfs just run away and fight 1v3s for no reason shits crazy😂
Guide to #1 diamond day 1
Step 1 - Forget everything else this is your life
Step 2 - 3 Stack with people who also don’t have anything else to do
Step 3 - Don’t Stop
step #1 take off the day from work
step #2 drink energy drink
@@Appoh certified spuzer
Step 1: pop.
Step 2: pour.
Step 3: perform.
@@Appohstep 3: rush video saying what the new meta is when you don’t know what the new meta is.
@@Ares78987 let me correct that for you "making a prediction of meta" as i stated at the start of the video, yw
this season seems REALLY good so far for loadout diversity! a lot of things are good and i hope we keep seeing a lot of different playstyles and loadouts, especially in high levels
i think cloak is mostly a high end meta thing. most lights in my games run dash or grapple. embark gave all classes a way to counter cloak so if people really have an issue with it they just need to bring motion sensor or sonar.
gravity vortex is fucking amazing. already had a massive win with it. the thing i like most is that it stays stuck when it deploys so you can drop the objective from a moving platform and of course you can abort steals without line of sight.
93r being good for the first time is so fun. i hope embark doesn't nerf it any time soon. i think you still need good aim and solid hits to make it work but it is just nice to have a weapon that is pretty good at most ranges (besides the lh1)
Bro beat the unemployment final boss (lycommit) to diamond WILD 😳
Commit is moving house rn
@@bobrobrules Gwak Gwak
i dont think commit was fully available, but hey, were keeping the #1's in canada !
this made me laugh so bad
Yeah, invis 100% getting a nerfed, its kinda insane ya can stand still invis for like 2+mins straight XDDDD. I like it as a invis light, but I know long term that this likely wouldnt be fun to really play against nor watch.
Oh and the defib changes was MASSSSSIVE I'm so happy defib doesnt feel like "necessity" anymore for peeps! It's still good for the fact ya can get someone back up into the fight instantly, but its not obnoxious being able to do that 3x XDDD. I dig it
I do agree, I think currently LMH actually might be the "strongest" right now, and I love that! Light finally got to a place where it's like, not "useless."
Grats on first diamond btw! ^0^
Keep in mind that invis was much stronger. Now its half decent.
Charge and slam! Now.. that shit is op.
Meh you need to stand still and you're quite visible from close
One lil thing I like to do with gravity vortex is pair with gateway and tm8 has a gas nade, put grav vor next to your cash out and gateway above it when the steal trigger both and throw nades through gateway while they r stuck and can’t run away
yeah or gas mines on the vortex so it pulls them into it, theres lots of cool combos with vortex
@ yeah ur a lot smarter than me that would work better 😂
Seeing a non-SA12+non-charge loadout is crazy. No fib or heal beam is crazy. Light is crazy, and 93r is crazier. i wouldve taken out a mortgage to bet against a 93r meta. Cant wait to play S5 and the new map.
XP-54 feel good to play again now. not as Great as It used to be, but very usable and more forgiving than s4
Suspended sponsor structures is AWESOME
I'm a brand new player that just downloaded the game last week. I don't know anything about what is and isn't really good so I really appreciate this fast and easy to follow video
Defib has now found itself on the bench indefinitely for me, double movement and grenade/goo is the way to go
Mine mine and sensor should DEFINITELY be on your reserves.
@ i don’t have mine but i do have sense
@@AiloSzn my load out since s1 has been Mine gas mine defib and turret.
Its absurd how much utility I get from those things, and with defibs getting so toned down, sensor or glitch mine need to be on the reserves.
I still run defibs because my main partner runs dual blades and even with these changes, he can get great value and survivability even with the 8s cooldown.
FYI gravity vortex and goo grenade is huge. Pull the cashout high and then goo against the wall so it’s suspended. Very strong and easy to setup with low cooldowns.
Also have done some fun plays with winch, jump pad, and gravity vortex. Winch pull the cashout over a jump pad. Once it reaches max height, detonate the gravity vortex on it and it stays in the air and no one can get it for 7 seconds.
I'm so happy that light isn't a troll pick anymore
Do you have a video on the kiting meta? I've heard it multiple times now but I have not seen a video talk about it, and it seems more complex than your average strategy.
Mesh change makes me happy 😊
I went from silver to near diamond mostly casual playing. I never saw anyone run cloak, or at least very rarely. So idk where you saw it being meta apart from maybe scrims. Played regularly against rubys and whenever there was a light it was always dash. I do like the idea of light cloak being more sneaky. I do like the change but Im definitely bias. I think the change to defib is great. Overall i think this season will be great but rank is over for me ive burnt out last season trying to make diamond solo que. Just gonna have fun in world tour with some creative loadouts. This is how I have the most fun in the finals and in the end its all that matters. It was hard to let go of ranked cause im very competitive in general. Happy season 5 everyone❤
As a light main I hate when cloak is meta. It's the most boring specialization for light.
