As long as I push a pox burster, I almost never take damage. However, even if I’m farther away from the burster than when I do push, if I don’t push, I take damage.
In other words, my distance from the pox burster has little meaning. This breaks the immersion hard. The effect of the explosion should be related to your proximity to it. If I know it’s not safe to go for the push and I’m able to get 2x the distance than if I did push, I shouldn’t take damage. It’s nonsensical and frustrating.
Please make distance from the burster have meaning.
Best example of this just happened. Was next to someone who pushed a burster. When the burst happened, they were closer to it than me. They took zero damage, I lost 1/3 of my health. This makes no sense. Please get rid of this mechanic. It’s bad.
The current implementation punishes players for not being the one to shove the burster, which is contrary to the entire ethos of a team game.
The blast also seems to have no falloff at all that I can tell, so even if you’re just one millimetre too close, you take full damage.
I get that the various special types generally fall into those that either try to punish you for not staying as a team (hounds, trappers) and also ones that try to split the team (flamers, bombers, bursters) but the bursters are toxic (pun not intended) as far as how they relate to team tactics, because even dealing with them “right” often still damages your team.
It’s probably less of an issue if your team is all on voice (“Get clear, I’ll deal with it”), but that’s been extremely rare with any pick-up group I’ve played with, and the game needs to acknowledge that a lot of players only use chat (not viable while being attacked) or in-game pings.
Definitely agree. At the very least the damage should fall off based on distance. You either take 100% damage because you are a milimeter too close or 0 damage because you are a milimeter out of range. Very annoying
Just realized I could move this myself (doh). So moving this to the Bugs section to get a reply on whether this is a bug or an explanation of why it’s intended.