Idea Medic Web

WOOO! Finally someone who made a thread about this. (was too scared to create it myself lol)

Definitily want to see this be added, as webspamming occurs not only on the competetive side of CTF but also in casual games. +1!

 

Basicly when someone without speed runs at you when there is a web in the way they will go past it then it will despawn and when the snowball is already regened the web is still on the ground so no point on increasing the duration of that

 

I think restricting web use is a good idea, but restricting it all the way to 1 seems a bit harsh. I'm all for stopping webspam, but a lot of the time medic is trying to not die to a ninja in competitive CTF. With this change, a medic would have one chance to hit a web on a ninja with speed II before having to wait for the regen and be almost defenceless against the ninja.

For this alone, alongside webspam only really being super annoying when it was 3+ webs, I think I'd prefer a similar concept but with a max of 2-3 webs to offer a bit more protection to medics, perhaps with a higher regeneration time.

 

1 web is not viable in this meta, I feel 3 would be sustainable as @Keelb00 said, but imagine you have multiple ninjas on you as a medic. One web might not even hit one of the ninjas because of their speed and the way web placement works. Then there would be the other ninja anyways to fight the medic. Ninjas already can do a lot to medic, ninja vs medic combat is a very popular thing, and webs are used to help fight ninjas. I don’t think this is the right way to go against webspam.
It’s may be an odd alternative, but I wouldn’t mind if webs weren’t able to be placed adjacent to webs(so you couldn’t close off an entire exit with 5 webs), or maybe even adjusting the cooldown of this idea.. but the exact idea is too harsh because of ninja being a huge part of the meta imo.

 

I think if the maximum amount of webs at a time was changed to 2 or 3 and the regeneration timer decreased to 1.5 or 2 seconds, I think it'd be fine. If you weren't allowed to place webs adjacently that could cause medic to be less effective in other areas such as capping or defending as you wouldn't be able to block up tunnels as easily. This also fixes webspam and would stop referees from having to watch for webspam (even if all they do is give a warning and the player receives no punishment whatsoever).

 

I agree with @Keelb00 and @puhdgy, down to 1 web is way too harsh, medic needs more than one web, especially if they’re fighting against more than 1 person. Plus, as annoying as web spam is, you gotta appreciate those people who throw webs perfectly.

 

I agree with what @Daveeeeeeeee said and think 2 or 3 would be very suitable and but I don't agree with lowering the regen timer to 1.5 because with that amount you can have the same result as the current medic of having 5 webs and 3 sec regen. In my opinion, lowering the regen timer by like half a second is fair for lowering the amount of webs to have like 2 webs or even 3

 

nvm

 

right now the regen is 3 sec so having it at like 1.5 is basically regening 2 webs instead of 1 in the current medic and if we lower the amount to 3 webs with 1.5 regen that means in the same amount of using the current amount of webs in the current medic the new medic will use even more webs and the purpose of this was to webspam so having in the same time even more webs can make the webspam even more annoying.

 

ya I misunderstood the OP.