Teammates in the way.


(SteelMailbox) #1

So I encountered alot of cases where I would throw/shoot a grenade/sticky and a teammate got right in front of me it bounced off of him into me and I died. I think they should make it so that the grenades and stickies would go through teammates especially because staying with more then 1 member of your team in this game can be very good. Do you agree.

EDIT: I saw a few people talking about bullets but I am not talking about bullets the poll is on explosive projectiles only!


(Harlot) #2

I play Fragger, Kira and Nader a lot. I know the pain of people walking in front of me. People will ADAD in front of me and manage to block every burst from my BR-16 when playing Kira even. It’s obnoxious. But the last thing we need is Rhino sitting in front of a healthstation, absorbing everything while 3 people sit behind him shooting through him.

People just need to be more mindful of their teammates and not bodyblock.


(SteelMailbox) #3

[quote=“Harlot;57762”]I play Fragger, Kira and Nader a lot. I know the pain of people walking in front of me. People will ADAD in front of me and manage to block every burst from my BR-16 when playing Kira even. It’s obnoxious. But the last thing we need is Rhino sitting in front of a healthstation, absorbing everything while 3 people sit behind him shooting through him.

People just need to be more mindful of their teammates and not bodyblock.[/quote]

Yeah, i don’t think it’ll happen soon. they should just put it as a tip or remind this in the tutorial or something


(Harlot) #4

[quote=“steelMailbox;57765”][quote=“Harlot;57762”]I play Fragger, Kira and Nader a lot. I know the pain of people walking in front of me. People will ADAD in front of me and manage to block every burst from my BR-16 when playing Kira even. It’s obnoxious. But the last thing we need is Rhino sitting in front of a healthstation, absorbing everything while 3 people sit behind him shooting through him.

People just need to be more mindful of their teammates and not bodyblock.[/quote]

Yeah, i don’t think it’ll happen soon. they should just put it as a tip or remind this in the tutorial or something[/quote]

I personally think Fragger and Nader should have a radio command they give to teammates automatically whenever they start cooking grenades or pull out their launchers.


(Gi.Am) #5

Option number 3. It should direct hit, kill them. aka FF-On.


(Harlot) #6

Yea, so Dirty Bomb can now be an even worse experience than League of Legends. No thanks.


(SteelMailbox) #7

Yea, so Dirty Bomb can now be an even worse experience than League of Legends. No thanks.
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It was just a joke man, relax.


(Harlot) #8

Yea, so Dirty Bomb can now be an even worse experience than League of Legends. No thanks.
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It was just a joke man, relax.
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It may be, but people have been begging for FF on for quite a while. Even if only on a few servers.


(SteelMailbox) #9

Yea, so Dirty Bomb can now be an even worse experience than League of Legends. No thanks.
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It was just a joke man, relax.
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It may be, but people have been begging for FF on for quite a while. Even if only on a few servers.[/quote]
Really? Why the hell would people want that? thats the worst mechanic DB would have. Hell I prefer FFA than FF.


(Edzer) #10

I’d prefer if grenades would go throw teammates aswell. I’m fine with gunfire not going through your teammates but grenades are just hella annoying. Especially when your team starts stacking in front of tiny doorways where you want to throw/shoot grenades through.


(SteelMailbox) #11

Exactly!


(D'@athi) #12

Yes they should enable ff by default everywhere. it will be exploited, yes, so get some support-staff.


(triteCherry) #13

Teammates getting in the way is annoying but bullets stopping projectiles is just as annoying if not more so. Not entirely sure what is causing this but I’ve had my own grenades land by my feet quite a number of times after lining up a shot.


(Gi.Am) #14

Tnx for the lol’s guys I take them :smile: but I was 100% serious.

FF-on would solve OPs problem in 3 ways.

  1. with ff on comes bodyblocking so your teammates would have to go around you rather than passing right through you if you stop to aim.
  2. You don’t want to get shot, so you think about not crossing the line of fire of your teammates (bonus advantage more damage goes to the enemy)
  3. You don’t like to kill your own teammates so you become more mindful pulling that trigger, when a teammate crosses your line of fire and/or position yourself in a smarter way.

aside from that ff - on/off directly affects the way you play the game (look up to point 1-3 your positioning and decisionmaking tree changes).
The default tournament settings are with ff-on. Would be overall beneficial if players would learn this playstyle from day one (or at the very least had servers where they could experience this style).

As for trolling, well there are tried and tested solutions to keep it at a minimum (afterall there are games out there that do have FF-on by default).
A simple punish/forgive system, for example could very well be enough. If you get TKed you can vote to either punish or forgive that person, if that person apologizes (a simple sorry used to be enough) and/or it is clear that it is an accident or even your fault, you forgive him and the game keeps going as normal. If that guy was constantly TKing you punish him, enough punishes and he gets kicked (or even a timed banned to cool off).


(Knives) #15

If there was FF I would let my team put Fletcher bombs all over me and then I would run into packed rooms… Well you probably guess the rest.


(Edzer) #16

@Gi.Am Think FF would be nice, would also help against players that decide it’s a good idea to jump in front of your vassili.


(D'@athi) #17

Someone was way quicker than you… Have you already thougt about why they don’t stick on mates?


(XavienX) #18

I do find this really annoying and I had died many times because of this. And if they change it that it goes through teammates, I bet there’ll be problems. Maybe it shouldn’t change but if it bounces off of teammates, you don’t take any damage from it?


(RyePanda) #19

Just let explosives through if possible, but not bullets. Bullets come back when you reload. Abilities, especially Fragger’s grenades, take a while to come back.


(Edzer) #20

Yeah, this or friendly fire.