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Topic: Hammer Change

Hi,

I do NOT protest against the power of the hammer, but:

The current hammer in Teeworlds is not a good weapon for flowing battles. It is almost impossible to hit an opponent Tee while on the run with the hammer's current short range. Usually, using the hammer evolves into chasing and trying to grapple onto an opponent while continuously swinging the dang thing over and over.

A decent improvement would be to make the hammer swing in a larger arch to cover a longer distance while sacrificing reload time. In this way a quick Tee would be able to  fire at a range, come in close to the opponent, and perhaps fly past him while giving him a solid smack with a hammer before switching back to a ranged weapon (Also the impact of the hammer could perhaps send an opponent plummeting downwards, to make them easier to hit with explosives one they reach the ground, although this is not something I would die without). All I would like is to be able to use the hammer in a graceful fashion during combat. Thanks!

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The hammer is the only melee weapon, why transfor it into a ranged one ?

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imho hammer needs a further change. Since 0.5 i hardly see anyone who uses it. 3 dmg is useless, even pistol is much more useful.

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4 Reply by Sushi Tee

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hmm... in 0.4 it was too strong and now too weak?! oO
well reload time could be lower but hmm its not really important for me wink

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I think weapon balancing will be revisited after the next major release. Until then train ur movement or whatever.

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The weapon I killed the most enemys with is the Hammer! It's strong enough, [offtopic]I think you just cant use it![/offtopic]
And a larger range would be too strong!

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8 Reply by Magnet (edited by Magnet 2009-02-14 13:29:56)

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I think the new hammer reload is fine, however it is true that with the weaker hook it is harder than ever to hammer and most of the time pistol does a better job.

I think the reload should remain as it is now but back to 4dmg. I think that is the only balance change really required in TeeWorlds. The reasoning is that all weapons should be useful, even default ones, and currently the shotgun and the pistol are much more interesting than the hammer even at melee range.