street brawl - T1 upgrade bug/exploit

[patchofhares]

Don't know exactly if this is street brawl exclusive but it's where i see it most often/am able to recreate, so i'm marking it as such in the title.
At the first round of a street brawl match, after items are picked, you can upgrade all your abilities to their T1 upgrades and then refund them quickly. This will give you your spent points back but not actually undo the upgrade, meaning you keep all the bonuses while having your points back (though to upgrade them again/beyond t1 you will still have to spend that 1st point).
This essentially gives the player 8 ability points instead of 6, since you can upgrade 2 abilities to T1, refund them, and then spend those points again on 2 other abilities to their T2 upgrades.

 

[🎲 diesfromdice 🎲]

visual bug

 

[Deadcel]

This is a visual bug only. They are not upgraded.

 

[patchofhares]

Tested it after and both of you were right, lol, my bad. Only ever seen it personally on Geist, and her cooldowns are pretty short & i never got them fully memorized, so to me they seemed faster than usual somehow. Still, hope this visual bug goes away soon.

 

[Deadcel]

The issue, and big one at that, is that you can do this round one with all abilities and make it look like they are level 2. The enemy also sees it like that. So in a way you can do this to confuse your enemy and they won't know what skill you've actually leveled.

You might also forget yourself and be confused too...

Then on round 2 you can make your abilities all look max'd and probably be called a cheater or bug abuser, despite it giving you no advantage other than the confusion.