We’ve gotten a lot of passionate feedback regarding the Boogie Bomb over the last few days and I wanted to give a quick update. As most of you have mentioned, its effect has been a bit stronger than we expected.

In the short-term, we’re going to reduce the effect of the dance to 5 seconds. We don’t think this is going to be a silver bullet, but it should help alleviate some of the frustrations with its current implementation.

Moving forward we have a few ideas to address the core issue: the person being attacked by a Boogie Bomb needs an opportunity to respond. There are a number of suggestions we’ll be evaluating, including (but not limited to):

• Remove the instant explosion, making it bounce and detonate like a normal grenade
• Have it create a ‘dance zone’, where the effect goes away if you leave the area
• Disable the dance effect when taking damage
• Allow players to build while dancing

Additionally, we’re continuing to work on improvements to our hotfix system. This will allow us to tweak more than just balance numbers without requiring a full client patch, but we’re not quite there yet. Thanks for your patience!

Thanks to everyone who’s provided feedback about this topic. Let us know below how you’d like to see the Boogie Bomb adjusted!