05-17-2010, 12:19 PM
(05-17-2010, 03:07 AM)Halogene Wrote: Somehow I don't really see this imbalance. Apart from that, if you knew me at all, you'd also know that I always focus on the strongest players in a match and sometimes even drop a weapon to "noob" players while running past them. And I am using the laser against skilled players too - and NOT because it is so ridiculously overpowered, but because I find it quite hard to use properly and killing someone with the laser is quite a challenge.
No shooting people with the laser isn't imbalanced, only the laser jumping is imbalanced. The laser could do more damage to people you hit with it in fact, this would be an improvement IMO, since simply knocking them around isn't really that effective.
But the extreme amount of laser jumping the game currently allows, hurts CTF, hurts teamplay, hurts non-hitscan projectile type weapons (which have a hard time with high speed mid-air targets) and hurts more skillful or diverse kinds of movement. If the laser is less effective as a movement device then these things can be better and more easily balanced.