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The situation is this: you're neutralizing a control point, you're taking fire from all sides! But it's okay! You and you're whole fireteam is snuggled up tight in that big beautiful purple bubble of yours. The enemy team dare not come near. Safe in your bubble, you decide now is a good opportunity to reload your machine gu— OH SHIT! The bubble's down! has it been that long already?! now you're dead; caught with your pants down—reloading. What if you knew when the bubble was about to disappear? What if 3-5 seconds before it went dead you heard a deep "wohm... wohm... wohm..."? It would give you some advance notice: enough to let you say to yourself: "Welp, I can either get busy livin', or get busy dyin'!" you could decide to either run or stand your ground. It would be awesome!
But there's a possible downside... If the enemy can see/hear whatever the indicator is for the inexorable popping of your little happy bubble. They might decide to hold their fire: the cue for you to come out with your guns blazing or to run away with your Titan Mark between your legs could also serve the enemy as a countdown to open-fire. How would this be bad? well, if nobody shoots your bubble: you don't make any orbs of light for your teammates. If your teammates don't get orbs from your bubble, the action immediately following the dissipation of your bubble may degrade into "Scatter! Oh God! Scatter!" Bummer. If nobody fires on your bubble, because they know when it's going to pop, then why have a bubble at all? These are questions worth asking before voting. Be brave...
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I also feel that the bubble shouldn't disappear because it's maker died. Nova bomb, throwing knives and grenades persist after death. The ward of dawn should as well.
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just do it like goldengun
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I think it should visually drain your super bar so you can see how much time you have left also while we're talking titan stuff, it would be nice to see a time countdown displayed next to force barrier. not too sure why it doesn't have one currently
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Edited by T KRETT: 11/15/2014 4:44:17 PMI don't think there should be a timer but a visible indication the last 2 seconds. Like the bubble gets brighter and turns white and then kind of pops or disappears downwards towards the ground. I was just thinking about this yesterday. The other problem is being in someone else's bubble and you don't know how long its been up.
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Plus this will let enemie know when they can rush at you, making this feature more of a handicap than a help
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Well if your as an experienced Defender as I am, you should instinctively know when its about to disappear
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Yes and no, I think there should be a count down on the persons had who spawned, forcing him to warn other players. It would need to stay inaccessible to the enemy as well so that they are not aware of when it runs out.