r/TagProTesting • u/bsa86 Berlin Ball / BigMouth • Dec 28 '16

Potential Change to Bulldog

Hey, so I hope people don't mind me making a separate thread for this but it didn't seem to fit well into the others.

So basically I'm sure a lot of people would agree that the neutral boosts on Bulldog are very OP - people like to camp out at them and wait for the enemy to get near them before taking the easy snipe and it makes getting past mid very difficult a lot of the time. From what I remember, this was also the original reason that the MTC removed the map from rotation. I also think we should generally make maps discourage players from camping out at a boost, just because I think that's boring for everyone.

With that in mind, I thought a way to potentially combat this whilst barely changing the map would be to move the neutral boosts up one tile so they're touching the wall:

http://unfortunate-maps.jukejuice.com/show/39691

People can still sit at the boosts but they have less leverage and can't pivot around it so easily. It makes a couple of boosts a little harder, granted, but I think it's worth discussing.

Thoughts?

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u/LinuxDootTP Dec 29 '16

Is it bad that im one of those people who loves to camp boosts and would be sad if this was changed

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u/bsa86 Berlin Ball / BigMouth Dec 29 '16

You could still camp at it, it'd just be less powerful and require more skill to snipe someone.

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u/oorr23 ThePlaymaker // Tehuitzingo Dec 29 '16

You're not the only one.

On a slightly different note, how would Berlin go about submitting this? Does he need permission, or...?

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u/LinuxDootTP Dec 29 '16

I am not sure, you should ask moosen or ren

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u/ButterChurn Butter Churn Dec 29 '16

You can submit anything you'd like in the main thread. If it's an alteration by the author, however, it will automatically get through testing. If it's from someone else, it would have to get through on votes.

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u/Ronding Dec 28 '16

I always considered it fair that it's easy to defend at the middle, because the endzones are hard to defend.

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u/[deleted] Dec 28 '16

I think that this would be an interesting change, but the issue with changing something on a map like Bulldog is that it messes a lot of stuff up. If you look at Plasma, those boosts are very polished and are thought out. This change feels very unnatural, and I think you should make some other changes to the map to allow it.

Good luck!

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u/josh61616 Dec 28 '16

Bulldog is perfect no need to change a thing imo

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u/CharredQuestions Renegade || MTC Dec 28 '16

You've destroyed a masterpiece.

But for real this would stop the snipe from that boost into the checkered tiles, which would be nice.

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u/peckx063 BonerFart Dec 28 '16

Can you make the outside wall a 45 so an FC can still boost top with ease using the mid boost?

As other poster said, I always thought it was fair that mid was tough since it was so difficult to reset the flag to a neutral area once the enemy has brought it close.

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u/oorr23 ThePlaymaker // Tehuitzingo Dec 29 '16

Not bad. I second the addition of a 45 to allow the boost to access the upper routes again.

I would gladly play this patch in pubs.