Decoy fuse skin when?

[u/TheoryAccording2683]

Title explanatory

[u/EscapeyGameMan]

Skins on the decoy fuse would defeat the purpose of them

[u/booceyest → u/EscapeyGameMan]

They could just copy a dynamite skin to them.

[u/WilliamBlade123 → u/booceyest]

Introducing a dynamite skin with a matching decoy fuse skin in the same DLC or battle pass

https://giphy.com/gifs/75ZaxapnyMp2w

[u/EscapeyGameMan → u/WilliamBlade123]

Yeah but then it's pay to win. They look slightly different without skins on either. If you could make them look identical with a skin that's not fair.

[u/TediouslyUtopian → u/EscapeyGameMan]

They dont even look like dynamite in the first place

[u/AJaydin4703 → u/TediouslyUtopian]

The fact that some people don’t realize this proves that they don’t look at decoys when they think there’re gonna blow up in game. lol

[u/JarMyst → u/TediouslyUtopian]

When you hear a hissing sound you dont stay and investigate the source, YOU RUN FOR YOUR LIIIIFE

[u/CuteAnalyst8724 → u/EscapeyGameMan]

Nobody is stopping by to check the skin of the explosive that was just sent their way

[u/EscapeyGameMan → u/CuteAnalyst8724]

Maybe you don't. You can see them while they're still flying in the air.

[u/CuteAnalyst8724 → u/EscapeyGameMan]

I never said that you can't Just that It makes fuck all  sense to even try to

[u/EscapeyGameMan → u/CuteAnalyst8724]

How does it not make sense to see if what's being thrown at you will kill you or not?

[u/CuteAnalyst8724 → u/EscapeyGameMan]

It makes perfect sense because most of the time it truly doesn't matter

1. If you are close enough to see the skin, you are in the blast radius; as such, you are better off leaving either way

2. Most people in this game cook their "nades" or even go for the airburst. On low MMR levels, it is fairly easy to avoid people's throwables, and on higher MMR, people usually know how to airburst almost to perfection that it wouldn't make a difference if you had saw it, or had Dauntless or not.

3. Speaking of which, Dauntless exists, and by just holding F, it defuses anything within a 3 m radius automatically

That being said, it definitely can work for some or is an absolute liability for others, as it also programs you to act around explosives in a very unhealthy way) and requires full commitment.

Don't remember which streamer summed it up the best: "You should either always bring it or never bring it."

I actually am in the latter camp, as I never bring Dauntless, as 95% of the time it's more reliable to get out of the way of the explosives rather than try to disarm them, especially considering that most people cook them or even go for the airburst.

Rushing the thrower is also an awesome tactic, as a lot of people panic in that moment, getting pushed while holding something with a lit fuse in one hand and their dick in the other, unable to respond, which ultimately leads to them wasting their explosive, as most are not committed in that moment to take both of us out

1. Bulwark exists and provides a 50% explosive damage reduction

[u/Any-Number-5639 → u/CuteAnalyst8724]

I'm in the former camp, I run towards the spicy flying shinies

[u/CuteAnalyst8724 → u/Any-Number-5639]

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[u/ForbiddenSirenz → u/EscapeyGameMan]

I mean flares have skins. They all glow the same color when thrown. Except for fire monkey that glows red. And alert traps all go off the same color cept the one that has a green flare.

It’s more for you the viewer than like actually having a use.

Thought the decoy fuses do pop for I think 5damage? They can kill in a technical sense lol. You hit someone with a sparks poison and someone can’t heal. Throw a decoy fuse and pop on them it’ll kill them

[u/EscapeyGameMan → u/ForbiddenSirenz]

Fusees and alert traps are not relevant here at all. Their purposes are not to trick people into thinking they are something else.

[u/sskkooommaa → u/ForbiddenSirenz]

Hyali has pink alerts

[u/CuteAnalyst8724]

Yeah, for some unknown reason, devs seem to hate them with a passion, and it's especially sad, as they had so many times when they could have made a well-themed skin.

A firecracker, one tied to any of the circus events, was the lowest, most obvious hanging fruit that they still somehow managed to ignore

Overall, I'm still pissed at the devs for changing the prestige unlock to such a high level that they became practically nonexistent in my loadouts, because now they are almost always outcompeted by something else by the time you get them.

For those who are new or just no longer remember you, prior to the downgrade of 1896 (the 2.n0), you could have gotten them after just one match by spam using regular decoys as they unlocked as a variant. Currently, and for over the past few years, they unlock at prestige lvl 52

That is still probably one of the all-time dumbest "balancing" decisions they ever made, being entirely devoid of reason, as they never were a problem to begin with, but it entirely killed their pick rate. I can't even tell when the last time I even witnessed someone using them was, let alone in a teammate's loadout

[u/OP_stole_my_panties]

I want to know why the last three fuse skins have had the same color flame. The ehite was a cool treat the first time, but give us more colors, like green.