Rejected Tear-Gas Upgrade - Disable Comms

[helix]

An upgrade where if you're being affected by tear gas, you can not use your mic or text chat or radio

 

[Halen]

+1 the tear gas is pretty shit rn ngl

 

[Gabriel]

Chaff Grenade

 

[Sam The Fluffy One]

It's a gas that "Blinds" not gags
-1

 

[Swiffe.]

It's a gas that "Blinds" not gags
-1

You inhale tear gas and let me see you talk

 

[j3kawesome]

Now this is a really cool perk idea

It's a gas that "Blinds" not gags
-1

Yeah but IRL if you breath in tear gas you def would not be able to speak

 

[Titan]

Now this is a really cool perk idea


Yeah but IRL if you breath in tear gas you def would not be able to speak

watch me

 

[j3kawesome]

watch me

okay i'm omw to your place of residence with some tear gas

 

[Moleman]

It's a gas that "Blinds" not gags
-1

this mf never been to a protest before

 

[The Memelord]

Instead I think your mic should completely obscure your mic by add coughing sound effects to the point where it's hard to distinguish your voice.

 

[^ ^]

Instead I think your mic should completely obscure your mic by add coughing sound effects to the point where it's hard to distinguish your voice.

spam voice key for legal cough micspam

 

[Swiffe.]

Instead I think your mic should completely obscure your mic by add coughing sound effects to the point where it's hard to distinguish your voice.

Lmaooo Instead of coughing, just make it so your microphone output gets really muffled to the point where no one can hear you

 

[Pierogi]

Although this suggestion has gained some traction, I'm going to reject it.
If you look at our perk list, you'll see that they're all defensive/passive perks. Making a weapon more effective against players is inherently offensive. I'm not comfortable with setting that precedent, and it's a big part of why you don't see the triple harpoon upgrade on the server. The only exception I can see in the future is adding the Malfunction Chain perk. As for making this part of the Tear Gas itself, it's a feature that would be really frustrating to new players. From my experience, limiting/impeding a player can frustrate them even more than straight up killing them.

What I'm confused about is why people think the Tear Gas is bad. It's actually more powerful than it was on SGM due to the gradual damage. Plus, the point of Tear Gas is to throw it in a crowd of players and start a chaotic firefight. The Tear Gas itself isn't the weapon, it's the chaos that you can create with it.