Obelisk Spawn Kill Exploit

[CodeMage]

@Nemisis

You forgot to add to the list #3.

#3. Don’t use map rooms to travel,

I didn’t, you just weren’t paying attention:

@CodeMage

Funcom will ignore the problem completely and people will keep learning the hard way that the game has a bug and that you have to adapt to it.

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Moving on:

@Nemisis

No actually, hes right. Its pvp. You can and will die at any point in time, you are never safe. That’s the game.

He’s right about never being safe in PVP. What you and others like you keep taking turns to either conveniently ignore or stubbornly deny is this:

Being unable to control your character because the game is in the loading screen is not a gameplay mechanic.

I hope that the emphasis makes it at least harder to ignore, so all you brave hard-core PVP masters can stop pretending you don’t know what we’re talking about here

At any rate, camping the obelisks should be a perfectly valid and reasonable PVP tactic: people who teleport put themselves at a fixed point on the map and signal their arrival, and that should be a risk and a tactical decision. What people are complaining about isn’t that risk, it’s the risk of being literally unable to control their character because the game is loading.

There have been many proposals on how to solve this, but here’s the one that should be cheapest to implement:

Add lore for "teleportation paralysis"

People have been complaining for ages about getting ganked by obelisk-campers because the game places the character at the obelisk much before giving the player control over their character. Many solutions have been proposed, but here’s a different one that I haven’t seen before: explain it away with lore. Invent an imaginary “teleportation paralysis” effect – that’s a clumsy name I wouldn’t expect the writers to keep – and document it by adding a few warning lines to the Archivist’s dialog, an…