Boring for you.
Dash is the worst.
@@necromax13 dash is the worst for noobs like yourself
thermal vision is a instant counter to invis
@@mr.nihilistic hahahaha I'm no noob and dash is factually speaking the worst light spec.
Badly designed. Badly implemented. Makes players play the same boring play style and is annoying to play against.
@@necromax13 yes using dash as a way to counter strafe is a terrible way to use it, it shines best in movement around the map or getting out of a room
As a light man, I can say that Dash is easily the best specialization for light
If cloak is that strong, might it be worthwhile for medium to start running the motion sensor in a backup slot?
Yes. You know the ways already
One mobility one sensor and one damage should be your go-to load out
@@necromax13 If you’re playing solo, double mobility and util/nades are the way for sure. If you’re in a stack and your team mates are worth defibbing, defib is still worth
probably not, just have a light counter them with thermal, light v light battles
Such a great guide, I love seeing the insight to some of the best players and how people win a lot, keep it up!!
93R is definitely better than it was, but it's held back by the buff being bugged.
At 28 DMG it should be able to 3 burst mediums, but in reality it takes 3 bursts + 1 extra bullet (so being burst fire with a delay it's realistically a 4 burst TTK).
Its damage is bugged to somewhere in the 25-27 range.
yep, it is currently doing 26 damage, i’m guessing they forgot to push the right change through after the previews
Increased damage from 24 to 26
@ampel1232 its suppose to be 28 as stated in the patch notes
@@kami3449 it looks like they've stealth changed the patch notes.
Checking wayback machine indicates that it was not a hallucination, it indeed started out as 24->28 DMG, but now the patch notes say 24->26 DMG.
Disappointed that Embark didn't add a note highlighting the edit or explaining which was the actual intended value.
@ImaSpacePotato daaaaaaaaaaaaaam they wrong for that
I think light finally has a leg up with the new cloak. It could make some noise when standing still but definitely not nerf worthy considering what other things have been allowed prior.
I'm a bit curious why FCAR is considered the pick for high elo players as akm just feels like the better option between the 2 for multiple reasons. AKM has a bigger mag, similar dps and it even got a red dot in S4, the recoil is a bit easier on FCAR but it doesn't make a whole lot of difference. Everything just points to akm being objectively better than FCAR imo. If anybody has the answer feel free to enlighten me and even correct me if I said something wrong here.
FCAR has a lower rate of fire, higher damage per bullet.
FCAR has higher range.
FCAR has a stickier hip fire.
FCAR has the highest TTK on light/heavy out of every AR.
fcar my baby
@@porterogden6065 Faster reload too. And the ironsights are so clean!
famas is better than both. AK BETTER than Scar tho.
@@jacobdalmond2060good luck killing anything cqc with the FAMAS though.
The scar is right now better than the AK based on versatility and ttk.
If the AK had the 36 round mag again it would be 50-50 but the pitiful ttk on the aks end is boring. For most ranges you should be engaging, the 25 round fixed visual recoil scar is better.
The FAMAS is good too, but I don't like it.
I love how much the meta changes in this game. Always feels fresh.
meta change? its still heavy and med lmfao
apparently heavy getting the s1 fcar is a meta change
@@mr.nihilisticu didn't pay attention
@@SoLunxr projection
@@mr.nihilistic hm?
I’m glad people are hitting diamond. Last season there were NO people that were in diamond 2/1. Glad to see they made some changes to the RP and people filling D2/1 is possible.
Yo! As always, insightful breakdowns with solid gameplay and results to show.
Appreciate you, Coach Appoh!
As soon as I saw there is no new light weapon, I knew they buff the shit out of the 93r to make it feel like a new weapon
Dual blades and smokes are meta now. CLEARLY
And thats good.
Dual blades being good for once is a good change. Had so much fun trying them out today
Duel blades is decent now for real!!@Frvnklin
0:07 "let me start breaking it down for you"
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Congrats Appoh, solid video as always and you really lead the way with Finals content!
This way better than whatever twitch streamer I was watching for my drops. Dude was raging hardcore
sorry to hear that, i try to keep it chill, unless im bitching at my teammates but we do it outta love lol
If I'm just watching it for twitch drops in the background (let's be real) or genuinely watching it for content, Appoh is my man.
