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I think they'd still be good as an arrest tool.That's what pepper spray should be for. AOE crowd control immune to glasses. Flash offensive, pepper spray defensive. I vaguely recall suggesting something like this at one point.oranges wrote:The idea here is to position flashes as more of a defensive escape tool against rogue crewmembers etc, where you can blind people and then run away.
it's arguable between the two, but flashes are more widespread, and so, in my mind, should be the defense tool.Lumbermancer wrote:That's what pepper spray should be for. AOE crowd control immune to glasses. Flash offensive, pepper spray defensive. I vaguely recall suggesting something like this at one point.oranges wrote:The idea here is to position flashes as more of a defensive escape tool against rogue crewmembers etc, where you can blind people and then run away.
Sounds like a good idea.oranges wrote:Flashes kind of suck right now, because eye protection is so common so their meta is kind of a shit place right now.
Here's what I was thinking
changes flashes to be a blind only, of about 10 seconds or so length, aoe viewers would be about 5, maybe it decreases depending on how far away you are. (i'm thinking this would only be in the direction your facing) as logically otherwise you would be blinded by your own flash.
remove all eye protections (and I mean all of them, sec would be the only people who might have flash protection).
They still stun borgs since that's the main silicon counter play meta.
Flashbangs both blind for a long time and confuse for a significant amount of time. Im thinking like 30 seconds blind and 20 seconds confusion, enough time to allow security to control a crowd with their disablers and riot gear.
The idea here is to position flashes as more of a defensive escape tool against rogue crewmembers etc, where you can blind people and then run away.