Goonhub
09-24-2020, 06:58 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-24-2020, 07:03 PM by Sundance. Edited 1 time in total.)
I'm bumping this thread.
I've done some testing on this just to see how bad it really is.
It's pretty bad. Shades + earmuffs and then equip two flashbangs in your hand, activate, switch hand, activate and charge will just down all players in the area for heavy stun with very little hope of reposte due to the stacking.
It makes sonic grenades completely redundant. A box of those costs 2 TC for 6. Thing is that the sonic grenades have diminishing returns.. if your target is deaf then they're completely immune.
...Or you can get the above combo, take the box of 7 flashbangs, raid the 2-3 sec vendors for an extra ~10 grenades totalling ~17 grenades. For no TC.
Worse still due to the flashpowder, the diminishing return is negated unless you have shades.
It's not in any way balanced.
I wrote a long post above about what should be done, but what I now think would be better is to:
A) Lower the ear protection that station earmuffs provide down to 50-60% (from the current 100%!!) If the protection works the way I think it does, it means that it will still reduce the stun damage from flashbangs instead of completely negating it. That way you can no longer rush.
B) Allow sound damage still effect you even if your deaf, but at significantly reduced levels. This prevents someone from just making themselves deaf and then flashbang rushing.
I've done some testing on this just to see how bad it really is.
It's pretty bad. Shades + earmuffs and then equip two flashbangs in your hand, activate, switch hand, activate and charge will just down all players in the area for heavy stun with very little hope of reposte due to the stacking.
It makes sonic grenades completely redundant. A box of those costs 2 TC for 6. Thing is that the sonic grenades have diminishing returns.. if your target is deaf then they're completely immune.
...Or you can get the above combo, take the box of 7 flashbangs, raid the 2-3 sec vendors for an extra ~10 grenades totalling ~17 grenades. For no TC.
Worse still due to the flashpowder, the diminishing return is negated unless you have shades.
It's not in any way balanced.
I wrote a long post above about what should be done, but what I now think would be better is to:
A) Lower the ear protection that station earmuffs provide down to 50-60% (from the current 100%!!) If the protection works the way I think it does, it means that it will still reduce the stun damage from flashbangs instead of completely negating it. That way you can no longer rush.
B) Allow sound damage still effect you even if your deaf, but at significantly reduced levels. This prevents someone from just making themselves deaf and then flashbang rushing.