In most cases players return to their totem from a battle while still firing.That fire often hits the totem and destroys or nearly destroys it (totem has only 100 of health).Could it be fixed somehow? I've been in many situations when my teammates destroyed my totem while i was in battle causing me to lose the protection.Revenant mains probably can handle this, but other players who don't play the Revenant that much often fail the team this way.

@Dvid90 This post is a bit old but is relevant. I refuse to take revenant totems because 8 out of 10 times the rev takes it, gets sent back and destroys the totem, leaving me to insta die.

@pandareno1999 Just gonna put this out there, making caustic traps destructible was the wrong choice.

@BigMacAttack8u Oh, sorry I misunderstood you a bit. On the first point, I have to opine that the number of GOOD Caustic team mates I get is pretty small, just like most other legends I guess. But not all of them can actively, even if unintentionally, grief you as much as Caustic. He is among my three or four least favorite legends for me to see a random pick. I'm actually glad when the friend I mentioned goes Caustic, though, because his other pick is Vantage. At least I can count on him being within 100M of me with even the remotest hope of being able to back me up when he's Caustic. Plus, I've mainly been able to train him to place barrels correctly so that I don't die because of them. I think the best thing that could happen to Caustic to improve him as a team mate is to make an obvious way to tell friendly barrels apart from the enemy's. As it is now, in a hectic fight with multiple Caustics involved, I frequently don't have much choice other than to destroy all the barrels I see if I can, unless I actually saw my team mate place them down.

@Revanchist_KOR Uhmm just stop firing when you see the white flash? It’s important for teammates to be able to destroy the totem. If the totem will be outside the circle, you don’t want to go back there.

Totem destroyed by your own fire when returning

25 Replies

Cheese9Man
4 years ago
@Revanchist_KOR Uhmm just stop firing when you see the white flash? It’s important for teammates to be able to destroy the totem. If the totem will be outside the circle, you don’t want to go back there.
Revanchist_KOR
4 years ago
@Cheese9Man read my post again. I said I can handle it because I play the rev often, but less experienced players with other mains destroy it sometimes. Because of this, I am afraid to go all-in with totems in the way it's supposed to be
gg123xyz
4 years ago
@Revanchist_KOR

i always use our totem run out and someone shoots the totem and i die. i look at the totem and 2 fat purring cats sitting safely by it ignoring me.
Cheese9Man
4 years ago
@Revanchist_KORTried it. Your teammates can't destroy the totem. I tried saving a teammate that will return to the totem but an enemy squad were waiting in the totem. Tried to destroy it but no damage was registered.
pandareno1999
Hero+
4 years ago
You cannot grief your ream mates by destroying things like that. Just like you cannot shoot out your team mate's octane pad or horizon ult. The only exception i can think of offhand is black market, because the ability to destroy it after use is desirable.
Dvid90
3 years ago
@Revanchist_KOR Nowaday this happen a lot. Even myself as Revenant tend to destroy the totem after getting back. The flash occurs so fast that after returning back I keep firing. It would be great to add second of response when this happens.
hayhor
Hero
3 years ago
@Dvid90 This post is a bit old but is relevant. I refuse to take revenant totems because 8 out of 10 times the rev takes it, gets sent back and destroys the totem, leaving me to insta die.
HogynDrwg
3 years ago
@hayhor i was just about to say this is old lol, clicked on a few today
DethMetalMilkMa
3 years ago
@hayhor Well heck that is some serious toxicness there.
pandareno1999
Hero+
3 years ago
Necro or not, I can see that my previous post above is no longer quite true. I can think of a number of team mate abilities that can be greifed - Newcastle ult, Rampart walls, Caustic barrels, Catalyst tactical. Most of these have some sort of reasoning behind them, but I don't understand why you can destroy your team mates Catalyst traps. That last one, I suspect is not by design, and for all I know it may have already been fixed. There's probably several more, that's just what came right to mind.