I sometimes see players jumping onto buildings in battlegrounds, usually with gliders / slow fall from a higher location. People often say to report them them in BG chat - is that really bannable?
Some things I’ve seen…
People on the opposite faction’s gunship in IoC, where they destroy the cannons.
Standing on top of IoC refinery after using a catapault to reach it, where they can shoot down on the flag to prevent it being capped.
Reaching the opposite faction’s gunship in Seething Shore and killing them as they respawn
And many other locations which require gliders to access in battlegrounds.
I’d say if you can glide / catapult onto it, it’s fair game.
(can’t glide onto building at Sunken in WG, so they’ve taken measures to inhibit that particular structure).
However, not sure about other teams gunship in IoC, never seen that. (Nitro backfire → glider? -assuming you’re still on ship after enemy caps Hangar).
I might be tempted to report enemy on ship, but I also want to say that should be considered clever use of unfortunate mechanics (rather than exploit), but honestly don’t know where Bliz would stand.
I wouldn’t report people for gliding/catapulting onto structures etc, but I would report obvious exploits (invincibility / porting people off map + inaccessible areas etc).
That’s the thing, supposedly he was either able to glider from his own faction’s gunship after losing the Hangar, or he used the catapault to gain enough height before gliding onto it.
He killed all of the cannons and they didn’t respawn for 5-10 minutes, rendering the gunship near useless.
Many people in the BG wanted the team to mass report him… But if he has just used a glider and/or catapault, isn’t that just clever use of game mechanics?
If they’re going to allow that in IoC (& they arguably should allow it, all other vehs can be killed), they should definitely reduce respawn time for cannons.
Not sure how he had time to kill all cannons though? -surely the defending team could all port to ship & demolish him before he got to the 2nd cannon?
If they’re going to allow it, they should adjust the HP & respawn time.
Wouldn’t want to see anyone banned for clever use of mechanics, but might be worth reporting people until the cannons get buffed.
Does sound like a very niche/circumstantial issue though, never seen it myself.
That 4mins will make a huge difference, as Glaives & Demos have (potentially) permanent uptime, whereas the Ship only has a small window once every few mins to hit its desired gate.
Wouldn’t it have been possible with rocket boots / blazing speed + slow fall? Especially given that slow fall worked differently then. Sure, it requires a slightly degenerate person to go through the hassle of doing it, but it was presumably still possible.