Another weapon of fun choice in my opinion is using bow while using dash with gateway. If I ever wanna use cloak I can use the vanish bomb for alternative. Been seeing more players using motion sensors to track invisible L’s down quicker.
Lockbolt definitely doesn't feel like it has enough of a short leash on tethered targets, but, I will say the way chains remain even through terrain has made chasing people down with flamer a very brutally fun time
I agree it allows them wayyy to much slack.
I swear I land a lock bolt right at a guy's feet and it'll despawn before he reaches the edge of it. This game doesn't have nearly enough open space for how lenient it is. The new light gadget fills the same role much better.
Grats on diamond overachiever. 😂
Oh man...I've been enjoying the new invis, but I didn't even think about invis/stun plug stealing. Yeah that is gonna catch a nerf.
And yeah HML feels nice, seen a huge uptick in heavy. It's good.
I actually like that cloak is OP bc it almost neccessitates having a light with motion sensors or thermals to counter. Take the OP cloak away and we're back to season 1-4 where you're just better served by having a 2nd medium or heavy.
?????
Glitch, firethrower, fire nades, gas, and aoe of any kind already countered cloak.
All classes have motion sensors now.
What are you even saying????
Dude ur videos are so informative and entertaining keep it up
best light setup is sword dash, sonar, invis nade, gravity c4. got top 100 in TA and already hit diamond. The potential to 1v3 the enemy team is high and to finish off or get initial dmg is insane with sword. if your using sword worried about other cloaks use thermal vison instead of c4
This defib nerf is the best balance change since the game launched alongside RPG and nuke nerf. Change my mind.
Respect for getting that rank this early in the season 🤜🤛
I feel like the cloak buff is slighty overtuned but let me explain....taking burning (I E. whether its from a pyro grenade, mine, flamethrower etc....) should break you out of cloak if you walk into it but reactivating cloak can remove the burning ticks/DoTs/damage (kind of like cloak of shadows in WoW) allowing you to re-cloak but gas should remove it when walking into it for sure since its like an environmental DoT that doesnt follow you
4:55 casually destroying lycommit is crazy
The fact light needs the second most OP invisibility we’ve ever seen suggests it probably won’t be meta again once they rightly nerf it.
who knows... the cloak change was so silly though
Thoughts on running sonar grenade to counter other lights ?
thermal is better
I love this game, but there’s no way I could play it to the amount you do man. Hey if you’re having fun that’s what matters. 🎉
There’s a glitch currently with heavy(easier to pull off) with Granate launcher, after you empty your weapon pick something up and throw it, it will skip the reloading animation, I’ve seen it with throwing dome instead and this will also skip the animation
Definitely make a video on the gravity vortex ASAP.
Make a Part 1 video so you can be the first one to make a video about the new gadget.
Maybe make a part 2 or compilation of what else you can do with it if you find new stuff out
i dont like rushing guides too much, i much rather wait and make sure the content i put out is informed, so i dunno if i wanna do this but a guide or a video about it will definitely come out hopefully soon
insane guide keep it up man
Yo Appoh,
I've known you for a while but I've started watching you more actively on yt and twitch and I gotta say you are one of the best things that happened to this game! Quick question abt your videos: where do you get your music from and can you link it? Very chill but fire background music
honestly all the names are like lofi hiphop435456452434532 i just find random copyright free music online and call it a day, i dont know any names sorry
Congrats on the diamond rank!
I was finding cloak real good s4, which is a shame cos i think movement Light is far more interesting and fun on both sides of the fight. Same reason I dont think CC or stuns should be meta, they are not fun to play against. But overall HML is a very healthy spot to be in!
Question for LH; Thoughts on the zoom scope vs red dot LH1 for a light that'd rather use grapple?
(For why grapple? Avoid relying on something bound to be nerfed. And to have tons more vertical burst on demand than dash.)
I knew I saw my boy at rank 1 🔥
Last season I would use the m11, stun, vanish bomb, and gateway, with throwing knives, lh1, flashbang and v9s in reserve, any tips on how I can improve my current loadout? I still enjoy rocking the m11 because it has personally brought me lots of success and I would really like to keep it as a primary :)
I occasionally use the throwing knives because of the fun factor
Short answer: Three stack with the other best players in the game 🤣
All jokes aside congrats man you stay pushing this community forward appreciate you and strafez a bunch!!!
Not bad! GLHF!!! This new defibrilator rule is making you a free frag in most cases.....
I'm very terrible at goonade, so I was surprised by you picking it. How do I use it effectively?
