heady mantle
Right now the Jackrabbit has the ability to bounce your shots and when you do bounce your shots you gain increase damage and your shots apply fire. Their are even upgrades that give you more bounces and work off bouncing your shots. Below are all of the upgrades that interact with bouncing in some capacity:
Ghosting - Rare - Bullets phase through targets if they haven't bounced yet
Power Ricochet - Epic - Bullets gain an extra bounce. Damage increases with each bounce
Friction Compensators - Epic - Damage falloff is reset when a bullet bounces
Opening Charge - Epic - Bullets apply shock before bouncing```
There are only 5 upgrades that have to deal with bouncing, however all of these upgrades are completely useless because of how the current 4 regions are very open. Friction Compensators could actually be pretty good if we had a map that was more enclosed and if reinforced coating could stack. If you could stack reinforced coating to get a lot of bounces and we had a map that allowed for big bounce potential then I could see friction compensators being really good as your shots would always do max damage as they are bouncing everywhere. The same goes for Power Ricochet which would be a staple in bounce builds as each bounce would increase damage. And ghosting...nah see you thought I was going to say something about ghosting always being bad but that is where you are wrong bucko. Ghosting could be a great upgrade as if we got more upgrades that added effect to AFTER your shots bounce and said effects where key to your bounce build then you would want your shots to phase through so you could get your bounce build going without them bouncing off the first enemy and being useless.
However unless we get maps that are more enclosed and more upgrades that work off bounce like gaining a stacking buff when your bullets bounce or when your bullets bounce they cause an explosion or something like that, bouncing will be pointless........wait....**EVEN THEN BOUNCING IS STILL USELESS!!!!!!!!** Why would I want to bounce my shots in hopes they hit what I am aiming at when I can just aim my shotgun at its stupid *yet cute :3* face and blast that shit smooth off!
This were we get the main topic of this post and I no longer have to do setup up. The bounce should be converted into pierce. This would work way better with the current design of the maps and more likely future maps too. Pretty much no one bounces their shots because why do that when you can just shot at what you are wanting to kill. Changing bounce to pierce would allow Jackrabbit to become a add clear machine (Even thought it already is) and would just be more fun. Instead of gaining damage and dealing fire damage on bounce it would be *gain increase damage and apply fire after piercing* and you start of being able to pierce a single time. Converting all the upgrades would like this:
```Reinforced Coating - Standard - Stackable - Bullets pierce an extra time
Power Pierce - Epic - Bullets can pierce an additional target. Damage increases with each pierce
Friction Compensators - Epic - Damage falloff is reset when a bullet pierces a target
Opening Charge - Epic - Bullets apply shock before piercing```
Straight up, ghosting is gone because I couldn't think of something for it without straight up changing it completely into a new upgrade.
While I think the bouncing bullet is a cool concept with maps being really open it leads the feature being under used and just being flatout useless. Having piercing instead would better coincide with the open maps and large groups. Unless the devs are planning to make more maps that are more enclosed and allow to the bouncing to better work and give it more bounce related upgrades, I strongly feel it should be changed to pierce.
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