Yeah that wouldn't be that bad to doo IMO, if the banner animation still exists for when you pick it from the deathbox it would seem fair.
The animation has it's purpose of course, being able to loot without picking it up would help out a lot.
Though then again this creates the scenario of players being able to loot dead teammates and just not pick up their banner.
Of course that isn't allowed behaviour, though it does open the chance for them to do that.
Of course I had no intention of suggesting the animation should go away. Certainly the problem of being able to loot dead teammates and just NOT pick up their banner is pretty awful but that would certainly be something to think about / discuss.
The banner animation definitely needs to stay. There just needs to be a viable way to shield swap around it in a pinch.
That does open up the problem that XHelperZ mentioned where someone would be able to loot their teammate's box
without getting their card and that won't be healthy for the game, esp for solo queuers.
Automantically taking it and doing the animation after you leave the deathbox could be a potential solution but would
absolutely require playtesting. Even if you get the swap, in a firefight where you need the swap that animation could
still get you killed when you could have clutched it up had it been an enemy box. The automatic banner retrieval there
could really hurt you.
Whatever solution you come up with, it has to be something that balances an ability to shield swap in a pinch without
doing the animation, but also does the animation when you pick up the banner and forces you to pick up the banner
before taking anything from your teammate's box that isn't for an emergency need.
"Emergency need" is also much harder to determine than you would think at first glance. Say you don't need a shield
swap, you need ammo for your gun, or maybe a different gun to replace it altogether, or a heat shield because you just
wiped the squad that killed your teammate but you're outside zone and need to pop the shield to safely get your teammate's
banner and heal up before making your way back to the ring.
Its a bit of a contradictory problem but I'm hoping there's a solution because the present system means you can't swap on
a dead teammate.
Hmm... Not sure I like the idea of autoloot, but it could be viable to restrict the lootable items in a deathbox of a teammate which you haven't taken the banner yet
Maybe limit looting to two items like with a loba ult until you take the banner. This would give you the ability to shield swap and grab ammo or a gun or something, get back into the fight against the other team, then come back and get the banner when you've finished fighting.
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