Besides the obvious blocking chokepoints, you can use it to block line of sight on cashouts both when you're trying to steal and defend. If you butt it up against the cashout, enemies are forced to either break through it or go around into your LoS, it's useful to cover your escape if you're losing a fight, and if you're not running defib it buys time to rez. Then there's the tricky stuff like slant pads, which you can set up really fast with practice, making impromptu bridges can be helpful when your movement stuff is on CD. It's quite possibly the most useful gadget.
You can also make ledges for off building play which can be useful in certain maps, such as skyway horizon or Seoul.
i have some vids on it but basically it gives u cover a lot, can also prevent people chasing you
Peak unemployment right here.
@@reinellex7662 i work a full time job as a graphic design. In office too. But nice try
Crucial choice we all must make:
Hit diamond in the finals vs. have a job
or be like be, do both
@ My friends list is full of golds man it’s gonna take so long
Last week I’ve lost like 25 matches in a row back to back even when carried and was top killing the most enemies usually… lost every single match. Because a full team of lights or defib mediums would always win vs my team.
I kept dying to invisible rushing lights or team couldn’t push cuz heavy kept popping their shields on point… I’m glad they fixed some of those
...you can't push a heavy bubble shield??????
Bruh.
I think this is what the kids are calling, and correct me if I’m wrong… A skibidy skill issue
No way you idiots literally wrote that 😂
@9:57 no grapple players? Didn't you play the anniversary with NeonGutz?
neongutzz is a world tour player, not ranked
Dang that cloak change was completely unnecessary, I hate having to run thermal every game because of season 1 cloak abusers. Its just not fun to fight agains for any class.
How is no one talking about dual blades - dual + frag/or zip + smoke + goo! I’m consistently clearing trios and winning games plus it’s SOOO MUCH FUN! I have never given em a run before this season - given they are weak on Kyoto and the new Bernal map but just about everywhere else is a total blast
I dunno how to feel about everyone beginning to already make “META” videos this soon in S5 but this game is pretty competitive so fair enough.
NO WAY THAT STUN HIT AT 6:25
I'm not sure if I like the way The Finals is going. The game is great on paper. Its honestly great in practice. But thru continuous practice the game becomes repetitive. The same guns, Same gadgets. In my personal opinion and the corroboration of nearly 50 people i have talked to. The game needs to release more content per season. I really enjoy the Finals but trying to squeeze out another hundred days with 2 gadgets and 2 guns. Is quite.... tiring. Maybe 1 specialization, 3 guns, 3 gadgets, make them a bit stronger, then bring them back down to a more reasonable balance. Sorry for the rant. I just needed to express some opinion somewhere.
I wanted to add some information. I don't believe that changing the meta through balance changes, such as the mesh shield is sufficient to keep the game engaging. I also want to point out the fact of how hard it is to maintain such releases for guns per season and how hectic that could become. But. what other choice do they have? Stats and charts point out the obvious. The game is in fact dying. This saddens me. But waiting 100 days for two guns that seem okay.... and 2 gadgets that are good and a solid map is... disappointing. Please reply to my comment with questions, concerns, feedback, criticism
I can see your point, but i feel that right now, there are a lot of specializations already, so balance should be focused on them first. As for weapons this season, I actually prefer them to be OK rather than overpowered since these two weapons have gimmicks on them that haven't existed in previous weapons, which will allow Embark to explore them more and tuning them in the future. I would love 3 gadgets per season, though.
If the main enjoyment you get from the game is from new guns and gadgets, then yeah, maybe the finals isn't for you
You are right on the money. If they don’t actually change the meta with meaningful large buffs and don’t start releasing more content, the game will continue to slowly die. The numbers online for the season 5 related content have been depressing
@@liljashy1463strawman
grav cube + winch claw is underrated for being able to clutch a cashout.
I’ve been only getting like 3 kills a game with most guns, started using Cerberus at the beginning of the season now I average 8-10 kills and we’ve been making finals every tournament, think I found my meta lol
Its getting nerfed next Thursday so enjoy it while it lasts.
@ what kind of nerf cause it seems fine now tbh plus there’s not many people using it
@@thund3r94probably a DoT nerf.
Anyhow if you were just averaging 3 kills a game you don't need the new gun, you need to find a better playstyle.
I have extremely poor aim in this game yet i consistently drop 13 k/a.
@@necromax13 I’m a support medium so I was still getting like 7 assists from healing my heavy friend but now i just also help with kills and don’t lose 1v1s as much anymore I also haven’t seen anything about a nerf so unless you’ve seen this from embark I’m honestly calling bs
@@thund3r94 from the subreddit ive seen people complaining that it's overtuned and that most definitely means a nerf.
