a idea for a new healing item for the fixer - syringe cannon

Just the title suggests, though this may have appear before, if so then

The idea is a syringe cannon, which came from the game initial loading screen, which feature a fixer having syringe as it cannons. The function of it is like a normal cannon with speed and range similar. However instead of dealing damages it heal parts your teammate health not AOE, but one, just like a normal syringe in real life.

In the current setup, the healing pulse is AOE, whilst the healing box does heal one ship, but the speed and range is lacking. In my opinion, the healing pulse is like a napalm launcher have AOE effect, the healing box is like a mortar cannon firing it in arc. why not a have syringe cannon as said previously.

 

I would be down to try that. Would rather have it in then the box launcher

 

They might have went through the trouble of limiting Fixer's healing range on purpose. It stops them from being able to sit in cover permanently and still do reasonable healing, and it encourages his team to be near him instead of wherever.

 

Then it could be a shorter range weapon

 

If the range was that short, there wouldn't be a point to it. The Box works just fine.

 

I don't mean short, I mean shorter. Plus, it can be hard to manuver around to get the box.

 

Shorter than what? A regular cannon is 25, do you mean 24? 20?
It's incredibly easy to get the box unless you have mortars spamming you. The collision on the box is huge.

 

Shorter that it would be, which isn't specified

 

Yet it is tough work for fixers to first get into the range of 7 and calculating the places where the ships is at at same time trying to avoid enemy fire, I mean the 'syringe cannon' should more of a Adrenalin shot, not healing the ship to full health, but parts of it. the range could be limited to to say 15, but not far away, but not to close to other ships, making a target for mortar rain. Though the main emphasis is on the speed in which 'syringe' currently. the box is slow to reach its target

 

I mean, like all weapons in the game, it has its advantages and disadvantages, such as introduce a charge time, 2.5 sec, in which if the syringe is fire immediately, the effect wouldn't be as a powerful as a fully 'drawn-back' syringe cannon. I think this is a idea that is worth pursuing

 

A charge wouldn't do anything, this game isn't paced fast enough for that to matter. Unless the heal-per-second was higher without the charge, which would be a little weird, it would just be adding extra time to the cooldown since no one would ever fire it without charging it.

Landing a box while pushing up and down on the analog stick isn't hard. I've dropped boxes right on top of people that I thought were going to miss. Even a range of 15 wouldn't solve the possible issue I mentioned before, where a Fixer just takes 2 or 3 of them and snipes heals all day from behind cover.

That said, I'm not really against the idea when there's all these Speeders running around. Just saying it could get really annoying in match-ups that don't have good flankers.

 

Essentially, is hope for a syringe cannon that isn't too weak for players not to use to it, not too strong (health heal, range) for players to abuse it, not too slow, then there is no point, because you already have the healing box for it