Spiral Knights - Polaris spam in lockdown

Polaris spam in lockdown

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Mon, 01/21/2013 - 06:13

Daimyojoe

Hi everyone,

Now we've all been in the situation in ld where its ended up becoming a polaris spam match - sometimes in guild v guild. Your main problem is is that no-one has any idea who's spam is whos especially if you are trying to cap, and polaris is coming at you from both angles which is your's and which your oppenents? Usually u end up running into the wrong spam and get shocked to death.

what i would like to suggest is similar to bombs in ld, that we can see which polaris bullets belong to each team. So maybe some sort of alteration so that your enemy's bullets look different like a voltaic tempest blast radius looks red to you, whereas your team's is white.

Thanks

Mon, 01/21/2013 - 07:48

Juances

A bomb is different than a gun. You wont have time to react.

Mon, 01/21/2013 - 07:59

Spold

Don't start this junk.

Please, give me a legitimate method on how you SPAM a gun if you do absolutely nothing with it but shooting. Well, unless they spam their charge attack. This simply tells me that spam means use. This means that anyone who complains about spam in Lockdown but uses weapons is a massive hypocrite because they complain like crazy.

Mon, 01/21/2013 - 22:19

Hexzyle

@Juances
I beg to differ. Polaris bullets are the easiest ones to dodge.

@Spold
He's not complaining about "Polaris Spam" per se, he's just calling it that so that everyone understands the situation.

Tue, 01/22/2013 - 01:29

Zaffy-Laffy

Zaffy is Laffy

I beg to double differ, but I hate it when there are 4 polaris/kilowatt spammers (yes truly spamming) on the other team, and you tell me how to dodge their wall of [redacted]ing shocking [redacted] [redacted] bullets that go [redacted] exploding all over the place. Not only [redacted] pushing me and [redacted] shocking especially when i have a [redacted] bad ping. Also, it blinds!

Well basically I think making the bullets have different colors make it easier to see, but what about the other pulsar line?

Tue, 01/22/2013 - 07:19

Shion-Sinx

give it

a red color to the sphere in the center in both lines of the gun

Tue, 01/22/2013 - 15:55

Addisond

I've been wanting this for a while. I'd also appreciate it on haze bombs. Oh, and I'd appreciate it if haze bombs and polaris stopped randomly disappearing but still hitting me.

Tue, 01/22/2013 - 18:44

The-Rawrcake

technically, using anything

technically, using anything over and over is spamming. So this sounds dumb, but people spam flourishes as well as polarises (polarii??) but the latter is much more annoying. Nevermind, they both are.

Tue, 01/22/2013 - 18:47

Canine-Vladmir

I say....

Make all Polaris do damage. Team Kill approved.

Wed, 01/30/2013 - 11:40

Daimyojoe

Canine that is not a bad idea

Canine that is not a bad idea i say :)
would stop people from spamming over teammates from every direction

Wed, 01/30/2013 - 12:38

#10

Infernoburner

@Addisond

For haze bombs, that would cause confusion which one it is if you didn't notice which one exploded. and there is only one way to check...

Wed, 01/30/2013 - 16:13

#11

Dragonuity

watch this video

Aequitas vs Jempire - YouTube

Aequitas won, but it was mainly due to polaris spamming.

Wed, 01/30/2013 - 16:26

#12

Juances

You know how in most FPS there's this heavy machine gun with infinite bullets bu that "overheats" if you fire it for too long?
What if we apply the same concept to spamming?

Wed, 01/30/2013 - 16:26

#13

Klipik

stay on topic!

+1 to giving the bullets a team-colored "hue".

Wed, 01/30/2013 - 16:28

#14

Juances

Instead of being able to tell who's spamming we should stop the act itself.

Wed, 01/30/2013 - 16:29

#15

Mzculet

+1 @spold wut junk?

Good Idea..But instead why not change the color of the polaris bullet into the color of the team? So you know which bullet is which :P

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