Last Stand Buff?

[Magenta Lizard]

I feel like it needs a bit of a buff. When you die you're almost certainly on a wave where over half of the screen is full of bullets, so having almost no health after being revived by Last Stand means you'll just live for 5 seconds longer.

[Neferneith]

I don't even outlive for 5 sec. Died (twice) on mines and the second death was simultaneous.

[anarcher]

Yeah, give it a 5 second invuln or something.

[Magenta Lizard]

I feel like the health and shield should be a bit higher. It's just really unforgiving in it's current state.

[Neferneith]

I have no problem with the second life being 1/5 of previous. Seems balanced.
But 5 sec invuln is probably the best solution to instant re death.

[Chimeric]

Originally posted by The Survivor:

I feel like it needs a bit of a buff. When you die you're almost certainly on a wave where over half of the screen is full of bullets, so having almost no health after being revived by Last Stand means you'll just live for 5 seconds longer.

This is on the docket for a buff for sure!

[spring]

Perhaps some sort of screen-clearing explosion?

[obliviondoll]

I vote 5s *OR* until you fire (whichever comes first) invulnerability. That tends to be more fair and less exploitable than the invul being a flat duration.

[progect savior]

Originally posted by obliviondoll:

I vote 5s *OR* until you fire (whichever comes first) invulnerability. That tends to be more fair and less exploitable than the invul being a flat duration.

NO. NONONONONO TO WAIT TILL FIRE INVICIBLITY. i'm sorry sir but your saying that in a game where you can turn yourself into a dying star and just incerate everything around you without pressing the fire button!

[Magenta Lizard]

I feel like you'll just need more health and shield since 5 seconds of invulnerability won't help that much with 30 enemies and 100 bullets on the screen. Once that invulnerability runs out, you're dead.

[Chimeric]

Originally posted by The Survivor:

I feel like you'll just need more health and shield since 5 seconds of invulnerability won't help that much with 30 enemies and 100 bullets on the screen. Once that invulnerability runs out, you're dead.

Well, I think that highly depends on your loadout. Something with Flash Shielding + Emergency systems, for instance, can handle this quite well, especially running Barrier.

[obliviondoll]

Originally posted by progect savior:

Originally posted by obliviondoll:

I vote 5s *OR* until you fire (whichever comes first) invulnerability. That tends to be more fair and less exploitable than the invul being a flat duration.

NO. NONONONONO TO WAIT TILL FIRE INVICIBLITY. i'm sorry sir but your saying that in a game where you can turn yourself into a dying star and just incerate everything around you without pressing the fire button!

No, I'm saying "5s or until you fire (whichever comes *F*I*R*S*T*)"

So at 5s you lose invulnerability no matter what, just like the original proposal.
But ALSO if you start firing before 5s, you lose invulnerability EARLY.

[Orel]

I do agree. Sometimes I don't have time to see if the last stand buff has been activated. TBH, I often die because of the screen mess. I'm boucing between tons of thing in the screen so I loose my ship... the Time I need to understand when it's gone, I'm done.

[Chimeric]

Originally posted by Orel:

I do agree. Sometimes I don't have time to see if the last stand buff has been activated. TBH, I often die because of the screen mess. I'm boucing between tons of thing in the screen so I loose my ship... the Time I need to understand when it's gone, I'm done.

This has already been buffed on the steam BETA build :)