2009-09-01, 01:31 PM
KaidaTan Wrote:Couldn't they just make the cooldowns for skills such as Snipe, Air Strike, Octopus, etc client sided?
I guess then hackers could take advantage of it, but spamming Snipe is hardly as good as many of the other hacks we've had in the past.
He means that when you put Snipe (or Air Strike) on your quickslot, you can see it gray out and slowly turn back to white. If it were to work like CSB or BS, then the skill would not gray out and you'd have to guess when 5 seconds is up. I'm not saying it's terribly hard, just that 5 seconds is long enough that I'd rather have a visual indicator of when the skill is ready rather than guessing.
The visual indicator is especially useful when your snipe isn't maxed. How are you going to guess that 30 seconds have passed since the last time you used snipe? I really don't think that all of these should be client sided, maybe just the ones with short cooldowns. Otherwise, hackers could use smokescreen endlessly.