Thread: I wish you could throw Pipe Bombs/ Mollies/ Biles to each other like pills

Until someone accidentally left clicks and throws a molotav at your head.

Originally Posted by KromMonkey

Until someone accidentally left clicks and throws a molotav at your head.

You assume I'm throwing the molotav at your head on accident Krom. It's far more likely that I just wanted to turn you into a human torch

Originally Posted by maximusboomus

I've thought of this for all items. Why not add a "teamplay button" ala portal 2 with the gestures, hand over rifles to snipers, hand over a molly to the flame experts. Right click should be melee only. Hell why not have an option to use weapons as clubs... How many times hass my hunting rifle run out of shots, and I only have a pistol to defend (Happened today even!) I want to use my rifle as a melee in that circumstance (maybe a degradable one...). Yeah many slight changes can enhance this game, maybe L4D3 is around the corner who knows...

I theory, a way to allow you to use your rifle as a club would be to set it so once it's used as a melee, it can't be fired again even if you run across an ammo pile. This would reflect damage being done to the weapon such as a warped or bent barrel, or other pieces breaking leaving it inoperable. You'd have to find a replacement weapon instead.

Also, ramping down the damage the weapons did as improvised clubs would offset the advantage a player would get from not having to use a weapon slot for an actual melee. I.E. improvised melees would need at least two hits to kill a CI, and sometimes more, but would still get the shove of a true melee of equivalent size (a rifle-melee would have a larger knockdown radius than an SMG turned into an improvised club, obviously).

As for the teamplay button you suggested....what I would suggest is having the mousewheel-click set as the "give" command. Might be a little bit tricky to get the hang of, but would make more sense than having a keyboard button doing the same, and because actually clicking the mousewheel is something whose use is rather rare, it would avoid the problems with accidently giving something away as well. The only problem I could see with having the ability to give away your weapons is in what happens with the weapons that second person already has. Do they get automatically switched? Does a trading screen pop up? Do they have to reciprocate the "give" for it to be completed? The first concern I can easily see being exploited by people with a....trolling personality, so to speak. They see someone has an M16 for example, and they want that instead of their SCAR, so they click-send their SCAR to the teammate who loses their M16 without having agreed. The second and third problems both have the same real concern....there's really not enough time in most matches to stop long enough to do something like that, because when you're up against a competent SI team you have to keep moving to limit the number of times they can hit you. When you're in areas where attacks are less likely, like most gun rooms, those concerns are a bit less prevalent.

Being able to hand over guns is an ability I really only see being useful when distributing melees to people who possibly need them more than you do. For instance, if I did a bit of shopping and found a machete, and there's a person on my team who has a bit of trouble dealing with horde, I'll send the melee on over and deal with pistols if I have to. That would probably be the biggest use for gun-giving, so to speak.

Originally Posted by CivilWars

I would say you could only give something to someone that doesn't have an item of that type already. So in your scenario the player with the SCAR would not be able to give it to a player with an M16, but could give it to a player that only had a melee.

That would make sense, but it's not a scenario you're likely to run into very often, because the only way for it to happen is for that player to NOT grab a gun at the very beginning of the map. Unless you're trying for the "pistol-only" achievement, that's a pretty stupid thing to do lol. Primary weapons don't drop automatically even when out of ammo, so you'll almost never find someone without a primary weapon in a vs. match.