hold button to stop moving on zipline

[YOU'RE JUST NEED AN SANTA]

having to bounce back and forth gets old

[Noelle]

Fckin' signed, implement it yesterday please. While you're at it, ziplines are opaque and annoying if you're trying to shoot up while on them.

[Derpykat5]

The zipline already is incredibly powerful for avoiding enemies. Allowing you to effectively hover on the zipline would be even more powerful

[「wew」]

Yes: You leave yourself very vulnerable to spitters that can knock you off
No: To powerful against non-spitters, the majority of glyphids
The problem: it doesn't scale well with difficulty scaling

Leave it as is, without perks you're really slow on ziplines and spamming e to stop works

[Cadunkus]

Originally posted by derpykat5:

The zipline already is incredibly powerful for avoiding enemies. Allowing you to effectively hover on the zipline would be even more powerful

But that's literally all gunners did before the shields were added and it was strong but not broken. What are you getting at?

[Syncourt]

What's the difference between spamming e to stop and being able to hold it to stop?
What makes one way of stopping more powerful than the other?
It's just convenience as far as I can see. A QoL change.

+1 from me.

[Chibbity]

Originally posted by derpykat5:

The zipline already is incredibly powerful for avoiding enemies. Allowing you to effectively hover on the zipline would be even more powerful

This^

While spamming E, is possible currently, it switches your side back and forth on the zip line making it somewhat difficult to keep your orientation and stay on target.

I think it's pretty clear from the changes that have been made to the zipline and enemies over the updates that the dev's do not want us hanging out on ziplines fighting waves. So let's not make that any easier.

[YOU'RE JUST NEED AN SANTA]

Originally posted by Chibbity:

Originally posted by derpykat5:

The zipline already is incredibly powerful for avoiding enemies. Allowing you to effectively hover on the zipline would be even more powerful

This^

While spamming E, is possible currently, it switches your side back and forth on the zip line making it somewhat difficult to keep your orientation and stay on target.

I think it's pretty clear from the changes that have been made to the zipline and enemies over the updates that the dev's do not want us hanging out on ziplines fighting waves. So let's not make that any easier.

I don't believe you should balance things via inconvenience. If zip lines are too good then they can be nerfed in a normal way, unrelated to quality of life stuff.

[Chibbity]

Originally posted by Chris Campling:

I don't believe you should balance things via inconvenience. If zip lines are too good then they can be nerfed in a normal way, unrelated to quality of life stuff.

We're not advocating balance by inconvenience, we are saying; let's not buff a playstyle that we already know is unintended by the dev's.

Zip lines are for movement, not hiding on in order to negate melee damage.

[YOU'RE JUST NEED AN SANTA]

Originally posted by Chibbity:

Originally posted by Chris Campling:

I don't believe you should balance things via inconvenience. If zip lines are too good then they can be nerfed in a normal way, unrelated to quality of life stuff.

We're not advocating balance by inconvenience, we are saying; let's not buff a playstyle that we already know is unintended by the dev's.

Zip lines are for movement, not negating melee damage.

but you can shoot and turn around on them...

[Chibbity]

Originally posted by Chris Campling:

but you can shoot and turn around on them...

Yup, and?

We don't want to disallow combat on ziplines entirely, but we don't want to encourage it either.

It should be an option in a pinch, if you have to get somewhere; not the preferred way to engage.

[YOU'RE JUST NEED AN SANTA]

Originally posted by Chibbity:

Originally posted by Chris Campling:

but you can shoot and turn around on them...

Yup, and?

We don;t want to disallow combat on ziplines entirely, but we don;t want to encourage it either.

It should be an option in a pinch, if you have to get somewhere; not the preferred way to engage.

I dont think you'll ever convince me that making something you can already do, slightly more convenient is a bad thing. Agree to disagree lol

[Chibbity]

It's a step in the wrong direction for a long standing problem that the dev's have been actively trying to curtail.

But sure, agree to disagree.

[Syncourt]

Originally posted by Chris Campling:

I don't believe you should balance things via inconvenience. If zip lines are too good then they can be nerfed in a normal way, unrelated to quality of life stuff.

Like letting swarmers crawl across the lines. Or allowing bugs to attack the poles, making the zipline shake around and fall off after too long on the zipline. Might be slightly more effective than making the player spam E to maintain position.

It's mainly for making mining from a zipline easier. Shooting is just as easy with or without it and even if being able to spam E, I'd much rather keep moving from side to side of the zipline anyway instead of hovering. It lets you get a better angle on grunt weak spots which means better ammo efficiency and lower TTK.