Jakob Evhin
Dead Six Initiative
Daringly Inserting Large Dangerous Objects
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Posted - 2013.03.19 10:26:00 -
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Skihids wrote:You can save yourself with a power slide if you are that close to cover.
Press L3 to sprint in the direction of cover the moment you start getting up and you will cover several meters as you stand. That should get you behind cover and leave the logi standing there.
Not enough people take advantage of that feature.
I did this once, by accident, and had no idea what happened but it saved me. Now that I know the control, I'll be utilizing it more, and telling people about it in case they also don't know.
And on topic, as a logi, who has revived someone only to have them get killed immediately afterwards, I can tell you sorry, I'm not doing it to farm WP, I'm doing it in the hopes that the guys behind me have me adequately covered and that people won't just STAND THERE and get shot again.
That said, I do try to take out any enemies or at least use my best judgement on the safety of the revived teammate, and will generally only revive once before either trying getting rid of any reds myself,or just abandoning them.
I haven't come across this form of WP farming myself, if that's even what it is, but any "solutions" for it will probably have more negative consequences than positive ones.
A timer to prevent needling for a short duration? That's great, I'll stand around for 5-10 seconds and hope the people who killed him don't kill me.
A button to request it? It can be hard enough in a tough firefight trying to get to corpses to revive, let's make it even more frustrating by having a bunch of people who don't want to wreck their KDR wait until it is convenient for them and not for the guy running around trying to keep people alive and repped.
I get what you are saying, I do. If people are just reviving to get WP, that sucks and it's out of the spirit of the game and taking advantage of game mechanics for personal gain. But let's be reasonable, it's already frustrating enough as a logi when people slam the respawn button when we are right on top of them in completely safe situations, having people run away with 1hp armor while healing them, AND having the people who just stand there after revival and get killed again, we don't need another reason for logis to hate their teammates by implementing anything to make reviving more complicated.
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