Imagine how far you could launch your teammates with all the barrels that’d be in there!
It’d be glorious.
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Lol
I disagree, they’re extremely fun, funny and rewarding.
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I find them very useful so long as you have the awareness to know when your team is at risk. There are two scenarios in particular where they are very helpful at higher difficulties:
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First is when you’re kiting a horde of melee enemies and/or specials back to a more defensible position/coherency with your team
- Slashing a barrel as you retreat past it so that it explodes after its fizzle delay perfectly times it to explode inside the horde, either to buy you time and space or thin them out with fire
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Second is when dealing with groups of shooters or an armoured threat like the chunky ogryns where odds are there is a convenient barrel not too far away from them
- A quick burst of shots on the barrel for an instant detonation is enough to desperse the shooters or stagger the big man to let you more easily handle them
Think of them like free grenades with a bit of critical thinking and risk management involved in deciding when to use them.
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Its annoying if you are getting blown off a cliff (especially with a grim) but I find it hilarious when I see someone getting blown away…
I would like more map hazards tbh. The biggest map hazard atm is the daemon host… well… not really… but kind of…
I don’t see any replays from people talking about how much they love to be knocked off the edge by a barrel in this thread. Just a bunch of people who like to troll their teammates with them I guess.
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That’s a very honest view point which helped me see the devs intentions: The barrels are likely ment to be considered map hazards in most situations. I still think there are too many. But I like your idea of more diverse map hazards added to the game, that would make things more interesting.
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If the barrels where designed to be map hazards, surely we should be able to tag them?
Yeah they definitely need to have their explosion blast toned down a bit but my god, it’s extremely funny watching a player being sent into the stratosphere then immediately leaving after someone posts “lol” in the chat.
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tbf: I laugh just as hard when my teammates successfully knock me off a ledge with a barrel. Between the crashes, feats and blessings not working, horrible loot progression and lack of variety, the barrels are the most fun experience in game for our team. They are the ONE thing that consistently makes us laugh instead of going “yeah add that to the list of things that don’t work… sigh” or “goddamn buggy af dogs!”
I once saw someone get thrown off the map by a barrel that a teammate accidentally triggered during Pre-“beta”. Made me laugh like a maniac. Probably the only one thing I actually had fun with. I honestly pray they don’t remove the knockback. It’s great when someone triggers it, you avoid it, but a teammate doesn’t then gets flung straight to the stratosphere.
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Refinery Delta-17 at the last event is perfect.
You can get shot off this platform and then you just keep falling and falling and falling.
First time it happened to me I was crying of laughter because the drop just would not stop. There was no floor.
Disclaimer for everybody thinking I am a troll or trolling people: I play 100% with premades and in voice. Same group from VT1 and VT2. Known the people for years.
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Pretty much why they’re garbage design and a horrible idea lol
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One of my favorite moments was shooting a barrel behind an enemy with a revolver, swapping to eviscerator, him being launched right at me in the strike zone, and cutting him in half in mid air.
That said, the PLAYER knockback could be turned down like 70% and I’d not complain at all, it’s a bit silly.
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I’m afraid I’m with the majority who think they are fun then 
what does that say about your average human though I wonder lol
You never shot someone off the side? Not even once? lol
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Not on purpose, it’s happened once or twice when someone who wasn’t there when it exploded tried to dash by at exactly the wrong moment.
I had some dingdong try and blow me off the ledge several times last night and I was the one carrying the team, I had to pull them back from a near full wipe twice. Madness. He only almost got me the first time though, after that I was aware it might be an ongoing problem with them.
lol flash git removal tool - barrel
You can just pre-emptively shoot them if you think that’s going to happen though. It’s happened to me and it still made me laugh btw. I spent the rest of the round looking for a revenge barrel.
It would be if not the colour pallet and amount of darkness you get in the game. It is pretty easy to not notice them or accidentally hit them. Also you cannot highlight them with the spotting key.
They can be useful as they stagger everything, but I had some “hilarious” games where we ended up with a team wipe or close to one, because someone accidently triggered a barrel we had no time to clear.
You can always do what I do and destroy them before they become a problem. If you leave them there, then you’re accepting the fact that they can literally blow up in your face.
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This is big. Another thing that’s big is that the “that barrel is going to explode” voicelines often don’t get the point across until after the barrel has exploded.
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Look out! Exploding barrel!
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