Flashbang Improvements & Tinnitus

[formal wyvern]

1- Currently, your ears only ring if you are blinded by the flash. You should be able to hear one go off from more than a hundred meters, so you should prolly' be deafened even if you aren't looking at the flash, and for a lot longer. Also other sounds should be muffled when you can start hearing again and fade out eventually.
2- When you get flashed, I'd would lower the amount of time you see just white, and lower the intensity of the accumulation-motion-blur a lot slower, so after the afterimage, things would still be blending into eachother, but you could still see.
3- If flashed, the colors on your screen should probably be altered a little, eventually returning to normal.
4- If you a lil' far away and arent hit by the whole flash, than it should probobly leave a little spot in your vision where all the flashbang effects could be. Try looking at a bright light for a second. (Not too long. Don't hurt your eyes.) You should see the point of that light burned into your vision for a bit. I drew an example of this anyway.

Also tinnitus. If ANY explosion is pretty close to you, than you should probobly get a little bit of it. I'm assuming the soldier dudes are wearing ear protection, but I'm just assuming explosions are loud enough to get ears ringing anyway. I don't have any evidence to back me up on that though.

(Below-Flashbang part-vision-burn example. That flash should be farther away or something but whatever.)

[austere wasp]

as long as you can still fight back and aren't blind for 11s i'm up for this
fuck the current bang

[formal wyvern]

👍

[formal wyvern]

I think it'd introduce a new way to use flashbangs. Simply masking the sound of your movements and possibly blinding your opponet sounds like a neat strat' to me. Although, depending on where you are, you make go temporarily deaf too.

[dry pendant]

Honestly currently flashbangs are pretty annoying and not in a good way

Not only do you stay blind so long there is no way to realistically fight back unless you are insanely lucky, team flashing is also a thing

One mate misses his flashbang throw the dozen people in his vicinity wont see shit for the next 10 secs

[formal wyvern]

I'm all for blurry vision, but I'm against long lasting white screens.

[dry pendant]

It would be one thing if those were just enemy flashes, but its also friendly ones as well

Tbh im fine with complete blindness if it didnt last for the entire damn duration

Like 10 seconds is too much

[formal wyvern]

Yeah.

[dry pendant]

At least gradual unblinding would be nice

[formal wyvern]

And ear-protection should block out some of the sound too. You'd still have to be in the general vicinity to get disoriented.

[dry pendant]

True

Id personally priorites removing friendly flashes firsg

Im legit getting flashed by my mates more than by enemies themselves

P sure there is a thread for that already

[formal wyvern]

I don't really have an opinion on that one. I usually like FF on if I can trust the community, but thats usually a sucky idea, so that sounds good.

Mabye team-flashing for the hardcore mode or milsim mode.

[dry pendant]

FF is defo annoying

I remember when antinade trophies were first added

They would counter both friendly and enemy nades

It was very sucky and most fights would end up being kinda stale

Like it did almost nothing but annoy both sides

[pastel latch]

there are anti flash grenade goggles, but mainly used in law enforcement

the bliinding time should be reduced

team flashing also sucks

[dry pendant]

100% reduce blinding time and remove friendly flashes

At least flash the person that threw it, not the entire crew

Just like with everything else

My own nades, c4 and rocket launcher can kill me easily if im a dumbass

But not other mates

The person who messed up should get the drawbacks, not others

[pastel latch]

yes