Nice video! Have you tried the new Hunt?
Is the Shak-50 better than the Lewis Gun ?
@@Red_Siddhartha shak50 is best at a close to close medium range where as lewis is more of a medium to long range weapon. Id say shak50 overall suits heavy better because they often want to be in someones face
HUGE, lemme come back to this.
Cloak is definitely not broken imo it’s just good now, I switch to dash bc i personally find it way more useful
So the Cerberus shotgun ain’t really in the meta?
its balanced, ur free to use it but its not like op
13:56 nahhh that's evil haha
As a part time heavy and medium, I strongly dislike the defib change
How would you address it from here?
...why?
I'm permanently medium and i feel like this change was appropriate.
As someone who uses throwing knives how good are they. I run dash and use them like a sword with range if I need it.
would you recommend best solo heavy loadout??
I was begging for 20 round FCAR to be brought back. And they basically gave it to heavy… siiiiiick.
My best teammate is a dual sword main (he's dumb), and i still have to autopick defibs because he dies a lot (hes dumb) but dualies have EXTREME utility when reviving during a teamfight, and with the new dual blades buffs????
Its going to be an extremely niche but extremely useful combo.
Played on season release and i lost count on how many cashouts we got on him deflecting while i stole.
My ranked teammates don’t have brains.
Do you have any tips for solo players? (I don't have friends who play The Finals)
How many games did it take? Just wondering if it’s like last season
i unno i played for like 15 hrs in ranked maybe?
Assuming you didn’t lose (cus u da goat) I’d say that’s deadass waaaay better than last season. Diamond deagles here I come
People are heavily sleeping on the Motion Sensor. It's actually broken
The 93R is good rn, but I’m confused abt its damage. I feel like it doesn’t actually do 28 dmg. Someone correct me if I’m wrong, but 28 dmg should 3 burst a medium to the body, but I’ve only gotten the kill in 4. Anyone else felt this?
its 26 dmg, patch notes were wrong
Why goo grenade on medium and not on light? Goo helps a lot with survivability among other things
lights gadgets are valuable, they also should position to not get picked, us houldnt need goo as cloak light, but goo helps the med and heavy together as they take front line
What are your crosshair settings?
@@PocokJoco1 i have a video talking about crosshairs but i havent shown my new details
@@Appoh I’ve seen your crosshair video already
I just saw that you’ve been using this new one lately so I thought I’d ask what your new setting are
@@PocokJoco1 yeah its a bit of an experimental one, i stole it from ferreos lol but ill prob have a new settings vid eventually
The worst part about this season is the fact they made heavy even more easy to play. Giving heavy an AR makes heavy just medium but with a larger health pool. They nerfed the XP-54 meaning the throwing knifes and M11 are the only viable weapons for light making the once glass cannon, simply glass. I’m sorry but playing heavy doesn’t take much skill. This is coming from a guy who hasn’t played a single match of heavy since the the beta cuz I knew it was an easy class from the get go. Maybe that means I’m out the loop but coming from a person who plays the other classes heavy is way to op and need to nerf it to the ground. This game just isn’t what it used to be.
My first match on I joined a mid match and played with you, I was Kingz and was using the Cerberus
It was quick cash
Never thought I’d see the day of defib falling out of meta
its just not hard meta atm, but its very much so usable, but as a light i hate being defibbed, im just anotehr free kill for enemies
I don't understand WHAT WERE THEY THINKING when they decided to buff cloak like this, this is just insane, like you can spend a full damn minute being TOTALLY invisible camping the cashout...so easy to abuse dude.
Just wait until every light finds out about this cheesy tactic and we'll be forced to bring motion sensors in every team
Quit crying
I'm not a light main, but cloak was ass before this. This is easily counter-able with gagets that are regularly used. People complain anytime there's a change, crazy.
the cloak buff is insanity i love it so much 😭
The gravity vortex is busted in power shift cause you just spam all your nades in there and activate and they will all hit
Aw why don't people like AKM?
When I play heavy and I try to support my team by playing heavy meta build on solo que. we all get wrecked, but when I run deagle,Charge,frag,barricade, and rpg. We make it to the finals. Low ELO solo ques just ain't it for the heavy build lol
Great to see lights are now meta too
Lmao I saw that while I was playing I'm like damn App is the new king of sweating
Can not wait for the tempo vid my team and i suck at macro
Is there a discord in can join with more invovled players other than the finals discord
@@leeroysifuentes1010 prohubs is your best bet
@@Appoh i don't qualify 🫠
When r u gon give away the battle pass codes
gave them all away on stream :)