PR idea - The evil toasters

Yes, the title says it all >:|

So far, all the toasters provide bonuses, and out of greed, common players' priority is the toaster over helping others.

I'm convinced noone can argue with that, especially when the tank dies. So here it is:
Evil toasters.

Why? Over time, I think it'll help reduce toaster greed. Let's face it, most people see a glowing toaster without knowing what color does what on the ground, they go after it and pick it up. I even admit it's a mechanism, an automatism to pick a toaster up. I myself still pick up cyan toasters for buff slots when I'm full, but by instinct I just pick it up when I don't have the time to make the link between color and purpose (typically it drops in front of me, so I ninja-loot it).

This is what I propose: New toasters that give a disadvantage to the player that picks it up:
- A toaster that could blow up, say simulate a car explosioin (I love car explosions), something to smack the guy. This is the harshest one I can think of, think of it as god's divine punishment. Just say a portion of the person's health.
- A toaster that could reduce speed, not too nasty, but still bothersome.
- A toaster that could make your weapon disappear, or lose your ammo
- A toaster that could remove your medkit. <-- this one's funny
- A toaster that could reduce your visibility
- A toaster that could remove an upgrade or a buff
classic ones :
- A toaster that could remove EXP
- A toaster that could remove Points
- A toaster that could remove your bounty, 50%, 100% dunno

On a side note, a speed toaster would be nice

 

Toasters with negative effects has been mentioned before but not quite in this detail.....i really like it. Too often do i see people ditching their teammates just to grab a toaster, its irritating when it happens to me lol so yea this might actually sway people from being so greedy all the time, i mean i pickup toasters when i see em but i dont go out of my way just to grab one and i definitely wont grab one at the cost of team play.

I do however think that negative effect toasters should be more rare than the normal ones since we wouldnt want people to be put off them all together.

 

With davz on the rareness of the toasters, and I might add, on a complementary note, hiding an evil toaster in the 10-pack toaster (creamy green, blue flame, indiana jones' best piece) would be pretty good too, imo.
People rush after the tank when they see he's dying, and the second that toaster pops out, you just gotta be the first one there to get 8/10 of them, without even looking, and with all your teammates dying in the flames and acid (this is funny though, so many people die on the tanks grave).

That blowing up toaster was kind of referenced to this case scenario, the guy is just leaving his mates to die, crippled on the floor and we all know that the tank's deathbed fire kills you in 5 seconds. Something like punishing the guy for choosing a toaster over his teammates' lives.

Or rather than putting it in the 10-pack toaster, just get the tank to drop it along with the other one.

To come to think of it, not so many people come on to the forums, so they would never see this thread, and will only know of it when they actually experience it... *evil sadistic laugh*
Can already imagine them wondering where their medkit went off to... xD, just magically disappearing going "poof"

 

-facepalm- after this topic i dont think ill ever pick up another toaster again =/

 

This is an awesome idea! Hahaha It is annoying when people ditched me for a toaster and don't bother to come back cause the distance from where I am and where the toaster is quite far away... so they run after the toaster and leave me crawling.

 

or a toaster with drugs, or a cold toaster which make you freeze for 10 seconds lol

or an exploding toaster

 

Really hoping for that exploding toaster.
I like the freezing one too . 10 secs sitting duck, sounds too good to be true lol.

 

Why not simply remove the toasters and automatically reward the player with the same
reward that the toaster would have given them?

 

Too hard to award points fairly. And even if we did that it would turn into a simple buying system.