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Hi,

Ok my idea for a bad flag :

Instead of shooting straight in front of you bullets go randomly more left or right (wihtin a range angle of about 90 degrees for exemple).

What do you think?

I would call it drunk shots .

Nice!
Best flag I've heard in a long time.


This would be nice.



Now, if we could have that shotgun flag......

Interesting flag idea... normally I have criticism for new flags because half of the time they come out sounding stupid, but this's a pretty good idea. Just imagine... next to a wall... bullet flies out at a 90-degree angle, kills you before you have a chance to react... mehe.

I think there are a few problems with the way BZFlag handles bad flags in general, but this flag sounds as worthy as any of the currently existing ones.

It has my vote.

It does not have mine.
I'm uncomfortable with the idea of having random stuff in BZflag.

Valoche

More instead of "random" a "jitter"

Basicly you can't shoot strait all the time.
(not shoot to the side of you or anything... I would hate that... )


But yeah, it has my vote.

>I'm uncomfortable with the idea of having random stuff in BZflag

Well, we already have with bouncy for example, but maybe you don't like bouncy either (i don't ).

Ha, Bouncy saved my life yesterday.

I was about to get shot and grabbed bouncy.
(it bounced me up to a spot and the person jumped after me... then I jumped again before he could kill me)


I just hate the 30 second badflags, with antidote.

Bouncy saved my life yesterday

It's amazing how sometimes the bad flags can occasionally help you.

I got blind once and decided to let out a volley of random shots as cover. One of the shots hit someone who was in stealth.

Anyway, this new flag idea is worthwhile considering.

I think that this flag should replace the Forward Only flag, as that flag is not really bad at all for most people.

The random jitters should be in a 90 degree angle, but with bias. Most shots should be very close to 0 degrees, many within 10 degrees, and only, say, 1 in 20 at 45 or -45.

I think it would be cool to have the bullets' random angle affected by the movement of the tank.
Even cooler would be if the tank was affected itself, so its movement would be hard to keep straight and smooth. The tank would jitter around, and thus throw bullets at mostly random directions.

BinarySpike wrote:..............Now, if we could have that shotgun flag......

Hmmm, I wonder why that wouldn't work..............