Black flashbang flash

(.FROST.) #1

You know, back then, when miners couldn’t rely on the virtues of modern day technolgy and sensors, they had to carry a Canary-bird with them when they went down into the mine, since that little bird was much more sensetive to toxic gases, than the average human, and would die, or, at least, react in some odd way, if the gas concentration in the air would be too high, and, as a result, warn the miners of said gas.

Sometimes I feel like such a miner’s Canary, when playing DB:wink:

Yesterday night I played a couple rounds of DB and it was quite fun, my team and me won most of the matches and even my k/d was acceptable; under the bottom line, a very satisfactory FPS session. But what kinda annoyed me(as it allways does) were the flashbangs. Not from a gameplay POV, but for the physical effect they have on the real-life me. No, it’s not one of those Frost/headache threads again, since overall I felt pretty fine, but for the duration of the flash and a few secs afterwards it felt like…well, like being flashed feels.

Looong story short; I understand and appreciate the existance of FBs in FPS games and I’d never ever suggest to get rid of them, BUT what I do suggest is, that one should be able to select between a black flash and a “traditional” white flash, in the options menu. I mean the flash is suppossed to work on a pure gameplay level, not on a real-life, physical stun level, or isn’t it?. It’s about obscuring the players ingame sight, and not about frying the real-life player’s retina away.

(stealth6) #2

Turn down the brightness on your screen?

(.FROST.) #3

You mean, so I can see nothing at all? Why is it ALLWAYS so hard(not particularly for you, but for peeps in forums in general) to first think about, if their reply, they are about to write, actually contributes anything at all. I mean suggesting to turn down the screen brightness is so…really??? I’ve expected more of you stealth, that is just below your your capabilities.

PS:Recommending people the most ““obvious”” ““solutions”” is a special form of trolling. It’s like; why did you guys blocked that passage? And some wise guy from the forum would answer; so go the other way around then.

(.FROST.) #4

I was only giving some input to the devs. I f they care or don’t is up to them. I haven’t really complained about the FBs*, I just had this idea of a black flashbang flash for a while now and today morning I felt I should just write it in the forum; just for the sake of having said it and getting rid of it. I mean why should we carry our ideas around without telling them to SD? That’s the reason why we got invited in the first place. Most of the time I’m not really insisting on my “ideas”, but I don’t understand why I should keep them for myself either.

*They annoy me, but that’s not DB specific, but here we can still do something against it.

(Wezelkrozum) #5

I think you found a workable and not so hard to implement alternative for the problem. It doesn’t change anything gameplaywise and even I feel like using it if it’s in the options.

PS: I want to compliment SD for their current animation in the head bobbing. Normally I hate it in other games and it makes me sick but this one does actually feels right and it even makes the game more immersive for me. Great job!

(.FROST.) #6

Even though I said black flash, it could as well be a red, or even better, a dark-red flash, or anything like that.

(stealth6) #7

Sorry seems it came off the wrong way. I just thought your screen might be too bright if it’s effecting you physically, sometimes a solution that is obvious for one person is not for another.

EDIT: I often forget to turn down the brightness on my screen, so it’s not the craziest suggestion in the world :tongue:

(Hundopercent) #8

Turn your head when they throw the fb?

Jk. :wink: Your suggestion sounds good I might even try using it since I play in a dark area.