Kira discussion from my channel tonight

(scarfino) #1

We were tossing around ideas for how Kira’s Orbital Strike could be used indoors similar to how Skyhammer’s airstrike turns into a grenade.

#1 - Some sort of shield on an objective? (3 seconds) disable enemy team from disarming or planting on an objective for 3 seconds. This one could be OP in certain situations but is a cool idea. Long cooldown - 3 minutes, maybe even only able to be used 5 times in a match with 30 seconds in between use (item breaks after 5 times of use?)

#2 - Hack / Jammer - Temporarily disable (5-10 seconds) a generator or fan to close off a route for the enemy team. Think of causing the gas to fill up on a team rushing a side. Long cooldown - 45 sec?

Got any cool ideas? I wanna hear 'em!

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(Mortimoose) #2

I got an idea from that Dirty Bomb poster where Sawbones is trying to blind Skyhammer by reflecting Arty’s red beam into his eyes.

Perhaps give it an alternate fire mode indoors where pointing the lazor directly at someone head blinds them for a few seconds and imposes a 15 second cooldown.

I saw alternate fire mode because it’d be a huge pain in the ass if you were trying to actually lazer people and instead blinded somebody.

(Frogteam) #3

Personally I think Arty and Kira’s abilities are fine even on maps like underground, you can use them where they matter.

That said, blinding people with Arty’s laser would be hilarious, I can’t ever see it being worth blinding someone over shooting them, but I would definitely spend whole matches blinding enemy Vaselines.

(bontsa) #4

While OP’s ideas are interesting, but maybe bit too complex? I think how Skyhammer’s ability works now is rather easy to grasp; it’s a grenade, which with you can mark an area for your airstrike, if thrown indoors its still a grenade, just doesnt call support because planes cannot obviously see it. Just for balance reasons it doesn’t make damage when calling airstrike.

Don’t see how you could explain easily how designator would shield objective. Jamming is sort of understandable though. However having 1 ability with 2 different cooldowns with 2 different abilites would be confusing. Or if you ment that using this jam- ability would also put your orbital strike / artillery support (all of them) on said CD, it’d be quite harsh restriction.

The CD hassle is reason I’d see Mortim’s idea of short term blinding a sweet alternative. Could see it functioning much more similar to bagpipe blower ammoman’s ability now, you use it indoors => takes only 15-25% or so CD, not wasting support from the skies for full duration.

Or give the poor underpowered Asians a pet tiger that’ll follow the laser wherever having a bite of anyone nearby it’s route. Win-Win and hilarity ensues. Also nasty scratchs.

(scarfino) #5

@Amerika suggested she turns into having a q3 lightning gun hahaja amazing

(bontsa) #6

“Why don’t people just see me for who I am, and not for the force of nature, room-clearing weapon of mass destruction I control?”