I think the banner-grabbing animation is unnecessary. It takes too much valuable time, which we could spend shield-swapping in order to win a fight or looting to survive the storm damage.
You could still leave the interaction button to grab it or simply pass near the box to grab the banner automatically without interrupting the looting action... this will smooth things up and help avoid the common issues I've mentioned before.
Agreed. The current way is stupid, especially in hot drops or end circles where there can be 10 boxes lying almost on top on each other, You try to go for a shield swap and just happen to click on a dead teammates and the animation starts.... Why not re-balancing it, i.e not just buffing it? What if the banner is the first item in the loot box. This can make banner grabbing slower if you plan to just grab and run but better if you plan to shield swap/grab heals or ammo iin the middle of a fight.
"What if the banner is the first item in the loot box? This can make banner grabbing slower if you plan to just grab and run but better if you plan to shield swap/grab heals or ammo in the middle of a fight."
This is the correct answer. The duration would be about the same as the grab is today, and makes it easier to do exactly what you want to with the death box.
Unfortunately this has some problems of its own. For example if you're with randoms it opens up the option for them to just loot your box without taking your banner. I think a good compromise would be for the game to automatically take the banner when entering a teammates box, you get the shield swap or whatever you need in the heat of the moment and then when you exit the box it does the animation so you duck behind cover. It still could get you killed sometimes, but it would be better than the current system where you have to wait for the animation before you can swap.
I made a post about this a while back but it hasn't really gotten any attention from EA and I doubt it ever will
https://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Feedback/Teammate-banner-QOL-request/m-p/11631409#M97202
I have been advocating to remove this animation since it was implemented day 1, its just does not make any sense to exist neither does the hole very loud ship anouncinan ez kill when reviving but that discussioon take splace anothe day).
The banner recovery animation just makes you think 2x before going for banner recovery, we do not need that animation an audio q (dunno if its a good idea given how bad audio is in the game o) , a visual q ( we already have so much visual clutter that it wouldn't make much differencein terms of making it worse) or even a fast/shorter animation.
The idea is fuun but in game it's just not doing much for the players other than incentivizing not getting the banner or early quitters.
P.S: the hole recover reviv system should have been reworked a long long time ago.
Perhaps you could have some amount of shields when you grab that banner or speed boost?
Another easy solution is to keep the animations, but double the speed, or at least add the option to cancel it by taking your gun out, that way it won't interfere as much with any potential fight.
I lost both my teammates today and their boxes were pretty much side by side it took a total of 6 seconds to pick them both up and wait for the animation to finish and have my weapon back in hand.
I was killed waiting for my weapon to come back to me.
It really needs to be changed. Too many times going for banner's is a death sentence.
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