Four Fixes for UFO Spamming

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I'm not going to repeat all of the issues with UFOs this season, because everyone else has pretty much covered them. So let's talk about potential solutions because right now there is absolutely no risk to flying a UFO and spamming the map until you win. I have four ideas to fix this problem:

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  1. Percent Damage Distribution - If you are good enough to survive a UFO attack while building and emptying multiple clips from your SCAR into it (and wasting half your ammo) you should benefit from your survival skills. For example, if the damage you deal to a UFO with another player in it is 500 points, a percentage of that damage (let's say 10%) should also be transferred to the player riding in the UFO. So 500 points of damage to a UFO equals 50 points of damage to the player flying it, and so on.
  2. Instant Fatality - If you can get a UFO down to zero health, it completely explodes in midair and the player flying it dies. No questions asked. If you fly a UFO, you risk hitting the lobby early.
  3. Fall Damage - If #2 isn't doable, then at least if you get a UFO down to zero health, the UFO completely explodes and the player flying it takes fall damage from whatever height the UFO is destroyed at. So if a player decides to hover 25 builds above the final circle and energy-ball spam the last player, and the last player destroys the UFO, the pilot falls to his death. Game over.
  4. Ejector Seat - If Epic can't or won't do any of the first three things, then if a player on the ground destroys a UFO in the air, the pilot should be ejected from the UFO upon explosion, 500 meters in a randomly selected direction. Maybe into the storm, maybe to the other side of a mountain, maybe into the ocean or whatever. This would prevent the pilot of a UFO from energy-ball spamming a player, burning all of their mats and ammo, getting them down to 10HP, then landing on the player with 200HP, full mats, full ammo and pumping the player in the face because they're basically helpless. This happens pretty much every other game.

Any other ideas?

Posted Jun 25, 2021, 12:17 AM UTC

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