Teleport Ball Behavior Change

[Grandy]

I mean, currently we have two projectile weapons and EoJ. If you have EoJ, you're probably fucked anyway.

Agreed.

With MC and RL, you can look somewhere else after you fire. You can also fire ahead of time before they finish teleporting. So you could anticipate where they'll teleport (MUCH easier with ball) and have projectiles coming to meet them, so they'll still be damaged if they teleport right after. Additionally, you could fire off some shots at the beginning of their teleport ball and then turn to track the ball for the second half or whatever of the ball's trajectory (say, when it goes off screen ).

Fire ahead of time? Again we're not talking about close range, which is more the kind of range that you need to be able to shoot to kill. If someone is coming at you from mid-range with TB teleports, then sure, that's kind of a given - but I'd argue that they're not adapting their movement and pathing to the style of the weapon, which should be close and close-mid range, where your bullets would have gone past the potential end point most of the time. If you just fire along where the ball currently is, you're only potentially going to land one shot if the guy keeps teleporting, which he should be doing if he hasn't gotten the tag on you yet.

But again, I think the big advantage of tracking the ball is positioning. You know where they'll be, so you can position yourself to be somewhere else. If you just let them teleport wherever they want because you're only concerned about shooting them, you're putting yourself in a lot more danger. You might draw out the fight because you're doing less damage to them, but in the end you'll likely improve your chance of survival. If you have friendlies nearby, this is especially true because they'll be firing at the TB user too.

The position is often unclear - to me the streak and the position of the player is disjointed, and everything is too fast when it counts the most.

[PrettzL]

I hate to say this @Grandy but it really seems like you need help understanding how to approach someone using the TB.

I can set up a workshop or something with @Ilses to demonstrate the how to's of the weapon both for use, defending against it and countering it effectively.

[Grandy]

You think, based on previous history in-game, that I need a workshop for this?

I still manage to kill TB users most of the time, and I use the weapon every now and again, it just doesn't feel as nice or as fun as the tracer TB we had for a while there in my opinion. Sure, it had its flaws, but to me it was friendlier to the senses both when using it and defending against it... so I know how the current one works, it's more that I don't think it's in the best form it could take.

[PrettzL]

You think, based on previous history in-game, that I need a workshop for this?

No offence, but yes.

[Grandy]

As per usual, we shall agree to disagree.

[JustinPierce]