Give Assault Ziplines

[uneven surge]

Horizontal and vertical. Faster than grappling hook.

[jolly loom]

Interesting concept... but how would you implement it ingame? do you put the end and start of the zipline manually? or do you use a tool similar to the grappling hook to set a zipline from the point where you shoot to the place you shot.

[lilac plover]

It may be worth referencing Battlefield's ziplines and how they function

[uneven surge]

One side is where you are standing. The other side is either a projected location similar to building walls currently but much further, or a gun that shoots a line out.

[pure narwhal]

would be cool and fun

i already run grappling hook normally due to the straight up ability to scale things now moving across buildings or places would be fun af too

[indigo hinge]

Ziplines would be gamechangers in a lot of maps and would give assault a more distinct buff to the class

I like the idea! :)

[tight copper]

Good idea tbh. The only thing I suggest is having a range cap so that players can’t just zipline the distance of to give a basic, understandable example waki bridge. Otherwise it defeats the point of vehicle use in the larger modes.

Basically how the grapple is capped with “not enough gas” after a certain point in terms of range

[sterile crag]

Drop off?

[tight copper]

Having it descend after a certain distance would work. Also account for people shooting it upwards/horizontally so it isn’t “grapple but better” (maybe have it affected by gravity? Or enable for the zipline to deploy it has to be on solid ground?)

[formal pecan]

Assault doesn’t need more buffs but the idea of zip lines is awesome

Maybe another feature of the grappling gun in general?

[uneven surge]

dude, assault has like zero qualities differentiating it from other classes. It has faster ads and reload. Thats not much thats "unique"

[formal pecan]

Does it need to be differentiated? No. The passives alone already make it really good. And if we were to brute force something to make it unique then ziplines wouldn't thematically fit it over say, recon.

And to me its identity is that it's an all-rounder.

[uneven surge]

yes, it does. classes should have well defined roles and abilities that strongly seperate them from others

[formal pecan]

How does a zipline strongly separate it from others?

[uneven surge]

jesus fucking christ

[formal pecan]

When the class still has access to almost everything in the game

[uneven surge]

get out of my suggestion

why are all of the patreon backers trolls, fr

[formal pecan]

"Anybody who disagrees with me is a troll"

Nice

[uneven surge]

no, anyone who is a fucking dumbass is a troll

[formal pecan]

So, you basically

[uneven surge]

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[tight copper]

I don’t think he’s trying to troll. Rather he wants to see your point of view on it

I’m not against the gadget, but I’ve also generally favored giving tools to as many classes as possible where appropriate, and reworking/buffing underperforming gadgets, like the riot shield for example

Zipline could also work for recon, as it’s basically a horizontal grapple that allows travel from point A to B, right?

[uneven surge]

thats entirely the problem. Why does every class have every tool? That blurs the lines between classes, then you end up with everyone running medic because it can do basically everything

Giving assault a unique, better gadget that allows them to do their role better, is a start at fixing that

[tight copper]

I’m not going to derail your suggestion, as you and I both probably want to keep this related to ziplines. But TL;DR not everyone runs medic thanks to self heal changes, and more people run assault as the dedicated run and gun class nowadays due to the passives. That being said I do strongly think some of assault’s gadgets could be buffed (again, glaring at the obvious lack of enemy player collision making riot shield pointless)

[tight copper]

I think it works for both, but personally I wouldn’t be against assault only just to test the waters, and since it alligns more with the idea of “hey let’s use this to get to the objective”, which.. yeah bbr in general needs more ways to encourage obj. play