Idea Projectile Barriers

I dislike the idea of projectile barriers, as it takes away the strength of specific classes and will increase the duration of stalemates. Ive never seen flagshooting as a problem on CTF anyway. The only benefit I see from projectile barriers around a flagroom would be allowing map creators to build more open flagrooms. Projectile barriers would more - hurt classes, than make classes easier to play.

 

I think that projectile barriers could be useful in certain situations inside maps where Mage or similar classes can just attack a chokepoint with ranged weapons right outside of spawn and catch people as they leave the safe zone. There's very few situations like that though

 

Projectile barriers around spawn seem fine, but around the flagroom seems like it would cause more harm than good, like for both pyro and mage would suffer inside the flagroom because of this change.

 

I like it for spawn shooting prevention, but I'm not a fan of it restricting flag room defense and offense. Just as Dwarves and Pyros can be menacing for most classes when they are defending a flag room, arrows can be menacing for Ninja stealth flag runners. I also suggest that if an idea like this were to prevent arrows from being shot near spawn then it should also prevent things like spells, potions, pearl tosses, etc. for balancing the class restrictions near spawn. Another thread touched on spawn restrictions too, and my thoughts on it are a bit more in depth about how it would restrict different classes for different amounts of time to prevent spawn immunity exploitation.

 

Agreed.