Are you friends with the Lord of Teamplay?

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Scenario:
You are defending your flag and 3 enemies rush in followed by one of your teammates with the shotgun who is missing at point blank. You fire several rockets at the group, while they return with light fire, slightly damaging you. The splash damage from your rocket happens to be in range of your teammate, who is now shooting at the wall. The Lord of Teamplay punishes you for hitting your teammate by dealing you 20% of the damage that you would have dealt to them if they were an enemy. Instead of finishing off the enemies, you are killed by the Lord of Teamplay.

Question:
Do you like to be killed for hitting your teammates?

[ai]

For me it depends. Normally I would say no (it doesn't really suit any purpose), but from time to time I get shot at on purpose by a certain player (cause he don't like me) that option is quite funny. He either don't shoot me or gets killed hoping he would kill me.

But unless you don't have people purposingly shooting at you the Lord of Teamplay (I don't know the actual name so I go with yours ^_^) doesn't suit a function. It bothers me too when I try to defend the flag or shooting at the one who has our flag but can't as my teammates are in the crossfire.

The only thing I think this is good for is that people learn not to shoot at their teammates, now it's obvious you shouldn't and if someone does on purpose (and this option is not on) you could always kick him when/if that option will be on by default in the next patch.

[esteel]

The current way is a good one IMO. There is no friendly fire so you can't kill a teammate but you get a small amount of mirror damage. Its 20% so even when you hit someone with the nexgun you only get 30 damage points. That should normally not kill you but make you notice you hit someone.

I do not like the solution do disable both friendly and mirror damage. Either of them should be on. And as some people do not notice its team play the mirror damage is the better solution. You (and your teammates) just have to be a bit more cautious not to stand in each others way. And remember in most other games you would frag your teammates when they get between you and the enemy..

[Ed]

This poll is non-mutually exclusive.

[nifrek]

I would say on public servers filled with newbies that never played teamplay before, while it can be annoying, it is necessary. And it's better than enabling friendly fire IMO, you can't learn that way.

However for pickup games (havent seen any yet, anyone wanna try and get some 4on4 or 5on5 going? ) with more experienced players, both should be disabled. The killing of teammates happen and should be part of the game. Sometimes you just don't have a choice and have to fire even if there's a teammate in the way (like in Dave's example). And if you're pissed at your teammate because he killed you at the same time he killed the dude with your flag, it better be because you know he just wanted to "steal" the points from you. If not, than you are the one in the wrong, IMO.

[C.Brutail]

When I play on LAN with my friends, any team game, I'm with total friendly fire. Needs a lot more skill, tho this style of gameplay needs experienced players.

I'm not against the Lod of Teamplay, I mean getting mirror damage, but the best would be to only go down on health of 1, and then a blinking message: You're trying to kill a team-mate dummy!

[ai]

Not bad actaully. That way newbies will know why they are losing life if in any case they wouldn't notice.