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Bladerunner777 wrote:

I don't think friendly fire on such small arenas with such an intensity of fights would be a good idea. Not to mention the griefers who would be killing team mates for fun - no thanks, I had enough of it in Eternal Crusade.

You just punish the griefers. But as I said in the post, removing the ability to shoot through friendlies, that is a more important bit. Because now someone can just bodyblock and the rest of the team shoots through them, but if you shoot with for instance a heavy bolter on that one target, you only hit that one target.

Friendly fire could be a "hardcore" mode variant for normal PVP, but having the non-hardcore not being able to shoot through friendlies is a bare minimum.

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Bladerunner777 wrote:
blocking all fire with the shield and his homies shooting thru his back

Exactly, and not just bulwark obviously. But it's kinda bad design allowing it with ANY class, so what would otherwise be a 1v1, becomes a 1v2+++ without being able to hit all the +++ targets.

As for friendly fire penalties, they could literally make it remove xp from you if you friendly fire, de-leveling you for it and also add a "friendly fire kills" to the scoreboard. Additionally if someone is clearly repeatedly friendly-fire griefing, they get penalized in the matchmaking and get a message making it clear that they're being penalized for their behavior.

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Bladerunner777 wrote:

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Mainfoldium wrote:

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Bladerunner777 wrote:
blocking all fire with the shield and his homies shooting thru his back

Exactly, and not just bulwark obviously. But it's kinda bad design allowing it with ANY class, so what would otherwise be a 1v1, becomes a 1v2+++ without being able to hit all the +++ targets.

As for friendly fire penalties, they could literally make it remove xp from you if you friendly fire, de-leveling you for it and also add a "friendly fire kills" to the scoreboard. Additionally if someone is clearly repeatedly friendly-fire griefing, they get penalized in the matchmaking and get a message making it clear that they're being penalized for their behavior.

Sorry brother but all the ideas about penalising ff you are suggesting are the soft ones - they wouldn't bother hardened trolls at all. This would have to be something much more severe - eg ban for a day , otherwise it doesn't make any sense, it simply wouldn't work. That is why I prefer it the way it is now, no FF keeping the flow and dynamics of the match at a nice, steady pace - everybody's happy :)

Merely suggesting it in a digestible manner for devs to consider it with, because they might not be welcoming to a suggestion like perma-ban, but that could eventually be a measure in the future and letting steam handle that part.