Nerf Skyhammer airstrike.

(grandTrigger) #1

Because everyone has this character. Often times all you see is the enemy team playing Skyhammer and spamming that airstrike. So much damage and a huge area. It hard not to get blown up when your playing an outdoor map. It just spam airstrikes to win.

Maybe if someone used it. It would put everyone else on cool down for 10 - 20 seconds.

(Temporary) #2

or you could just pay attention to the red/blue lines on the ground and dodge them instead of calling for a nerf which doesn’t need to happen.

(triteTongs) #3

Then sky hammer would be useless in 5v5

All the mercs are built for 5v5 competitive mode

So I can’t really judge too much when I join an 8v8 with 4 skyhammers on the enemy team

(avidCow) #4

The prevalence of the airstrike is mainly due to OB and new players having access to skyhammer.

(Eox) #5

There’s already two things that gives you information about airstrikes :

  • Marker line.
  • Reactor sounds.

If you see a marker line or hear a jet sound, look up or go indoors. You have something like four seconds to react between the time the marker is thrown and the time where shit hits the fan, so it’s not that hard.

(Humbug) #6

[quote=“grandTrigger;11483”]Because everyone has this character. Often times all you see is the enemy team playing Skyhammer and spamming that airstrike. So much damage and a huge area. It hard not to get blown up when your playing an outdoor map. It just spam airstrikes to win.

Maybe if someone used it. It would put everyone else on cool down for 10 - 20 seconds.[/quote]

just takes some time to get used to it.
I pretty much never die to it, it’s very predictable, much more area denial than a killing tool

(Szakalot) #7

[quote=“grandTrigger;11483”]Because everyone has this character. Often times all you see is the enemy team playing Skyhammer and spamming that airstrike. So much damage and a huge area. It hard not to get blown up when your playing an outdoor map. It just spam airstrikes to win.

Maybe if someone used it. It would put everyone else on cool down for 10 - 20 seconds.[/quote]

the problem isnt the airstrike but the 8v8 servers.

one airstrike every 90min is hardly spam. But if you have 4 skyhammers, thats one airstrike every 22 seconds.

8 skyhammers on the server is almost an airstrike every 10 sec, so yeah; basically constantly

(capriciousParsely) #8

I’ve noticed that when several people use airstrikes, the sound of some of them doesn’t appear until after the strike has landed meaning I die because I had no idea there was another one coming. It’s an audio glitch but this is the reason why I keep dying to it. I think the airstrike should have a waittime until the next one is completely gone and the sound aswell; then the next one will apppear.

Also, I hate it when I stand beneath a roof and still die from it.